Verlander-Sale again
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 September 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
Rained out
― Andy K, Friday, 14 September 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Verlander and Sale ended up crushing the Twins and Indians (no runs allowed by either) instead of facing each other ... too bad.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 15 September 2012 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
Verlander/Anderson (on ESPN tonight) qualifies, right?
― Andy K, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
I had to think for 30 seconds on who Anderson is.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
"Mister Anderson"
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Darvish-Greinke in a few
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 September 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
Scherzer-Harvey on TV today.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 August 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
scherzer!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
through four:
harvey 8 H, 2 Kscherzer 1 H, 8 K
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 August 2013 21:22 (ten years ago) link
two pretty good rookies about to get going, Fernandez vs. Teheran
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Friday, 30 August 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
Didn't realize it was Scherzer-Sale tonight.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 September 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
Game time 2:07
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:49 (ten years ago) link
almost feel bad for clifton, but then not
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
tbf he didn't go to miami/the bronx, but yeah
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 September 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
Kershaw and Fister tomorrow night could be great.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
?
doug fister's having kind of a ho hum season right?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/David+Dombrowski+Jim+Leyland+Announces+Retirement+NahGKx-AzFpl.jpg
― Andy K, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
the ol' lobber
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwjU7PmCMAAyWji.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
lance lynn and johnny cueto are ~dealing~
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 September 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
lol good jinx *pats self on back*
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 September 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Sale/Kazmir is a good battle right now.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
They used up all their runs in the second game of the series.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
Per fWAR Cueto's 2012 was better.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 11 September 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
Felix-Weaver tonight
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Bumgarner-Greinke.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
Price-Cueto atm
― Andy K, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 23:29 (eight years ago) link
i noticed
prime pitching matchups 2015
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
@Lynn_HenningChris Archer, Verlander, perfect through 4: combined 12 strikeouts.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
Sale vs Archer tonight
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
Kershaw-Cole tomorrow is about as marquee as it gets at the moment.
― clemenza, Thursday, 6 August 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
lester and nola dueling rn
― na (NA), Sunday, 2 September 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
deGrom-Sale scheduled for Sunday at Fenway. (tho i guess Sale will go 2 innings)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
3-4 innings, Sox say
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
Besides the Sale-deGrom partial match-up, there's Verlander/Greinke.
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 September 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
Kershaw-Freeland.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
Scherzer-deGrom; definite Cy Young implications.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
Freeland? I should stick with actual marquee match-ups.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
Well played, Hyun-jin Ryu.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
Scherzer-Verlander! I rarely root against either of them, but I want the Astros to win 1-0 tonight. (The game is free on mlb.com.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 18:23 (six months ago) link
I want anyone but the Astros to win.
I have to admit, I have been very impressed with Altuve lately.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 18:25 (six months ago) link
Realistically, I think any Jays fan assumes Texas will be easier to stay ahead of.
How's this for complicated wording?
Justin Verlander & Max Scherzer will be the 1st former Cy Young winners to be teammates earlier in a season and THEN face each other later in that season, with both pitching for different teams than where they were teammatesh/t @EliasSports pic.twitter.com/M86VZcw9tm— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) September 6, 2023
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 18:27 (six months ago) link
I'm not sure the last bit is even necessary--I would think "1st former Cy Young winners to be teammates earlier in a season and THEN face each other later in that season" would be enough.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 18:28 (six months ago) link
So much for that--Scherzer's getting hammered.
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:54 (six months ago) link
from reddit:
This was the 19th straight Rangers game without a starting pitcher W. The last time their starter recorded a win was August 15.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 September 2023 03:04 (six months ago) link
Cole vs Burnes yesterday did not disappoint.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 11 September 2023 09:18 (six months ago) link
Verlander-Castillo, and two nose-diving teams trying to hang on.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 September 2023 21:55 (six months ago) link