http://m.mlb.com/news/article/226022854/red-soxs-dustin-pedroia-set-for-mri/
Keep your fingers cross, can't afford a significant injury.
Keep your fingers cross, can't afford a significant injury.
Dustin Pedroia to have MRI on knee and ankle Monday
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O's Zach Britton calls out Pedroia: http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2017/04/23/orioles-closer-zach-britton-criticizes-dustin-pedroias-leadership/
Zach Britton has a ton of experience commenting on things in which he was just a spectator. Like Wild Card games.
These little criticisms aimed at other teams based on how "we do things" always crack me up. It is impossible for this young man to realise just how limited his experience of the world really is.
The Orioles players and manager sure do a whole lot of talking to the press about the Boston Red Sox. Probably they get bothered by all the Red Sox chants they have to hear in their own ballpark every time they host Boston. Must suck for them, the poor little babies.
That's a very odd quote by Britton. So if O'Day tells him to hit someone in the head he simply says "yes sir" and goes ahead with it?
I didn't see the play live, so don't kill me if I'm misinterpreting what I've heard/read, but it drives me nuts that MLB changed the rules (or at least the interpretation of the rules) so that infielders have to actually keep their foot on the bag to get an out call on these plays - but it's still okay for the runner to do what Machado did and slide into them.
The "neighborhood" call was a good and reasonable way to avoid getting infielders killed trying to turn a DP. If you're going to completely eliminate that, you should hold the Machados of the world accountable when they try to injure a guy anchored to the bag.
The "neighborhood" call was a good and reasonable way to avoid getting infielders killed trying to turn a DP. If you're going to completely eliminate that, you should hold the Machados of the world accountable when they try to injure a guy anchored to the bag.
Just more reason to dislike this bunch who go under the name Orioles. They are fast replacing the Yankees in the unlikeable category of teams.
In the new tradition of neglecting to say the word "injury", will announcers say that "Dustin Pedroia is out with a lower body"? Kelli might not appreciate that come date night.
The Orioles are always jealous of the Sox-Yankee rivalry. When Jeffrey Maier appeared in 96, the Orioles were saying that the new rivlry was Orioles-Yankees. Now it looks like they want to demonstrate they are the ones who could rival the sox. Never will happen.
The rule also made altering your path to initiate contact or sliding through the bag to initiate contact explicitly illegal (or, better defined those things to make calling them out as illegal easier at least). The slide was very likely illegal, and Farrell was right to argue that point.
That's a different thing from it being dirty, of course, but the rule didn't just change for defenders. In fact, it changed for defenders BECAUSE it was changing for runners.
I know, and I agree. MLB or the umpires should have punished Machado for the slide. Failing to do that made it very likely that the Sox would issue their own "punishment", which ended up being dangerous and Machado is lucky he's not in the hospital.
Personally I blame Joe Torre here more than anyone that was on the field this weekend.
A couple of things re the slide:
1. The slide probably didn't violate the rule as written, because it's written poorly. As noted in some of the media reports, the rule explicitly requires the fielder to be attempting to complete a double play, as it makes the slide that goes through/beyond the base illegal if it is to break up the double play. But as we've seen in this instance, that's not the only instance in which the fielder needs protection. Now, maybe they assumed that if there was no chance of a DP, then there'd be no reason for the runner to slide beyond the base, but Machado showed why that's not a safe assumption. So the rule should probably be revised to eliminate the DP reference, if the intent is to protect the fielder from these types of slides.
2. i was watching the MLB network tonight, and Billy Ripken and Harold Reynolds did an extended walk-thru of the play. After first breaking down what happened in terms of how the ball was hit, and Bogey's throw, and how that affected Pedey's positioning, they talked about the slide. Both said there was no reason in the world for Machado to be sliding through the base - he had to see and know he had a chance to beat the throw, and that he therefore should have done a pop-up slide, which Harold demonstrated, which wouldn't have touched Pedey. They also showed a clip of Billy Hamilton executing a perfect pop-up slide at full speed earlier in the evening to further demonstrate their point.
1. The slide probably didn't violate the rule as written, because it's written poorly. As noted in some of the media reports, the rule explicitly requires the fielder to be attempting to complete a double play, as it makes the slide that goes through/beyond the base illegal if it is to break up the double play. But as we've seen in this instance, that's not the only instance in which the fielder needs protection. Now, maybe they assumed that if there was no chance of a DP, then there'd be no reason for the runner to slide beyond the base, but Machado showed why that's not a safe assumption. So the rule should probably be revised to eliminate the DP reference, if the intent is to protect the fielder from these types of slides.
2. i was watching the MLB network tonight, and Billy Ripken and Harold Reynolds did an extended walk-thru of the play. After first breaking down what happened in terms of how the ball was hit, and Bogey's throw, and how that affected Pedey's positioning, they talked about the slide. Both said there was no reason in the world for Machado to be sliding through the base - he had to see and know he had a chance to beat the throw, and that he therefore should have done a pop-up slide, which Harold demonstrated, which wouldn't have touched Pedey. They also showed a clip of Billy Hamilton executing a perfect pop-up slide at full speed earlier in the evening to further demonstrate their point.
He was driving. His truck was not limping. He did not look pleased. But neither would I if some random just blurted out my name like an excited 10 year old.
