IGT, 8/10, Wheeling Through the Desert

[Fman99]

Wilmer Flores, RBI machine.

[Zvon]

HUGE seeing eye single for two ribEYEsteaks.
WILMA!!!!!

[Edgy MD]

With men on base
Wilmer's ace

[Frayed Knot]

That's, what, five RBIs following IWs for Flores? Not bad for your first week in the bigs.
That'll teach 'em to walk Ike.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Mmmm... FRESH!

[Zvon]

Damn. Parra don't suck.

[Edgy MD]

Parra... shoot!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Man alive, what a Parragrab. These Snake outfielders do go out and get it.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Heads down by Laggy to not.

Nah.
That ball wasn't a sure catch until the very end. I don't want to see a tag from 1st in those circumstances.


Meanwhile, the DBacks have been throwing some nice leather at us so far this weekend.

[Edgy MD]

I'm sorry, but is Wilmer Flores really so questionable at third that he gets pulled for late inning defense and replaced by Turner?

[Zvon]

Fkn Prado. Man, those insurance runs are big.

[Frayed Knot]

Jewelry and big chains while playing sports ... I don't get it.
I was hoping Prado's bat got caught up in his.

[Edgy MD]

GuuurRRRREAT deepee!

[Zvon]

WHOAWHOA Q DP!
What a play.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm sorry, but is Wilmer Flores really so questionable at third that he gets pulled for late inning defense and replaced by Turner?

I think it's more a lineup thing than a defense thing - but I also think Terry over-plays this. Unless a double-switch is going to get you an extra inning out of your pitcher it's usually not worth doing.
In this case the pitcher's slot is due up in top 9, but he's almost certain to be switching pitchers anyway so the switcheroo doesn't really buy you anything and it burns a player who may be needed later on.

[Edgy MD]

Nieves --- no power catcher. At least, not much to date.

[Frayed Knot]

You don't have to throw Nieves a strike to get him out.

[Edgy MD]

Got to go to Pedro here, right?

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: You don't have to throw Nieves a strike to get him out.

And he winds up walking the guy who had walked 4 times in 125 PAs this year.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Conversely, throwing him a strike doesn't always get Nieves out, it seems.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That was some bad breaking.

Edited August 10, 2013 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

That's what low-70s cheese looks like, Mr. Parra.

[Frayed Knot]

Way to GO Ped-RO

I'm not sure if that last pitch could have earned itself a speeding ticket.

[batmagadanleadoff]

In game quiz --- Who is the only other player this season besides our Mr. Flowers to have two 3-RBI games in his first five ML games?

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: In game quiz --- Who is the only other player this season besides our Mr. Flowers to have two 3-RBI games in his first five ML games?

Puig?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: In game quiz --- Who is the only other player this season besides our Mr. Flowers to have two 3-RBI games in his first five ML games? Puig?

Winner, winner!

[Zvon]

Loudest

fart

eveh.

[Frayed Knot]

Turner's been on fire lately.
Or, you could say, Red hot.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'm sorry, but is Wilmer Flores really so questionable at third that he gets pulled for late inning defense and replaced by Turner? I think it's more a lineup thing than a defense thing - but I also think Terry over-plays this. Unless a double-switch is going to get you an extra inning out of your pitcher it's usually not worth doing. In this case the pitcher's slot is due up in top 9, but he's almost certain to be switching pitchers anyway so the switcheroo doesn't really buy you anything and it burns a player who may be needed later on.

I'll take the Turner double though.

[Frayed Knot]

Zvon wrote: Loudest fart eveh.

Yeah, that's what happens when your stadium tries to stuff in sound effects during every break of more than ten seconds. Sometimes you mess up.