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The 2018 Major Leage Baseball Thread

Desert Storm said:
Pillar stole 2nd, 3rd and home today all in 1 inning. Only 51 times has this happened before in MLB history.
Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner did it 4 times in their career.

Link: Stealing Second, Third, And Home Plate in the Same Inning
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Linc said:
Nice win over the Yanks last night. Listened to your announcers on XMS. Pretty good, great hearing all the chatter again. White Sox are progressing. NL West is loaded ...
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Every time the Yankees lose an angel gets his/her wings.
 
Nats color man F.P. Santangelo has a nice tag line after Nats' first base hit each game: "There goes the no-hitter."
 
Linc said:
Nice win over the Yanks last night. Listened to your announcers on XMS. Pretty good, great hearing all the chatter again. White Sox are progressing. NL West is loaded ...
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And today another win for good measure :peace

Aaron Judge off to a brutal start. I know its still very early, but lets hope he suffers from a severe case of the sophomore jinx
 
Desert Storm said:
And today another win for good measure :peace

Aaron Judge off to a brutal start. I know its still very early, but lets hope he suffers from a severe case of the sophomore jinx
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Judge is a good man. He comports himself with a lot of class. He’s the next generation of players like Trout and Rizzo and so many more. MLB hit a grand slam with this opening 4-day series ending on Easter.

Now it’s travel time. I saw that toll travel takes on Jack’s Nats last year in Milwaukee, a superb venue, with the tailgating that Nats’ fans just loved that I met, and sat with behind the Nats’ dugout. It really is the people you get to meet and know in sports ...
 
So we had people over today for Easter, but me being Mr. Baseball I had to sneak peeks at the Mets-Cards game on TV and listen to it when I was outside.

It was a fairly big game for Steve Matz, over the past 2-3 years he's been hurt and/or ineffective. So what did we learn today? Absolutely NOTHING!! Why? Because of Matz? Nope, because C.B Bucknor was the home plate ump. I am not in favor of having a machine/computer call balls and strikes, but after watching today's game I can understand why some people are. Bucknor was f'ing brutal. Pitches right down the middle he called balls, pitches 10 inches outside he called strikes.

It was embarrassing. I went outside a couple of times to let my dogs out, so then I listened to the game on At Bat App, I listened to the St. Louis Card feed. Even they were amazed at some of the pitches Bucknor called balls on Matz's pitches.

It was the worse called game I can remember. Pitches right down the middle that both Mets and Card batters thought were strikes and walking back to the dugout were called BALLS.

The MLB wants to speed up the game.. Start by firing Bucknor.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
So we had people over today for Easter, but me being Mr. Baseball I had to sneak peeks at the Mets-Cards game on TV and listen to it when I was outside.

It was a fairly big game for Steve Matz, over the past 2-3 years he's been hurt and/or ineffective. So what did we learn today? Absolutely NOTHING!! Why? Because of Matz? Nope, because C.B Bucknor was the home plate ump. I am not in favor of having a machine/computer call balls and strikes, but after watching today's game I can understand why some people are. Bucknor was f'ing brutal. Pitches right down the middle he called balls, pitches 10 inches outside he called strikes.

It was embarrassing. I went outside a couple of times to let my dogs out, so then I listened to the game on At Bat App, I listened to the St. Louis Card feed. Even they were amazed at some of the pitches Bucknor called balls on Matz's pitches.

It was the worse called game I can remember. Pitches right down the middle that both Mets and Card batters thought were strikes and walking back to the dugout were called BALLS.

The MLB wants to speed up the game.. Start by firing Bucknor.
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I'm in favor of an electronic strike zone.
 
Nats win to go 3-0 and sweep Cincinnati to open the season. Harper homered twice.
Next to Atlanta for three. Then home opener Thursday.
 
Linc said:
Judge is a good man. He comports himself with a lot of class
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Hey I'm sure he's a great guy, but at the end of the day the Yanks and BoSox will most likely be the teams to beat for that WC spot, so I wouldnt mind it all if Judge has an off-year. Ditto for Stanton, although the way he has started so far I'm not banking on that.

BTW Ohtani looked pretty good today considering its his first MLB start
 
Jack Hays said:
Twins seem to be whining here. If you're going to shift the infield then the hitter has every right to try to take advantage.



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As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago in a Spring training game against the Astros when Jay Bruce was up the Astros put FOUR guys on the right side of the infield.

The whole left side of the field was wide open. If Bruce bunted down the 3rd base line he might have got a double. lol Anyway if teams are going to shift and the batters adjust, too damn bad for the shift.
 
Nats over Atlanta to go 4-0 for the first time since franchise moved to Washington.
 
I'm sure they are doing this to reach out to the younger people, but I don;t understand why they are going to show the game JUST on Facebook. Show it on Facebook, fine but also show it on SNY/Network TV/ESPN, whatever.. I don't have Facebook, so I guess I can't watch it on Wednesday. Syndergaard pitching, but I can't watch the game because I'm not on FB? Pretty stupid move by MLB IMO..



NEW YORK -- The Phillies and Mets will become a small part of sports media history on Wednesday when they participate in MLB's first digital-only national regular-season game broadcast. The afternoon game at Citi Field will air in the United States exclusively on Facebook Watch, a video platform that launched last August.

Those wishing to see aces Noah Syndergaard and Aaron Nola square off in a 1:10 p.m. ET matinee can log onto Facebook Watch's MLB live page (https://www.facebook.com/MLBLiveGames) from their phones, tablets, smart TVs or other streaming devices. MLB Network will produce the game, with play-by-play man Scott Braun, analysts Cliff Floyd and John Kruk, and in-game reporter Alexa Datt on the call. The broadcast crew will take a social-first approach and interact with the audience throughout the broadcast to bring the ballpark experience to Facebook.

https://www.mlb.com/news/wednesdays-phils-mets-game-airs-on-facebook/c-270589496
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
I'm sure they are doing this to reach out to the younger people, but I don;t understand why they are going to show the game JUST on Facebook. Show it on Facebook, fine but also show it on SNY/Network TV/ESPN, whatever.. I don't have Facebook, so I guess I can't watch it on Wednesday. Syndergaard pitching, but I can't watch the game because I'm not on FB? Pretty stupid move by MLB IMO..



NEW YORK -- The Phillies and Mets will become a small part of sports media history on Wednesday when they participate in MLB's first digital-only national regular-season game broadcast. The afternoon game at Citi Field will air in the United States exclusively on Facebook Watch, a video platform that launched last August.

Those wishing to see aces Noah Syndergaard and Aaron Nola square off in a 1:10 p.m. ET matinee can log onto Facebook Watch's MLB live page (https://www.facebook.com/MLBLiveGames) from their phones, tablets, smart TVs or other streaming devices. MLB Network will produce the game, with play-by-play man Scott Braun, analysts Cliff Floyd and John Kruk, and in-game reporter Alexa Datt on the call. The broadcast crew will take a social-first approach and interact with the audience throughout the broadcast to bring the ballpark experience to Facebook.

https://www.mlb.com/news/wednesdays-phils-mets-game-airs-on-facebook/c-270589496
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"Social-first" approach sounds awful. I assume they're doing this to create leverage in network negotiations.
 
A.J. Cole's audition to be the Nats' fifth starter was a catastrophic failure, and the Nats fell to 4-1. Scherzer tomorrow to close the Atlanta series, then home to host the Mets. This concludes my game-by-game narrative.
 
Jack Hays said:
A.J. Cole's audition to be the Nats' fifth starter was a catastrophic failure, and the Nats fell to 4-1. Scherzer tomorrow to close the Atlanta series, then home to host the Mets. This concludes my game-by-game narrative.
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40 degrees and drizzle all last night during the Mets game. Let's hope Spring season will sprung when they get to Washington for the Nats home opener. The weather here in New York has not been Spring like.

And I hope deGromm pitches around Harper. The dude is locked in right now.
 
Re: Ohtani.

Before Ohtani, last player to win a game and hit a first-inning HR within the next 2 days was Babe Ruth on June 13-14, 1921.


Guess the comparisons weren’t totally crazy...
 
Threegoofs said:
Re: Ohtani.

Before Ohtani, last player to win a game and hit a first-inning HR within the next 2 days was Babe Ruth on June 13-14, 1921.


Guess the comparisons weren’t totally crazy...
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Angels took a big risk calling him up, but it looks like its paying off
 
Threegoofs said:
Re: Ohtani.

Before Ohtani, last player to win a game and hit a first-inning HR within the next 2 days was Babe Ruth on June 13-14, 1921.


Guess the comparisons weren’t totally crazy...
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Ohtani blasted another homer tonight, Babe Ruth was the only player ever to win 10 games as a pitcher & hit
10 HR's in the same season, Ohtani did the same thing 2X in the Japanaese league & may just do it in the majors!

Wes Ferrell in 1931 came close as he won 22 games and hit 9 HR's.

Besides for Ruth I think the best pitcher hitter ever was 'Smokey' Joe Wood. Wood who won 34 games for the Sox
in 1912 & had 3 wins in the 1912 World Seres. Walter Johnson once said, "Can I throw harder than Joe Wood?
Listen, my friend, there's no man alive can throw harder than Smoky Joe Wood!"

Wood had a career changing injury & sat out the 1916 & most of the 1917 season coming back as an outfielder.
Wood finished in the top 10 in the American League in runs batted in in two seasons (1918 and 1922), and in 1918
he also finished in the top ten in home runs, doubles, batting average and total bases.

https://www.baseball-reference.com › MLB Players › W Listing

Wood is one of a handful of players in MLB history that hit more than half of his teams HR's in a season & holds
a record that will never be broken. Wood drove in 60 runs in less than 200 AB's, no other player who had less than
200 AB's in a season have had more than 50. That year he batted .366, OBP .438 & slugged at .562.
 
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