OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

[Frayed Knot]

The Opening Day(s) [some of these games will be Friday including, due to weather, Yanx/Boston] starters for 2022.

	RED SOX		Nathan Eovaldi		YANX		Gerritt Cole
	BREWERS		Corbin Burnes		CUBS		Kyle Hendricks
	METS		Tylor McGill		NATIONALS		Patrick Corbin
	GUARDIANS		Shane Bieber		ROYALS		Zack Greinke
	MARINERS		Robbie Ray		TWINS		Joe Ryan
	PIRATES		JT Brubaker		CARDINALS		Adam Wainwright
	REDS		Tyler Mahle		BRAVES		Max Fried
	ASTROS		Framber Valdez		ANGELS		Shohei Ohtani
	PADRES		Yu Darvish		D'BACKS		Madison Bumgarner
	WHITE SOX		Lucas Giolito		TIGERS		Eduardo Rodriguez
	ATHLETICS		Frankie Montas		PHILLIES		Aaron Nola
	ORIOLES		John Means		RAYS		Shane McClanahan
	DODGERS		Walker Buehler		ROCKIES		Kyle Freeland
	MARLINS		Sandy Alcantara		GIANTS		Logan Webb
	RANGERS		Jon Gray		BLUE JAYS		Jose Berrios

[Frayed Knot]

All those who had Andrew McCutcheon of the Brewers (I didn't know McC was ON the Brewers) scoring the first run of the season, step up and collect your winnings.

[Edgy MD]

I could be an old man yelling at a cloud or something, but that strikes me as a group seriously lacking in the name power one normally associates with opening day starters.



Framber Valdez is a goodish pitcher who has yet to pitch anything approaching a full season. Joe Ryan, on the other hand, seems to have been artificially created in a lab to make me feel better about Trevor Megill.



JT Brubaker lives down the street from me. He's nice and all and his kids seem happy, but he generally divides his time between working on his car and short-term prison sentences.

[Frayed Knot]

I can't find the page on MLB.com that I cribbed some of this stuff from, but the Pirates and Rangers, I think it was, are starting something like their 8th & 11th different OD starters in as many years.







Take Me Out to the Ballgame at Wrigley today was led by Fergie Jenkins, Ryne Sandberg, Hawk Dawson, and Lee Arthur Smith up in the booth.

As they said in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, 'Nice grouping'

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

This is the Joe Ryan theme song



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[Edgy MD]

That video made me need to pee.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Cubs win! Ian Happ, Mychael Givens, Seiya Suzuki, Jason Heyward, Kyle Hendricks and Nico Heorner sharing the Old Style points.



They didn;t bring Gsellman with them.

[Frayed Knot]

Braves down 3-1 to the Cincy Commies thru five

[Frayed Knot]

Ohtani becomes the first player in MLB history to both throw, and see as a batter, the first pitch of his team's season.

[Willets Point]

Three batters into the season and Gerrit Cole has allowed three baserunners, including a HR by Rafael Devers. 2-0 Red Sox, so far.

[Willets Point]

Nate Eovaldi also gives up a longball in the first inning to Anthony Rizzo. Red Sox up 3-2 at the end of the first. Hope no one came for a pitching duel.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Boston-MFYs going to bottom 9 tied 4-4.



Phils up big on A's early

[Willets Point]

I thought the extra inning ghost runner on 2nd was eliminated.

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: I thought the extra inning ghost runner on 2nd was eliminated.

It was revived at the last minute for this year only (or so they claim now) ... but for health and safety reasons only.



Each team scored once in the 10th thanks to the 'Manfred Man', but the Sox fail to cash in in top 11 so they're officially in trouble here.

Something named Kutter Crawford is on the bump for Boston tasked with keeping this one alive.

Edited April 8, 2022 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

And two pitches and in the game is over as a 23 hopper sneaks up the middle.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: And two pitches and in the game is over as a 23 hopper sneaks up the middle.

So, they're still doing things that remind the fans of Derek Jeter?

That kind of MFY hit should be named in his honor.



Later

[Frayed Knot]

You need to let this go.

[Frayed Knot]

Those weren't rings they handed out in Atlanta prior to tonight's game, those were bejeweled foot-stools.

[Edgy MD]

That's some kind of understated.



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[Willets Point]

Head Jeweler: "C'mon, we need to pack this thing with SYMBOLISM!"

[Edgy MD]

It ain't nothing 'til you see it on a hand.



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That thing can be tracked from space.

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: Head Jeweler: "C'mon, we need to pack this thing with SYMBOLISM!"

Reached a bit for some of that stuff, eh?









Sydergaard LAA Debut: (W) 5.1 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 2 BB, 1 K

[Frayed Knot]

Two hours in and the Yanx & Sawx are in the top of the 5th in a 3-3 game ... because of course they are.

[Frayed Knot]

Perhaps not surprisingly, the Orioles finish the first weekend as MLB's only winless team, getting out-scored 15-4 in three game by Tampa,

a fact which makes the Rays the only undefeated team thus far.