Leody Taveras will hit for himself, he’s a leftie. Still more breaking stuff. Musgrove gets a called strike, a swinging strike, and Taveras fouls off a low and outside slider to stay alive. The fourth pitch is a curveball he grounds back to Musgrove. Two out.
No Hitter. Thumbs up to the Pads manager for letting him go for it.
Kiner-Falefa batting, he’s righthanded. Another slider, strike; Musgrove has not thrown a fastball in this inning. Grounder to short - he did it!!
The first no hitter in the 53 season history of the San Diego Padres.
Good for Musgrove! Saw him pitch in the low minors six-seven years back.
Was it Clay Kirby that Preston Gomez pinch hit for back in 1971 or whenever it was? Or Dave Roberts? (Or both?)
Well, it’s here. The day night 7 inning double header.
Today’s White Sox/Royals game has been rained out. I can’t imagine the flies a day/nighter will draw for the White Sox in May on a Thursday
I saw a discussion that this was a really beneficial outcome for Musgrove. It keeps his arm warm for his offense to turn over quickly. Makes sense, and I’d never think of it if I hadn’t read about it.
It seems to be a complete mystery. Politically he seemed to be left of center. He tweeted support of the MLB moving the All Star Game, but being let go for that would be strange.
Some are speculating maybe he deleted offending tweets, but they would have surfaced somewhere in the internet, you think.
It was Kirby.
People rip Gomez for that but it’s forgotten he pulled Kirby for a pinch hitter, because the Padres were losing the game. They’d fallen behind 1-0 in the top of the first on two walks, a steal and an RBI grounder. Gomez figured his job was to try to win the game and he had Cito Gaston, his best hitter, available to pinch hit.
So fans are being asked to pay full admission for one, seven-inning game?
ESPN had a story earlier this week about how it’s untrue that DeGrom gets lousy run support.
Yes, it’s just our imagination (after today’s game in which he allowed one earned run over 8 innings but the Mets were shut out, he has a 0.64 ERA and is 0-1).
It’ll be interesting to see. Sox discounts are easy to get, especially for early season games. I’d just find it really weird to go to the ballpark and leave after 7 innings l, it’s really rare for me to leave a 9 inning game early unless the weather is unbearable or there’s been a rain delay and I absolutely must get home and get to bed
Perhaps they’ll discount parking or something as an incentive.
I must say, I just don’t get it. If I want to see a 7-inning game, there’s a little league that plays right down the street. Free admission and plenty of parking.
More replay controversy tonight in the Tigers-Indians game. Jordan Luplow hit a deep fly to left field that hit the top of the wall at Progressive Field, then clearly ricocheted off the fence behind it before the ball landed back on the field. Luplow, the Indians, and even the closest Tigers’ outfielder knew the ball was a homer. But the umpires called it a double. OK, fair that the umpires had a hard time seeing it in real time.
So the play was reviewed. A couple of different replays in slow motion made it absolutely certain that the ball ricocheted off the fence. Everyone in the park cheered at the replays. Cleveland’s TV announcers could not understand what was taking the replay crew so long. And then the call came back as “inconclusive” and it remained a double.
Thankfully, the game was not (and at this moment, is not) close, so all this does is hurt Luplow’s stats. But as someone stated earlier, what is the point of having replay if you’re still going to get it wrong? This was an embarrassing call, in my view.
About time the Yankees played a decent game. They hit a sacrifice bunt, stole a base, and employed a pinch runner all in the same game! No hit and run but that would be too much to ask. Next thing I have to do is learn how to pronounce Odor’s first name.
In Saturday’s game the Rays played an odd defense against Bruce- a 4 man outfield and every infielder to the right of second base. Call me crazy, but if you step to the plate and see that defense, you’ve just got to slap it the other way and get yourself a gimme single or even a double.
Braves got jobbed on another “went to review which confirmed (or at least failed to overturn) the wrong call”. Slide into home where the runner missed the plate with his lead leg and got tagged. Catcher played it right and gave him the path until the ball was in his glove. As he slid into the base path, his knee knocked the runner’s foot out and away from the plate. Tag got him before the trailing knee could make contact. 2 different camera angles clearly showed his foot missing the plate. Phillies went up on that run 9-8, top 9th and held on for the win.
Which really makes me wonder why Twitter continues to have a delete feature.
Ref Omar Khayyám:
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
If you don’t mean it, don’t say it.
Or as Hemingway put it so pithily:
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
There’s plenty of reasons besides embarrassing moments to allow tweets to be deleted.
For example, if I get another job in the financial markets, I’ll take down all my tweets commenting on the markets.
If someone works for company A, they’d probably want to take down their tweets praising company A if they get a new job at arch rival company B
Is that the rule? I thought blocking was forbidden? Plus he deliberately pushed the runner’s leg away from the base path/home plate. That can’t be legal? That’s tantamount to shoving a runner out of the base path.
Dexter Fowler is out for the season with a torn ACL.
Once the fielder has the ball, they can block the base/plate as much as they want. The fielder has to give the runner a path to the base somewhere … until they have the ball, then they don’t.