I know many Sox fans think they lost the Rizzo stakes, but Schwahbah with the OPS over 1.000 is looking like the smarter pick up.

Mets relic Rich Hill with 6 scoreless tonight, tossing southpaw slop at 69 to 71 mph.

yet another twinbill on Saturday, vs reeling Nats

Oakland has quite the bullpen

A few weeks ago, I talked about what may have been the biggest individual base-running blunder of all time, Marvin Throneberry hitting a triple and forgetting to touch first and second. It’s time to talk about a spectacular blunder that was a group effort. I’m talking about the infamous “Three Men on One Base” incident of 1926.

The incident occurred at Brooklyn’s fabled ballyard, Ebbets Field. Soon after it opened in 1913, Ebbets Field became known as the place where the wildest, wackiest, best, worst, and just plain weirdest things in baseball could and would happen.

Pay close attention to the narrative. If you can understand E=mc2 or follow Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First?” routine, you might be able to understand what happened here.

The Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Boston Braves. The bases were loaded when the Dodgers’ Babe Herman came up to bat. Hank DeBerry was on third, Dazzy Vance was on second, and Chick Fewster was on first.

Herman hit a shot to deep center that fell into the gap and looked like it was good for at least a double. DeBerry scored easily. Vance, a pitcher who was a slow runner, rounded third and headed for home.

The third base coach tried to slow up Fewster because it looked like he might pass Vance. However, Vance thought he was being told to go back to third, so he turned around to go back. Seeing Fewster on third, he changed directions again and headed for home. He was caught in a rundown between home and third.

Herman went into second standing up. Seeing the rundown, he thought it was Fewster, as he was sure Vance had already scored. He did what ballplayers do under such circumstances and went to third, only to see Fewster was already there.

Meanwhile, Vance somehow got out of the rundown and dove back into third. When the dust had cleared, the fans stared at the incredible sight of three Dodgers on one base.

The umpires were dumbfounded. They knew two of these idiots were out and the inning was over, but which two?

The umpires decided that Vance was safe as he was the lead runner and therefore entitled to hold third base. Herman later remarked that Vance should have been the one called out because he got the signs wrong.

Mets win 11-9 on 2-run HR by Lindor

So a clearly foul ground ball is called fair for St Louis. 2 runs score

Always hard to win RoY with substantially less than a full season when there are other legit full-season candidates.

Always hard to win RoY with substantially less than a full season when there are other legit full-season candidates.

The Yankees are placing righty Jonathan Loaisiga on the IL with a right shoulder strain, per a team announcement. Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters, including Bryan Hoch of MLB.com, that the strain is in Loaisiga’s rotator cuff and he won’t throw for at least 10 days. Fellow right-handed Albert Abreu has been recalled to take Loaisiga’s place on the roster.

This is very unfortunate news for both Loaisiga and the team, as the righty is having the best season of his career so far and has been one of the most valuable pitchers on the team. Through 68 innings out of the Yankees’ bullpen this year, he has an ERA of 2.25. His 24.2% strikeout rate is actually close to league average, but his 5.5% walk rate and 61.3% groundball rate are both excellent. On the season, he’s been worth 2.2 wins above replacement, according to FanGraphs, third-most among Yankees pitchers, behind Gerrit Cole and Jordan Montgomery, and tied with Josh Hader for the most among all relievers in baseball.

                                                                                        
Date                       Batter  Tm Opp           Pitcher      Score Inn Out  WPA   LI
1925-09-24              Babe Ruth NYY CHW    Sarge Connally   down 5-2 b10   1 0.78 5.15
1936-05-23            Samuel Byrd CIN PIT        Cy Blanton   down 3-0  b9   0 0.68 5.59
1950-07-08          Jack Phillips PIT STL    Harry Brecheen   down 6-3  b9   1 0.79 5.08
1952-06-16          Bobby Thomson NYG STL   Willard Schmidt   down 7-4  b9   1 0.81 4.88
1955-09-11 (1)       Del Crandall MLN PHI     Herm Wehmeier   down 4-1  b9   2 0.91 3.74
1956-05-11          Danny Kravitz PIT PHI        Jack Meyer   down 5-2  b9   0 0.69 5.62
1963-08-31           Ellis Burton CHC HOU    Hal Woodeshick   down 5-2  b9   2 0.91 3.64
1970-08-02            Tony Taylor PHI SFG      Mike Davison   down 6-3  b9   0 0.68 5.59
1970-08-11            Carl Taylor STL SDP        Ron Herbel  down 10-7  b9   2 0.90 3.81
1973-04-22 (1)         Ron Lolich CLE BOS     Sonny Siebert   down 7-4  b9   2 0.91 3.74
1979-05-01            Roger Freed STL HOU       Joe Sambito   down 6-3 b11   2 0.91 3.72
1983-04-13                Bo Diaz PHI NYM        Neil Allen   down 9-6  b9   2 0.91 3.65
1984-08-31             Buddy Bell TEX MIL         Pete Ladd   down 6-3  b9   2 0.90 3.80
1985-04-13           Phil Bradley SEA MIN         Ron Davis   down 7-4  b9   2 0.90 3.81
1986-08-29         Dick Schofield CAL DET  Willie Hernandez  down 12-9  b9   2 0.90 3.81
1988-06-21          Alan Trammell DET NYY    Cecilio Guante   down 6-3  b9   2 0.91 3.69
1996-05-17           Chris Hoiles BAL SEA     Norm Charlton down 13-10  b9   2 0.89 4.00
2001-07-28 (1)        Brian Giles PIT HOU      Billy Wagner   down 8-5  b9   2 0.90 3.88
2002-05-17           Jason Giambi NYY MIN     Mike Trombley  down 12-9 b14   1 0.79 5.09
2006-06-30              Adam Dunn CIN CLE       Bob Wickman   down 8-5  b9   2 0.90 3.92
2010-05-20          Brooks Conrad ATL CIN Francisco Cordero   down 9-6  b9   1 0.80 4.90
2011-07-07          Travis Hafner CLE TOR        Luis Perez   down 4-1  b9   1 0.81 4.88
2011-08-16        Brian Bogusevic HOU CHC     Carlos Marmol   down 5-2  b9   1 0.81 4.79
2011-09-27           Ryan Roberts ARI LAD       Javy Guerra   down 6-3 b10   2 0.91 3.70
2014-06-30            Rajai Davis DET OAK    Sean Doolittle   down 4-1  b9   1 0.81 4.87
2017-07-30           Steve Pearce TOR LAA        Bud Norris  down 10-7  b9   1 0.79 5.07
2018-08-12             David Bote CHC WSN       Ryan Madson   down 3-0  b9   2 0.90 3.79
2021-09-05       Daniel Vogelbach MIL STL        Alex Reyes   down 5-2  b9   1 0.80 5.02