TWiB Notes - July 3 - 9

[Frayed Knot]

Braves are in Cleveland and just failed to score in the 10th even with the clown car rules (inning ended on an 8 - 2 FO-DP)



Guardians batting bottom 10, 1st & 2nd after an IW ... and they just Sac-bunted into a 1-6-4 DP !!!

Edited July 4, 2023 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

And the [CROSSOUT]Indi[/CROSSOUT]Guardians win it with a two out RBI 2B handing the Braves their first loss in 11 games.

[Edgy MD]

That'll teach them to take a pass on nickname reform!

[Frayed Knot]

It's only ten games so far but Daniel Muffy is slashing .342/.413/.488 with AAA Salt Lake City. That follows 37 games with the L.I. Ducks where he racked up a .331/.410/.451 line.



And y'know Mike Trout is on the shelf for a while.

Just sayin'

[MFS62]

Pete may be an All-star but he won't face Ohtani. He got a blister last night, so he won't be pitching.

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: It's only ten games so far but Daniel Muffy is slashing .342/.413/.488 with AAA Salt Lake City. That follows 37 games with the L.I. Ducks where he racked up a .331/.410/.451 line. And y'know Mike Trout is on the shelf for a while. Just sayin'

Murph retired three years ago, when he was "just" 35. Pretty young age to retire from the show for a player of his caliber, barring injuries that prevent a player from playing at major-league level.

[Frayed Knot]

Murphy did say that he retired due to injury(ies) -- knee(s) IIRC -- not because he felt like he could no longer play.

I guess they feel better after a couple years off.







And it's another day so the Braves put up a four run 1st.

That's now 91 1st inning runs in 86 games, a rate which projects to slightly over 9.5 R/G or a bit higher than the avg total of both teams combined in a full game.



Mets, btw, still stuck 23 1st inning runs, or less than 2.5 R/G

[Frayed Knot]

An air-mailed throw from the Baltimore SS sailed into the NYY dugout and beaned a YES cameraman delaying the game for some 15 minutes as medical people attended to him before eventually stretchering him out.



Only half-watching and with the sound off so not sure if there's been any updates in the hour or so since it happened.

4-2 O's in bottom 7

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The beaned cameraman is also a mets shooter, lots of thoughts and prayers posts on Twitter

[Frayed Knot]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The beaned cameraman is also a mets shooter, lots of thoughts and prayers posts on Twitter

Yeah, he's the father half of the pere and fils pair of roving cameramen that SNY did a short feature on last week.

Tonight he was on a stationary camera at the far end of the NYY dugout.

[Frayed Knot]

12-0 in favor of the O's in the Bronx

Baltimore currently batting in the top of the 4th!!

[Edgy MD]

Gary Apple reporting cameraman Pete Stendel to have suffered an orbital fracture and is now resting at home.

[Frayed Knot]

Phils win in the 11th to complete a sweep of the Rays



Marlins get shut out by Cards



Braves off

[Edgy MD]

Gunnar Henderson, clearly upset after having hit a cameraman in the face, got the day off today.



Just kidding. He's four-for-four in the first four innings, with two homers.

[Frayed Knot]

He got his 5th AB in the 5th inning but grounded out.

It blew his shot at getting a 'Rennie'

[Frayed Knot]

Phils score three in the top of the 9th, two on a two out Christian Pache 2R HR, to beat the Marlins 4-3.

Two quirky stats connected with this game



- it 'dropped' the Marlins to only 12 games above .500 and to 15-7 in one run games this year. For all their success in 2023, they actually have a negative run differential (-11) while the Mets have a positive (+1)



- it was the phils 13th straight road win







Braves beat the Rays, who are coming off getting swept by Philly, 2-1

So no five run 1st tonight just, y'know, a win.







Yanx are in the midst of getting one hit thru 8 by the Cubs and by Yanqui cast-off Jameison Taillon

3-0 going to bottom 9

[Edgy MD]

Tampa looked as unbeatable early in the season as the Braves look now, but their lead over the [CROSSOUT]Yankees[/CROSSOUT] [CROSSOUT]Red Sox[/CROSSOUT] [CROSSOUT]Blue Jays[/CROSSOUT] ORIOLES(!!) is now down to three games.

[Frayed Knot]

TBR thru May 8th = 29-7 (so, yeah, about the same as Atlanta's 27-5 since May 31 )

Since 5/8 (which started with two straight losses to BAL) = 28-27



Braves actually went 9-up/9-down over the first 3 innings of tonight's game (and in the time it took me to type that sentence they've scored four in the 4th to lead 4-0)

Catcher Sean Murphy, who hit 18 HRs and a a 759 OPS in 612 PAs last year, now has [CROSSOUT]75[/CROSSOUT] 17 HRs/1000 in just 268 this season, his first with ATL