TWiB Notes - June 1st thru 7th

[Frayed Knot]

Back after a week off (because no one took this up whilst I was away) we'll have some results and developments to follow as we complete our final week of late night starts as well as kick off the third month of the season.

- the best record in MLB Braves are kicking back at home until Tuesday when they'll welcome the Blue Jays and then the Pirates for three game series.

- the 2nd place NLE Nationals -- currently 4.5 G ahead of NYM -- will try to dominate the visiting Marlins as much as we just did this past weekend, before they head west later in the week.

- the 3rd place Phils (30-29) will give our next opponent a test drive (T-W-Th) before the Padres fly back to Sandy Eggo on Friday to host us. Be a shame if that Thursday (day) game went 16 innings and/or their flight was delayed.

 

 Elsewhere ...

- the 2nd place (1.5 G behind TBR) Yanx, coming off a 13-8 drubbing of ATH on Sunday in which they scored all 13 runs in the 2nd inning!!, have CLE - BOS - @CLE on their immediate agenda. The odd part about that gauntlet is that the Sawx series looks like it'll serve as a weekend breather for the pin-stripers sandwiched by six games against the 1st place (34 - 27) Guardians 

- Pete's rookie HR record looks safe for another year as White Sox (32 - 27 !!) slugger Munetaka Murakami was put on the IL with a hamstring injury. Murakami had slugged 20 HRs in his first 57 ML games prior to the injury, a pace which projected to right around 57 dingers for the season so he'll need to be a quick healer if he wants to go Alonso hunting in September.

[Frayed Knot]

The Guardians draw first blood in the meeting of ALE/ALC leaders by thumping the Yanx and Cam Schlittler 9-4. It was Schlittler's shortest outing of his career as he allowed 5 earned in 4-1/3 IP.  You might even say his game went into the .... nah!! too easy.

[Frayed Knot]

Angels OF Jo Adell, he of the triple HR robbery night of a few weeks ago, opted to give one of those thefts back in last night's game. Embarrassing, but he's still at Plus-2 for the season.

 

 

[The Hot Corner]

Adell took that one off his glove then headed it (ala Jose Conseco) over the fence.

[Edgy MD]

That's not even Adell's first career four-base error.

 

[seawolf17]

MFYs announce that Aaron Judge will miss 4-6 weeks with a fractured rib.

(Ouch.)

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx managed to avoid a sweep with a 2-1 win over Cleveland in a just completed game. Judge missed the entire series. Heard a stat yesterday about the Yanx & Judge and while I don't remember the exact totals the team is  something like a cumulative 130 games over .500 in the last couple seasons with Judge in the lineup but below .500 when he's out.

Yanx actually managed to gain ground on 1st place while losing two of three as Detroit chose a series in Tampa to awaken from their slumber. The Tigers had lost 21 of 25 coming into that series but swept the 1st place Rays three straight.

 

Phils complete the sweep of the Pads with the cumulative score befitting two of ML's weakest offenses: 12 - 8 was the three game run total. The Phils, who were briefly behind the Mets, are now 4 games over .500 despite a negative 22 run differential.

[duan]

8 hours ago, seawolf17 said:

MFYs announce that Aaron Judge will miss 4-6 weeks with a fractured rib.

(Ouch.)

having broken rib in a football match last november it is a really tricky injury to recover from. . I was back playing matches in January but was very conscious of it till mid february at the earliest and I still feel it a little at times today

[whippoorwill]

11 hours ago, seawolf17 said:

MFYs announce that Aaron Judge will miss 4-6 weeks with a fractured rib.

(Ouch.)

Ouch indeed

[Edgy MD]

3 hours ago, duan said:

having broken rib in a football match last november it is a really tricky injury to recover from. . I was back playing matches in January but was very conscious of it till mid february at the earliest and I still feel it a little at times today

Yeah, an injury that makes swinging or running or lifting uncomfortable is awful.  But you adapt and do the best that you can.

An injury that makes breathing uncomfortable is a full-stop injury.  You go out there thinking "I'm better, I feel great," take one quick sprint and go, "No, God, I really don't, get me out of here before I collapse and die."

[Frayed Knot]

Originally said to be a "bone bruise" this is being called a 'stress fracture' which sounds like it might not be as bad as the type you'd get running into a railing or something but, still, they're talking about 're-evaluating' in four to six weeks.  Maybe the Yanx should give Judge some of whatever it is that Frankie Alvarez is taking to get back so quickly. Hopefully whatever it is is legal.

 

 

Matchups of interest for the weekend: Braves host Pirates; Phils host ChiSox; Rays @ Marlins; Nats in Arizona; Yanx host Red Sox

[MFS62]

9 hours ago, duan said:

having broken rib in a football match last november it is a really tricky injury to recover from. . I was back playing matches in January but was very conscious of it till mid february at the earliest and I still feel it a little at times today

But is there as much use of the upper body , such as swinging a baseball bat or throwing  a ball in your football as there would be in baseball? I would guess recovery for a football player would be  a lot quicker for this type of injury.

No?

Later

[Frayed Knot]

All other NL East games were daytime affairs today and so all are in the books more than three hours prior to our games even starting.  Braves won (PIT), Nats won (ARZ), Marlins won (TBR), leaving the Phils as the only loser (CHW)

 

Also today saw the Cubs, who lost to SFG 18-3 yesterday running their recent record to 4-15, notch a victory  with a 3-2 10-inning win in which they never led until the walk-off single scored the ghost runner. They twice tied up the game, once on a PC-A HR in the 6th to tie things at 1-1 and then with a PC-A HR w/2 outs in the 9th to tie it at 2-2

Crow-Armstrong is a having a decent bounce-back season from the horrid final two months of 2025 which saw him finish with a sub-.200 BA / sub-500 OPS from August 1st on.

And what a schizo team the Cubs have been this year. They've already had two 10-game winning streaks and one 10-game losing streak, which is tough to do in barely over 1/3 of a season.

[Frayed Knot]

Braves won today (3-0 sweep of Pirates)

Phils beat White Sox (win 2 of 3)

Marlins over Rays (2 of 3)

Nats lose to DBacks (but still win 2 of 3)

So we need to finish with a positive result here just so as to not lose ground across the board.

[Edgy MD]

Brandon Nimmo catches first pitch from his grandpa.

 

[Edgy MD]

Some of the best baseball this weekend was being played in Oklahoma City.

 

[Edgy MD]

Not to be overlooked is that gun on Noah Miller.