2018 regular-season game chatter

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

he was right though

― frogbs, Wednesday, August 15, 2018 9:31 AM (six hours ago)

there is no "zone" as the game is currently constructed, only a set of probabilities based on where the pitch is and the situation. that pitch is called a strike about half the time. hitters know this, pitchers know this, tough luck I guess

mookie otm

I dunno that pitch looked pretty outside to me. wasn't even one of those that looked like it was gonna be in the zone and slid out. I agree that's where it gets tricky, with those final bits of movement over the plate and what not. But that pitch...idk it looked like a clear ball

quite an OAK-SEA tilt going

Apparently I just missed an interesting first pitch in Marlins-Barves.

First pitch of the bottom half of the inning, that is. (Ureña beaned Acuña to prevent another leadoff homer, Snitker lost his mind, Ureña and Snitker tossed, and now Acuña just came out because the arm doesn't feel right.)

i don't blame snitker, that was bullshit

lol at the bullpens having to run in twice

Just watched the clip--glad the pitcher was ejected.

prediction: some retired red-ass player will bash the braves for not *immediately* charging the field and trying to kill ureña, and will call it a failure of manhood that snitker was more fired up than acuña's own teammates

lol at the bullpens having to run in twice

Fewer laps tomorrow amirite.

xp - He didn't call out the Braves explicitly, but during the game Brian Jordan said "I woulda been throwin' some hands."

*ron Howard voice*

He wouldn’t have

this being ILB, misread that as ryan howard

jeter strikes again

Worst Smiths song

Another thing about pitching inside. The whole “make them uncomfortable...move their feet...brush em back” thing is complete BS. It doesn’t work. When a kid starts playing kid pitch at 8, he gets hit. When he gets to be, say, 12 it hurts a bit more. When he gets to high school...

— Michael Young (@MikeyY626) August 16, 2018

don't tell Keith Hernandez

Acuna will play today.

pulling Snell after 76 pitches is seriously O_o
like, i get what they're doing with their staff/pen there – but you'd think, if there was one pitcher on their staff they'd let pitch into the 6th and give their pen a tiny rest, it'd be him.

nice job by kolarek getting out of romos mess

Yankees - Bottom 9th

Romo pitching for TB

Gregorius singled to center.
Torres singled to right, Gregorius to second.
Walker walked, Gregorius to third, Torres to second.

Kolarek pitching for TB

Bird fouled out to third.
Gardner struck out swinging
Romine struck out swinging.

lol rally

Walker walked

well, duh!

this mets-phils facebook game is kinda crazy

Edwin Diaz is on pace now for 62 saves, which would tie the single season record set by Francisco Rodriguez in 2008.

what the fuck the mets score ten runs in an inn'g & i cant watch it on television

phillies have hit four homers in four innings and are getting killed

six games for urena

piddly ass

in the NHL you get 10 games (in a season half as long) just for coming off the bench during a brawl, whether you hit anyone or not. (certain fourth-liners -- and they know who they are -- will do it anyway if someone important is being overwhelmed.)

i'm not sure what the suspension guidelines are vis-a-vis the players union, but acuña's just as much a member as ureña is (as were darvish and yuli gurriel in the world series last year). but six games is a joke -- he might miss one start, and if he games the appeal process, not even that. and he's playing for a shitty team with nothing to lose, unlike the braves, if they were to retaliate

baseline of 15 games for starters in a cut-and-dry case like this and go from there imo. and fine everyone who came out of the bullpen

Basebrawls aren’t even interesting