TWiB Notes -- June 21 - 27

[Edgy MD]

Two Houston pitchers working on a no-hitter into the seventh here in Baltimore.

[bmfc1]

More bad baserunning:

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: Two Houston pitchers working on a no-hitter into the seventh here in Baltimore.

One out in the eighth inning, driving rain here in Baltimore. Fate has placed Angel Hernandez behind the plate, and (and this is according to the announcers) his ballbag is soaking wet.

[Edgy MD]

And the tarp finally comes out.



Orioles down 7-0, and ... they'll still be here after midnight.



Baltimore radiocast switching to Game 3 of the 1983 World Series. This Veterans Stadium crowd sounds raunchy and rabid.

[Frayed Knot]

He's a Twenty-first Century Ray

He's a ...



Top SS prospect Wander Franco -- #1 across the board in both pre-2020 & pre-2021 -- will make his ML debut tonight for Tampa Bay against Boston.

So what's so significant?

DOB: 3/1/2001, making him the first ML'er to be born in the 21st century.



Someone (probably Kurkjian) has already gone back and figured out who the initial 20th century guy was.

[Edgy MD]

The no-hitter game picked up after the rain, but the O's managed a single and homer off the new Houston pitcher Brandon Bielak, who was just great in Blossom.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Frayed Knot wrote: He's a Twenty-first Century Ray He's a ... Top SS prospect Wander Franco -- #1 across the board in both pre-2020 & pre-2021 -- will make his ML debut tonight for Tampa Bay against Boston. So what's so significant? DOB: 3/1/2001, making him the first ML'er to be born in the 21st century. Someone (probably Kurkjian) has already gone back and figured out who the initial 20th century guy was.

The most-recently born Met, in case you were wondering, is Andres Gimenez. September 4, 1998.

[G-Fafif]

Luis Garcia, born in 2000, debuted for the Nats in 2020.



https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/garcilu04.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/garcilu04.shtml

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Someone (probably Kurkjian) has already gone back and figured out who the initial 20th century guy was.

Not a definitive answer, but a quickie search took me to Luke Sewell who spent 20 seasons in the big leagues almost exclusively as a catcher.

Born Jan 5, 1901, Sewell made his ML debut on June 30, 1921, right about two months older than Wander Franco is now.

Sewell's brothers Tommy & Joe also played in MLB as did their cousin Rip, but none were as young as Luke.

[Edgy MD]

Leading candidate for the first 21st Century Met are Ronny Mauricio and Francisco Alvarez, currently running in a dead heat in Brooklyn.

[Frayed Knot]

btw, meet Wander Franco's https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=franco000wanolder brother Wander and his other https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=franco001wanolder brother Wander, neither one of whom reached the Major Leagues.

The Wander Francos (pops Franco is apparently also named Wander) are cousins to ML brothers, the Aybars: Willy & Erick

[Frayed Knot]

Nats and Phils are trading leads and Grand Slams this afternoon in a game which might still be going by the time ours ends tonight.

11- 9 Nats, and still just in the middle of 6th (and approaching 3 hours) in the city of brotherly bad pitching.

Slams by McCutcheon (PH) for the phightins & Bell for the Nats

[bmfc1]

WSH has a 2019 vibe to this hater. They rolled over PIT, won 3 of 4 against a weakened Mets team, got "Baby Shark" back, got angry along with Scherzer, and now beat PHI two in a row including today's back-and-forth game. And now they play MIA. I always worry about WSH but now I'm hella worried.

[Frayed Knot]

Looked at from the other side, the Phils scored 12 runs on 15 hits and overcame separate four and five run defecits .(apparently someone can hit Erik Fedde even if we can't) ... and still managed to lose the game.



And we'll see them starting Friday.

[Edgy MD]

It's a small sample size that may mean nothing, but it seems like the league put the kibosh on pitchers using the sticky goo and the offenses have responded right away.

[Frayed Knot]

Giants-Angels were 1-1 at the end of 9

SF won 9-3 in 12