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MLB: 2014 Regular Season Thread
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MilanPan!c wrote: »
Considering that Baltimore tends to lose every one run game they're involved in, it might get take 10 innings today... :P
Baltimore were the kings of One Run Games just two years ago!
http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/52583/os-defy-history-with-another-one-run-win0 -
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jack presley wrote: »Got out of jail there. Big base running blunder by the RS there.
Yeah a misread sign to be sure.
But.
If you learned one thing about the 2013 sox it's that they like the drama.
Watch, DO will hit a 2 out HR in the ninth.
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jack presley wrote: »How are you holding up Benimar?
Just picked myself up off the ground. Nerves are shot but at least we held on, despite our best efforts
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rockonollie wrote: »According to local media, he's only the 3rd player to ever hit 2 grand slams against the same team in the same season, playing for 2 different teams......Piazza did it in 98 and Ray Boone in 53......He's the only player to ever hit 2 grand slams for different teams in the month of April.
I love statistics like this. Baseball media always come out with some gems that have enough granularity to be unique..."He's the only player to ever hit 2 grand slams for different teams in the month of April"
If another guy does it you can just add more and more granularity that it still makes it a new record..."He's the only switch-hitting player to ever hit 2 grand slams for different teams in the same division from both sides of the plate on a Sunday in April"....etc etc Happens all the time and I'm a big fan of it! 0 -
rockonollie wrote: »According to local media, he's only the 3rd player to ever hit 2 grand slams against the same team in the same season, playing for 2 different teams......Piazza did it in 98 and Ray Boone in 53......He's the only player to ever hit 2 grand slams for different teams in the month of April.
Really caught that one last night. I couldn't believe it was a broken bat!
Hamilton starting to light up the reds offence Ollie, he is so ridiculously fast.0 -
The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman wrote: »Really caught that one last night. I couldn't believe it was a broken bat!
Hamilton starting to light up the reds offence Ollie, he is so ridiculously fast.
He does something new every night.....lastnight, he went first to third on a ground ball to the pitcher......then scored on a ground ball to 3rd0 -
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The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman wrote: »Really caught that one last night. I couldn't believe it was a broken bat!
Hamilton starting to light up the reds offence Ollie, he is so ridiculously fast.
Only one player has hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in a single game, Bill Mueller (Red Sox) in 2003.
And in the NL no one hit two grand slams in a game for close to 100 years of it's inception. The first person to do it was... A pitcher.
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jack presley wrote: »Ah come on, don't be using Ty Cobb as an example. Times have changed since he played.
I do accept that it probably does happen nowadays but it's very rare and even in the example you showed from last year, you can't be certain that he set out to deliberately hurt the other guy.
Maybe I'm naive but I like to give the benefit of the doubt in these cases.
Considering how often these "accidents" happen, and how often it happens between teams with bad blood or close in the standings late in the year, well... you can choose to be naive... that's fine
As for Cobb, it's just a well known example, but certainly not the only one..
And by the by, throwing a 95mph ball at someone, well... it does hurt them... and has sent many a player over the years to the DL, or forced them out of a game...0 -
MilanPan!c wrote: »Considering how often these "accidents" happen, and how often it happens between teams with bad blood or close in the standings late in the year, well... you can choose to be naive... that's fine
As for Cobb, it's just a well known example, but certainly not the only one..
And by the by, throwing a 95mph ball at someone, well... it does hurt them... and has sent many a player over the years to the DL, or forced them out of a game...
The thing is, when these events happen though, they aren't accidents. 99% of the time it is not a surprise when someone gets thrown at or hit with a pitch. Everyone knows it's coming to some extent. In almost all of these incidents, the main purpose is to send a message, get revenge, punish someone for not upholding the code etc. not to injure the guy.
Yeah, he wants to thrown one just under his chin to scare him or to hit him in the back and I know getting hit with a 95mph fast ball is going to be bloody sore and I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one but the purpose is not to put someone out of the game. Occasionally a pitch might get away from the pitcher and hit someone on the head and hurt a player badly but I don't think any pitcher goes out thinking "I want to knock this guy out of the game for a while".
That's not to say it hasn't happened and I'm sure Jackie Robinson would certainly say it did, but these days with the effects of concussions becoming more known, I don't think it does.0 -
jack presley wrote: »The thing is, when these events happen though, they aren't accidents. 99% of the time it is not a surprise when someone gets thrown at or hit with a pitch. Everyone knows it's coming to some extent. In almost all of these incidents, the main purpose is to send a message, get revenge, punish someone for not upholding the code etc. not to injure the guy.
Yeah, he wants to thrown one just under his chin to scare him or to hit him in the back and I know getting hit with a 95mph fast ball is going to be bloody sore and I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of one but the purpose is not to put someone out of the game. Occasionally a pitch might get away from the pitcher and hit someone on the head and hurt a player badly but I don't think any pitcher goes out thinking "I want to knock this guy out of the game for a while".
That's not to say it hasn't happened and I'm sure Jackie Robinson would certainly say it did, but these days with the effects of concussions becoming more known, I don't think it does.
We'll totally agree to disagree 0 -
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