Edgy MD

Interference on a batted ball is on the runner to avoid. Interference on a thrown ball is more the responsibility of the defense. Unless the ump believes the runner willfully interfered, he's within his rights to run until getting his face hit.. Plays I know have happened (or I'm pretty sure have happened) but I've never seen and kinda hope to someday see: the two-base tagup. Perhaps a superfast guy tagging and scoring from second on a shot to deep center, perhaps with a lazy throw in. The tagup on a foul back to the catcher. I've seen folks fail on this play three times, all in recent years. Infield double, preferably on a bunt. This can happen one of two ways: the third baseman staring at a ball hoping for it to roll foul while the runner keeps running, or the rotation/wheel play being put on so aggressively that the middle infielder dashes for the corner base right past a ball hit to him and it keeps dribbling away. Line drive bouncing off the glove a leaping infielder but maintaining enough momentum to turn into a flare caught by a shallow-playing outfielder rushing in, thus resulting in an infielder assist to an outfielder. Two-man homerun robbery. Something akin to what the Mets pulled off two weeks ago, where a leaping outfielder reaches over the fence to bat the ball back in play, and the second outfielder catches it for the putout. Any play where a desperate infielder gets the assist by kicking the ball to the base. Stealing second, third, and home consecutively. It was believed that Ty Cobb held the record for this trick --- maybe a half dozen times or so --- but I think a later researcher declared Honus Wagner the all-time global-theft champ. I'd like to even see somebody steal for the cycle in a game, much less an inning. I tried this once in OotP, when the other team was forced, by injury, to put Kenny Lofton, of all people, at catcher. I had Carlos Beltran up with a lefty on the mound and I had him bunt his way to first. He stole second on the next pitch, and on the subsequent pitch stole third and scored as Lofton threw it into the outfield. Almost! Nate Schierholz getting a go-ahead RBI in the 13th with his face wasn't on the list but perhaps it should have been.

I remember Keith furious this weekend seeing Lagares taking all the way on a 3-1 pitch in an RBI situation, and getting a fattie down the middle. If it bothers you so much, Keef, volunteer your services.

Glad there's enough there to do a LGM chant. Disaster of an inning.

Mets giving up the death-by-a-thousand-cuts rally here. Painful.

Four straight singles against Hawkins. A lot hit off the handles, but man.

Cabrera: a tough out.

Sliders away destroy Marlon.

Young poorly bunts but gets the runner over. Still think we should've bunted all weekend on these muggs.

Big fat walk for El Bum. Tying run on.

As far stories of Red Star-winning CIA operations from the late-Carter/early-Reagan era, I think I preferred Charlie Wilson's War. Not to knock this, but it sort of felt good, but merely functionally so, to me. Could have hit, I don't know, deeper. Seeing everything else new and available to rent at my video store though, I don't begrudge this it's best picture award. Movies, man.

We should all be such bums.

Ceets says it's a no-brainer that he's better than Young.

Or to go noiselessly. That could happen too.

Time for the furious comeback.

Psyche Davis!

Well, stretching him to 100 pitches through five while only giving up one hit is... something.

Ace, nothing. Didn't the guy win three Cy Youngs for you or something?

Howie real excited by Harvey earning a walk. Real excited.

We should be bunting like nutjobs today.

Ceetar wrote: He's better than Eric Young Jr though, so it's really a no-brainer. It's a huge-brainer.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The reason he plays all those positions is not that he's good at all those positions-- it's that he's been played at all those positions. I mean, hell, he provides roughly what Murphy does at his primary position, defensively (offensively, I'd bet on Murph-in-a-slump before I'd bet on him). I say he's a big downgrade from Murphy at second. I don't want to beat up on the guy, but I just want a backup shorstop who's capable. A reserve infielder won't have the range of skills a starer does, obviously, but some can hit well, some can field well, and he's not really the first the last two years and has never been the second.

Got the inside breaking pitch working against lefties, this Fister.

Ten in a McRow. I want some offense. [youtube:1y8buzqg]zWX_p2GgHzY[/youtube:1y8buzqg]

They have d'Arnaud's statistical display say "H/AB: 1/12," as if that somehow lightens the blow of .083

Infield hit for the slow guy. (Cabrera = slower.)