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That was a terrible call in baseball terms, a totally justifiable call in karmic terms.
In case folks missed it, it was announced this week the Apple games will remain free through August. Gotta think at that point they'll complete the free season by doing the same come September.
Baseball Theater is a good friend for highlights.
"Free" is beside the point. I tried to log in to Apple TV on a couple of devices, and was told that my password was wrong (I had an Apple ID a couple of decades ago when I used to use iTunes) and that I'd have to go somewhere else to do something else to regain my access to Apple. I figure I can watch tomorrow's game.
I can't believe that the Dodgers bother to waste 8 runs for Kershaw....
That was just one call though, you see that happens deep in counts all the time.
I mentioned a few days ago about how Carlson's defense doesn't feel like -4 runs if you look at his recent week, and looking at it today his rDef is -2, not bad for a week worth of work.
CF Ward's a positionless guy -- his glove plays nowhere, but they had him in RF -- who's only in CF because Nevin won't move Marsh even with Trout out.
RF Adell's a corner outfielder for obvious reasons. He really should be in left.
SS Regifo is replacing Velazquez, who's only there because Fletcher's hurt.
2B Stefanic's there because Duffy's hurt and no one can hit.
First play in the fifth inning, Sosa is showing off the defense, needlessly fielding a slow grounder bare hander. (Brad Thompson is arguing that it was necessary)
Play O'Neil hits a high pop up behind the spot where the second baseman is playing. It lands without being caught violating the Maddux rule about a ball being in the air that long should always be caught. Meanwhile O'Neil assumed it was going to be caught so basically walked to first base and stopped, with his speed he easily could have turned that into a double just by running at 2/3rds speed.
edit: Looks like it was just painful, but not injury, still had to leave the game out of caution.
Carpenter now at .361/.471/.917, a 1.388 OPS, in pinstripes.
home game stats for Carpenter
29 AB / 11 hits / SEVEN home runs
slugging 1.172!
EDIT: Red Sox dare not allow Pivetta to face Carpenter again, and bring in Darwinzon Hernandez with runners on 2nd & 3rd, 1 out. Developing.
EDIT II: ANOTHER 3-run HR (#13) to RF! 8-1.
Amazingly, he's only started 20 of those 30 games, so he only has 90 PA and 74 AB in those 30 games.
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ESPN needs to do a seven-part series on Matt Carpenter. #Yankees
Speaking of old, I learned from the baseball internets ca 2001 that the ONLY way an old guy could have a season like Carpenter's was if he was ROIDED TO THE GILLS!!!! I know, some of you are gonna say this isn't like when, out of nowhere, some marginal slob like Barry Bonds cranked out 73 HR in 476 AB at age 36. Matt Carpenter is a certified TRUE HITTER.
the Manfred Man on 2nd for Mets is Nimmo - a savvy, aggressive baserunner.
speedy SMarte leads off.
rocket to Wisdom at 3rd, he keeps it in front of him like a goalie, as SNY's Ron Darling notes - but he can't hold on. so at this point your choices are:
- eat the ball, infield single. this is default mode.
- fake a throw to 1st, possibly lure Nimmo into a rundown. this is advanced mode.
- throw the ball to 1st, not close to getting Marte and letting Nimmo reach 3rd without a throw. this is Cubs mode.
as usual, they chose poorly - and Marte stole 2nd on the 2nd pitch.
in unrelated news, the Mets are 8-1 in extra innings and the Cubs are 3-10 (including the Mets Game 1 win).
so the Mets get 2 runs on 1 (infield) hit.
bases loaded, 2 out, 3-2 game, and Norris tries to pick daredevil - wait, Pete Alonso? - off second base and throws it into centerfield for the second run.
there are no words.
in their second extra-inning game of the day, the Mets have pushed across the Manfred Man for a 3-2 lead and have the bases loaded with 2 outs and Escobar at the plate.
And the Cubs try to pick off the runner at second. This seems curious. There are two outs. Possibly the runner at second has an overly aggressive lead but his run doesn't matter a whole lot. Naturally, Daniel Norris throws it into CF. That was counter-productive but at least it only scores one.
Coke to Howie ... methinks my MLBtv feed is running late.
honestly, in 50 years I have never heard that one before.
but maybe there is a silent majority - who knows?
Not if you lived through the first 125 years of major league baseball. :-) Certainly for my childhood, walks were considered purely the fault of the pitcher. Wild swingers like Manny Sanguillen were recognized as being outliers but otherwise, except when intentionally pitching around a tough batter (always a good thing!), walks were a pitcher's mistake. With the caveat that when Glenn Beckert fouled off the 7 of the first 10 pitches outside the zone then couldn't manage to pull the trigger on the 11th, in which case that was a great at-bat by Beckert.
But sure I think even the media of 1887 (or whoever cooked up the official scoring rules) realized that although run producers should always expand their zone with men on base, they could be allowed to take a walk with the bases loaded without having their manhood questioned and thus deserved an RBI. Equally, clearly a positive that the batter has instilled so much of TEH FEAR in the pitcher that he plunks him with the bases loaded.
1. A walk to a tough batter with men on base is a good thing, smart strategy.
2. A walk to Glenn Beckert on the 10th or greater pitch is a great AB, what can the pitcher do?
3. All other walks are purely because the pitcher screwed up, nothing to do with the batter's plate discipline.
4. Other than Manny Sanguillen, non-walks are never the result of a batter screwing up. And even Manny didn't screw up, he was just being aggressive (and Latin! I mean you can't walk off the island, amirite?) Batters only screw up when they strike out.
Manny, god love him, struck out only 6.2% of the time. He also struck out about 50% more often than he walked. Beckert K'd only 4.4% of the time but managed to squeeze out a few more walks than Ks.
Cubs down 4-3, 1st and 3rd, 1 out. Mets not that eager to pitch to Hoerner in this spot, but of course they won't voluntarily put the winning run on second.
Cubs steal second - problem solved. as booth noted, Mets send now-irrelevant Hoerner to first to load 'em up for "the weaker hitter in Schwindel."
now, there are plenty of circumstances where you'd not prefer to face Schwindel - such as 2 outs and down multiple runs but he's the tying or winning run at the plate. and..... this is not that spot.
gets dicey as count goes to 3-2, but Schwindel then bows to the SNY booth and hits into the game-ending DP.
Our top catching prospect was Miguel Amaya who was not much of a prospect anyway (around #100), has never hit a lot**, got hurt last year although I'm happy to see he's been playing some rehab games in AZ the last couple of weeks. So there's not much on the way ... still it seemed like they signed Yan Gomes for 2 years with the idea that Contreras would be gone but there'd still be a vet C around for the young pitchers and to tutor Amaya. Gomes still here next year and AAA vet PJ Higgins has hit really well so the Cubs might figure that's enough for next year, move Contreras and wait for Amaya mid-2023 or 2024.
** Last year in just 106 AA PAs, Amaya put up the bizarre line of 215/406/304 with 21 walks and 22 Ks.
EDIT: Hirokazu Sawamura gets the 3rd out, but big blow to Boston if Sale’s out for the season.
Just a bad call. Best guess I can come up with is that the ump didn't see his foot move off the rubber.
Is there no Sun night game tonight?
DBacks bases loaded. Clevinger uncorks another one in the dirt. Batter helps him out by swinging (well, couldn't check in time), pitch hits the dirt, appears to hit the batter's foot on a bounce, goes to the backstop, appeal to 3rd base on the swing as runners advance. 3B ump calls strike 2 ... and the runners are sent back to their bases? If the batter swings (making no contact) then the pitch hits him, is it a dead ball? If it hits him on a bounce, is it a dead ball? (I should know the answer to that.)
There is a draft chat.
Midcentury exceptions: Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Eddie Yost, Eddie Stanky, Ralph Kiner, Ferris Fain and Richie Ashburn were all credited with an exceptional ability to draw walks. Yost and Stanky were considered particularly gifted, since with their limited power and low BA pitchers had little fear by getting them to put the ball in play.
But he wasn't "hit by the pitch" in the HBP sense, the pitch hit the ground and bounced into him. If a pitch hits the ground, hits the C then hits the batter, is it dead? If a wild throw from a fielder hits a runner, the ball's not dead. At what point does a pitch stop being a pitch and become a ball bouncing around the field hitting whatever is in its way?
How do you go on about the walking Eddies and not mention Eddie Joost? Dude had 6 straight years over 100 walks, granted that still made him just the third best walking Eddie of the 40's-50's.
take Ferris Fain, with 136 BB in 1949 to boost him to a 103 OPS+.
a year later, 133 BB for a 116 OPS+.
maybe the scouting report came to "let's pitch to this bum" - and he lead the AL in AVG the next two seasons, lol.
or Roy Cullenbine, who drew 137 BB in 1947 at age 33 to boost him to a 125 OPS+ - just one year off a 175 OPS+ in 419 PA.
yet 1947 was his final season in the majors. career OPS+ of 132.
1929-30 Phila A's SS Max Bishop pulled off back-to-back 128 BB seasons with OPS+s of 83 and 109.
8 straight seasons of 100+ BB - and a career OPS+ of 103. nice work, if you can get it.
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