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  1. Frayed Knot
    I just had to post the Phils' top of the 9th in Washington from Tuesday night. The Nats led by 2 and reliever Brad Lord K'd the first two hitters of the inning and was 2-2 on Trea Turner so the Phils were down to their last strike with bases empty. But then: Single - 2R HR - Single - Single - 3R HR - Walk <Paxton Schultz replaces Brad Lord> Single - 2-Run Double - Walk - RBI Single - and finally the 3rd out. So the inning that started 8-6 Nats wound up 14 -9 Phils.
  2. Frayed Knot
    Cubs get two on in top 1 without getting a ball out of the infield. But two outs now., so can Manaea avoid the two-out NYM ins? oe: And he does!! Took him a million pitches [three full counts in five batters] but he escaped unscathed otherwise.
  3. Frayed Knot
    This team may seriously not win a single game for the rest of the season.
  4. Frayed Knot
    Except that often lately, that point comes in the 1st inning.
  5. Frayed Knot
    Opposing runs scored with two outs: - Friday v Philly: 2 of 3 - Saturday vs PHI: 10 of 15 - Sunday/PHI: 0/6 - Tuesday/Cubs: 6/9 - Today: 6/6 So that's 24 of the last 39 have come after two were out. (37% is MLB average). And in this series not only is it 12-of-15 but 8 of them have come only came after two outs and no one on. Similar to the (lack of) clutch hitting from the Mets in the first half of last year, numbers like these are simply incomprehensible particularly since they're Not just limited to the recent small sample cite from the most recent five games.
  6. Frayed Knot
    First two runners on, no runs get even close to scoring due to GiDP. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
  7. Frayed Knot
    And continuing the trend I've been talking about lately: six runs today, all scored/knocked-in after two are out.
  8. Frayed Knot
    Second straight game with three straight Chicago hits starting with two outs and none on. Last night the final two Cubs runs of the game came on a Double - Double - Double in the 8th inning. Today it's Single - Double - HR in a four pitch sequence.
  9. Frayed Knot
    What's Norwegian for 'FUCK YEAH!' ???
  10. Frayed Knot
    McLean's career-to-date WHIP is a very nice 1.07 If that stat was amended to WHHBPIP [W+H+HBP/IP] I think it might north of 1.57
  11. Frayed Knot
    Inning #1) Leadoff double = nothing Inning #2) 1st & 2nd/no outs = nothing Only the Ewing FO moved a runner. The other ABs with runners on were K, K, GiDP, K
  12. Frayed Knot
    Brilliant strategy by the Cubs dropping the foul pop for the inevitable GiDP they knew was in the offing.
  13. Frayed Knot
    So the answer to whether we'd see Lindor, Soto, both, or neither is choice 'D', at least for the first game.
  14. Frayed Knot
    No, but he was on that topic.
  15. Frayed Knot
    So what better to drop into the latest shit show that comprises this season but a split day/night DH vs a team we can't beat? In four games vs the Cubs this year the Mets are 0-4 while being out-scored 13-27 The day game -- or 'Morning Game' as Keith calls it -- portion of this June Wednesday kicks off at 1:10 with Nolan McLean facing ... I dunno yet. Shota Imanaga will apparently pitch one of the two games but the Cubbies are hush-hush so far as to which one. McLean, meanwhile, promises to try and hold Chicago's 8 & 9 hitters to fewer than six RBIs and four runs scored which, if he manages to do so, would represent an improvement on yesterday.
  16. Frayed Knot
    The Bichette HR reminds me of those -- Tim McCarver was one -- who would argue that a HR there is a bad thing because it 'kills the rally' and that a walk or single would have been the better outcome. Those people are idiots.
  17. Frayed Knot
    The reason it is controversial, and I've talked about this in the past, is because of the slow morphing of baseball from a game where the ball was considered live and in play unless specifically stated otherwise, to one where the opposite was true or at least assumed to be. Those who found themselves confused did so because they assumed that nothing was allowed to happen once ball four was indicated.
  18. Frayed Knot
    It won't clear customs.
  19. Frayed Knot
    So those three guys combined for seven hits while the actual Mets combined for four.
  20. Frayed Knot
    OK, so that call reversal at 2B that confused the entire booth. Keith kept saying the the ball was 'dead' which was never the case. That it was often treated as if it were, the example of umps telling/signaling runners to slow down if/when they were running on ball four was mentioned, should have never happened and was part of the problem leading baseball into the age where the time between ABs and even pitches was treated as dead time even though it wasn't. Yes, the runner 'is awarded' 2nd base due to ball four but if he chooses, by choice or via ignorance, to go in with a head-first dive he does so at his own risk and there's no reason why he shouldn't be subject to being put out if he comes off the base.
  21. Frayed Knot
    Seven of the nine Cubs runs scored with two outs.
  22. Frayed Knot
    Well, we don't want him to play too many games with Lindor. They've already appeared in the same lineup nine times over the first 78 games. I think that's enough for a while.
  23. Frayed Knot
    3-2/3 IP, 98 pitches, seven earned ... and that's starting with a 1-2-3 1st I don't know what you do with this guy.
  24. Frayed Knot
    Cubs have five now six walks plus a HBP. Four of those seven free passes have scored with one currently on base.
  25. Frayed Knot
    And a two out RBI hit of our own ... whoda thunk it?!?
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