2015 regular season chatter

Sonny Gray: 6 IP, 0 H vs Rangers

seven

who made that error?

Tuned in just in time to jinx him.

what a jerk

Sorry Sonny!

As always, when I tune in after an ilb post the no hitter is broken.

he could still get a shutout CG, which'd be pretty cool

not worth the extra pitches! do u want him to break?

hasnt been too high leverage, but spring just ended so I dont know if I'd send him back

well, I see that they didn't leave him, which of course ultimately is for the best, and their closer preserved the shutout

uh, the 8pm cubs/cardinals game is already cancelled. the forecast for chicago hovers between 50 - 75% chance of rain for the evening. and i know that it's cold. but it's just kind of weird because they normally don't cancel games so far in advance, so you'd think there'd be a little more certainty in the forecast.

of course the comments sections are lighting up with people claiming it's because the cubs want to keep the clock ticking on Bryant, and/or they haven't made substantial progress in their pissing situation and wanted to avoid the embarrassment

It feels like 32 right now with 14 mph winds and it's not even raining yet, it's going to be pretty gross out there. But yeah I was surprised that the announcement came so early. I would be more inclined to attribute any malfeasance to the Wrigley situation than to the Bryant situation.

yeah, i mean this looks unpleasant but not cancel the game 6 hours ahead of time bad:

http://i.imgur.com/THDvXNt.png

oh well. i'm just whining because the cardinals were off yesterday, tonight is canceled, tomorrow could be canceled, and then they're off again on thursday.

MY WEEK IS RUINED

Yeah this was going to be the first game of the season I could actually watch on TV so I'm disappointed too.

speaking of, why tf isn't opening day (for everyone) a sunday

Latos not very sharp this evening.

94.50

fun stuff
http://www.draysbay.com/2015/4/7/8353281/the-night-is-dark-and-full-of-errors-mlb-teams-as-game-of-thrones?_ga=1.198184687.1320288900.1375202340

haha, i was reading that yesterday. it also does a nice job of jogging my game of thrones memory as the new season is about to start.

One for the statistical anomalies and feats thread, which I could not locate: 10 combined plate appearances, 10 combined times on base for DET's eight and nine hitters today.

i'm not sure we've mentioned that there are metal detectors this year at every park. Truly Amerikka's Game again.

(now J0rdan will never get to his seat til the 4th inning)

jeff franceour, 3-run homer hitter

i read 'francoeur, 3 home run hitter'

that's Adrian Gonzalez

billy hamilton has six stolen bases in 2.5 games

hah jeez anyone actually watching the indians game? im following on the gameday thing, astros have 9k's, 4bb's and nary another thing through 4 innings. MC trevor bauer on the micmound

astros fanned 37 times in their first 24 innings

another walk, 7 for the game

combined no-no thus far

oorrrrrrr not

thank God, combined no-hitters even worse than the other kind

@DCameronFG
Combined no-hitters are so awesome the Indians used their 3rd, 5th, and 6th best relievers to try and get one.

ryan howard has made two consecutive dumbass fielding errors

ryan howard will make 25 million dollars this year

ban ryan howard ban ruben amaro ban the phillies

ZIPS projects him for 0.0 WAR. if my calculations are right, that means that for each 1.0 WAR they're paying him...let's see...25 million divided by 0...carry the ...wait how do i even

*world explodes*

hahaha

http://deadspin.com/jonathan-papelbon-talks-horses-and-dick-sucking-holes-1696727554

"yeah I feel like a horse"

Prince Fielder still hilarious when it comes to base running.

waht website(s) do y'all use to check scores?

the new espn layout sucks

kinda like mlb.com's layout, but fuck 'gameday' when i want a box score, not to mention pop-up live look-in videos

i dont mind the espn redo & thats what i use but id like a better answer to this too

i kinda like tsn's layout, but: no yearly totals for homers, no pitching probables for future games, but the box score page sux and you can't see both teams at the same time

channeling my inner lex complaining about free things changing, but i'm okay with that -- the only times this stuff bothers me is here and with ncaa tourney brackets

raze new yankee stadium, it is a heap of trash

made a visit, did ya? i have avoided it.

i would theoretically love to hear what John Sterling sounds like in the 16th inning these days... but no i can't bear to tune in.

you can't predict baseball, suzyn

esmil rogers left out there about four innings too many.

theScore app is A+ if your checking on your phone

tbf esmil was the last pitcher available

and his counterpart twice blew a lead

adrian gonzalez has 1.2 WAR

(fWAR)

i wonder if Zito will last 2 innings v Angels tonight

hey, the Padres hired Don Orsillo! I like it.

i heard that the padres knew he'd be available before orsillo himself did

today's State of the Race

http://www.si.com/mlb/2015/10/03/team-entropy-update-al-west-al-wild-card-final-weekend

Crazy Angels-Rangers game.

@JATayler
Loss Ohlendorf

The winning pitcher in that crazy 11-10 Rangers-Angels game was Jo-Jo Reyes, who once went three years without winning a game over a record tying 28 consecutive starts.

He threw one pitch in the game. It was the first pitch he'd thrown in MLB since 2011.

Finally learned how to win.

to whom is he referring? puig can't piss off any palefaces from the DL

― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:55 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

puigs back btw

christian yelich 8/8 so far today. record for most hits in a DH is 9, hasn't happened since lee thomas in 1961. have to go back to 1929 for the last time it's happened in the NL.

alas, he took a walk rather than attempt to tie the record. another day in the life of our humble, selfless hero.

@jazayerli

Games of import tomorrow:

KC @ MIN
TOR @ TB
HOU @ ARI
LAA @ TEX
NYY @ BAL
CHC @ MIL
CIN @ PIT

Gametime: 3 PM EDT for all games.

Not of import (except to Shelby Miller), but rainout forces STL @ ATL doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.

Jaffe:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQe3JmkWgAIRRku.png

The Rangers are burying the Angels in the 7th inning of their game, so it looks like Yankees will be on the road for the wild card game ... LOL.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQgOJ7pWEAAamzS.jpg

<3

Phillies vs Marlins ... the garbagiest of garbage game 162's ... and Ichiro came in to pitch just for the hell of it, in what might be the final game of his career.

haha xpost

did better than buehrle

and the Mets got their 90th win! big momentum for Friday

Colorado vs SF ... Bochy is managing like it's the ASG ... trying to get his entire bullpen into the game.

@JATayler
Ichiro's fastball hit 87 mph, which is faster than the average fastball of R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle and Dan Haren.

The Rangers are burying the Angels in the 7th inning of their game, so it looks like Yankees will be on the road for the wild card game ...

I got confused there, the Astros are also losing, and with the Angels losing, would be the second wild card and finish one game behind the Yankees. Which means the Yankees get to face Keuchel in NY rather than the invincible Keuchel in Houston.

Ya - I would think that would be the case.

Yanks have bases loaded, down 7-3

"These guys battled all year long."

Dan Jennings will not be returning as Marlins manager

is baseball on a particularly good run lately? or is it always this good?

i dunno, it's all anecdotal and my memory is selective, but shit like The Seventh Inning and the royals overcoming 95%-plus loss probability in elimination games twice in two years and bumgarner last year and the last day of the 2011 season and the cards-rangers series that year, trout and harper and all of this year's rookies, etc. etc.

i guess the giants sweeping the tigers wasn't that interesting and the decade of yankees-red sox sure had its moments, but it just seems *crazy* recently

I can't chalk The Seventh Inning up to anything but random chaos. I mean, it was a "classic" only in entertainment and surprise; not for streamlined aesthetic beauty.

the fact that we were one game away from having four teams that had 74 or less wins in 2013 in the CSes is pretty remarkable

and even then, now it just means we have 4 teams that were sub-.500 in 2012

i'd agree that this was a pretty damn good regular season overall and most of them have been exciting this decade, although in some cases second halves have been considerably more interesting than firsts (2014) and vice versa (2011). this season didn't have that many dog days at all, imo

we also had the triple crown vs trout debate and an uncountable amount of no-hitters. seriously, the yankees not being the perrenial dominant team is one of the big reasons I became a baseball fan now and not then.

also bat flips became a thing, no?

i'd kind of wandered away from baseball for awhile in favor of the nfl (as a cubs fan, i think this started with the '03 meltdown and subsequent dusty baking of that team.) but i don't watch the nfl anymore because the culture around it is so gross and i can't look past the CTE stuff anymore, and there are so many great young players (half a dozen on the cubs alone!) that i came back in a big way towards the end of last season.

it's a great time to be a baseball fan, that's for sure.