2018 regular-season game chatter

His 18K game from a few years ago was another interleague game, also against the cardinals

Lush played for the Phillies!

so did Magee

Yes and they finished last that year!

Highest OPS+ by a teenager*
Min. 100 PA, since 1901
1. 166 -- Juan Soto, 2018 Nationals

run it again after tonight's game, dude had a career night.

182 now!

the "squat" Willians Astudillo is up

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-weirdest-player-in-the-minors-is-now-in-the-majors/

And an RBI single in his first AB.

Also, Cubs had 9 runs on 14 singles before Happ doubled just now.

today's Brewers-Reds game featured both a reliever (Michael Lorenzen) hitting a grand slam and a catcher (Erik Kratz) recording a strikeout on a 59 mph knuckleball (that was well outside the strike zone, but I guess the ump just wanted to get it over with)

Worst June in Mets' club history. Think about that history.

yeowch

Chris Sale is ridiculous.

yeah, he’s one of the best pitchers in his division

*air horn*

Third-worst month in Mets history, actually.

*air horn*

― Karl Malone, Saturday, June 30, 2018 11:00 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago)

(tony reali mutes, deducts 4 points)

god damn you tony reali, this is the last time

oh I was saying he was doing it to me!

Astudillo hit a triple today! 3-7 now with three RBI.

we love our willians, but the twins have him playing 2B today

he has not played middle infield since 2011, and that was for 18 games

!

imagine him & Bartolo as a battery

gerrit cole / justin verlander trivia

He already owns an unusual but interesting record -- at least since people started keeping track, he has the record for most consecutive games to start a season where the pitcher goes at least five innings and allows six or fewer hits. Cole has done that all 17 times this year.

The odd thing is that Justin Verlander did it in his first 16 starts this season. There must be something in that Houston water.

looks like colby rasmus is retiring (again)

Colby Rasmus steps off the 'roller coaster' again. Reports from Baltimore have former #stlcards torchbearer prospect walking away from the game -- for a second consecutive summer. Spoke to him about that this past spring: https://t.co/oC629kTL0c #Orioles #MLB

— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) July 4, 2018

if you can't make the orioles roster you'd better, in the words of the immortal chuck noll, get on with your life's work

https://deadspin.com/carlos-gomez-cant-hit-the-ball-but-he-can-hit-this-wate-1827345931

this looks like something out of Smash Bros.

in the last calendar year, aaron judge is slugging .568

francisco lindor is slugging .566

this is kinda random but AL first basemen are having a pretty terrible year, collectively

Wow at that Lindor number.

yeah, the most defensible AL 1b All-Star id the A's guy, Olson?

Also Oakland is looking like our only hope for an AL WC race. (other than btwn the East's two Evil Empires)

Biggest Changes in Attendance per Game
1 #Marlins ⬇️11,162⬇️
2 #BlueJays ⬇️11,147⬇️
3 #Tigers ⬇️7,319⬇️
4 #Orioles ⬇️7,063⬇️
5 #Royals ⬇️7,035⬇️
6 #Pirates ⬇️6,496⬇️
7 #Brewers ⬆️6,154⬆️
8 #Astros ⬆️6,000⬆️
9 #Rangers ⬇️4,929⬇️

— Baseball Reference (@baseball_ref) July 5, 2018

apparently the marlins this year have taken a policy of not lying about attendance so that when it theoretically rises once the team is theoretically better the new ownership group will have an accurate reflection of how much they’ve actually risen attendance \(o_O)/

hi J... I thought MLB-wide policy now was to record attendance as tickets sold for a game, not actual fannies in seats; i wonder if this has changed?

you might be right and i could just be parroting jetah propaganda

the high in anaheim today is to be 117° -- 109° by game time at 7 PDT. have we had heat-related postponements yet?

there's been a few guys recently who have left games bcuz of the heat

you know, back in the day the boys used to wear wool uniforms and ride in single-berth trains without any air conditioning, all without any complaints at all. in fact they used to wear those wool uniforms on the train, because they loved the game so much. i remember some pranksters setting shoelaces on fire in the dugout, but you know when it was time to lay down a sacrifice bunt for the 5th time in a game, we were ready, and that's something the boys today with their launch angles and metrics can't seem to learn

i've been listening to too much tim mccarver recently

Trevor Bauer says he's never signing a long-term deal. Only one-year contracts.

Why? Turns out he made a bet with a friend: If he ever signs a multi-year deal, the friend gets to shoot him in the nuts with a paintball gun from 10 feet away.

Full podcast: https://t.co/hvN9x1gPKo pic.twitter.com/9l3z7PHLGz

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 6, 2018

:/

sure...

huh

Trevor "one of the most scientific baseball players in MLB" Bauer

Jordan Zimmermann outpitched Bartolo Colon in 2 hours, 5 minutes. Sun just set, so they'll have to wait for postgame fireworks.

— Jason Beck (@beckjason) July 7, 2018

Both starters were so good - game ended just minutes after sun set, played in a crisp 2:05. Zimmermann threw 96 pitches, 67 for strikes. Colon w/ 97P - 72 strikes. Combined - the two went to a 3-ball count just three times....

— Dan Dickerson (@Dan_Dickerson) July 7, 2018

Great four- or five-way Cy Young race shaping up in the A.L.: Severino, Sale, and Bauer, Kluber and Verlander still hanging in there.

Missed Snell from Tampa Bay (because I don't know who Snell from Tampa Bay is).

i saw a night game in Seattle (2006?) around the solstice that ended before the sun set. (Jamie Moyer for the M's)

The Angels have a pitcher named Deck McGuire! Obvious refugee from a WWII Navy movie.

I heard an inning of Joe Buck; he's still got "it."

dude was a first round pick for the Jays many moons ago!

o shit the nats had a players-only meeting and now they're unstoppable o shit