Are we sure that Cal Raleigh hasn’t been replaced by a mutant raccoon? As amazing as he was last year, he can’t find his butt with both hands this year.
Last night in the Padres/Mets game, Fernando Tatis, Jr. hit a home run on the first pitch of the game. Later, in the fifth, he hit a two-run dinger to lead the Padres to a 5-2 win. And, oh by the way, he also robbed Francisco Lindor of a grand slam with an amazing catch in right field.
You can watch the video in this ESPN article.
So, Dbacks player Ketel Marte decides to not play in Boston, doesn’t tell anyone that he’s going back to Phoenix by himself, and gets out on the restricted list (which I had never heard of).
That’s not the thing I wanted to mention/complain about. After a couple days of Marte, the team, and the broadcast announcers being terribly mysterious about the whole thing, suddenly Marte is injured (or “injured” more likely) on the 10 day IL. So he has a “knee injury”, and got an “injection”, but the manager gave a terribly mysterious press conference describing how they had a team meeting and said what needed to be said, (even though his is injured so why have a team meeting?) and still won’t say anything.
Who do you think you’re fooling? Marte is being a piss baby over…something. But no one will say. So don’t pretend it’s both nothing and an injury.
Everyone talks a lot, but no one actually says anything.
Do other teams have this kind of drama crap, and I just never see it because I only pay attention to my team?
He’s done for most of the rest of the season, anyway. A good portion of what’s left.
No, what’s going on with Marte is pretty unusual - it’s national news in baseball land. You get someone who does something crazy like this every other season or so.
Seattle Mariners outfielder Randy Arozarena, in his team’s win over the Cubs, just became only the seventh player in MLB history to hit both a lead-off home run and a walk-off home run in the same game.
Yanks are having an interesting weekend, extra tough on Ryans.
Ryan McMahon on the 10 day IL with a left thumb sprain
5th starter Ryan Weathers exited the game with forearm discomfort.
Good news: Bellinger should return today.
Stanton strained his left calf and might not make it back at all this year now.
Max Fried threw a bullpen session on Friday and is hopefully close.
Still no time table for Aaron Judge.
it was quite a game. Mariners were down by 2 run in the 9th. Two outs, and nobody on. I almost turned it off. Bu they still managed to get three runs and win it. I’m not betting on them winning the division, but they do have a shot if they get hot.
As great a player as Stanton was, I think the time has come to hang it up. He hasn’t played 100 games since 2024. I’m not sure Judge has that many more years left in him. Too many injuries too often.
Stanton is near the end anyway. He has to struggle through I think 1 more season to complete his contract. I’m reasonably sure he wants every one of those dollars. He’s not going to walk away from the last $35 million he is due. He is due $25m for 2027 and either $10m buyout or $25m if Cashman is a complete idiot for 2028.
He’s making pretty good pay for someone that mostly rehabs. Nice gig if you can get it.
One of those other six was the Cubs CF Pete Crow-Armstrong, who did the deed earlier this month. He homered on both the first and last pitches he saw.
And Arozarena’s walk-off was juuust out of PCA’s reach at center field, so he was involved in that play as well.
And Arozarena and Crow-Armstrong both homered last night.
Brewers starter Dustin May only threw one pitch tonight: on the first pitch of the Mets’ half of the first inning, A.J. Ewing hit a line drive back through the box, which struck May in the right shoulder blade. It sounds like it’s only a bruise, but May was pulled from the game, replaced by Robert Gasser, who got the win.