Obviously I am the kiss of death for mentioning their streak…
And indeed the Angels won last night to complete not only the 3-game series sweep, but also the six-game season sweep.
Also, during Tuesday’s game, Shohei Ohtani hit into a triple play and later homered. Wonder if that’s ever been done before in the same game?
Here’s a link to MLB which has the triple play.
I wonder if the Nats’ Nathaniel Lowe is the first player ever to be DFA’d the day after he hit his first major league grand slam?
Thank goodness the Mets are generous enough to help Seattle start hitting again.
Mariners win 11-9.
The Brewers found themselves down 8-1 after the second inning against the Reds tonight, after a shaky outing by rookie pitcher Jason Misiorowski, in his first appearance after an IL stint with a leg injury. However, they then scored 9 unanswered runs, with Christian Yelich going 4-5 with two home runs, to win 10-8. It’s their 13th straight victory, tying a franchise record originally set in 1987.
With the Cubs losing this afternoon, Milwaukee now has a nine-game lead in the NL Central.
The Brewers somehow kept rolling tonight, winning their 14th in a row and setting a franchise record. Down 2-1 in the top of the ninth, they scored the tying run on a throwing error on a potential game-ending double play. Both teams scored a run in the tenth, then Milwaukee got a pinch-hit 3 run homer from Andruw Monasterio to take a 6-3 lead, then hung on for a 6-5 victory.
I was watching the game on MLB network, and I saw something that I don’t ever remember seeing before. In the bottom of the tenth, the Cincy batter hit a drive to the right-field wall. It caromed off the bottom of the wall to the warning track, then hit the knee of the right fielder and bounced over the fence for a ground-rule double. Here’s the video, if it’s not paywalled.
And that’s the end of the streak. Reds win in 10. Brewers are still in the catbird seat, but with the Cubs winning, the lead is back to 8. Final 4 game series of the year between the two teams starts tomorrow. Cubs hosting.
Yanks just completed a much needed sweep of the Cards with the Cards giving them 4 runs in the top of the 9th.
Weird Game. Each team made 2 errors.
Yep, after the Brewers hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the top of the 9th to lead 2-1. Cincy then scored an unearned run to tie it in the ninth and won it in the tenth.
Both St. Louis errors were in the 9th, and all 4 runs were unearned. Cards have lost 5 in a row and are fading fast in the NL wildcard race.
Get hot right now, or just quit trying & save it for next year.
Dumb place for a once-great dynasty to find itself in mid-Aug.
Cincy’s win today means that the Reds have not been swept in any series this season. They are the only MLB team to not have been swept this year.
Define “swept”. As I usually understand the term, it applies to series of 3 games or more. The only time the Cubs have lost every game against the same team this year was the 2 games in Tokyo to open the season.
I’m repeating what I saw on the MLB crawl while I was watching the Dodgers/Padres game.
Thus, it would appear that Major League Baseball considers losing both games of a 2-game series being “swept”.
I’ve never seen that limitation before. 2-game series are rare, but they’re still a series.
What about losing the first three games of a 4-game series, but then the last game is rescheduled due to rain?
I’m going to see STL@MIA tonight. First game of three. Both team’s all-season and last-10 win/loss records are comparable although right now STL is in a losing streak.
Miami is usually skilled at manufacturing a loss even if they start out strong. The Cards are a shadow of their heyday when I lived there. Which set of bumblers will out-bumble the other to garner that precious L? Bookies suggest MIA has the edge by 1.5 runs.
We’ll know in about 9 hours!
Seattle has sucked in their last few games (though Cal Raleigh is still hitting homers and making history), but Houston has also been sucking, so they’re not losing much ground.
Not quite right, again.
Miami had two errors, three unearned runs, four wild pitches and five walks.
Indeed. Final score was 8-3 in favor of STL.
MIA started out strong at 0-1 at the end of the first. Then their pitcher, Perez, started throwing batting practice. It’s a wonder STL didn’t score more for all the guys left on base.