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Post by urbino on Apr 8, 2022 18:54:15 GMT -5
Here we go!
The boys in blue got off to a winning start in Colorado, in a not terribly Coors Field game. Sounds like the Tigers had an interesting ending to their game.
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Post by Silver on Apr 8, 2022 19:39:19 GMT -5
Yup. Tigers walked it off against the Chisox. Dramatic finish, momentarily confusing. Chisox outfielder caught a fly ball after it hit the wall and tried to sell it as a legal catch. Replay don't lie. Another reason to hate the White Sox, like I need more reasons.
Read that Yankees and Aaron Judge couldn't reach an agreement on a contract extension. Next stop Dodgers?
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Post by urbino on Apr 8, 2022 19:55:01 GMT -5
Yup. Tigers walked it off against the Chisox. Dramatic finish, momentarily confusing. Chisox outfielder caught a fly ball after it hit the wall and tried to sell it as a legal catch. Replay don't lie. Another reason to hate the White Sox, like I need more reasons. Read that Yankees and Aaron Judge couldn't reach an agreement on a contract extension. Next stop Dodgers? Don't see it. Not this FO's kind of player, I don't think. I don't think Pollock knew it hit the wall. Felt it hit his glove.
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Post by Silver on Apr 8, 2022 20:18:21 GMT -5
Yeah, but he's a White Sock.
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Post by urbino on Apr 8, 2022 20:32:03 GMT -5
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 10, 2022 11:00:45 GMT -5
No, no Sox on Thursday, but they played Friday They're making up Thursday tonight. They lost the opener to NYY in extras and lost yesterday in a lackluster performance. Their starting pitchers did ok and the pen just sank them. I'll get the latest on Judge tonight. JBJr is back in town, now in RF, and robbed Judge of a homer and then Judge returned the favor.
I'm just glad we have baseball!
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Post by urbino on Apr 10, 2022 13:51:46 GMT -5
Baseball!
Dodgers dropped last night's game to the Rockies. Offense didn't do its job. (Well, I have to give their starter, Marquez, some credit. He's no slouch.) Today's game is about to start.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 10, 2022 15:34:53 GMT -5
Baseball!!!1!1!
But not until tonight. And we just watched the Bruins lose, so Red Sox better bring it.
Speaking of Rockies, I'm hoping Trevor Story works out. I haven't seen enough of him. We AL East girls are pretty provincial in our viewing, so I didn't catch him out there.
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Post by urbino on Apr 10, 2022 15:50:19 GMT -5
It's a wild one in Denver. Winds at 33mph, gusting to 50+. Six runs scored so far on misplayed balls in the OF. It's the bottom of the 4th.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 10, 2022 18:43:25 GMT -5
I just looked at the Dodgers score. Ouch.
Anyway, the scuttlebutt is that Judge is delaying negotiations til after the season. For his sake, I hope he has a good season, but he's a damn Yankee bum to me.
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Post by urbino on Apr 13, 2022 18:11:08 GMT -5
Clayton Kershaw had himself a pretty good outing against the Twins: left the game after 7 innings of perfecto, with 13 strikeouts, on only 80 pitches. No way he was going 9 this early in the season, especially after a short ST, and elbow trouble late last year. I'll take the 7 efficient innings and run to the bank, thankyouverymuch.
Dodgers win, 7-0, and now head to Dodgers Stadium for the home opener.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 14, 2022 12:19:02 GMT -5
Red Sox can't achieve liftoff. They are at .500 and struggling. They almost blew a 7 or 8 run lead to the Tigers yesterday. They were hitting, obv, but the bullpen is stinking up the mound. I hope today's travel day straightens them out.
I heard about Kershaw's outing. Sox starters aren't performing much better than their pen. Eovaldi and Pivetta are the only ones I'd consider solid at this point. Luckily Eovaldi got the run support yesterday to beat E-Rod.
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Post by urbino on Apr 14, 2022 13:28:41 GMT -5
Red Sox can't achieve liftoff. They are at .500 and struggling. They almost blew a 7 or 8 run lead to the Tigers yesterday. They were hitting, obv, but the bullpen is stinking up the mound. I hope today's travel day straightens them out. I heard about Kershaw's outing. Sox starters aren't performing much better than their pen. Eovaldi and Pivetta are the only ones I'd consider solid at this point. Luckily Eovaldi got the run support yesterday to beat E-Rod. How are Queequeg and Dugie doing?
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Post by puffy on Apr 14, 2022 13:29:07 GMT -5
Red Sox can't achieve liftoff. They are at .500 and struggling. They almost blew a 7 or 8 run lead to the Tigers yesterday. They were hitting, obv, but the bullpen is stinking up the mound. I hope today's travel day straightens them out. I heard about Kershaw's outing. Sox starters aren't performing much better than their pen. Eovaldi and Pivetta are the only ones I'd consider solid at this point. Luckily Eovaldi got the run support yesterday to beat E-Rod. The bull pen for the Braves is good.Starters could be better.Hitting is on and off.
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Post by urbino on Apr 14, 2022 13:37:01 GMT -5
Red Sox can't achieve liftoff. They are at .500 and struggling. They almost blew a 7 or 8 run lead to the Tigers yesterday. They were hitting, obv, but the bullpen is stinking up the mound. I hope today's travel day straightens them out. I heard about Kershaw's outing. Sox starters aren't performing much better than their pen. Eovaldi and Pivetta are the only ones I'd consider solid at this point. Luckily Eovaldi got the run support yesterday to beat E-Rod. The bull pen for the Braves is good.Starters could be better.Hitting is on and off. Hard to make much of anything, this early in the year. Pitchers are usually ahead of the hitters, but coming off a short ST, both are probably going to be up and down quite a bit.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 14, 2022 14:39:10 GMT -5
Red Sox can't achieve liftoff. They are at .500 and struggling. They almost blew a 7 or 8 run lead to the Tigers yesterday. They were hitting, obv, but the bullpen is stinking up the mound. I hope today's travel day straightens them out. I heard about Kershaw's outing. Sox starters aren't performing much better than their pen. Eovaldi and Pivetta are the only ones I'd consider solid at this point. Luckily Eovaldi got the run support yesterday to beat E-Rod. How are Queequeg and Dugie doing? Ha. Kiké wasn't hitting, but broke that trend yesterday. Dugie's doing well and they've both been great defensively. Sox had a couple Braves games in Grapefruit. I think Braves will do well.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 25, 2022 20:54:16 GMT -5
I'm checking out your Dodgers tonight urbino. I won't spoil anything in case you watch asynchronously. I'm trying to get over another Sox loss. Twas tied until late in the game, when Bo Bichette launched a GS for Toronto. Go Dodgers! It looks like a lineup that will win games.
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Post by urbino on Apr 26, 2022 0:51:51 GMT -5
Hey, Emily. I was watching, too. When Ferris is on, he's tough to hit. Really had the off-speed stuff working in this one. And yeah, the lineup should put up runs if everybody stays healthy. Dodgers were well positioned to benefit from the DH, since they had good bench bats.
Being on the wrong end of a late GS is deflating, for sure. Even if it leaves you still ahead, it's deflating.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 26, 2022 14:51:59 GMT -5
Ferris was on, fer shure. You don't see complete games anymore. Sox starters have trouble getting their five in. Eovaldi went seven good innings yesterday, so there's hope.
A GS in a tied 8th inning, no less, was not fun to see. Ouch. We'll go at them again tonight. AL E is tough competition again, Orioles aside.
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Post by urbino on Apr 26, 2022 19:07:29 GMT -5
AL East is tough competition. And you'll be without that one guy every time you go to Toronto, I guess?
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 26, 2022 20:12:35 GMT -5
Tanner Houk. Rat bastard. And no Chris Sale of course.
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Post by urbino on Apr 27, 2022 17:03:33 GMT -5
Guess the baseballs are going to be a controversy again this year. MLB made everybody start storing them in a humidor, not just the places with extreme climates, and according to some guy who keeps track of these things, they have more wind drag this year than previously. Might help explain why offense is down.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 27, 2022 20:16:19 GMT -5
Jeepers. Now they're "mushy." Higher stitching? These were last year's second batch, I think I heard. I agree with every park having a humidor, though. Standardize what you can. I've never played at that level, so I can't argue if they say it's significantly different.
Sox are up by two at the Stretch. This could go either way. Again. Watching baseball ReLaXeS mE!
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Post by dervis on Apr 27, 2022 20:27:52 GMT -5
I know very little about Baseball, but grew up hearing men in my family talk about it. Have to say I love reading this thread, its fun and brings back memories.
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Post by urbino on Apr 27, 2022 22:15:31 GMT -5
Jeepers. Now they're "mushy." Higher stitching? These were last year's second batch, I think I heard. I agree with every park having a humidor, though. Standardize what you can. I've never played at that level, so I can't argue if they say it's significantly different. Sox are up by two at the Stretch. This could go either way. Again. Watching baseball ReLaXeS mE! The problem there is it wouldn't really seem to standardize anything. In Denver or Phoenix, the baseballs will start drying out the second they're out of the humidor. In Houston or St. Louis or Miami, they're going to stay wet. I don't know how long before a game they take them out, but it has to be a couple of hours, at least, I would think.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 27, 2022 23:25:48 GMT -5
That's true. I dunno. Synthetic balls to milligram and micrometer tolerances? I can understand the analytics concerns over different years/ball makeups, but one of the best parts of baseball--to me--is the incredible amount of variables.
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Post by urbino on Apr 28, 2022 1:21:45 GMT -5
Baseball has a lot of random in it. A lot more than most sports do. It makes it much more like life. And it's why you have dynasties in baseball so much more rarely than other sports.
It's also why the postseason in baseball tells you much, much less about how good a team is than it does in other sports. If a team wins the NBA championship or the Super Bowl, there's a very good chance they really were the best team, or in the top 3 or 4. In baseball, who wins the World Series tells you very little. It's fun when your team wins it, but it certainly does not mean your team was the best. Back when everybody played a balanced schedule, and the 2 teams with the best record in each league went to the World Series, you knew the winner was almost certainly one of the two best teams that season. In the modern system, though, it tells you very little. Regular season record is a much better guide to who the best baseball team was, even with unbalanced schedules. You need big sample sizes in baseball, because it's got so dang much random in it.
You already know this. I'm just yammering at this point.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Apr 28, 2022 11:14:25 GMT -5
Heh, yammering, maybe, but well said.
And as much as the game has changed, it's still essentially the same. Again, sort of like life!
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Post by urbino on May 5, 2022 2:18:38 GMT -5
After a bit of a squeaker last night, the Dodgers whomped the Giants 9-1 tonight, which I partly got to watch, in between doing stuff for work. Tony Gonsolin, our 4th/5th starter, looked sharp, which is a good sign. Goose has always had good stuff. He's just tended to nibble around the plate too much and get into trouble. He's done a better job of avoiding that so far this season. He's still pitched around a fair bit of traffic, but he's stayed aggressive in the zone even with runners on, which is an improvement.
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Post by terrapinflyer on May 5, 2022 19:45:35 GMT -5
I swore off the Red Sox after they lost in a (6-run) 10th last night. Totally done. Then I broke down and watched them today. No run game until the 7th and the bullpen proceeded to drive them in to an 8-0 loss. The starting rotation are doing better than I expected, but without much offensive support, they’re just sunk when they get to the pen. Criminy. I'm done. Until tomorrow. Hey, prior to 2004, I had a lot of seasons like this. It really stinks because these players are better than what they're showing.
Ohtani went scoreless through 7(?). He gets a lot of hype, but he's the real deal.
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