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Pretty interesting story. I wonder if there are others.
Yadi's going in 1st ballot HOF with 80%+. Doesn't matter what the WAR is, doesn't matter what his OPS+ is, dude is getting paid to be a catcher and do catcher things. Call a good game, get the most out of his staff, control the running game, etc. I know we try to get granular with that stuff but there are still intangibles there that we don't measure well and Yadi seems to be very good at these things...and for a long, long time.
EDIT: In the bottom of the inning Brett Gardner comes in to play CF, with Judge shifting to RF, and Stanton taking a seat as the weak link defensively in the outfield of giants. Hope his bat won’t be needed.
Somewhat relatedly, the Yankees are 22-8 over their last 30 games, a .733 pace, but have only gained 1 game on the Rays, who have gone 21-9 over the same span.
The Yankees only got 6 hits, but every one of them was smoked, including a double to the wall by Velazquez.
70 Pit 0-2
70 Bal 0-2
72 Pit 0-1
72 Oak 1-4
73 NYM 0-1
75 Pit 0-0
75 Bos 0-2
76 Phi 0-1
76 NYY 1-2
79 Pit 4-4
So we won't hold the last one against him. Anyway, it was 2 successful steals in 15 attempts. Matty Alou and Mickey Rivers.
Hilarious, I literally just watched that video about an hour ago. Didn't see your comment until I came on here to talk about Yadier signing for next season.
And then Stanton replies with a bomb that makes it 2-1, but it should be 1-0. ####### personalized strike zones.
The last 3 batters went to a 3-2 count, and Freeman then fouled off 3 more pitches before FINALLY flying out to end the game.
did NOT see this coming.
I guess they'll make the postseason but - still not seeing it beyond that.
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Kevin Rogers
@VIROGERS
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1h
The most baffling thing about this Orioles' losing streak is they were 10-4 in a 14-game stretch before this skid began.
20-0, 1-0, 11-9...it's all the same. A win is a win. Sox barely hanging on as it is. They've got 2 good starters, their closer is totally gassed and the lineup is very inconsistent right now, but 72-55 is unexpectedly good, so no complaints.
good lord this cardinal team is killing me.
goldschmidt with two solo home runs, then when there are finally men on base for him, he strikes out.
we still have a one run lead in the ninth, which reyes gacks up with two outs. after giving up a double to cabrera with two out, the next batter singles, and cabrera, who can barely run, still scores ...
jeez.
14 cardinal strikeouts today.
so far. this torture is still continuing.
With two outs, two strikes, Reyes leaves one right over the middle of the plate and Harold Castro singles in the tying run.
Of course the next batter is retired on one pitch.
extra innings.
i give up.
i'm going to go do something, anything but watch anymore of this.
Anyway, Rodgers catches the throw at second and is distracted by Ortega taking off for home, and takes a few steps in towards home but without making the throw. So what happens? Happ sneaks in behind him and is safe at second as Rodgers just stands there looking dumb. Plus of course the run scores at home.
Like the Pirates play, a breakdown of team defense. Why did the Rockies' catcher even make the throw? But Rodgers ... sheesh. Doesn't make a throw home AND just lets Happ take second. Like, if he was trying to throw the game Black Sox style, that would have been way too obvious.
ETA: Video here
@BCB_Sara
This is the smallest crowd I've ever seen at Wrigley Field. There are 6 people total, including me and two friends, in Section 206.
..............
(this is in spite of the "Cubby Bear" lineup of youngsters in Game 1:
Hermosillo age 26
Schwindel 29
Duffy 30
Wisdom 30 (on Friday)
Bote 28
Ortega 30
Austin Romine 32
Andrew Romine 35
Davies 28
average age of 29 for these youngsters - the sky's the limit!
Game 2:
Ortega 30
Schwindel 29
Happ 27
Wisdom 30 (on Friday)
Bote 28
Heyward 32
Chirinos 37
Alcantara 25
Steele 26
this one is only average age 28!)
I mean, it is an unscheduled Game 2 of a DH, so hardly a surprise.
The bats are going to need at least 6 to win this one and keep pace with the "teams that never lose"
The defensive corpse of Andrew McCutchen made the biggest goof — dropping a soft liner when he had the stealing base runner dead to rights for a double play. Both runners eventually scored.
The Phils defense is their Achilles heel.
Zach Wheeler has been very good but the Phils are looking like they’ll waste another start of his.
EDIT: Heh. What happens after Harper hits into a DP? Hoskins blasts a game tying HR in the bottom of the eighth.
Then he goes out for the 9th: single, double, homer, down 7-4 just like that. *THEN* a reliever comes in...
How ####### embarrassing.
And despite their 19 game losing streak, the crowd in Baltimore is many times louder than the crowd was in Citi, even when Alonzo was up in the 9th with 2 outs and the bases loaded.
I’m not a Girardi fan whatsoever, but Wheeler was around 90 pitches starting the ninth. And the double was an oppo punch roller that was called fair as it crossed over third. No way of telling if it was fair or foul on replay. Then noted HR hitter Francisco Mejia takes a high FB deep but foul. He had been chasing breaking balls on his shoe tops all night. A couple of pitches later, they go back to the high fast ball and Mejia hits what will likely be his only upper deck shot of his career. Girardi did the right thing there; Realmuto and Wheeler got too cute by half.
they rallied from down 6-2 to win 10-6.
so since 1969, it's top loss streaks of
Orioles 21
expansion Expos 20
these Orioles and a couple of others 19
.......
to be fair, the Mets crowd did perk up to boo Lindor when he spit the bit yet again in a big spot in the 9th.
look up, "It ain't bragging if you can back it up" in an Antonymosaurus, and you'll find Lindor's picture.
#allhatnocattle
I was channel surfing and was surprised to see Wheeler out there in the 9th, even though at that point he was still under 100 pitches. I get that he's their ace, but he'd already given up 4 runs and looked like he was struggling.
OK, i'm back ...
dodgers/padres game is a real nailbiter, only marred by the terrible umpiring. this ump has a terrible strike zone, erratic as all get out.
it should be a scoreless tie, but dodgers had an error from turner on a grounder, then the pads with a productive out, then a lucky swinging bunt that brought the runner home from 3rd.
padres OFs stole two XBH from the dodgers ...
both pitchers, snell and buehler, throwing great. but buehler looks a little worn out in the 7th, walks a man and doc pulls him.
now it's going to the 8th ...
oh mama ...
tingler leaves snell in one batter too many. he's never gone more than 8-1/3 in the majors, and now with one out in the 8th ... he gives up a tater to will smith on his 116th pitch, well over his usual limit.
snell stays in to face bellinger, gets him out.
now tingler pulls snell, and up comes pujols. i saw him pinch hit last night, and boy does he look fat and slow. a shadow of his former self.
wow, pujols gets rung up on a pitch that would have made eric gregg proud. at least 4 in. outside.
jiminy christmas.
C: Salvador Perez
1B: Cabrera
2B: Jose Altuve
SS: Luis Aparicio (a very close call over Concepcion, Vizquel, and Andrus)
3B: Melvin Mora
LF: Bobby Abreu
CF: Ronald Acuna
RF: Magglio Ordonez
Bench: C Willson Contreras, DH/1B/C Victor Martinez, 1B Andres Galarraga, SS Dave Concepcion, SS/2B/3B Carlos Guillen, UT Cesar Tovar, OF Tony Armas
Starting rotation:
Felix Hernandez
Johan Santana
Carlos Zambrano
Freddy Garcia
Anibal Sanchez
Fill-in starters:
German Marquez
Eduardo Rodriguez
Swingmen:
Wilson Alvarez
Kelvim Escobar
Short relievers:
K-Rod
Ugueth Urbina
Rafael Betancourt
gad, this pads/dodgers game is in the 12th ...
bottom of the 11th, with two out the dodgers walk machado and cronenworth to get to the pitchers spot, and the pitcher has to bat because the padres are out of position players. the pitcher strikes out.
now we're in the 12th. a wild pitch allows the dodger runner to advance to third. the second baseman drops a foul ball behind first. i think if he had caught it, the runner (muncy) might have tried to scamper home, that was not an easy play.
now j. turner walks.
geez this has been a weird game.
holy cow ... hot smash to third, but muncy was too far off third to get back, he was leaning the wrong way ... muncy out in a rundown.
seager strikes out, now it's up to chris taylor.
full count to taylor. he walks.
bases loaded.
will smith with a chance to be the hero of the game. he hit the tying home run earlier.
count goes to 3-0, smith takes two strikes. brother.
runners on the move ...
smith pops up ...
we go to the bottom of the 12th.
OK, they just ran that dumb geico ad with mckayla maroney where she gets the frisbee, then the two doofus guys throw it on the roof again. so the last shot is her making a face. i didn't know until i looked her up that she is internet famous for making the same face when she got a silver back in the '12 olympics. these gimmicky insurance commercials are getting to be too much ...
huh, lots of managering tonight ... one out in the bottom of the 12th, dave roberts IBBs the next batter, i guess to keep a force or whatever. that's the 4th IBB by the dodgers tonight.
after a short fly ball to left, the runners hold, mark prior to the mound to talk to pitcher bruihl.
they get the out, but turner almost throws away an easy ground ball. man, what a weird game.
OK, we're in the 13th and i'm groggy. bellinger leads off with a single, but it was up, and so smith had to hold to make sure it went through, so he's on third.
dang, a hot smash by the batter right to 1st, and bellinger barely gets back.
trea turner at bat.
full count, turner has hit about 4 straight foul balls past third ...
jesus ... a comebacker to the pitcher crismatt, and they hang up the runner, who gets all tangled up with the catcher, the padres claim interference, but the umps slap them down.
two outs, runners on 2nd and 3rd, muncy batting.
cripes, he strikes out.
it's still 1-1 in the bottom of the 13th ...
3rd game to reach 13 innings this season ...
dodgers 8th pitcher is brusdar graterol, whoever that is.
batter grisham (?) moves the runner to third on a ground ball to 2nd ...
tatis batting, he's 0-5 with 3 Ks.
this guy graterol is throwing 100 mph.
if you've been playing 13 innings it must look like a comet coming in.
tatis strikes out.
geez, two more IBBs to bring up ryan weathers, a pitcher.
graterol still throwing 100 mph.
weathers fouls off a 101 mph pitch, then hits a weak comebacker, graterol tosses it to the catcher for the force.
into the 14th!
first 14-inning game since the 2B runner rule instituted.
muncy at 2nd, turner batting.
18 runners LOB total in the extra innings.
padres have not had a hit since the 5th inning.
turner strikes out, pollock grounds out to 3rd, machado holding the runner before he almost throws it away.
IBB, so now taylor is batting.
taylor strikes out, swinging at a pitch around his head.
jeebus ...
i'm only staying with this furshlugginer game because i have a good friend in tampa who is a big padre fan (he did his grad school work in SD), and i want to rib him for not staying up to watch, i'm pretty sure he didn't even make it to the third inning.
hosmer grounds out, moves the runner cronenworth to third.
pham at bat.
graterol still pitching, still throwing cheese. full count.
comebacker AGAIN, cronenworth is out in the rundown, pham scampers to 2nd.
oh for god's sake, now another IBB.
it's midnight PDT ...
caretini batting. he flies out.
to the 15th ...
daniel camarena, the guy who hit a grand slam against max sherzer, is pitching for SD.
caretini the catcher takes a mean foul tip on the knee. he can't come out, the pads are out of position players.
oy, smith with an infield hit that the SS barely gets to, keeping taylor at 2nd.
bellinger is up.
dodgers double steal!!!
runners on 2nd and 3rd, no outs, infield in.
bellinger pops up to CF grisham, it's not deep enough for taylor to score.
man ...
mckinney batting for somebody ...
base hit! taylor scores.
now trea turner with a hit, will smith scores.
there are still a lot of fans in the stands, and it sounds mostly like dodger fans, who've been loud all night.
muncy batting.
oof, muncy strikes out, thats 0 for 7.
turner grounds out, so on to the bottom of the innnnnning ...
corey knebel pitching for los doyers.
i am being punished for giving up on the cardinal game earlier today. they gave up a lead in the 9th, but then won in the 10th after i bailed.
but this has been an interesting game. and it's not over.
and look at this ... knebel drops the ball standing on the rubber. that's a balk. no, the umps have changed their minds. i have no idea.
oh for crying out loud, now knebel balks ON PURPOSE to move the runner over because he thinks he's stealing signs.
AND TATIS HOMERS.
HOLY FREEKING CRIPES.
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