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1. The Yankee Clapper Posted: May 09, 2022 at 02:50 PM (#6075894)EDIT: No activity in the Yankees bullpen, so looking like Cortes will start the 8th after all.
I'd bring him out for the 8th in the 0-0 game, but I'm just a fan.
Pirates starters are 0-10, the relievers are 11-6. one pitcher has 5 starts, but his lone win came in his lone relief appearance.
Quintana has thrown 3 scoreless tonight, but the Buccos are playing the Dodgers so of course it's 0-0.
05.09... Marlins optioned INF Joe Dunand to Triple-A Jacksonville.
Spin: Dunand played just one game during his brief first stint in the majors, but he made the most of it with a double and a homer. He'll hope to earn another trip back later this season.
Going through some pitching game logs for 1912, I just found this one. If I'm doing the math correctly from the seasonal stats for Allan Travers (which, apparently justifiably, only include this one game), his Game Score in this one was -52.
The platonic ideal of the Announcer's Jinx.
"Does this hurt ?"
"F....yes, it hurts"
"Through an extremely unlikely, almost unbelievable set of circumstances, a twenty-year-old college junior with virtually no baseball experience and little athletic ability found himself on the pitcher’s mound one bright, sunny Saturday afternoon facing the World Champion Philadelphia Athletics. The date was May 18, 191 - surely one of the most bizarre days in major league history–and the site was Shibe Park, Philadelphia. The pitcher was Allan Travers, a student at nearby St. Joseph’s College. A few years later, he would become Father Aloysius S. Travers.
On the previous Wednesday, May 15, the sixth-place Detroit Tigers were in New York’s Hilltop Park for a regularly scheduled game against the New York Highlanders. As the game started, no one could possibly imagine that it would become the infamous game in which an enraged Ty Cobb savagely beat an abusive, handicapped fan named Claude Lueker. On this fateful day he had been taunting Cobb with a steady barrage of profanity-laced abuse peppered with racial slurs.
Cobb stormed into the stands and battered Lueker with a vicious volley of punches to the face, and then stomped him in the abdomen with his spikes. Unknown to Cobb was that Lueker, a former pressman, had lost one complete hand and three fingers from the other hand in an industrial accident the previous year. With fans screaming at Cobb, “Don’t hit him! He has no hands!” the out-of-control Cobb reportedly shouted back, “I don’t care if he has no feet!”
Unfortunately for Cobb, American League president Ban Johnson was in the park that day. He had witnessed the horrific incident and was aghast, later informing Detroit manager Hughie Jennings that Cobb was hereby suspended indefinitely. After the next game on Friday in Philadelphia, sixteen Tiger players voted to strike in protest of Cobb’s suspension. They would not take the field again, they declared, until Cobb was reinstated."
"Enticed by the $50 fee offered by Jennings, Travers volunteered, even though he later confessed that he had never pitched a game in his life."
"the A’s won handily, 24-2, with Travers allowing all 24 runs on 26 hits, walking seven, and striking out one. The score was a respectable 6-2 through four innings until the A’s erupted for 16 runs over the next three innings."
"I was doing fine until they started bunting. The guy playing third base had never played baseball before. I just didn’t get any support."
No kidding! That was far more interesting than I expected this game to be. I love early baseball stories like this.
Big league hitters are mean.
Hombre, I wonder if you know how much baseball fans who don't give a rat's ass about the Angels overall would love to see Trout/Ohtani make a long postseason run.
never mind, I'm sure you already know.
it would be awesome for the sport.
Angels-Yankees ALCS
Dodgers-Mets NLCS
Though it would likely come at the expense of the Astros, I would be delighted to see Mike Trout get a ring, or at least appear in a WS. Ohtani should have plenty of chances in the future, but Trout doesn't have quite as much time.
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