Frayed Knot

Now that was impressive!

Let's review: Walk - Dribbler + Error - Walk - WP ® - K - PB ® - F8 - SB - K

Alonso goes down swinging on the exact same three pitches ... and wasn't anywhere close to any of them.

Can this be any more of a NYM bases-loaded but not hitting rally?

Phantom Met Kumar Rocker to make his ML debut for Texas on Thursday

A mighty blow by Alvarez!!!!

=Centerfield post_id=169390 time=1725930583 user_id=65] Why would you pull Megill. Just mind boggling.

Sixteen straight batters retired -- change pitchers -- three of the next seven retired.

And it's not like pulling Megill for the bullpen gambit has worked so far.

Reds beat Braves 1-0 Cincy pitching: 1 run on 6 hits over their last 18 innings

And it's not like we're making a lot of loud outs either.

Need to do better than five hits (all singles) and two runs over the last 14 innings.

Not sure if Tylor was pitching around Vladdy in his first AB but when the worst the batter can do is a solo HR with 8 innings to go then go ahead and pitch to him. Putting him on wound up costing him a lot of pitches and almost a run or more. Second time around he pitched to him -- in the same none-on/two-out situation -- and K'd him.

The Reds jump from the NYM fire into the ATL frying pan as they are in Georgia for a one-game make-up with the Braves tonight. The Braves hop a flight to D.C. after that to start a series with the Nationals The DiamondBacks start a series against Texas in the desert starting on Tuesday Padres head to Seattle, also starting on Tuesday, so late scores on them for the next few days. Phillies host the Rays and are currently scoreless in the 2nd inning of the opener. And we should probably mention the Cubs who are our closest pursuer (-5.0 G) start a series vs the Dodgers

... and forever immortalized in Ken Burns' Baseball documentary with a bit of news ticker that reads "Kranepool flies to right; Agnew resigns." Not actually a news ticker but a written note passed on to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart from one of his clerks. Stewart, a Cincinnati native and big Reds fan, was stuck on the bench that day hearing oral arguments in one of the many legal issues surrounding the growing Nixon/Watergate mess. So he asked his staff to keep him up to date on the Mets-Reds NLCS game going on that day (and, yes, it was a day game). At first he wanted half-inning updates but soon was requesting batter by batter news. In the midst of all this comes the news of Agnew's resignation so the clerk added that to his next update. I wonder if that slip of paper survives? oe: it looks like this was during the Game 5 clincher which, if so, it wasn't a fly out to RF. I don't know if you/us are mis-remembering the story or if the source* had the facts wrong. Krane batted twice in that game getting a 2-RBI single in the 1st and then a 4-3 ground out leading off the 4th. He was pinch-hit for in his next AB (by Mays, who singled in a run) and, of course, never got another AB in the series. I was thinking that maybe the news of Agnew's imminent resignation occurred a day or two before it became official (Oct 10) but Eddie wasn't in the lineup and didn't appear in either Game 3 or Game 4 so no fly out there either. * I read it in the Bob Woodward/Scott Armstrong book THE BRETHREN about SCOTUS in the early '70s. The same Potter Stewart, btw, was later revealed to be Woodward's secret source for many of the stories in the book.

Plus, I'm guessing that Jay possesses ZERO athletic genes in his bloodline. Will Wagner, however, IS the son of one-time NYM Billy Wagner

I think he's expected back this week but, yeah, not (yet anyway) the break-through star we pined for.

Justin Verlander isn't doing us any favors tonight. He's already served up a 3R HR vs Arizona and now is in a 4-0 hole w/bases loaded, one out, top 3 in the SNB feature. Yank him already!!! oe: too late, add a GS to the mix and now it's 8-0 after just seven outs. Braves won in 11 innings SDP dropped a second straight.

* too many leadoff hitters on base for Cincy. They got away with it multiple times until they didn't. * too many soft hits by the Reds. Not much you can do about that of course, but, shyeeet, they had a lot of 'em * Mets had four hits, all singles. Tough to win that way.

Giants 6 - Padres 3

One game closer to ARZ, Braves down 1-0 in the 2nd, Padres starting vs SFG at 8:40 EDT

And his first four pitches weren't close ... but the next guy swings at the first one and fouls out. Strange days indeed.

And a surprising usage of Diaz on b-t-b days with a four run lead?!?!?!?!?

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: They're all awesome, it shouldn't matter Well the bull penners used so far have shown tangible signs of awesomeness.

Elvis (Andrus) has left the Major Leagues. Spent his last two seasons w/the ChiSox but hadn't played at all this year. Just now announcing his official retirement. 15 seasons, 12 w/Texas, 2nd RoY*, twice an All-Star, and one really good punch to the jaw of Jose Bautista** * in 2009 to Oakland reliever Andrew Bailey who cashed it in after 2017. Probably tough to find a more anonymous RoY ** I just realized I whiffed on the puncher to Bautista's punchee. It was Rougned Odor, not Andrus. I conflated Texas middle infielders. Odor also left MLB at the end of last year but he's back home in 2024 playing in Venezuela