TWIB Notes - Week of 6/30 - 7/6

[Frayed Knot]

- Oakland closer Sean Doolittle, he of the 56/1 K/BB ratio and who we couldn't touch last week, came on in Detroit last night for the 'cookie' save (3 run lead).
Not only did he wind up giving up his 2nd walk of the season but then he followed that by serving up a game-losing Grand Slam (Rajai Davis)

- The Padres won their 2nd game in the last month [u:2l44vc3g]in which they were one hit[/u:2l44vc3g]. Read that sentence again just to make sure it sunk in.
Mat Latos and the Reds were the victims last night as a 5th inning Walk, Steal, FO, FO accounted for the only run of the game while something named Jesse Hahn and four relievers were shutting out the Reds.
Back on June 4th they beat Pittsburgh 3-2 while collecting only one hit.
So that's two wins via four runs on 2 hits in those games. The Mets have notched 21 hits over their last two games and have just five runs and two losses to show for it.

[Frayed Knot]

- After blowing a two-run lead in the 9th and with the winning run on 2nd, the DBacks logically walked Andrew McCutcheon intentionally to get to Ike Davis.
Ike knocked the 2nd pitch into RF for the game-winning RBI

- The Yanx/Rays 2-1 game last night ran 3 hours 13 minutes.
The Cubs 2-1 win at Fenway somehow took them 3:35 to complete

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: - The Yanx/Rays 2-1 game last night ran 3 hours 13 minutes.

Did they honor Jeter between every pitch?

Later

[Frayed Knot]

- The Yanx/Rays 2-1 game last night ran 3 hours 13 minutes. Did they honor Jeter between every pitch?

I don't know what the hell they were doing, but none of the reasons why a 2-1 game with a two-team total of 13 hits and 6 walks would take 3:13 are good for MLB as a whole.
Hell, our POS game was "only" 4 minutes longer but at least that had the excuse of featuring 9 runs scored (essentially leagur average) and had both starters hitting the 100 pitch mark in the 5th inning.

And the fact that the Yanx/Rays game was, by 22 minutes, the shorter of the two 2-1 games played Tuesday night is an even worse sign.

[Frayed Knot]

The Padres, as a team, hit [u:14gcknq4].171/.237/.255[/u:14gcknq4] for the entire month of June - apparently the worst such hitting stats for a team/month in 90-some years.
And yet they somehow managed to win 10 (10-17) although I suppose winning twice while getting one-hit (see above) was a big part of that.

[Edgy MD]

They may, somehow, end up trading three of those hitters before the deadline.

[Frayed Knot]

Oh that crazy Joe Maddon - the Tampa manager known for his 'theme nights' and road trips costume parties.
Well apparently last night was some sort of '80s theme as his lineup went like this:

CF - Jennings
SS - Zobrist
LF - Joyce
3B - Longoria
1B - Loney
DH - Belnome
RF - Kiermeyer
C - Hanigan
2B - Figeroa

Now if you look at the first seven spots in the lineup and we take the liberty of assigning the DH the value of zero then the lineup reads: 8675309
I'm surprised they didn't get Tommy Tutone to sing the anthem.


Unfortunately for the Rays, Tiger hurler Max Scherzer held the Tommy Tutone lineup to two hits. Final = 8-1 Detroit

[bmfc1]

From last night's A's-J's game: the 1B umpire blew a call against Oakland, the call was overturned, but it still cost Oakland a run. In other words, Toronto profited from a call that was overturned and therefore didn't exist. Read on:
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/04/a-strange-replay-in-oakland-reveals-a-big-hole-in-the-replay-rule/

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: From last night's A's-J's game: the 1B umpire blew a call against Oakland, the call was overturned, but it still cost Oakland a run. In other words, Toronto profited from a call that was overturned and therefore didn't exist. Read on: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/04/a-strange-replay-in-oakland-reveals-a-big-hole-in-the-replay-rule/

IOW, there was no fair way to "fix" a play because it turned out that everything after the disputed call was affected by the call itself?
Now who could have possibly seen THAT coming?