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[Edgy MD]

Looking bad for Torrens.

[Edgy MD]

Torrens stays in but Weaver got shaken up watching his catcher drop.

[Edgy MD]

Deep hole now.

Nothing good really happening since the second out.

[Edgy MD]

Kinda not keen on watching shots of white dudes bathing in the outfield.

[Frayed Knot]

Two outs on four pitches for Raley.

[Edgy MD]

Just saw only the seventh total hit of the game for both teams together.

It's a strange game these days.

[Edgy MD]

Big stop by Simmy and the top of the order comes in the ninth.

[Gwreck]

Hey, there’s the value Semien’s supposed to be bringing to the team.

[Frayed Knot]

1 minute ago, Edgy MD said:

Just saw only the seventh total hit of the game for both teams together.

It's a strange game these days.

An article in The Athletic today about how the banning of the shift did NOT bring the base hit back. I didn't dive into it but it shows that sometimes the result of what you think you're going to get isn't always the case.

[Frayed Knot]

Not even threatening to score a run.

[Edgy MD]

5 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

An article in The Athletic today about how the banning of the shift did NOT bring the base hit back. I didn't dive into it but it shows that sometimes the result of what you think you're going to get isn't always the case.

It's harder to bring back the base hit if that's not what they're really going for.

[Frayed Knot]

1-2-3 for Williams on just eight pitches.

[Edgy MD]

That's not a pitch Vientos has been getting around on.  Very gratifying to see.

[Frayed Knot]

Vientos doubles on the first pitch of the 10th, and my first reaction is to think, cool., we've got the leadoff hitter on ... not even thinking of the runner already on 2nd. So five years in and I'm still not used to this whole ghost runner thingie.

But, as we all know, the visiting team needs more than one run in the clown car era.

[Edgy MD]

Inneresting to see Bruján and not Taylor getting the pinch-running call.

[Gwreck]

15 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

An article in The Athletic today about how the banning of the shift did NOT bring the base hit back. I didn't dive into it but it shows that sometimes the result of what you think you're going to get isn't always the case.

The gist is that (1) the focus on defense and positioning is a big part of the long-term decline in batting average, combined with (2) different hitting strategies (better to hit it in the air than on the ground).

There was a one-year uptick in batting average after the shift was banned but those two long-term trends have not changed. 

[Edgy MD]

THIS is BASEBALL!!

[Gwreck]

1 minute ago, Edgy MD said:

Inneresting to see Brew-John and not Taylor getting the pinch-running call.

I think it’s to keep it a 1:1 substitution.  Baty to first, Bichette to third, Brujan to short for the bottom of the tenth.

[Edgy MD]

Semien eliminating the double-play with the steal is HEROIC!

See?  There are multiple ways to avoid DPs.

We end up with a hard out, but it would have been two otherwise.

[Frayed Knot]

A good inning was looking like a great inning ... and then it crashed on two straight pitches.

[Edgy MD]

Williams leaving the game is goofy.

What are you saving him for?

[Frayed Knot]

I thought we'd see Williams for bottom 10.

[Edgy MD]

Working without heat but certainly effective.  Myers shuts it down.

[Frayed Knot]

Well, McLean didn't get the 'W' but it was still just the second win in eight McLean starts this year.