2018 regular-season game chatter

Addison Russell makes a baaaad out at third in the 9th to give the New Pirates a win

He looked safe on all the replays I saw, but it was a mistake to try for third.

http://afropunk.com/2018/08/ozzie-albies-comforting-ronald-acuna-jr-is-the-perfect-alternative-to-toxic-masculinity/

that’s cute as hell

a thousand slashfics launched

heads up for all who have their Twin Peaks costume picked out

https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2018/8/2/17646038/mlb-postseason-schedule-2018-world-series-game-7-halloween

so i guess this means a Mariners-Nationals WS

just as well the yankees scored -- having a 1-0 game go four hours was going to be embarrassing

Friday was 2:14 wtf

Sam Miller on the genesis of the violent walk-off dogpile

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24058781/how-beating-teammates-became-go-walk-celebration

the cardinals have been "accidentally" dumping gatorade on the tv reporter all year, seems like a good tradition

i'm going to mets/cubs at the end of the month on what is apparently "grateful dead day" at wrigley field

which doesn't actually seem to entail much of anything: https://www.mlb.com/cubs/tickets/specials/community-nights/grateful-dead-night

they're announcing the 'players weekend' uniforms and nicknames today, and the guys who just use their surnames anyway make me sad

I admire them! deGrom is one.

https://www.mlb.com/news/2018-mlb-players-weekend-nicknames/c-289419008

jesus christ Corey Knebel just walked the first 3 batters of the 9th inning with a 4-2 lead and somehow wasn't pulled right there

now 8-4 Padres, good going Counsell

Brewers now 0-8 in weekday games

boxberger emoji one is hilarious xp

and the guys who just use their surnames anyway make me sad

― mookieproof, Thursday, August 9, 2018 1:11 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

greinke proving to be the most boring human on earth

maybe I'm just asking cuz I'm bitter right now but if you have a closer whose command is all over the place why don't you have another person warming up, just in case? I've seen so many blown saves that were absolutely telegraphed from the first batter. roll the dice if you must but leaving a guy in when he's missing the strike zone by a foot feels like you're just giving the game away.

Love these --
Michael Wacha: "WACHAMOLE"
Brad Boxberger: "🎁🍔"

Freddie Freeman: "ANDREW"
No idea what this means but I lol'd.

yeah if it were me I’d either use my last name or something that no one has ever called me

The names on the backs of jerseys for Players Weekend. Well played, Derek Holland. pic.twitter.com/RDjotjJEGj

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 9, 2018

lol @ "Last Name"

yeah if it were me I’d either use my last name or something that no one has ever called me

― k3vin k., Thursday, August 9, 2018 3:43 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cmon, like you wouldn't use "k3vin k."

derek holland hah

Classic nats lost.

immediate nats loss canon

David Bote just hit the Golden Homer: a walk-off grand slam, down three, and with his team down to his last strike.

For all the years we have pitch data, there are just two other Golden Homers: Chris Hoiles on 5/17/1996 and Alan Trammell on 6/21/1988.

— Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) August 13, 2018

that 6/21/88 win was the middle of three straight walk-off wins against the Yankees

when we got jerseys for our softball team I got NAME and number 1, just like all the samples

Nats announcers going completely silent for a full minute during Carpenter's HR was pretty satisfying

The Nationals' broadcast knew it was coming. #stlcards pic.twitter.com/SeoBxFpv4h

— 📼 (@VanHicklestein) August 14, 2018

looooooooool at kolten wong in the celebration

hold on, i'll show you

https://i.imgur.com/GOL2Sjj.gif

the nats should probably just be disbanded at this point

immediate nats loss canon

― J0rdan S., Sunday, August 12, 2018 11:51 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Another one!

I wouldn't make fun of their 6 seasons old inability to create a consistent bullpen because that dark arts and laugh at it at your own risk it will soon happen to all of our favorite teams.

Also: the collapse of Severino, my oh my.

dodgers bullpen melt down spoiling a nice kershaw game. up one with 2 down and 2 strikes bottom of the 9th and the closer beaned the guy... now they are down 3

carpenter is fucking absurd man

Acuna Jr. hit a leadoff home run in both ends of a doubleheader -- he's just the fourth player ever to do it.

the best winning percentage in the NL belongs to the Chicago Cubs, 68-49 (.581)

teams with higher winning percentages in the AL:

Red Sox, 85-35 (.708)
Yankees, 74-44 (.627)
Astros, 73-46 (.613)
Athletics, 71-48 (.597)
Mariners, 69-51 (.575)
Indians, 67-51 (.568)

oh sorry, i guess the mariners and indians are slightly beneath the cubs.

well those teams play the Orioles and Royals fairly often

good to see Ryan Braun murdering the Cubs even in a down year

A first?

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24376946/ben-zobrist-chicago-cubs-ejected-telling-ump-why-want-electronic-strike-zone

yep first career ejection. between that and the shoe color squabble, he's a regular bad boy now

he was right though

feel like cuzzi let the notoriously god-fearing zobrist go on for quite some time just to see if he would curse

no, i meant the first time a player publicly said "Bring on the robots"

worth striking over imho

zobrist has said it before! http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20327852/ben-zobrist-chicago-cubs-mlb-needs-electronic-strike-zone

my understanding is that the 'electronic strike zone' is, at present, not quite as accurate as the average umpire and much more susceptible to crazy errors. and that you shouldn't necessarily trust the various tv depictions of the zone or pitch location graphs

also, yelling at umpires is fun and entertaining and most of them are quite good at what they do -- i think the technology will have to be demonstrably better than the umps, which may not happen, before it is implemented