The best starter in the NL is going tonight, if anyone's interested. vs. Josh Johnson, but still.
― The Jesus and Mary Lizard (WmC), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:04 (thirteen years ago)
I had to think for 30 seconds on who Anderson is.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 18:34 (thirteen years ago)
"Mister Anderson"
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:11 (thirteen years ago)
Darvish-Greinke in a few
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 September 2012 16:52 (thirteen years ago)
Scherzer-Harvey on TV today.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 August 2013 13:27 (twelve years ago)
Aargh--looking forward to Scherzer/Harvey/Cabrera all day, I've got the Red Sox-Dodgers instead. I guess the reasoning is that the Jays are actively pursuing the Red Sox for a divisional crown.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:04 (twelve years ago)
scherzer!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:33 (twelve years ago)
through four:
harvey 8 H, 2 Kscherzer 1 H, 8 K
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 August 2013 21:22 (twelve years ago)
two pretty good rookies about to get going, Fernandez vs. Teheran
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Friday, 30 August 2013 23:32 (twelve years ago)
Good call--lead story on cnnsi.com this morning.
http://mlb.si.com/2013/08/31/mariners-taijuan-walker-wins-debut/?sct=mlb_t11_a2
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 August 2013 13:19 (twelve years ago)
Didn't realize it was Scherzer-Sale tonight.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 September 2013 23:39 (twelve years ago)
Cliff Lee vs. Kris Medlen right now is a real beauty. Scoreless, 3 hits total, 11 Ks for Lee and Medlen just gave up his first hit in the 6th.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:05 (twelve years ago)
Lee's final line: 8 IP, 3 hits, 13 K, 0 BB, 1 run. May qualify as a tough loss.
― clemenza, Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:45 (twelve years ago)
Game time 2:07
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:49 (twelve years ago)
almost feel bad for clifton, but then not
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:53 (twelve years ago)
Game scores: Medlen 83, Lee 85
Hell of a game, nice heart-attack moment from Janish in the 9th.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:55 (twelve years ago)
less sympathy for a guy who can't decide whether to pitch in Philly or Arlington, two shitholes of the universe.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:21 (twelve years ago)
tbf he didn't go to miami/the bronx, but yeah
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:28 (twelve years ago)
Kershaw and Fister tomorrow night could be great.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 00:44 (eleven years ago)
?
doug fister's having kind of a ho hum season right?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 00:58 (eleven years ago)
his peripherals suck, but 12-5, 2.55 always looks nice
in any case, he's hardly a match for kershaw, who will now probably give up nine straight hits
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 01:03 (eleven years ago)
Posnanski had an interesting column on Fister a week or two ago--basically that the Tigers traded him because of a baseball-wide "deep suspicion and profound lack of confidence in pitchers who cannot throw 90 mph."
http://joeposnanski.com/joeblogs/the-need-the-need-for-speed/
I look at Buehrle's collapse here and I think, "There's good reason for that--eventually, your unimposing stuff catches up with you." But for the moment at least, Fister's year looks pretty good to me (I'll call the ERA and K/BB ratio a trade-off with a hit-per-inning). He's not Kershaw, no.
(Related note on how different things once were. I started watching Mark Fidrych's famous Monday night game in 1976--someone sent me a DVD of the complete game a few years ago, but it wouldn't play on my old DVD, so I let it sit there; it plays on the newer one. Holtzman was starting for the Yankees; it was his third start for them after coming over from the Orioles. They flashed his stats before the game: 5-5, 2.92, 114 IP, 116 H, 36 BB, 29 K. That's 2.2 K/9. Science-fiction.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 01:21 (eleven years ago)
fister's strikeout and hr rates are of concern, but he's a solid 'back end' starter, and at the moment probably rather better than a combination of buck farmer and robbie ray
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 01:33 (eleven years ago)
those are two names you made up, right?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 06:23 (eleven years ago)
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/David+Dombrowski+Jim+Leyland+Announces+Retirement+NahGKx-AzFpl.jpg
― Andy K, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 12:46 (eleven years ago)
Farmer and Ray are now out of the picture. Enter Kyle Lobstein.
"Lobstein's the fifth guy right now," Ausmus said. "We'll see how Lobber, how Kyle throws and we'll go from there."
― Andy K, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 12:50 (eleven years ago)
the ol' lobber
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 12:52 (eleven years ago)
btw i saw a guy at a leather street fair in June wearing a FISTER 58 shirt
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 16:30 (eleven years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwjU7PmCMAAyWji.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 19:42 (eleven years ago)
lance lynn and johnny cueto are ~dealing~
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 September 2014 18:29 (eleven years ago)
lol good jinx *pats self on back*
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 September 2014 18:51 (eleven years ago)
Sale/Kazmir is a good battle right now.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:50 (eleven years ago)
no shame in gettin shut down by Sale, but damn, poor A's.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:21 (eleven years ago)
They used up all their runs in the second game of the series.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:41 (eleven years ago)
Johnny Cueto has had a heck of a year one of the best pitching seasons in Reds history but it is kind of lost in Kershaw's big shadow.
― earlnash, Thursday, 11 September 2014 22:46 (eleven years ago)
Per fWAR Cueto's 2012 was better.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 11 September 2014 23:57 (eleven years ago)
that year he was also lost in Kershaw's fshadow.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 September 2014 02:22 (eleven years ago)
Felix-Weaver tonight
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:17 (eleven years ago)
Bumgarner-Greinke.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:49 (eleven years ago)
Price-Cueto atm
― Andy K, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 23:29 (ten years ago)
i noticed
prime pitching matchups 2015
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 23:59 (ten years ago)
Didn't realize it was Scherzer-Greinke today; 1-0 Dodgers going into the ninth (Scherzer got lifted after six).
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 July 2015 20:26 (ten years ago)
@Lynn_HenningChris Archer, Verlander, perfect through 4: combined 12 strikeouts.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:05 (ten years ago)
Sale vs Archer tonight
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:53 (ten years ago)
Kershaw-Cole tomorrow is about as marquee as it gets at the moment.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 August 2015 12:17 (ten years ago)
buffalo's randy wolf (7-1, 2.48) vs. charlotte's brad penny (5-5, 3.90) tonight
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:22 (ten years ago)
I can suggest an umpire.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:28 (ten years ago)
i predict the pirates get three (3) hits at most off kershaw tonight
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 August 2015 23:14 (ten years ago)
lmao 1 pitch
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 August 2015 23:16 (ten years ago)
ok i was wrong, but bases-loaded-no-out-and-no-one-scores makes up for it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 August 2015 02:06 (ten years ago)
skenes/greene tonight
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 September 2025 20:38 (eight months ago)
Gausman/Misiorowski tonight.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 April 2026 20:20 (one month ago)
mclean/yamamoto :)
― 龜, Wednesday, 15 April 2026 03:27 (one month ago)
Real!
― H.P, Wednesday, 15 April 2026 03:30 (one month ago)
Skenes vs. Wheeler, obviously.
― clemenza, Sunday, 17 May 2026 17:12 (three weeks ago)
Did not expect Skenes to be the one to give up 5
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 17 May 2026 20:38 (three weeks ago)
Unless there's a rainout, I think I'll be seeing him Sunday at Rogers.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 May 2026 14:58 (two weeks ago)
https://www.mlb.com/news/cam-schlittler-vs-trey-yesavage-preview
It says "marquee matchup" right in the second paragraph.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 May 2026 20:20 (two weeks ago)
after some delay, final lines:Schittler: 6 IP, 2 ER, 8 H, 2 BB, 7 KYesavage: 6 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 0 BB, 8 K
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 21 May 2026 04:07 (two weeks ago)
struck out Judge 3x
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 21 May 2026 04:17 (two weeks ago)
And then Varland a fourth time.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 May 2026 16:12 (two weeks ago)
Aw, Yesavage has been pushed back a day. Him vs. Sale would have been a good one tomorrow.
― get your printable keyboard workout plan for ILXors over 50 (WmC), Thursday, 4 June 2026 03:17 (three days ago)