Marquee match-ups

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.

Lee's final line: 8 IP, 3 hits, 13 K, 0 BB, 1 run. May qualify as a tough loss.

Game time 2:07

almost feel bad for clifton, but then not

Game scores: Medlen 83, Lee 85

Hell of a game, nice heart-attack moment from Janish in the 9th.

less sympathy for a guy who can't decide whether to pitch in Philly or Arlington, two shitholes of the universe.

tbf he didn't go to miami/the bronx, but yeah

Kershaw and Fister tomorrow night could be great.

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doug fister's having kind of a ho hum season right?

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

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.)

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

those are two names you made up, right?

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/David+Dombrowski+Jim+Leyland+Announces+Retirement+NahGKx-AzFpl.jpg

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."

the ol' lobber

btw i saw a guy at a leather street fair in June wearing a FISTER 58 shirt

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwjU7PmCMAAyWji.jpg

lance lynn and johnny cueto are ~dealing~

lol good jinx *pats self on back*

Sale/Kazmir is a good battle right now.

no shame in gettin shut down by Sale, but damn, poor A's.

They used up all their runs in the second game of the series.

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.

Per fWAR Cueto's 2012 was better.

that year he was also lost in Kershaw's fshadow.

Felix-Weaver tonight

Bumgarner-Greinke.

Price-Cueto atm

i noticed

prime pitching matchups 2015

Didn't realize it was Scherzer-Greinke today; 1-0 Dodgers going into the ninth (Scherzer got lifted after six).

@Lynn_Henning
Chris Archer, Verlander, perfect through 4: combined 12 strikeouts.

Sale vs Archer tonight

Kershaw-Cole tomorrow is about as marquee as it gets at the moment.

buffalo's randy wolf (7-1, 2.48) vs. charlotte's brad penny (5-5, 3.90) tonight

I can suggest an umpire.

i predict the pirates get three (3) hits at most off kershaw tonight

lmao 1 pitch

ok i was wrong, but bases-loaded-no-out-and-no-one-scores makes up for it

totally slothroprhymed that shit

sale/felix friday

KO, Sale. Felix's ERA+ has dropped below 100.

Greinke/Kazmir today--I guess Kazmir counts based on this year.

totally slothroprhymed that shit
--mookieproof

lol how'd I miss that

also, kazmir/greinke def counts

also a couple of "an ace vs...some dude" matchups today - gray/ramirez, cole/leake

Greinke/Bumgarner: two of the best pinch-hitters in the league.

strasburg v degrom is no slouch tonight

ja happ v keyvius sampson tho

jose fernandez v scherz on fri

Kluber-Ventura tnite

cueto vs. verlander, tanaka vs. matz in addition to scherzerman vs. jose tonight

your "an ace vs. some dude" matchups: greinke vs. locke, madbum vs. de la rosa

aaaaand "a potential ace vs. LOL" matchups: stroman vs. porcello

Verlander-Castillo, and two nose-diving teams trying to hang on.