TWiB Notes - June 13-19

[Frayed Knot]

-- Braves continued to be JUNe-Defeated (12 straight) by jumping all over the Nats early last night and hanging on for a 9-5 win

But it came at the expense of an Ozzie Albies broken foot which is obviously going to keep the 2nd-sacker sidelined for a while.





-- In the other game which pits NL East teams against each other whilst we're messing with the NLC leaders, the Phils walked-off the Marlins for their 10th win in their last 11





-- The Yanquis didn't play last night but I think Matt Carpenter hit a HR anyway.

Carpenter, who spent 2020 & 2021 hitting a combined .176/.313/.291 (70 OPS+) w/7 HRs in 300+ ABs for the Cardinals, and then was released earlier this season from a minor

league deal with Texas, is 8/24 since being picked up by the Yanx with 6 HRs, one 2B, 13 RBI!! And just to repeat, that's in 10 games/24 ABs

[bmfc1]

While everyone is falling all over themselves to praise the Braves, let's look at who they've played since Memorial Day: AZ, 3; COL, 4; OAK, 2; PIT, 4. They are now playing WSH, 3 and CHC, 3. This is while the Mets were seeing the world. The ATL schedule gets harder next week. ATL can bite me.

[Frayed Knot]

I have no idea who I'm rooting for here ... but the Marlins just tied up the Phils 9-9 in the top of the 9th, and bases loaded and still no one out





StL's Miles Mikolos lost a no-hitter vs Pitt on a ground rule double with two outs in the 9th

[Frayed Knot]

Marlins win 11-9









60 Day IL already for Albies

[Frayed Knot]

Phils' turn for a late comeback: reserve C/LF Garrett Stubbs just hit a 9th-inning/2-out/2-strike 3R walk-off to beat Miami 3-1

[Frayed Knot]

Pads beat Cubs in a day game today.

That's ten straight L's for the Cubbies, and they can now look forward to a visit from Atlanta this weekend as the Braves continue their Sisters of the Poor tour.







Nats, meanwhile, go from hosting one hot team to another, trading in the Braves for a visit from Philly.

[Frayed Knot]

These days it's only a question of how the Yanx would win, not if.

Tonight it was a Rizzo solo walk-off to complete a sweep of the Rays and seven straight wins. 2-1 final.

[Frayed Knot]

Two day games being played on this Friday afternoon - and it's all-NL East action all the time.



- Braves are in Wrigley where Friday afternoon games in the summer are common.

What's uncommon, particularly considering the Cubs have been allowing around 9/RA per game lately, is that it's a scoreless contest heading for bottom 8



- And the Phils are in DC for the first of two where the Nats have the tying runs on base with one out in the 9th

[Frayed Knot]

Phils win - now 13-2 in June. Nats fall to 5-11



... but the Cubs take a 1-0 lead thanks to some smoking hot Jonathan Villar action [Leadoff BB, Sac Bunt to 2nd, Steal of 3rd, Sac Fly]

David Robertson on for the save. Two streaks fall if the home team can hold on here: Cubs = 10 losses, Braves = 14 W's

[Frayed Knot]

K (Riley) - BB (Olson) - HBP (Td'A) - 1st pitch FO-9 (Ozuna) - BB (Duvall) - Arcia grounds out to 1st and so the streak(s) is/are busted!!



And so the immortal words of Joaquin Adujar prove true once again, that baseball can be summed up in just one word: Youneverknow!

[Edgy MD]

Villar is a one-man army.



He's a Villarmy!

[Frayed Knot]

Phils on verge of sweeping a DH in DC.

Grounder to SS and the game is ... [CROSSOUT]over[/CROSSOUT]TIED as DD Gregorous throws it away!!

Defense and bullpen. Defense and bullpen.

[Frayed Knot]

Phils scored twice in the 10th then held the Nats to one and completed the sweep.

So, we gained a full game on the Braves & Marlins, lost 1/2 game to Philly, and gained 1-1/2 on Washington.







Yanx won by several touchdowns as usual.

This time the Blue Jays were the victims.

[Edgy MD]

So it's pretty much the first time in two weeks the Mets were able to tack on to their lead.



It's probably time for every National League team with designs on the post-season to start coming up with an anti-Yankee strategy.



The Mets lock up with them for two games in the second series after the All-Star Break. They have days off before and after the series, so they should be able to set their rotation any way they want.

[Frayed Knot]

Cubs beat Braves again.

Gi figure.

[Edgy MD]

Taking two games back from the Braves in two days would be sweet.



They weren't going to win forever.

[G-Fafif]

Everybody good enough to play for the team buried in last place, step forward.



Not so fast there, Strange-Gordon…

[bmfc1]

Trevor Megill, Tylor's brother, was also placed on the IL this week (MIN).

[Edgy MD]

Closing out the week's TWIB notes, Dee Strange-Gordon isn't the only speed guy on the sunset side of 30 to get a visit from the DFA Fairy. Lorenzo Cain was also so designated yesterday. The Brewers reportedly were gracious enough to hold off until Cain's service time officially hit 10 years, fully vesting his pension.



That's really swell and all, but it's worth pointing how the universal designated hitter rule has soiled the market for versatile veteran reserves like these two — making their roster spots more valuably deployed in carrying a rotation of minimum salary backend bullpen pitchers. Both are less-than-coincidentally being let go by National League clubs who have to adjust their philosophies as they are now supposed to play under American League rules.

[Frayed Knot]

Also putting a lie to the concept that the DH "creates jobs", a phrase which has been used misleadingly (and often intentionally so) for a half century now.

[Edgy MD]

That's certainly what I was meaning to imply.



Obviously, Gordon's performance is far more defensible than Cain's this season, but as the opportunities and marketplace for such guys thins out, so will the patience, clearly.

[roger_that]

Never made a shred of sense to me. For every immobile side of beef who lingered, there was exactly one young, eager hotshot sitting in the minors.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This past weekend, and in the same season that the Mets unveiled their statue of Tom Seaver, the Dodgers unveiled their statue of Sandy Koufax. Koufax had to wait longer than Seaver did for his statue, but at least he got to see it.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

Seaver and Koufax's MLB careers never overlapped, just noting what everybody here already knows. Koufax retired after the 1966 season and Seaver debuted after making the Mets 1967 opening day roster. They just missed each other.