Mike Trout out for the rest of the season. This is going to be a total career of, ‘What if?’
Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman’s 3-year-old son Maximus is suffering from a terrible and rare disease and briefly suffered full body paralysis.
Orioles lost to Cleveland tonight and are now tied with the Yankees for the AL East lead. The two teams are also tied for the first AL wildcard.
Bobby Witt Jr. went 2-4 with his 20th HR last night, securing his 3rd 20/20 season in his 3rd year in the majors. He’s the first to have done so.
Is it though? Injuries aside, the flat line of his career trajectory is entirely self-inflicted. His bad luck getting drafted by the Angels, but then it’s been his horrific decision to resign with them, twice, long after they’d failed to build anything around him for an entire decade.
Agreed 100%. Mike Trout’s career is on Mike Trout and nobody else.
Loyalty can be admirable…until it’s just stupid. He crossed that line TWICE!
Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell made it to the 9th inning for the first time in his career last night. He did alright.
Last night Gleyber Torres of the Yankees drilled a pitch off the wall in left field. However, he thought it was a homer when he hit it, so he trotted to first base. The ball was quickly retrieved by the Toronto outfielder and Torres was held to a single. Later in the inning, he tried to score on a double and was thrown out at home. Had he been at second, he would have scored easily.
Torres was removed from the game, which ended in an 8-5 Toronto victory.
The hit is the fourth video in this story.
I was watching the game and he should have busted it out of the box, but he would have been a dead duck at second unless the defense botched it. Gleyber is slow, and also makes too many mental mistakes. It’s a shame…I wonder where he’ll be playing next year.
You think so? I only saw the replay, but ISTM that had he been hustling all the way, he gets to second relatively easily. I guess I wasn’t aware he wasn’t exactly fleet of foot.
There’s nothing stupid about it. Every MLB team is three years from catastrophe, and every MLB team is three years from a World Series. You never know. When he signed his 12-year deal in 2019, the Nationals were the World Series champs. Should he have signed there? He’d have been way better off, we know now, signing with the Phillies, but that would not have been obvious in 2019 when the Phillies hadn’t finished above .500 in seven years.
Sure, Anaheim was mediocre in 2019, but they were committed to spending to win, and I am sure they presented a plan.
And, at that point, Ohtani was coming off of his rookie season with the Angels, so there was no small hope that they were getting the pieces in place to actually not stink.
Speaking of fleet of foot, didja see Salvy score from first last night?!
I did see that! Salvy is definitely having fun this season.
In watching that replay, I was wondering what the umpire saw to call him out? The sweep tag by the catcher wasn’t really close, and the fact that the catcher attempted to tag him after he crossed the plate should have been a clue that the initial tag was missed. Thank goodness for replay.
I completely respect the fact that you are WAAAAYYY more knowledgeable about baseball than I am, and maybe it’s cold-blooded of me, but as a player, I’d rather be the final piece of the puzzle than the foundational piece. I think Trout preferred stability (and a bunch of money) over being a rent-a-player and a fuck-ton of money).That was his call and he made it. As a fan, I’m disappointed that he will end up playing his entire career in the eyeball wasteland that is Anaheim.
I mean that’s a matter of personal preference and can’t be wrong.
Last night the Royals took a 3-1 lead into the bottom of the ninth in Detroit. Tigers scored two. Royals scored one in the tenth. Tigers answered with a run. Royals scored one in the 11th. Tigers scored two for a 6-5 win. KC pitchers blew saves in 3 consecutive innings.
Today Detroit took a 2-0 lead into the ninth. Royals put two on base with two out and then got a pinch-hit 3-run homer. Royals pitcher did not blow the save today for a 3-2 KC victory.
Jackson Holliday hitting .389 with 2 home runs and 7 RBI in 5 games since returning to the bigs.
Maybe Luis Gil is back on track after tonight’s 5 inning 2 hit 0 run game. If I wrote the headline, I’d be tempted to write “Gil: a monster game”.
Get out.