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So who's throwing tomorrow's no-hitter?
Today's Uni Watch features an interview with the guy who does the Scorecard illustrations for the Cardinals. Some of them are fantastic.
I especially love Bernie Brewer crying into his beer.
I especially love Bernie Brewer crying into his beer.
Boy I sure love losing to the goddamn fish.
The Giants have called up 3-time All-Star and former Rays ace (which seems like a lifetime ago now) Scott Kazmir to start today against one of his former teams, the Dodgers. They're the last team that he played with. It'll be his first Major League game since 2016. Due to injuries he only pitched in 12 innings of high-A ball in 2017 in the Dodgers' system, then didn't play at all for two years, then pitched 20 innings of Indy ball last season, and just over 6 innings this season in AAA for the Giants in 2021.
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Also Atlanta absolutely mauled the Pirates last night 20-1. They hit seven home runs, two of which were grand slams (one by Acuna in the 2nd inning, the other being a pinch hit grand slam by Ehire Adrianza in the 3rd.) Speaking of Acuna, he hit another homer run today on the first pitch that the Braves faced and now has the MLB season home run lead.
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Yesterday afternoon the Rays and Brewers made a four player trade that sent Tampa's shortstop Willy Adames to Milwaukee. Tampa called up one of their top infield prospects Taylor Walls to take his sport, but we seem to be inching ever closer to 20 year-old all-world and the consensus #1 prospect in the sport Wander Franco debuting. His teammate and also highly regarded 23 year-old infield prospect (who at least is already on the 40-man roster) Vidal Brujan might get the call first as he's crushing AAA pitching at the moment.
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Also Atlanta absolutely mauled the Pirates last night 20-1. They hit seven home runs, two of which were grand slams (one by Acuna in the 2nd inning, the other being a pinch hit grand slam by Ehire Adrianza in the 3rd.) Speaking of Acuna, he hit another homer run today on the first pitch that the Braves faced and now has the MLB season home run lead.
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Yesterday afternoon the Rays and Brewers made a four player trade that sent Tampa's shortstop Willy Adames to Milwaukee. Tampa called up one of their top infield prospects Taylor Walls to take his sport, but we seem to be inching ever closer to 20 year-old all-world and the consensus #1 prospect in the sport Wander Franco debuting. His teammate and also highly regarded 23 year-old infield prospect (who at least is already on the 40-man roster) Vidal Brujan might get the call first as he's crushing AAA pitching at the moment.
How does Greinke keep getting away with it!?!?
My O's are racing for that #1 draft pick next year.
Went to my second AAA game this season Monday night. Cody Bellinger was doing a rehab assignment for the OKC Dodgers so that was cool even though he went 0-3. I also got to see an inside the park homerun for the first time ever live, but it was only because Steven Souza absolutely fucking ate the wall at full speed in deep right field and had to be helped up afterward. He stayed in the game though so it wasn't as bad as it looked originally.
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This is it. The dumbest play in the history of baseball. Pirates first baseman tries to start a rundown between home and first.
"There were two outs" is trending on twitter. MLB's official account is trying to spin this as "Javy Baez magic" because I guess that's a better tagline than "holy shit the Pirates are bad".
"There were two outs" is trending on twitter. MLB's official account is trying to spin this as "Javy Baez magic" because I guess that's a better tagline than "holy shit the Pirates are bad".
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A couple of video breakdowns of the play from Youtube:
By FAR the dumbest baseball play I've ever seen. That kind of play would get a little-leaguer yelled at. Unbelievable lack of awareness by the Pirates' 1st baseman there.
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The thing about the play that sticks out to me is how nonchalant Pittsburgh's first baseman was initially when Baez reversed course. He knew he had the force play and Baez was dead to rights, tag or not. No idea how he lost the plot sometime after that, but not knowing the number of outs could explain the toss to the catcher.
It was obviously super unique and not something anyone would practice, but it's crazy to me that nobody backed up first once he started chasing Baez back towards home plate. Any out on Baez before he touches first would nullify the run. The first baseman obviously fucked the play up completely, but it is a team sport after all, and another infielder should have had the awareness to cover for his mistake.
It was obviously super unique and not something anyone would practice, but it's crazy to me that nobody backed up first once he started chasing Baez back towards home plate. Any out on Baez before he touches first would nullify the run. The first baseman obviously fucked the play up completely, but it is a team sport after all, and another infielder should have had the awareness to cover for his mistake.
Yesterday the Indians and Blue Jays played in pouring rain and 40+ mph winds in 50-degree weather.
Today, with temperatures at 65 and mostly sunny, the game has been cancelled.
Due to wind.
Today, with temperatures at 65 and mostly sunny, the game has been cancelled.
Due to wind.
Today the 2,000,000th run in MLB history was scored. In the bottom of the first inning Nelson Cruz of the Twins hit a blooper that ended up as a ground-rule double that scored Josh Donaldson. It might end up being changed in the future if/when the Negro League stats get included with MLB stats.
As if things couldn't get any worse for the Braves, Ozuna is popped for domestic violence just a few days after dislocating a couple of fingers and missing up to six weeks of time.
Jesus fucking christ.
Jesus fucking christ.
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Ozuna is lucky there wasn't some surveillance camera who filmed him like Ray Rice.
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In case any of you didn't know, MLB have been streaming games on Youtube every week. Currently watching D-backs getting ass raped by the Mets. they managed to pull a couple back.
Don't remember them showing live games on youtube before, are ratings that bad that they are trying to drum up interest on youtube or am I being overly cynical?
They've been showing games on Youtube for years now (I've been watching this one too lol, voted for Schilling in that poll earlier), at least since around 2017. There typically seems to be 75k-200k concurrent viewers whenever I tune in.
This is a position player pitching and the hitter didn't whiff totally on top of it, but it still cracks me up. I'm a dude in poor shape and I would absolutely lace a pitch like this into left field. I've fucking done it multiple times in beer league softball. Be better, MLB hitters.
I'm assuming that he was instructed by his manager not to swing considering the situation (top of the 8th, Royals up 9 runs IIRC). One of those "unwritten rules" that old-timers get butthurt about. I personally think a lot of those unwritten rules are garbage. If you're gonna serve me up a meatball like that, then I should be able to smash that fucker 400+ feet.
Some might say that it's disrespectful to tee off on a non-pitcher in a blowout. I'd say that it's disrespectful to put a position player on the mound and expect the opposing team to not swing away. I can understand not wanting to use your bullpen in what is essentially a lost cause, but it's ridiculous to expect a dude not to swing just because the guy throwing to him isn't a pitcher. Baseball is a very numbers-centric game after all, and things like HRs and RBIs go a long way in determining a player's market value.
Imo the batter should've blasted that pitch into orbit and then flipped his bat for good measure. Props to him for holding off though, you know it took some restraint to not hammer that thing into the atmosphere.
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