Turned out all the Mets needed was one run today. But yes, it is odd that they don’t score much for Scherzer and DeGrom.
DeGrom has now allowed two earned or fewer in each of his last 22 starts at home which is the longest streak in MLB history. It’s also the 99th time that deGrom gave up one or fewer runs in 201 career starts.
According to this article, the Yankees were willing to essentially meet any price the Angels would have named in an attempt to land Shohei Ohtani, but the Angels pulled the plug on trading him before anything could develop.
Be still my heart. The Yankees pulled off a squeeze play last night. And as a bonus, Boone didn’t let Holmes pitch the ninth. Up till now Boone was like “It says in my chart that he’s the closer and by God I don’t care how bad he’s pitched lately, he’s coming in to close out a one run game!”
The Mets have scored 4.6 runs per game in Scherzer starts, 4.8 in starts by all pitchers, which isn’t really a significant dropoff.
The Yankees were wise. Ohtani is the most valuable player in the sport. If you get him you win the trade. If I’d been in charge of the Blue Jays I’d have cheerfully handed over the top ten prospects in the system if I thought I could retain Ohtani’s services past free agency (and I’d have offered him $50 million a year if that’s what it took.)
From the Angels perspective, they are now such a broken team, if I was running THEM, I’d have taken the Yankee offer (or a better offer from whomever else - and Heyman does say other teams were also waving blank checks. I suspect the Jays were among them.) Really, what are the odds this gang is going to win shit in the next three years? How confident can you be Ohtani would re-sign? Neither answer seems optimistic to me. If you can start over with a ridiculous prospect haul, start over. Deal Trout too if possible, though he has a no-trade and might refuse.
I wouldn’t have thought that swapping out Juan Soto for Joey Meneses (5 HR in 31 AB, .387) would work out, but what do I know?
the angels aren’t going ot trade Ohtani because he’s the only thing non-die-hard fans including the sports press give a rats ass about on the angels
if he was smart when he’s a free agent he just goes north on the freeway to a real team …hed look good in blue
And as a baseball fan, I do get tired of the rich getting richer. I don’t know who will win the World Series this year, but there’s a good chance it’ll be the Mets, Yankees or Dodgers. Yeah, baseball is a business, but still.
Perfect game in progress, Rays vs Orioles, Drew Rasmussen is perfect through 8.
That means hel’ll be taken out soon by other such games this season …
Rasmussen lost the perfect game against the Orioles’ ninth-inning leadoff hitter.
i know tts next to impossible to get a perfect game but being so close has gotta sting …
The Royals, of all people, snapped the Dodgers 12-game winning streak. (After, of course, getting spanked by LA in the previous two games.) Dodgers had only two hits in a 4-0 shutout. Brady Singer pitched six innings of one-hit ball with 7 strikeouts. Tough to do that against the Dodger lineup.
of course, it’s always some unexpected crappy team that ends streaks eh?
Although I bet they’re giving a sigh of relief cause who needs/wants that kind of pressure …
I would like to report a missing offense. Can I get a APB on the Yankees offense please?
Post season schedule released, pushing the World Series into November is gonna be playing with fire (or snow and cold!)
The season that felt like 1998 has turned into full-blown 2014.
It is so weird to see the Mets in rich get richer complaints.
Dodgers is probably the best bet for winning, though I wouldn’t correlate that with being smart. Ohtani clearly cared more about other things than winning the first time around, and worked out perfectly fine for him.
RHP and two-time All-Star Walker Buehler of the Los Angeles Dodgers will undergo season-ending surgery on August 23. Between the injury to Buehler and the injury to Clayton Kershaw (whom they hope to get back in time to build him up for the playoffs), the Dodgers are looking very vulnerable in the postseason.