Frayed Knot

=Fman99 post_id=206640 time=1759974721 user_id=86] Jays padding 5-1 now in the 8th. I would like a 24 hour channel of pissed off MFY fans to watch all winter

=MFS62 post_id=206563 time=1759881239 user_id=60] The Phills have announced Aaron Nola will start, with lefty starter Ranger Suarez the first arm out of the pen. It's all hands on deck time.

I think Amed Rosario has gotten a hit in every single NYY AB I've seen him take this year.. Just singled PH'ing to bring the tying run to the plate (Trent Grisham, with Judge on deck) ... but old buddy Andres Gimenez (playing SS) catches a tricky foul pop to end the 7th

Jays get a two-run single and it's 4-1 Toronto. Still nine outs to get before this one is over.

Schlittler's night ends with a Single - Fly Out - E-4 on Jazz*: so 1st & 3rd/one out * at least it better be an 'E', it was right at him and off his glove but hit hard and they're very lenient these days It's an easy inning-ending GiDP if he gloves it

Cam Schlittler still on the mound for the Yanx as they start the 7th It's been a pen game for the Jays so they've used, like, 14 pitchers already (OK, only five to get 6 IP/18 outs).

Wearing gaudy, heavy-looking (though I suspect they're not) tacky chains seems to be a fashion statement among young males in YSIII

Hmmmmm ... Jays intentionally was Judge w/bases empty, one out, leading 2-1 in bottom six. iow, putting the tying run on base Part of it was to set up lefty/lefty (and now Bellinger flies out), but I still don't think I like it. And now they go to a righty to face Stanton. So manager Schneider at least had a plan to his madness. But walking Stanton on 5 pitches, which now puts the tying run into scoring position, kind of fucks up that plan, doesn't it? 'specially since the new right now has to face the lefty-swinging Jazz Chisholm. Chisholm = GO 4-3 Heading to the 7th

Cubs survive to play again. Cubs fans commence singing 'Go Cubs Go' until the bars close (and probably a bit longer after that).

And the Tigers will have CY winner (and maybe two in a row) Tarik Skubal on tap for Game #5 (Friday)

Brews left the bases loaded in top 8th Still 4-3

Mariners jumped out to a 3-0 lead looking to end the series. Tigers have since scored eight unanswered. Going to the 9th

The Cubs & Brewers complete a near 45 minute long 1st inning with the Cubs up 4-1 by the time it's finally over. Runs scored on a leadoff HR, a WP, a two-run single (PC-A), and on an infield pop-up (runners 1st & 3rd/one out) where the Cubs infielders were so lost in the Wrigley sun & wind that the umps felt the 'Infield Fly Rule' was never justified even as it fell untouched between home and 1st. Brewers' starter Preister didn't survive the inning. 19 pitches for Cubs starter Taillon. 53 between the two Milwaukee hurlers. And just eight more innings to go.

ToG: 3:29 Imagine what it would have been without the pitch clock and limited mound visits?!? Gonna party like it's 2017

Who is this "they" that you refer to? The implication is you believe that every NYM decision maker over the past 60+ years operates under one long continuously unchanging philosophy.

I'm not sure that the market for Pete will be a whole lot different than it was last off-season. To his advantage, he's coming off a better year than he had in '24. On the down side, he's a year older. Not sure if those two exactly cancel each other out, but it's hard to see the landscape looking drastically different for the same player just a year apart.

1-1/2 hours to get thru 3 innings. I don't think I'll be able to see this one to the end. Bieber: 54 pitches to get thru 2.2 IP (40 would be a decent number) Rodon: 67 to get thru 2.1 (35, so nearly double what you'd like to see) 9 runs, 11 hits, 3 BBs, 1 error, multiple challenges and mound conferences, two mid-inning pitching changes.

In addition to all the other problems the Yanx are having tonight, they've twice challenged calls on piddly-ass stuff and lost both times. So now they're out of challenges in the 3rd inning.

Vladdy Jr. flashing his power ... and his speed! And then he even goes airborne on his home plate dive.

Freakin' two-out 1st inning error by Kiner-Falafel not only leads to a Yanqui run but turns what would have been a 7-pitch bottom 1st into an 18-pitch inning.

Two hours delayed already and still no ETA on first pitch. If and when it does get underway the game will air on FS2 because Yanquis.

=stevejrogers post_id=206535 time=1759839226 user_id=57] To be fair, that tag was from their Kingdome days, not their home, Lumen Field, which can be played as an open air stadium, unlike the always closed Kingdome, since 2002.

Cubs score three in the top of the 1st, but the Brewers score three in the bottom half and it's 3-3 thru 2 Jacob Misorowski -- 'Les Mis' -- the ASG starter for the NL back in July is in to start the top of the 3rd for Milwaukee

And speaking of home field advantage (which we kind of were) one of the "facts" among football folks is that the Seattle Seahawks have the best home field advantage in the entire NFL. It's said to be the loudest stadium of all, and the "Twelfth Man" is routinely celebrated during home games. So, contrarian that I am, when I hear stuff like that I take it upon myself to find out whether or not these statements of fact are, in fact, actually facts. So I went back to the most recent ten years of Seahawks games to see how well this 'known fact' holds up. The answer: not well. Over the last ten seasons the 'hawks have gone 97-66-1, so a 59.45% win pct. Their home win pct is 59.76% and the road pct is 59.15% iow, it's a difference without a distinction. Seattle's home win pct is essentially identical their road win pct which, when you consider that the overall home win pct in the NFL is around 55%, means that the Seahawks have home win pct that is Actually Worse than that of the league as a whole. Myth = Busted!! Not that this will stop the sports version of the chattering classes from claiming this to be the case,

Brewers going with 'opener' Aaron Ashby and this hasn't gone well: FO, 1B, BB, HR, K 3-0 Cubs, middle of 1st So if you're the Brewers, who not only won their division but did so going away AND had about a week to set up the rotation (and lose twice to the Reds) over the final weekend of the season plus the Bye games in the opening round, how do you wind up with a bullpen game in the second post-season game you play? Shota Imanaga for the Cubs