Frayed Knot

HahnSolo wrote: Holy shit. First the Rangers tying goal, now Jordany!!!! Did Valdespin score that one too?

BACK-UP METS > Papelbon or so says Omir Santos

OH WOW!!

Well, if nothing else, I think we've eliminated seeing Papelbon for a second inning.

Papelbon is such a chore to watch. He's good and all (usually) but I'd hate to have him as my closer.

Nymr83 wrote: After the Buster Posey injury last year, you'd think MLB would examine these plays. Also, please throw at a Philly. Nothing to examine. It was a clean play. And haven't we put enough of their leadoff guys on tonight? No need to plunk someone and do it again, 'specially in the 9th.

Tonight is also a national ESPN telecast for all youse outta-towners w/o access to the IE package or MLB.TV

Ceetar wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: metirish wrote: This is of course Chris Young we are all looking forward to seeing and not Cy Young lest we forget. I'll take the Young we had for 4 starts last year and say thankyouverymuch if we can get him to expand that same pace for like 20 or more. I'll take it even if it's only for four starts. That would almost be more a tease than a help. It almost easy to forget that the dude had a sub-1.00 WHiP and sub-2.00 ERA during his brief 2011 stint ... and a 3-hit game!

Vic Sage wrote: yes, its easier to believe that this is somehow juice-related (in the absence of any evidence that it was injury-related), then for fans and media to accept, even for a moment, that random shit happens in baseball, like the rest of our existence, and that in any given sampling of outcomes, there is a range of random occurrences that are simply inexplicable. People HATE having to deal with a random universe that is related to, you know, mathematics. That's why we invented religion in the first place. We are hardwired for pattern recognition, and if there is no pattern, we invent one. There other thing is, that even if one were to believe that there were some kind of steroid forces at work here, the idea that those drugs are so powerful as to act as some sort of on/off switch where a player goes from having one of the top ten decades ever to maybe the most punch-less hitter in either league (or the other way around) as a result of swearing off (or starting with) the stuff. The biggest lab experiment in the world couldn't create such a fluctuation. Jerry could get colorful once in a while! Just ask Betty!

metirish wrote: This is of course Chris Young we are all looking forward to seeing and not Cy Young lest we forget. I'll take the Young we had for 4 starts last year and say thankyouverymuch if we can get him to expand that same pace for like 20 or more.

Valdespin was already en route to Philly as of yesterday so if they DL Ruben there's no secret that he's the choice. But if they just want to demote a pitcher in favor of a SS while Tejada heals for 3 or 4 days then it needs to be someone else (hence the SS thread).

I almost forgot that I've got a winning streak of sorts going here. It's Niese vs Halladay No lineups yet except to say that we're almost certainly going to be short of corned beef & rye (no Ruben)

I read Scott's NYTimes review and it wasn't THAT bad. In fact, it wasn't all that bad at all IIRC.

BA: The last time two clubs used hitters on the mound [in the same game] came in the nightcap of an Oct. 4, 1925 doubleheader between the Browns and the Tigers. Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and George Sisler pitched against each other, with Cobb recording a save by working a perfect inning.

Dickey - 4.4 Byrdak - 0.3 Francisco - 0.6 Murphy - 1.9 Thole - 1.3 Wright - 0.5 Torres - 0.5 Tejada - 0.5

Santana - 3.0 Parnell - 0.3 Francisco - 0.4 Murphy - 2.5 Nickeas - 1.5 Torres - 1.5 Nieuwenhuis - 0.8

In addition to the steal of home he hit a dunker over SS and legged it into a double.

From a BA Q & A: Q -- Richard (Brooklyn): Do you think wilmer Flores's current hot streak is an abberation or a sign of progress? Thanks A -- Ben Badler (BA): Probably a little bit of both. When someone like Flores becomes a big deal at 16, people tend to lose patience and forget that this guy is still a 20-year-old in High-A. I'm not saying he's going to be an all-star, but he does have excellent hands at the plate and the power he's starting to show doesn't surprise me. There's very real progress here.

Ceetar wrote: Turner was also in the game cold at that point right? May have cost him a step or two. If he had been warm and two steps quicker then he only would have been out by 12 feet.

I figured that between the dueling HBPs and what must be a frustrated Phils squad this game could get out of hand, but no further fireworks as the Phils are currently tacking onto their lead in the top ninth (4-1 and still batting ... oops, now 5-1, ... now 7-1 on Pence's 2 2R HR of the game). But the big news is that Jayson Werth rolled over on his wrist while trying for a sliding catch and looks like he hurt it bad. Looked a lot like the play where H. Matsui did the same thing a couple years back when he was still with the Yanx. He wound up out for the season.

Not only that but, if you looked at the year that those others* went through their droughts, they were all at or near the end of their careers. The stunning thing about Albert's little slump here is that it comes right on the heels of 11 of the most dominant years we've ever seen. * Eddie Murray, Yaz, Griff Jr., McCovey

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Nats-Phils Sunday Night game has the potential to get a bit hairy. Hamels drilled Bryce Harper square in the back on the first pitch Then when Hamels came to bat an inning later he was hit with the first pitch. btw, Harper went on to score the game's only run so far - by stealing home

And that completes the sweep for Baltimore in Boston (probably the first one in like half a century or so) and makes the O's 5-1 against the Yanx & Sawx this past week.

Albert has HR'd 2-run shot in the 5th inning of today's game in his 116th PA of the year or his 110th AB Yeah, that's right, only 6 BBs for the year - and two of those were intentional Dude came into the day hitting a stunning .194/.237/.269