Thursday, May 23, 2013
Mariners sending Jesus Montero to Triple-A
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Amen amen there’s a lower power.
Read More...Bold move in Seattle, as the Mariners are optioning catcher Jesus Montero to Triple-A Tacoma, reports Ryan Divish of the Tacoma News-Tribune.
Montero, whom the M’s acquired from the Yankees as part of the Michael Pineda deal, was ranked by Baseball America as the sixth-best overall prospect coming into 2012. This season, however, Montero has authored a grim batting line of .208/.264/.327 in addition to playing spotty defense in his 225 1/3 innings behind the ...
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1 2 >I hope Dave Cameron saw this.
Has a city ever hosted two perfect games in a year? Seems extremely unlikely.
1900's: 2
1910's: 0
1920's: 1
1930's: 0
1940's: 0
1950's: 1
1960's: 3
1970's: 0
1980's: 3
1990's: 4
2000's: 2
2010-2012: 5 (3 in 2012 alone)
*scratches head*
Should be 6 of course.
Dave Niehaus is trending worldwide due to so many tweeting that they wish he was here to see this. #Mariners #respect
Until now...
Wooooooooo!
Go King Felix!
It seems odd that there weren't any perfect games in the offensively challenged 1970s.
I was sure Kuroda was going to have a no-hitter last night, as impatient as some of the Rangers looked.
Poor Phil Humber. First Felix calls him "Phil Hughes," and now he's called "Gavin Floyd" here.
Oops! I guess I picked the wrong imploded White Sox pitcher.
Anyway, good for Felix. A little bit of balance to numb the pain of Ichiro being a Yankee.
Increase in the all or nothing approach to hitting combined with the deadening of the ball (due to lack of roids, or more likely the changes done to the bats) and an improvement in strikeout rates might be a combination for a perfect storm leading to more perfect games?
The increase in the number of teams, which increases the number of games played, is probably also a significant cause.
I'm not aware of any other would be perfect games that weren't, due simply to a bad umpiring call.
I pulled up in front with 2 outs and a 2-2 count on the batter. Decided to run inside and hope to get the TV on in time to see the final out. Saw the scrum instead.
But what a great day for Seattle baseball.
Even if there were games where all that stood between 27 up, 27 down was a botched call, the Galarraga game was different in that it was the last play. There's no need to ask what might have happened differently had the call been correct. If Joyce doesn't kick the #### out of it, it's undeniably a perfect game.
I had Halladay, Dallas Braden, and now King Felix, King of New Ho Kings.
You should buy Milt Pappas a beer sometime.
Milt Pappas would like a word with you. And that word is motherfricking-SOB-Froemming-son-of-a-million-whores.
(Note: these were ball and strike calls, and questionable at best. And if Pappas hadn't gone all Alou/Bartman in his reaction during and after the game, it probably would have been lost to history except as a mild footnote.)
I had the (fantasy baseball) luck not only to stream Phil Humber for his perfect game but to drop him before he actually pitched it. Otherwise I'm sure I would have held on to him far too long.
Also - Old Style! Excellent choice.
That was a good call. Or at worst, a borderline and thus defensible call. Not in the same time zone as Joyce.
Between 1960 and 1972, the Phillies were no-hit eight times. Since April 1978, they haven't been no-hit at all.
though we need to get back to contact hitting. this boom or bust sh8t is going to get mighty boring mighty quick. 60's baseball sucked like a hoover on high and i see where this train is headed
Exactly, you're not aware of any. Just like most people in 25 years won't be aware of Galarraga.
Oh, who cares? Let's pretend that there were games exactly like Galarraga/Joyce in 1924, 1943 and 1978. Does this change that chart in any meaningful way?
Galarraga's game will be remembered as long as Haddix and Ernie Shore.
Edit: And even if there were and I didn't remember it, Jayson Stark would have been sure to remind us. I seriously, seriously doubt anyone beside Galarraga lost a perfect game on a blown call on the 27th out.
It was a minor point that I felt worth making; I as just pointing out that it wasn't a logically valid thing to do. Sure it may not make much difference in the end, but I felt it worth pointing out that it isn't really a valid practice in my opinion. Why be a jerk about it?
Who is Ernie Shore?
Cute.
I don't think Misirlou's Post 6 was suggesting the chart was incorrect. Just that, in a world where Joyce doesn't screw up, he's also on it. That he earned a perfect game, not that it should be credited as one.
Red Sox pitcher. Relieved Babe Ruth when Babe got tossed after walking the first batter. Picked off baserunner (I think) and then retired all 26 batters.
is that your nixon impersonation?
I was entirely serious. Thanks SoSH for the background.
OK, if this is genuine from a regular baseball nerd on this site, then....
Galarraga's game will be remembered as long as Haddix and Ernie Shore.
there is no way this will be remembered. None. The blown call aspect(even as the 27th out), for me, just doesn't have the unique identity that the Haddix 12+ inning perfecto or Shore's pick off, then 26 guys up and 26 guys down scenario has. That's why they are remembered.
Only pitcher I ever had who threw a no-no was Darryl Kile.
A few years later, of course, he was dead.
I guess I hope I never have another one.
I dunno. I think an umpire blowing a perfectly easy and obvious if close play at first for out #27 is a pretty big hook.
Galarraga's game will be remembered as long as Haddix and Ernie Shore.
there is no way this will be remembered. None. The blown call aspect(even as the 27th out), for me, just doesn't have the unique identity that the Haddix 12+ inning perfecto or Shore's pick off, then 26 guys up and 26 guys down scenario has. That's why they are remembered.
To build on something Dag said in an earlier thread, it's worth noting that Shore's game happened almost 100 years ago. Even if today it has been forgotten by even some of us, it was remembered for an awfully long time. The same, I think, will be true of Galarraga's (it will at least be remembered long after the ones tossed by Dallas Braden and Phil Humber and Matt Cain have been forgotten).
Active, or all time?
Historically, pick-a-Phillie: Pete Alexander, Robin Roberts and Steve Carlton never threw a no-no.
Um, no. Given that there's full video of it, a book about it co-authored by the principals involved, and its having an even simpler narrative hook than the Haddix or Shore games, it will be remembered.
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