the pitch clock is counting down to the MLB 2023 REGULAR SEASON THREAD

Was not sure where to put this but Awful Announcing has released The 2023 MLB local broadcaster rankings:

https://awfulannouncing.com/orig/2023-mlb-local-broadcaster-rankings.html

The Giants broadcast being ranked #1 is no surprise as they are usually the winner. I'm pleasantly surprised as I didn't know they were that well regarded. It's funny to me that they are #1 and don't even mention the best part of the booth, Jon Miller.

cleveland has hit 69 homers as a team this season

five of them (7.2%) have come in a seven-inning stretch against the pirates last night and tonight

That's almost twice as many as Ohtani! (Absurdio ad reductio.)

Strange day indeed, runs scored:

Giants 11
Reds 10 (L)
Dodgers 10
Guardians 10
White Sox 10 (L)
Mets 10
DBacks 16
Braves 13 (L)
Cubs 17
Tigers 10 (L)
Royals 11
Twins 10

Mets were 11 and Padres scored 9

Jays shut down the Padres with only 9.

Boston: 0

Having scored 10 or more runs in 10 of their previous 11

That’s baseball Suzyn

Honestly think the ability of the Sox to light up aces with a couple of exceptions and get stymied by journeymen with 5+ ERAs is incredibly funny.

A non-exhaustive list of good SPs destroyed by the Sox this season:

- Luis Castillo, 5 ER in 5 IP
- Gausman (at Fenway), 8 ER in 3.1 IP
- Snell, 6 ER in 4 IP

Handed Gerrit Cole his first loss of the season, hit guys like Glasnow & Giolito hard even when they couldn’t string runs together. Think only Joe Ryan & Stroman were on the level of high-ERA guys playing for sub-.500 teams that have successfully shut them down.

Oh yeah and let’s not forget Kyle Hendricks and however many home runs they got off him, RIP

Rays might be in second place in a few hours

Thought that already happened

like REALLY in second place.. i don’t believe in the loss column

Their % is lower?
https://i.postimg.cc/wBWRx1Bn/IMG-5772.jpg

what a weird layout

It's shocking how terrible the AL is this year.

Mariners have a decent chance of breaking the record for amount of time spent at .500 in a season.

Seattle Mariners (47-47)

Last 2 games: 1-1 (.500)
Last 4 games: 2-2 (.500)
Last 6 games: 3-3 (.500)
Last 8 games: 4-4 (.500)
Last 10 games: 5-5 (.500)
Last 20 games: 10-10 (.500)
Last 60 games: 30-30 (.500)

Dude wtf is going on with this team pic.twitter.com/Dwu4Ckzn1h

— Konjac Jelly (@Mariner_Konjac) July 19, 2023

I don’t even want to talk about it. Unreal season.

I literally started watching the fucking Red Sox, as a team that can hit, because I was sick of watching the Mariners fritter away good pitching with 10+ strikeouts through the order and just having zero plate discipline.

yeah, and it feels like every other time i turn on a game they have a collision or near-collision in the outfield because they're just not communicating with each other?

the Orioles were my team as a kid, but i've also been a Mariners fan most of my life, and it wasn't that long ago i was comparing the two - similar levels of promise and futility in my lifetime, but it felt like Mariners fans were having a good time watching a fun, lucky, chaotic team, while Orioles fans were either complete doomers or they were pinning their hopes on a mythical rebuild whose end date kept being postponed. And now...

Sounds like last night's O's/M's game was a doozy

One of the constants in my baseball life has been my dislike of the Red Sox, their fans and their ballpark.

keeping it pure, respect

Sox players/fans aside, hating Fenway is kinda cringe imho.

I wish there were more zany-dimensioned parks like it.

Used to see this incredible meme in the replies of @would_it_dong all the time
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fw8JHqXaIAYhoZi?format=jpg&name=large

I briefly considered becoming a Red Sox fan after the Expos moved and I was cheering for the red sox in the 2004 playoffs, but the red sox fans turned me off and I ultimately never felt comfortable cheering for a big market team

xp It's ugly as sin and stupidly contrarian. It's like my impression of Bostonians in general--it takes pride in being difficult.

I am being mostly tongue in cheek; my brother-in-law is from Boston and I love him dearly, but I suspect he would agree to some extent with my assessment.

Fenway is amazing, but concur with the obnoxiousness of red sox fans. At least the yankees have some self-awareness/pride in being absolute scumbags, yet the sox are just as bad yet like to position themselves as the good guys?

Everyday I watch Mookie Betts play I get the pleasure of watching a perennial mvp go out there and play killer baseball every day, and the schadenfreude of knowing it is at the expense of the red sox franchise.

O's>Jays>Yanks>Rays>Sox

This O's/Ray's series is so much fun right now too, really hoping the O's can get these last two games to have a confident lead in the division going to the end of the year.

Apologies for some unforgiveable writing in the above post, that was painful to re-read

nationals had gone 103 straight series (of at least three games) without a sweep . . . until today

their last was against the pirates in june 2021

it starts here baby

Ugly fucking series for the Giants, didn’t even want to look to see how they hit Webb that hard

The Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers are finalizing a trade that would send superutilityman Kiké Hernandez to the Dodgers, sources tell ESPN.

He has spent most of the 2023 season at shortstop but can play second base and center field as well.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 25, 2023

RIP big man, LA needed a cocky underperformer

apparently boston gets “two upper level minor league relievers”

i’m guessing arroyo will be taking his last canter around the corral once story returns, with pablito &/or chang at second. too bad they’re both righties.

He’s gonna do a Brasier and start playing amazing again in LA

Vry excited for post season Kiké in Dodger blue again. Choosing to believe he was a sleeper agent with the Sox and is going to turn it back on. We’re due for a reclamation project to go right after how Syndegaard went

does Jason Heyward not count?

He definitely counts, but normally we go 4-5 on reclamation projects, not 1-1. David Peralta and Miguel Rojas haven’t become the Dodger superstars we were hoping too

Just some of the absolute worst baserunning you’ll ever see in your life, wtf was Duvall doing?!?!

TRIPLE PLAY!#ForTheA pic.twitter.com/HNDjdv9Asc

— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) July 26, 2023

Embarrassing

https://www.mlb.com/cardinals/tickets/specials/theme-tickets/emo

I was trying to think of a single emo band from St. Louis and came up blank...

looking at wikipedia, foxing?

Never heard of them. Get Up Kids were from KCMO but that's clear across the state and more importantly: Royals territory.

Was Jack McDowell's band somewhat in that vein? ("Alternative," says Wikipedia.) Maybe they can reunite.

okay, I found a (very) loose connection:

Scott Radinsky pitched 44 games for the Cards in 99-00.

He was the singer for Scared Straight* which could be considered proto-emo in the same manner as The Descendents might be.

*later known as 10 Foot Pole, and Scott also sang for Pulley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRIFYc9_e6Q

I knew about the triple play last night; didn't know it was one (8-3-5) that hadn't been turned in almost 150 years.

https://ca.yahoo.com/sports/news/michael-harris-atlanta-braves-turn-022451326.html