2018 regular-season game chatter

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

Especially if you’re an outfielder, apparently.

Mookie otm. Plunking is dumb. It's going to be a 101 mph fastball to the head one day.

MLB must be talking to announcers who keep plain or tacitly promoting those pre-historic baseball ideals also, the irony that it happened to a Braves player wasn't lost on me.

Jose Urethra:
How about suspending a starting pitcher 5 starts instead of 5 or 10 games for a severe infraction? That has some impact to a team vs a suspension of 5 to 10 games where the pitcher will miss 1 start maybe 2.

Jeff Sullivan:
Suspensions aren’t about games missed as much as they’re about salary missed. If you suspend Urena five times as long as you’d suspend a position player, that means Urena is forfeiting five times as much salary. How is that fair, from a player perspective?

Not to mention that the impact a starting pitcher can make in one game is roughly equivalent to the impact a position player can make over four or five games, anyhow

I’m not arguing the idea of sending a stronger message; I hate things like what Urena did, and I think he should face a more severe penalty. But it’s not going to be easy for MLB to establish a new precedent, given that this is how things operate now, and if Manfred came out and suspended Urena for the rest of the year, the union wouldn’t be happy about it.

cubs and pirates just split a four-game series in which pittsburgh scored five runs and chicago scored four

Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Zack Wheeler and Steven Matz were not pitching Sunday. So why not take a seat in the stands? From @Cut4:https://t.co/RZnTuwptlN

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) August 20, 2018

<3

If following occurs rest of way there’d be 8-way tie at 88 wins for NL best record, just to show how close it is (since I like chaos I am rooting for this):#Braves 20-19#Phillies 20-18#Cubs 17-22#Brewers 19-17#Cardinals 20-17#Diamondbacks 19-18#Rockies 20-18#Dodgers 21-16

— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) August 20, 2018

I’m just going to predict right now that a NL team will win the 2018 World Series

#teamentropy

by pythagorean record / run differential, the mariners are maybe the luckiest team ever?

https://i.imgur.com/OrJamit.png?1

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-mariners-still-look-like-an-all-time-anomaly/

https://i.imgur.com/R3rEJGQ.png?1

lol the 2017 padres

edwin diaz is amazing tho

one-run games:
OAK 26-10 (.722)
ATL 16-8  (.667)
SEA 31-16 (.660)
two-run games:
SEA 16-3 (.842)
LAA 4-23 (.148)
games decided by more than three runs:
SEA 13-28 (.317)

I'm 100% in the Rockies-as-NL-West-Champs bandwagon.

today the Cards and Brewers have the NL WC lead

lol matheny

ex-mgr of the year

Current Fangraphs projected standings have ATL, CHC and ARI winning their divisions (88, 92 and 89 wins) followed by these:

LAD 88
STL 88
MIL 87
PHI 87
COL 87

Could be quite a scrum.

whoever the commentator is in this facebook live stream of the rangers/a's game: "so the rangers are looking much more ... hitter-ish ... today"

yasiel just snapped the bat over his knee, very finely executed

BOS-NYY in London, June 29-30

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/2019-mlb-schedule-released-yankees-red-sox-in-london-albert-pujols-st-louis-homecoming-among-key-dates-series/