wow, the Dodgers are starting slow I mean given the fact that they are overloaded with talent (as it was written about all the offseason ) you’d think they’d beat everyone as a foregone conclusion 
Some good news from the minors. The new pace of game rules actually are working well. Last night with the new rules in place the average time for a 9 inning game was 2:38 and for the prior weeks it was 3:04.
I know I’m going to follow this and look forward to seeing it brought up to the majors next year.
To follow up on he umpiring note, home plate up Jeff Nelson called 56 strikes. 32% of them were balls. Nelson overall got just 86.2% of pitches correct, the worst-umped game of the year (and would have been the sixth worst of 2021.) Umpire Scorecards estimated the favor towards Oakland was the second biggest shift of the season towards a team so far.
And he just about did it in back-to-back games. He was pulled after eight perfect innings in his team’s 1-0 loss. Sasaki now has 17 consecutive perfect innings.
He had a shot at the unprecedented feat of back-to–back perfect games and got pulled after 8 innings and 102 pitches? After striking out the side? What in the everlovin’ fuck?
The Nats and D-backs are postponed and they’ll make up today’s game as a split doubleheader tomorrow.
This is stupid. The attendance at a just announced day game during the work week will be pitiful. But, I do hope the games are 9 innings long. They’re supposed to be…
My preference would be for a twilight traditional double headier. And I want nothing to do with 7 inning double headers ever again in MLB.
I think the next day or two will see a number of postponements. Weather’s supposed to be horrible.
Yes, all double-headers this season will be 9 innings long for each game.
Yeah, that’s about ten times worse than Kershaw getting pulled from his perfect game a few days ago.
The Angels’ Mike Trout left the fifth inning of yesterday’s game after being struck in the hand by a pitch. X-rays were negative, though, and he’s day-to-day, good news for Angels fans who haven’t seen him play more than 140 games in a season since 2016.
Real heads up play by J. D. Davis in yesterday’s game. He steals a base when the Diamondbacks were planning an appeal play. Oliver Perez stepped off the mound, which killed any appeal, and Davis ended up on second. He eventually scored.
I can’t wait for the Jomboy analysis.
this is a couple days old but it’s more along what people were expecting
and supposedly the braves were going to be the first "good "team they faced :
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/freeman-hits-1st-hr-for-dodgers-in-reunion-win-over-braves/ar-AAWm1vg?ocid=uxbndlbing
So should I order tickets for the NL champ and world series now or wait a bit ? 
A million things have gone wrong for the Blue Jays, and they’re still 6-4.
Hyun-Jin Ryu was placed on the IL with “arm inflammation,” which most people think just means “he sucks now and we don’t know what else to do.” Ryu has been bad since about last August and just can’t seem to make in game adjustments.
The D-Backs had 5 switch-hitters in their lineup this afternoon against the Nats. I wonder if that’s a record.
There was also a sequence where Soto got hit by a pitch, then next up, Cruz got hit by a pitch, only he didn’t really, so the call was overturned, and then the D-Backs catcher interfered with Cruz (only he didn’t really but it wasn’t overturned). So, reviews on two consecutive pitches.
It says something about my lack of faith in the Nats’ bullpen when we’re up 6-1 with two outs in the top of the ninth, with two men on, and I’m thinking, “Shit, we’re gonna blow a 5-run lead, aren’t we?” Thankfully, we got a ground-out to end the game.
Two series in a row against teams at the bottom of the standings. Mariners need to win 5 of the next 6. Fingers crossed.
It’s funny that I follow the NL, watched part of that game today and still couldn’t remember the Nats closer.
Good question! I just tweeted the Elias Sports Bureau to ask that.
The St. Louis Cardinals once played a World Series game with six switch hitters in the starting lineup.