2016 regular-season game chatter

that "k" pic looks like someone was leaning on the keyboard.

Giants, Angels and White Sox most interested in Freak

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/177718140/tim-lincecum-reportedly-has-3-teams-interested

the rangers have called up 2004 first overall draft pick and intermittent jailbird matt bush to make his major league debut

whoa

Major League Baseball has suspended Colorado Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes without pay through May 31 for violating its domestic violence policy, the league announced Friday.

Reyes will not appeal. The suspension is retroactive to Feb. 23, when Reyes was first put on paid leave by the league. Through Thursday, he had missed 34 games.

this rangers blue jays fight was great. Bautista got LIT UP

timmy to the angels!

Delabar relieved Simon. 0 8
Kipnis walked, Santana to second. 0 8
Lindor struck out swinging. 0 8
Napoli walked, Davis scored, Santana to third, Kipnis to second. 0 9
Ramírez walked, Santana scored, Kipnis to third, Napoli to second. 0 10
Gomes walked, Kipnis scored, Napoli to third, Ramírez to second. 0 11
Chisenhall walked, Napoli scored, Ramírez to third, Gomes to second. 0 12
Wood relieved Delabar.

interesting statistical thing i stumbled upon: jose altuve has stolen 15/16 bases in 41 games, but has rated a below average baserunner on FG and just 1 run above average on bbref

http://i.imgur.com/jeGCT9s.png

mmhmm

lol

hahaha

clicks i never hafta do

such a brave loss

ST. LOUIS -- They have determination, they have grit.

Martinez finally found a rhythm and managed to get through five innings.

Arrieta's game score, 40, was his lowest in more than a year. That, perhaps, is something to feel good about even if an eight-game deficit in the division standings isn't.

One fateful inning did in Martinez, much as it had Wacha the night before. Martinez worked a good inning before it and three good innings after it. In the second, the Cubs hit line drives all over the field.

Martinez puffed up with pride a bit when describing how he was able to regroup and stay in the game without a long reliever available.

They must avoid fateful innings and focus on making statements.

martinez was ace-like except for that inning where he gave up six runs. arrieta meanwhile is basically trash.

dan uggla had a 33 game hitting streak in 2011. just wanted to mention that.

and he ended up with a .233 average. how did that even happen?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Longest_Hitting_Streaks

mlb.tv free game of the day is sox-royals, sale throwing

sale doesn't have it so far

insane: https://vine.co/v/iVgK2wmjKJu

Get your signals straight, guys.

wau

Unhittable and uncatchable

holy shit, that's beautiful

Lasergate!

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/los-angeles-dodgers-rangefinders-no-discipline-for-helping-outfielders-new-york-mets-060216

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/los-angeles-dodgers-outfielder-new-york-mets-complaint-defense-laser-markers-ken-rosenthal-052816

@MLBRosterMoves
.@whitesox acquire RHP James Shields, cash from @Padres for INF Fernando Tatis Jr., RHP Erik Johnson. #MLBOnTheMove

Fernando Tatis Jr.

Jason Coats, playing in his first MLB game, just had a terrible outfield collision with JB Shuck.

omg @ tatis junior

frenchie with one of the worst swings i've seen this year, lol

Houston @ texas 4 game series starting

each is 8-2 over their last 10 games

thus far this season texas is 6-0 vs houston

paging clemenza

fernandez struck out 12 lefty batters last night. i wonder if there's a list (there must be) of most strikeouts in a game of lefty hitters by a righty pitcher

Jason Grilli with an emphatic air jab as he keeps his new team within nine runs.

(xpost) Probably easy to figure out using Play Index, but I don't know how to use that. I'd start by checking Clemens' 20-K games, though.

both of his 20 K games had 9 lefty Ks

Gotta be a record. In other baseball-related news, did you know that "trouting" is a usable word in Scrabble?

looks like it's a fishing term

makes sense, i hear trout was a type of fish before mike trout happened

then he ate them all

Why would anybody be against Madison Bumgarner hitting in the Home Run Derby? Because he might not uphold the "prestige" of a contest that nobody cares about? I don't see the downside here. People might remember something about the Home Run Derby for a change.

damn carlos gomez is gonna injure himself swinging vs dyson

rangers 8-0 vs astros now

maybe this is old news but i just learned that MLB has hired Tom Tango to handle the deployment of Statcast data.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/a-qa-with-tom-tango-the-new-czar-of-statcast/

Max Scherzer pitching for Washington
Fowler struck out swinging.
Heyward struck out looking.
Bryant struck out looking.

Rizzo struck out swinging.
Zobrist grounded out to second.
Coghlan struck out swinging.

Montero struck out swinging.
Russell struck out looking.
Hendricks struck out looking.

Fowler struck out swinging.
Heyward grounded out to first.
Bryant popped out to shortstop.

@washingnats
That's it. The #Nats defeated the Cubs, 4-1. Have a great night, everybody!!!!!!!!!!!

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wish harper were an expo

could MLB find a bigger crook to partner with for prostate-cancer awareness than Michael Millken?

Ah, him -- he's been doing that with MLB for a while. He spent an inning in the Braves booth promoting it last year or year before.

w/out his enabler Lasorda, i hope