May Game Thread
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Play of the night was Joc styling like he had walked it off with a bomb only to have it land in Mookie's glove on the track. It was a game-tying sac fly, so not all was lost but it's a pretty funny 15 second reel of Joc bat flipping, staring into his dugout, sauntering down the line and realizing, in horror, that the ball had not left.
View: https://twitter.com/espn/status/1390147816375287814?s=20
View: https://twitter.com/espn/status/1390147816375287814?s=20
Lowe hits a 3 run HR off the pen after Ohtani had shut the Rays down to pull out a 3-1 Rays win. 4 in a row now. Keeping pace with NYY as they both try to reel in the Sox.
The start of this thread was the Rays in one of their offensive slumps. Well, the Angels pen has been a big cure for that tonight as the Rays will sweep the 4 gamer.
Rays have murdered the Angel pen. Put up 7 in the top of 8th. Joe’s glasses don’t work as well without the boy geniuses quietly calling all the shots for him.
Dylan Cease, Chicago pitcher with zero professional at bats until this week, now has more 3 hit games than Mookie, Freeman, LeMahieu and Lindor.
Baseball, man.
Baseball, man.
Nice heads up play by Gleybar yesterday
View: https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1390396511910047749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1390396511910047749%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fftw.usatoday.com%2F2021%2F05%2Fgleyber-torres-run-shift-astros-yankees-video-heads-up-score
edit: Didn't realize they had titled it this way. I'm no Yankees fan, but nice to see a nice play against the *Trashtros
View: https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1390396511910047749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1390396511910047749%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fftw.usatoday.com%2F2021%2F05%2Fgleyber-torres-run-shift-astros-yankees-video-heads-up-score
edit: Didn't realize they had titled it this way. I'm no Yankees fan, but nice to see a nice play against the *Trashtros
That's another downside to the shift that doesn't feel like it's exploited enough. Just bad all around for the Astros.
It wasn't the shift's fault, it was the pitcher Pressly standing on the mound like he was watching on TV instead of covering third or home.
Eugenio Suarez, who has continued to bat 3rd, 4th or 5th in all of his games this year, is now hitting .133. With a 2-strike count he's 2-for-71.
Pablo Sandoval destroyed a Hector Neris' pitch for a two-run, game-tying pinch hit home run. Phils-Braves headed to extras 3-3.
Which would be especially amazing as the Dodgers were FURIOUS when an Angel tried to bunt for a hit down 13-0, even after it resulted in an out. The baseball gods maybe stepped in after that.
And that wasn't even the craziest thing to happen in the game - the Braves gave up 3 in the top of the 12th and then scored 4 in response to win it 8-7.
They've lost as many regular season games this year as they did during the shortened season last year
Jean Segura, 2B of the Phillies, just threw his glove at a ground ball by Soto going past him into the OF. I read on the back of a baseball card when I was a kid that that's a three base penalty, but didn't happen. I'll have to google that.
EDIT: the glove didn't make contact with the ball.
"When a fielder throws his glove at a batted ball, it is a violation of baseball rule, 5.06(4)(C), the detached equipment rule. There is no penalty if the glove does not make contact with the ball but if the glove makes contact, all runners, including the batter runner are awarded three bases."
EDIT: the glove didn't make contact with the ball.
"When a fielder throws his glove at a batted ball, it is a violation of baseball rule, 5.06(4)(C), the detached equipment rule. There is no penalty if the glove does not make contact with the ball but if the glove makes contact, all runners, including the batter runner are awarded three bases."
Corbin Burnes just allowed his first walk of the year, just after breaking the record for most strikeouts before allowing a walk to begin the year. I think he now has 57 K's and 1 BB.
Edit: it was 58, not 57.
Edit: it was 58, not 57.
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It's always the right move when there's a bomb hit that you know is out of the park. If you can knock that sucker down with your glove and turn a HR into a triple, you've done a good job
After the Royals routed the Twins 11-3 on May 1st they held the best record in baseball at 16-9. They have lost 11 straight games since then. Their top pitching prospect Daniel Lynch allowed 3 earned runs in 2.2 innings today lowering his ERA to 15.75. He's amassed 8 total innings in his 3 starts.
Doesn't work - the three-base rule is overridden if the umpire thinks the ball is going out of the park. It's rule 5.06(b)(4)(A):
Each runner including the batter-runner may, without liability to be put out, advance:
To home base, scoring a run, if a fair ball goes out of the playing field in flight and he touched all bases legally; or if a fair ball which, in the umpire’s judgment, would have gone out of the playing field in flight, is deflected by the act of a fielder in throwing his glove, cap, or any article of his apparel;
In case you had written Bumgarner off as finished (like I had)... he's been amazing recently.
Best K rate of his career so far this year and there is this:
https://www.mlb.com/news/madison-bumgarner-dominant-in-win-over-marlins
"The five straight games with one or fewer runs is one shy of his career-long streak, which he set in 2016.
Bumgarner's WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched) over that stretch is 0.47, the lowest WHIP by an NL pitcher over a five-start span since Hall of Famer Pete Alexander compiled a 0.42 WHIP over five starts in 1915."
Best K rate of his career so far this year and there is this:
https://www.mlb.com/news/madison-bumgarner-dominant-in-win-over-marlins
"The five straight games with one or fewer runs is one shy of his career-long streak, which he set in 2016.
Bumgarner's WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched) over that stretch is 0.47, the lowest WHIP by an NL pitcher over a five-start span since Hall of Famer Pete Alexander compiled a 0.42 WHIP over five starts in 1915."
I assume there must be a lot more to this story
edit/ here we go
View: https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1393062533905494023
As usual, communication skills suck all around and people react terribly
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Nasty collision in the ChiSox/Royals game
View: https://twitter.com/pitcherlist/status/1393292536370929668?s=21
View: https://twitter.com/pitcherlist/status/1393292536370929668?s=21
They are both basically OK, saw that live and it was indeed scary.
View: https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/1393301205821046786?s=21
View: https://twitter.com/royals/status/1393308245368786944?s=21
View: https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/1393301205821046786?s=21
View: https://twitter.com/royals/status/1393308245368786944?s=21
My question is what the heck was Dozier thinking running full blast into someone looking straight up in the sky.
Looks like he's jogging, not running full blast, and that he has his head down as he comes around the catcher.
Abreu is the first thing Dozier has hit in a week.
(Too soon? I mean he is 0-for-his-last-28 and batting .139)
(Too soon? I mean he is 0-for-his-last-28 and batting .139)
They were on an 11 game losing streak and he had just weakly popped up, he had his head down because he was pissed and he avoided the catcher which he figured was enough because the ball was going right to him (the catcher). It was a really ugly collision and somehow the telecast had a ridiculous number of angles on it, all of which were ugly.
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Jarred Kelenic with his first major league hit — deposits an Aaron Civale changeup over the fence for a 2-run homer.
Guess who the Twins have to turn to? Rob Refsnyder.
View: https://twitter.com/betsyhelfand/status/1393611935262908429
View: https://twitter.com/betsyhelfand/status/1393611935262908429
RotoWorld (or whatever it is now) should try updating some of their mugshots. It was a little jarring to scroll through and see Refsnyder wearing a Chief Wahoo hat, which would place him in spring training 2018. Refsnyder is with his 5th organization since then.
Also, if you're a Twins fan the three things you can count on in life are death, taxes and Byron Buxton on the IL.