Started out 2-0 and we are 1-11 since. Pitching for most part has been solid but getting no run support. Crazy since our lineup has solid hitters in it.
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Started out 2-0 and we are 1-11 since. Pitching for most part has been solid but getting no run support. Crazy since our lineup has solid hitters in it.
Kinda the same thing with SF - pitching has been decent for the most part, but virtually zero run support along the way. Kevin Pillar joining the team has accounted for nearly 25% (10) of SF's RBIs thus far and he didn't even arrive until the sixth game. Posey has yet to get an RBI, Pillar and Belt are the only players with more than 5. The lack of runs has Bumgarner sitting at 0-2 after three starts and even HE has two more RBIs than wins.
Very frustrating, to say the least.But, I AM happy that Oakland is playing some watchable ball. Their pitching may not always be solid, but can usually outscore the other team, as evidenced by last night's 8-6 win at Texas after trailing 6-1.
Yankee B squad getting shutout by Ivan Nova through 4 but at least Sabathia is matching him but Sabathia ain't pitching more than 5 today in his first game back.
Edit: bottom of 7th and Yankees execute a safety squeeze bunt. Cannot remember the last time they did that. And Wade got a good bunt down for the RBI.
Edit: bottom of 7th and Yankees execute a safety squeeze bunt. Cannot remember the last time they did that. And Wade got a good bunt down for the RBI.
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More Yankee B Squad expansion. Another Yankee goes down. Twelve guys on the IL now. No big loss this time as Greg Bird was doing nothing and looked totally lost at the plate.
https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/greg-bird-on-il-with-torn-plantar-fascia
Greg Bird has to be the 2nd most fragile player in major league baseball following Jacoby Ellsbury (aka Glassbury). Just so they could have a complete trio they went and signed Troy Tulowitzki in the off season.
No big loss this time as Greg Bird was doing nothing and looked totally lost at the plate. https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/greg-bird-on-il-with-torn-plantar-fascia
Greg Bird has to be the 2nd most fragile player in major league baseball following Jacoby Ellsbury (aka Glassbury). Just so they could have a complete trio they went and signed Troy Tulowitzki in the off season.
This was the worst call by an ump that I've ever seen live. The ball wasn't even within 1 ft of Goldy's bat and he called a tipped 3rd strike. What a joke. Cards had 2 on and 1 out with their best player up in a close game...
It was too close to call, but he looked like he held up to me. The call on the field was a tipped third strike. So that’s where the huge error lies. If he doesn’t make that call, Goldy still gets a chance to hit.
Either way...good lord, ask for some help. Check with the first base umpire.
Also, how is that not a reviewable play? Did the ball hit the bat or not? We’re going to rely on an umps ears in a stadium of 40,000 fans? That’s all the ump could say to Shildt “I heard a foul tip.” No, you heard two clicks and assumed it was a foul tip without any other evidence.
And the umps wonder why we want to get rid of them...
He actually hit Pina's glove, which is what the ump heard, so it should have been called catcher's interference. Kulpa actually had to leave the game after taking a pitch off the mask. 3rd home plate ump in our 3rd straight series to leave the game.
Good thought. It’s tough to tell if that’s what happened from the slo-mo. But it certainly looks like his bat might have grazed the mitt.
FSWI showed the interference pretty clearly actually. Not sure why there's no video of it anywhere. The umps at least have to get to together on that one.
You know what's really great? Picking Chris Sale in the first round of your fantasy draft.
You know what's more great? Benching James Paxton in your lineup and going with Sale because you thought he'd maybe rise to the occasion of a big rivalry series and do something right.
The best part? Paxton is dominating and Sale is shitting a big ole turd on the mound again!
Yay me!
You know what's more great? Benching James Paxton in your lineup and going with Sale because you thought he'd maybe rise to the occasion of a big rivalry series and do something right.
The best part? Paxton is dominating and Sale is shitting a big ole turd on the mound again!
Yay me!
And game time length, 2:23.
Most Yankee/Sox game run close to 4 hours. Was just listening to MLB studio talking heads and Harold Reynolds was talking about how quick Paxton was pitching. Get ball, throw ball, get ball throw ball.
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Keuchel and Kimbrel are still outside looking in. Hoping the Yankees don't blink/panic and sign Keuchel. He was good for a couple of years but think he was sort of a flash in the pan. Don't want him eating up salary "cup" for a few years as a #3 or #4 starter. He's not an ace anymore or some 200 inning guy either.
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/...-red-sox-brewers-nationals-mets-cubs-phillies
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/...-red-sox-brewers-nationals-mets-cubs-phillies
Joey Votto popped out to 1B for the first time in his career today. Has still never popped out to C or P, only 8 popouts now in his entire career.
I've always thought of this as one of the most impressive baseball stats that exists.
They were talking about whether or not he should be in the HoF last night on MLB network, and they showed a tweet that referenced this stat, and then he pops out the next day.
Braves bullpen is the biggest pile of steaming poo in baseball, I'd like to DFA everyone of them.
Bartender! One Kimbrel, please!
Bartender! One Kimbrel, please!
He'll get a contract when he and his agent back far enough off the 5-year $100M they wanted even into this spring. Ain't nobody paying him that or signing him for five or six years like where they started out. Maybe a 3-year for $35M - $40M, something like what Britton got from the Yankees. Maybe.
Same thing with Keuchel. He wants (wanted?) a long term deal for ace money but the teams that can afford him would have him slotted as a #3 in the rotation guy. They ain't paying him #1 money or signing him long term. My Yankee fans are clamoring to sign him but, assuming Severino comes back healthy, Dallas would be like their #4.
I'll take the bullet and trade for Sale to make you feel better if I must...
