Frayed Knot

First three innings = leadoff runner(s) on in each but just one single and 7 LOBs 4th inning: two outs, no one on ... then three consecutive extra base hits

Was that a new HR or did SNY just slip in a replay from the other night?

=ashie62 post_id=159295 time=1718485266 user_id=90] Brewers pitcher is not long for this games 61 pitches already

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: What's with Alvarez's green chest protector 🤔 It matches his shoes.

That's at least three pop-ups with runner(s) on. That's a lot for 3 innings.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Padres demonstrating that a memorial patch doesn't have to be on the sleeve. Who is PS?

Phils at Orioles, Yanx @ Boston, and Rays @ Braves are among the featured series this weekend. Rangers coming off winning the final two vs LAD (after getting smoked in the opener). With a two-run lead on Wed former NYM David Robertson came on in the 8th to K Betts, Ohtani, and Freddie consecutively (3, 3, and 9 pitches). He had so much fun doing that he did it again in the same circumstances on Thursday night (3, 3, and 5 pitches) only this time with two men on. Jose Abreu was the 2020 AL MVP w/CHW [987 OPS / 165 OPS+] He followed that up with good years in '21 [831 / 124] and '22 [824 / 134] Then he signed a 3yr deal with Houston during the '22/'23 winter and plummeted to [680 / 87] while still playing nearly every day. This year he was 14 for 113 w/4 XBHs ... and today was released. He's owed $19.5M for 2025

As mentioned briefly during last night's telecast, this Matt Waldron guy is a (part-time) Knuckleballer!!!. The only one throwing the Fred Astaire pitch currently in MLB.

=Cowtipper post_id=159200 time=1718402416 user_id=166] I'm watching the game now, don't spoil the ending for me.

A couple of common choices. Also had six Mets involved, seven if you count (brief) coach Hornsby. 22 rarity NYM/CHC - Jim Hickman NYM/2000H - Duke Snider NYM/1GP - Desi Relaford LAD/CHC - Rick Sutcliffe LAD/2000H - Gary Sheffield LAD/1GP - Ralph Branca BAL/CHC - Rogers Hornsby BAL/2000H - Eddie Murray BAL/1GP - John Maine

Tug McGraw, 39 career starts, has more complete games (5) than Jacob deGrom (215 / 4)

JDM didn't dread facing Scott.

Well that's disappointing, even with the run scoring.

You would think a guy named Bender would have a good curveball. If so we haven't seen it yet.

We caught a break on Ball Four to Nimmo ... and by the Marlins pulling Munoz. Need to take advantage. JDM starts it.

=Centerfield post_id=159087 time=1718325292 user_id=65] Just tuned in. Are we being no fucking hit by the Marlins???

Did they not challenge that because Bader seemed to bounce off the base briefly? Cuz he was in there otherwise.

I was just about to type that Lindor's line-out to Bell at 1B was the only AB that smelled even vaguely like a hit. But Bader made that moot so I won't even type that.

Ummmm, a hit would be nice.

=metirish post_id=159079 time=1718323786 user_id=72] Keith is absolutely enamored with the physique of Munōz

=ashie62 post_id=159071 time=1718318241 user_id=90] I couldn't handle her bragging about her exotic weekend excursions and days with high society types

Their pitching has been the unanticipated strength. Last year they rode a CY year from Gerritt Cole to a 4.31 team ERA, good for T-9th among the 30 clubs. This season, played entirely without Cole so far, it's more than a full run lower at 3.26 and best in MLB - Carlos Rodon, awful last year, sub-3.00 this year - Marcus Stroman: sub-3 - rookie Luis Gil was sub-2 until his last start and still has a sub-1 WHIP - Clarke Schmidt, tho recently IL'd, nearly halved his ERA from last year [4.64 to 2.52] - Nestor Cortes dropped more than a full run/G off his [4.97 to 3.68] I said somewhere here that I thought Cole was the most important injury starting the year because of how much the Yanx relied on him to give them a likely win every fifth day and how there was no logical replacement to pick up the slack. Instead, Rodon, Stroman, Gil, and Schmidt combined are as stingy this year and Cole was in his CY campaign last season, so instead of losing him it's more like he's been quadrupled. ... Now having said all that, I didn't realize that this was a four game series and it turns out that the Royals won the finale this afternoon. Yanx scored 3 in top 8th to take a 3-2 lead, but then Royals got a 2-out/2-run 2B in the 9th for the walk-off. So, y'know, there's that.

The Royals have actually been good so far this year, 39 - 27 when the week started. Then they go out and get blitzed by the Yanx to the tune of 25 - 8 over three games.

Tonight (6/12) was, I believe, the third comfortable win since sometime in April.

Bader ends the game pretty much as he began it: catching a deep one while retreating and leaping.