Designated What Now?

[G-Fafif]

Petco Park continues to nurture pitcher hitting magic.

[Edgy MD]

Tough pitch too.



Loud-ass crowd.

[Gwreck]

Off Scherzer, too.



Also: the giant Swagg Chain is incredible.

[LWFS]

Even better: the TERRIBLE Nationals booth's... um...

description of events.

[bmfc1]

WSH lost that game 9 to 8 despite leading 8-0. So sad. What a pitching matchup... not! Darvish: 6 ER in 3 IP, Scherzer: 7 ER in 3 2/3 IP. The game took 3:40. The one or two WSH fans that understand the game might be upset that Manager Martinez used Sam Clay in the 9th with the game tied rather than Brad Hand, his closer. I thought that you don't save your closer for extra innings on the road if the game is tied.

[Frayed Knot]

Grand Slam, tough pitch, off Scherzer, first ML hit, second ML AB, second ML game, 28 y/o career minor leaguer.

And mostly a minor league Yanqui (they drafted, purchased, and/or re-signed him three different times, but also released him thrice) so mostly DH so not many minor lg ABs.



Also a local kid so quite possibly friends/family in the stands ... and yet he seemed reasonably calm about the whole thing.

[Fman99]

I will always always ALWAYS hate the DH.

[seawolf17]

Agreed, although it says something that baseball has done SO MANY stupid rule changes in the past few years that they almost make the DH seem reasonable.

[Fman99]

Even better: the TERRIBLE Nationals booth's... um... https://twitter.com/richmacleod/status/1413331747857698817?s=20description of events.

Sometimes, you know, less is more. But not here. Less is just less.

[G-Fafif]

When I saw Tatis had homered earlier in this game, with the Nationals well ahead, I allowed myself to think, “If they somehow lose this, this has the potential to kill their season or at least wound it,” not really believing such a short-term result was likely.



Don't know about the rest of their season, but damn, that's a nice National loss. The inverse of Diaz vs. Suzuki.

[Frayed Knot]

Even better: the TERRIBLE Nationals booth's... um... https://twitter.com/richmacleod/status/1413331747857698817?s=20description of events. Sometimes, you know, less is more. But not here. Less is just less.

Yeah, make the call first.

THEN if you want to wallow in the misery this caused your team go right ahead. That's certainly what Gary would do.

[Edgy MD]

It was just stunning to see how every seat at Petco seemed to have somebody in it.

[Frayed Knot]

Why not, they've got an exciting team.

[G-Fafif]

No NFL to any longer distract the pro sports fans of San Diego.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Why not, they've got an exciting team.

They're probably the best show in baseball. I'm just (a) not used to full admission being allowed after the last year and a half, and ( seeing a sellout actually represented by people in every seat rather than tooling around the concourse, especially down by seven or whatever.

[LWFS]

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No NFL to any longer distract the pro sports fans of San Diego.