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  1. Frayed Knot
    The beginning of this week sees Philly in Toronto as Christopher Sanchez looks to restart a scoreless streak. His 50+ inning streak was broken when he gave up a run, just one, in his last start. Other than that one he hasn't been scored upon since late April. The Nats continue out west where they'll be in San Francisco starting later tonight. The Braves and Marlins have Monday off. Braves head to Chicago's south side where they'll take on the vastly improved White Sox. The Marlins will host the DBacks starting Tuesday. The Yanx, coming off a rain-shortened two game series split with Boston, have their second series with the Guardians in a week. Cleveland took two of three in da Bronx a week ago. This week the scene moves to Cleveland where the Yanx jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the 1st.
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    Let Benge Hit! Let Benge Hit!
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    Young people in general tend to be lousy at estimating older aged people. Everyone over the age of 35 looks 80 to them. There's a story about Mantle and Stengel where Casey took young Mick out to the OF at Ebbets Field prior to the first 1952 WS game in Brooklyn in order to show him how he, Casey, liked to play the ball off the odd angled walls in that park. And the story goes that that was the first time Mantle not only realized that Casey had once been a ballplayer but also there was a time when he had been something other than an old man. Casey was 63 at the time while Mick was still not yet 21 and his own father had died a few months earlier at the age of just 40.
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    And against a lineup with eight RHBs
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    Braves won today (3-0 sweep of Pirates) Phils beat White Sox (win 2 of 3) Marlins over Rays (2 of 3) Nats lose to DBacks (but still win 2 of 3) So we need to finish with a positive result here just so as to not lose ground across the board.
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    Hah!! I was right! The official scorer DID award Ewing an RBI oe: and I was right that Gary would know!!! (Keith revealed that Gary texted immediately after the call was made)
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    Well I think it was more the results of his final inning that ended his day rather than just number of pitches. btw, Ducky Medwick died at the age of 63 (when Keith was in his second ML season) so not quite as old as Keith seems to think he was when he was the StL roving minor league hitting instructor.
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    And just think, the Padres only have Tatis (1 HR) and Machado (.172 BA) under contract for 8 and 7 seasons after this current one. Not that I think their current numbers are where those two will be locked in going forward. But those contracts do have the potential to be concurrently ugly over a multiple year period. Tatis, at least, will play out the whole season as a 27 y/o, but Machado turns 34 just in the next few weeks.
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    I'm not sure that Gelbs and Keith are correct in stating that the FO/DP is no RBI (I'd trust Gary if he gave out that info but not necessarily these two). I thought only GiDPs fit that category based on the idea that if the defense had enough time to turn two they could also have chosen to cut down the run. A FO/DP isn't really the same situation.
  10. Frayed Knot
    I think I had some Yuki Matsui at an Asian Fusion restaurant recently.
  11. Frayed Knot
    Jared Young turns 31 y/o next month, so I guess that means we can no longer refer to Jared Young as young Jared.
  12. Frayed Knot
    Soto up for the second time with two-on/none-out. 1st time was 2nd & 3rd and he got an RBI GO . And now here he walks to load the bases. So no hits either time even though more low level positive results in each.
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    This game ruined my omelet. Facing a lineup with Tatis, Machado, Bogaerts, and Merrill, we lose to the offense of Song and Fermin. Song was on three times -- walk, bloop, infield dribbler -- scoring twice, and the only reason he didn't score all three times was that he messed up the double steal play. The Padres notched all of five hits: a grounder banked off 2nd base, a bloop, and infield 1B (to SS), a dribbled infield single (1B), and the game-winning HR. Mets hit three consecutive line-drives in the 8th yet came away with nothing. But that's baseball, Suzyn. Ya just can't predict it, you can't! Oh well, at least that was the last time the Mets will be on the late, late show this year ... unless we get into the playoffs and ESPN sticks us with the 11:15 starting time from Arizona so we don't conflict with the Yanqui game.
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    All other NL East games were daytime affairs today and so all are in the books more than three hours prior to our games even starting. Braves won (PIT), Nats won (ARZ), Marlins won (TBR), leaving the Phils as the only loser (CHW) Also today saw the Cubs, who lost to SFG 18-3 yesterday running their recent record to 4-15, notch a victory with a 3-2 10-inning win in which they never led until the walk-off single scored the ghost runner. They twice tied up the game, once on a PC-A HR in the 6th to tie things at 1-1 and then with a PC-A HR w/2 outs in the 9th to tie it at 2-2 Crow-Armstrong is a having a decent bounce-back season from the horrid final two months of 2025 which saw him finish with a sub-.200 BA / sub-500 OPS from August 1st on. And what a schizo team the Cubs have been this year. They've already had two 10-game winning streaks and one 10-game losing streak, which is tough to do in barely over 1/3 of a season.
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    Clearly a case of misplaced priorities. I watched the first five innings live then the final four this morning so it's always good to see that they didn't blow a 2-0 lead whilst I slumbered and my Saturday is off to a happy start. Probably going to shift the entirety of tonight's game to viewing with my Sunday morning omelet.
  16. Frayed Knot
    The earth needs to spin slightly more than 1/8 of its full rotation yet before everything is aligned for game time. And then tomorrow it will be an even longer wait.
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    That's Coors
  18. Frayed Knot
    Originally said to be a "bone bruise" this is being called a 'stress fracture' which sounds like it might not be as bad as the type you'd get running into a railing or something but, still, they're talking about 're-evaluating' in four to six weeks. Maybe the Yanx should give Judge some of whatever it is that Frankie Alvarez is taking to get back so quickly. Hopefully whatever it is is legal. Matchups of interest for the weekend: Braves host Pirates; Phils host ChiSox; Rays @ Marlins; Nats in Arizona; Yanx host Red Sox
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    Well that's quite obviously the one we just played at. So, on the one hand, we just saw it. On the other, we hadn't seen it for years prior to this week.
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    Yanx managed to avoid a sweep with a 2-1 win over Cleveland in a just completed game. Judge missed the entire series. Heard a stat yesterday about the Yanx & Judge and while I don't remember the exact totals the team is something like a cumulative 130 games over .500 in the last couple seasons with Judge in the lineup but below .500 when he's out. Yanx actually managed to gain ground on 1st place while losing two of three as Detroit chose a series in Tampa to awaken from their slumber. The Tigers had lost 21 of 25 coming into that series but swept the 1st place Rays three straight. Phils complete the sweep of the Pads with the cumulative score befitting two of ML's weakest offenses: 12 - 8 was the three game run total. The Phils, who were briefly behind the Mets, are now 4 games over .500 despite a negative 22 run differential.
  21. Frayed Knot
    Another SD twist is that they've just DFA'd Nick Castellanos one a day after he got a nice tribute upon his return to Philadelphia. Like much of the Padre hitters, Castellanos was hitting poorly: .191/.221/.339 // 560
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    SDP would have to eat so much money in a Tatis trade that it would make the Texas/ARod bill look tame in comparison. And if a cap and/or increased disincentives to spend do wind up being part of the next CBA then dealing him might become near impossible.
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    Oh that's Washington
  24. Frayed Knot
    61 hits this year for Junior, 52 are singles
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    HOU
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