TWiB Notes - May 12 thru 18

[Frayed Knot]

Keeping a tab on rivals as we start the new week:



- Phils will spend M/T/W hosting the Cardinals who bring their 8-game winning streak [vs NYMx2, PITx3, WASx3] into Phi-town



- Braves will duel the Nats for four games starting tonight in ATL



- Marlins go to Wrigley for three starting tomorrow



- Yanx, who we'll see next, wrap up their two city west coast swing with three in Seattle, so both Mets & Yanx will have Thursday off prior to the weekend tilt in da Bronx

[Frayed Knot]

Cards make it nine straight as they win the opener in Philly 3-2

[Frayed Knot]

Nats tied up the Braves in the top of the 9th ... Braves won it in the bottom half

[Edgy MD]

Amazing that, with this strange new rules regime around reducing the risk of injuries from collisions at home plate, Oswaldo Cabrera brutally injures himself avoiding a collision at home plate.

[Channel9]

Ouch.



I think the only other time I saw a guy obviously break a bone on a baseball diamond was Dave Dravecky when his arm basically broke off of his body after throwing a pitch in Montreal. Anyone remember that? Gruesome.

[Channel9]

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[Frayed Knot]

Eric Young Jr. landing on the ankle of Tim Hudson on a play at 1B was a pretty obvious break.



A cincy LFer skidded into the side wall about a week ago and broke his arm. You couldn't see a crooked arm or anything but it was obviously serious. And to add insult to injury, he dropped the ball because of it which wound up as an inside-the-park HR

[Frayed Knot]

Cliff Floyd breaking his wrist after running into Todd Hundley at a mostly empty Shea as they played the early innings of a Monday night final to a four game set in May '95

Cliff's screams were heard all over the sparsely attended park and Hundley later described seeing Floyd's 'glove bent back against his wrist'. That one was ugly.





Yanqui 3B Oswaldo Cabrera, to no one's surprise, has a broken ankle although no official word yet as to whether there is accompanying ligament damage.

10 Day IL for now but obviously this will be months even under the best case scenario.

[MFS62]

Catchers had broken fingers all the time.

Joe Garagiola quipped that when two old catchers shake hands, it can take a crowbar to pry their hands apart.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Braves beat the Nats for the second night in a row.

Phils rained out vs StL (two tomorrow) and the Marlins are leading the Cubs 4-2 in the 7th

[Gwreck]

Old friend Javy Baez had two three run homers yesterday for Detroit, the second of which came to walk it off in the 11th after Houston had scored twice in the top of the inning. Baez is hitting .319/.357/.513 as the everyday center fielder for the Tigers.



Detroit remains tied with the Mets for the best record in MLB.

[Frayed Knot]

The only problem with Baez in CF is that he can't tag anybody out there.

[Frayed Knot]

The AL currently leads the NL in inter-league games 93 - 86

Not that that's a particularly big or meaningful gap, but the NL held a fairly sizable lead until just recently which means the AL must have had a dominant last two weeks or so.

Checking on just games from the last three days I see that the AL has gone 10-3.

[Channel9]

I remember Young and Floyd now that you say it. I guess I block those things out. Kinda squeamish that way,



One of my late mother's favorite jokes - ‘What do you call a Jewish guy that that can't stand the sight of blood?'



‘A lawyer!'



(I'm a Jew, it's ok)

[Gwreck]

There was a game at Shea late in the 2006 season in which Nick Johnson of the Nationals broke his femur in an outfield collision. It was so disturbing that the Mets shut off the music/scoreboard animations for the last couple of innings as everyone just wanted to get the game over with.

[Frayed Knot]

I generally don't like NYM off days, especially coming off a bad loss (as opposed to, y'know, a good loss). But I welcomed the dark day yesterday -- no Mets and very little of interest going on elsewhere (Braves beat the Nats again and are now over .500 for the first time this year) -- as I needed a breather in advance of this weekend.



MLB has declared this to be 'Rivalry Weekend', so in addition to Mets/Yanx you have the usual suspects of ChiSox/ChiCubs, Dodgers/Angels, Padres/Mariners (cuz they're out of actual rivals), and even Philly/Pittsburgh who were in-state and in-league rivals for a century before they 'fixed' the divisions and made the cross-Pennsylvania games as rare as inter-league cross-country matchups. Not sure if Ohio State is playing Michigan this weekend or not.



So we've got Braves/Red Sox (as there are about seven people still alive who remember the Braves in Boston), teh 'Beltway Series (even though there are two different beltways) of Nats/Orioles (both suck right now), Marlins/Rays, and Phils/Pirates to keep an eye on on.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: So we've got Braves/Red Sox (as there are about seven people still alive who remember the Braves in Boston),

Raises hand (slowly - I don't want to pull a muscle)



Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Wilmer = 3 HR, 8 RBI last night

[metirish]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Wilmer = 3 HR, 8 RBI last night

Wilmer is ageless,wow

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He's still got the fast wrists and the sweet uppercut



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[Frayed Knot]

Brandon Hyde out as Oriole manager.

Hired prior to the 2019 season, was 421-492 over 6+ seasons but 192 - 132 in 2023 (1st in AL East) & '24 (2nd).

But they were 0-3 and 0-2 in post-season games those years and started this season 15-28 (now 15-29)

[Frayed Knot]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Wilmer = 3 HR, 8 RBI last night

And, as Gary pointed out during today's telecast, it moves him past one Keith Hernandez in career HRs (163 - 162)

[MFS62]

They lost Wilmer to free agency for a difference of $350,000.

Later

[Fman99]

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Old friend Javy Baez had two three run homers yesterday for Detroit, the second of which came to walk it off in the 11th after Houston had scored twice in the top of the inning. Baez is hitting .319/.357/.513 as the everyday center fielder for the Tigers.



Detroit remains tied with the Mets for the best record in MLB.

[Frayed Knot]

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They lost Wilmer to free agency for a difference of $350,000.

[Frayed Knot]

Braves led 5-0 and 6-2 in Fenway tonight.

Then Boston scored two in the 7th, two in the 8th, then a Rafael Devers lead-off/walk-off HR in the 9th for the winner

[Bob Alpacadaca]

Minnesota Twins winning streak up to 13!

[Gwreck]

Wilmer gets the walk-off RBI (where have we heard that before?) tonight against Sacramento.



0-0 game in the bottom of the 10th, Wilmer took a bases-loaded walk for the win.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: I don't know where those numbers come from but I'll take your word for it.

baseballreference.com

Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

the base salary one year to the next was 350k higher but the Dbacks also offered Flores a $6 million club option (which they turned down). That was probably too much for Fred while he fought off the Madoff charges.



Enjoy some memories of Wilmer



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