Frayed Knot

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Letter certainly deserves in. But, but, but ... HE HAD KAZMIR TRADED!!!!

Or they've decided to ease Conforto back in and figure an LHP is a good day to rest him.

=G-Fafif post_id=69961 time=1625256563 user_id=55] OF Brandon Nimmo has been reinstated from the [CROSSOUT]10-Day[/CROSSOUT] Seemingly Endless IL.

It wouldn't have been an easy play -- he would have had to change directions and hustle over there -- but it was his only play. Meanwhile, we got beat by three balls that never got past the pitchers mound.

=G-Fafif post_id=69876 time=1625192867 user_id=55] DeGrom doesn't get the loss. Small (minute) victory.

He had the play at 3rd!!!!!

And now the Braves are going to win the game on account of two grounders even weaker than the ones we hit

Really? We're going to lose the game on that shit!!

=Fman99 post_id=69854 time=1625191417 user_id=86] In other news, let GKR travel with the team. What a travesty of a call that was.

Turns out to be a DOMination night rather than a deGROMination.

Another "coin flip" replay call. But they don't overturn this one, unlike the other one which changed the game.

Weak grounder (single) Weak grounder (force) Walk Weak grounder (3U) Grounder (w/2 RiSP -- inning over) All of which qualifies as a run scoring threat for this team. The only consolation is that if any of those grounders had been hit harder the inning would have ended with a GiDP a few batters earlier.

Its hard not to view certain mound visits as time wasters when the sole purpose of the visit is to waste time.

15 innings: 3 runs, 4 singles, 1 double, 1 HR, 5 BB iow, the Braves had more XBHs in their first turn through the lineup tonight off JdG than the Mets have in 1-2/3 games

So what is the over/under on NYM hits for the remainder of the game? Two? Three? Certainly no more than that. Hell, I'm setting 'out of the infield' at five.

Edgy MD wrote: This outburst of double digit scoring is really going to provide some great copy as folks start linking it to the sticky goo crackdown. This afternoon: Red Sox 15 -- KCR 1

aka: same lineup as always for the Braves OK they've lost Td'A and Ozuna, and kind of went into the season with TBD in CF. But Freddie has played every game (and has for years), so has Albies, Swanson, and Riley, while Acuna missed about six games back in April. And I'm still not convinced that they're not going to talk Markakis out of retirement for the stretch drive where he'll dust off his uni and play the final 40 games in a row while also hitting better than he did in his 20's with Baltimore. I sometimes wonder what color the sky is in a world where consistency like that is the norm rather than a pipe dream

Angels @ Yanx, in what was supposed to be the fourth game of their series, was postponed today. LAA won two of the first three. Not sure who was supposed to pitch so not sure how this affects their rotation for the upcoming weekend.

That HR was no RF-Porch/YSIII Cheapie either.

OK, losing 20-2 suxx no matter which way you slice it. But as I've said before on these very airwaves: if you're gonna hit like shit, pitch like shit, and field like shit, you might as well do them all at the same time. I'd hate to put up a two-spot in the 1st and then go into shutdown mode while throwing the ball all over the field and waste a good JdG outing today for instance. But as bad as last night was, I'd rather lose that way than to put up a seven-spot in the 1st and go on to lose. Two teams did that on Wednesday. ** The Cubs were mentioned above; jumped out to a 7-0 lead in top 1 then sat back and watched while the Brew Crew score 15 unanswered in a fight for 1st place contest. Jack Arrieta (6 R over 1.2) and reliever Tommy Nance (5 R / 1.2) were the main victims but hardly the only ones. I don't think we hit either guy. ** And even that loss isn't as bad as what the other NYC team endured. The Yanx put up a seven-spot in the 1st off Ohtani et al ... but then coughed up a seven spot in the 9th to lose 11-8 to the Trout-less Angels. Jerred Walsh* had the big blow: a one-out game-tying GS off of Aroldis Chapman. They went on to score three more times after Chapman was pulled and only Juan Lagares making two of the three outs in the frame kept it from being more. I wonder if MFY fans were complaining about Chapman being brought in for a non-save situation? Actually I don't wonder, I'm sure they were. Maybe Michael Kay can go on another anti-Boone rant and try to get him fired like he did with Girardi. The game featured 16 walks with arguably the best pitchers on the field [Ohtani & Chapman] contributing 8 of them while recording a combined 3 outs. Not surprisingly the game took 3:44 (I would have bet the 'Over') and that doesn't even include the rain delay of 2:13 Do you suppose there were any fans left by the end? * LAA has two of their starting eight named Walsh and I hadn't heard of either one of them. This one is their 3rd year 1st baseman, he's having a nice season

Positive notes: We tagged out one of the two Atlanta runners who essentially gave themselves up between 3rd & home

Frayed Knot wrote: The odds of the Braves ending this inning [CROSSOUT]still only with single-digit[/CROSSOUT] with fewer than twenty runs is shrinking by the minute.

I believe NYM pitchers have thrown 105 pitches in the 3rd & 4th innings combined ... and gotten four outs out of it.

The odds of the Braves ending this inning still only with single-digit runs is shrinking by the minute.

I got a good idea, let's totally embarrass ourselves out there.