I’m glad they got the call right.
“Shana, they bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash!”
The Orioles were down 2-1 to the Yankees going into the bottom of the 8th, but then added two home runs to their league-leading total, and took the lead 5-2.
The Yankees got one back in the top of the ninth, but Baltimore won 5-3, taking two out of two against New York (yesterday’s game was rained out) and winning their eighth straight series.
Woohoo!
I’m trying not to get my hopes up too much, but they’re leading the division by 7 games now.
Lets go Royals…Lets go 
You’ve been here more than long enough to know if you want to insult someone, you use the Pit, so consider this a warning. Knock off talking to posters you don’t like if you can’t resist using insults.
WTF?
I can almost understand the warning (almost) for the reference to his “useless life,” but what the fuck breaks the rules in the second comment that you quoted?
I’ll tell you in PM, however you are also free to start a topic in ATMB if you want to discuss it and I’d also answer you there.
Let’s get back to the topic of MLB, though, we can discuss it elsewhere.
Where did these guys come from? What’s going on with the team? Do tell (as space permits).
I was at this game! Only my second of the year (weird family and health issues keeping everyone down this summer).
I stayed on because we were all convinced that if they waited 3 hours they weren’t going to call it. Also everyone saw on their radars (on their phones - and me on free WIFI!) that there was this one big cell of weather and nothing behind it. It kept pouring (from that cell) then stopping and we all just waited.
So they finally rolled up the tarp and squeegeed off the grass and re-painted the outfield lines and it took 30 mins as projected.
Me and the guy who’d been sitting next to me left our perch at the top of the bleachers and went down to the bleacher first row, to sit like rich people. I yelled out to a player and he gave me a wave. Woohoo!
And no foolin - as soon as they were about to start, the sky just OPENS UP and this new cell of rain comes out of nowhere and the grounds crew is running like hell to get that tarp back on and it’s a crazy mess. And everyone is like “well now there is stealth rain we can’t even SEE on our radars. This can’t be good!”
So they finally cancel it after 4 innings then 4 hours. That was when the sliding happened and I couldn’t believe my eyes! I tried to get a pick with my stupid iPod but I was too far. Glad there were a bunch of cameras to capture it!
I was at the ballpark for 5 hours. I walked to my car in a crazy torrential downpour and was soaked from the thighs down (emergency rain poncho FTW!)
I had already bought a ticket for the Wednesday game. They said if you had tickets for Weds, you get a free double header. I can use my Tuesday ticket for a game in September.
I managed to get off work early on Weds and go to the double-header. It started at 4, ended with a walk-off homer almost exactly at 7, by the new guy Zach Walters. They cleaned up and 25 minutes later we were back in business. They played 12 innings only to lose by a run, just before midnight.
This time I was at the ballpark for 8 hours. But the weather was fan-fucking-tastic and I left dry 
Once I see the game in September I’ll have gotten to see 34 innings of baseball off $28 worth of tickets. Not too shabby (but damn, I hope I see more RUNS than the puny 7-in-25-innings I saw this week!)
But you got to see them sliding around on the tarp. That’s worth something. 
My first husband and I were at the snowed out opening series in 2007 (I think it was). It makes a much better story than just being at a game. (But damn, was that cold.)
As a Nats fan, I was sorry to see Walters go, he seems like a good guy and I hope he has a great career.
Asdrubal seems to be working hard for you guys, so I hope he has a resurgence!
I’ve heard nothing but good things about Walters, so I look forward to him making a career with us.
On July 21 (about three weeks ago), Baseball Prospectus had Detroit at 92% probability to make the playoffs, and Kansas City at 7%. Now it’s 66% for Detroit and 59% for the Royals. KC is 17-4 over that stretch.*
The last month in the AL has been dominated by the Royals and the Orioles. Baltimore has won 8 of 9 series since the All-Star Break, and KC has won 7 of 8. Every series Baltimore has played has been against a team over .500. KC has had a slightly easier schedule, with series against Boston, Tampa, the White Sox, and the Twins.
Edit:
- 18-4 after today’s win over Oakland.
Joe Nathan has something to say to jeering Tigers fans.
They have been in the improve for a couple of years now. Last year they had the best record in the AL after the All Stars break. Trouble was they were starting 12 below 500.
The Hunt for Blue October could actually be successful this year
Rob Manfredwill be the 10th Commissioner in MLB history. Having previously served MLB as an outside counsel, he joined MLB on a full-time basis in 1998 and became COO in September 2013.
I hope everyone’s wearing black sox in honor of Charles Comiskey’s birthday.
He’s 155 years old today.
You mean Charlie US Cellular?
The Jays are rejoicing about Edwin Encarnacion finally coming back after “Straining” a quadricep muscle that apparently made it completely impossible to DH.
Edwin is a hell of a hitter, but anyone who thinks Edwin Encarnacion is going to turn around a mediocre team as of August 15 is just not doing the math. They have 40 games left. Edin Encarnacion at the absolute height of his powers might add 2, 3 wins to the W column, and that’s if he goes on a tear like he did in May. They aren’t good enough otherwise.
I know this is the Major League thread, but there was a very unusual no-hitter pitched in the minors this week.
Well, this week, and three weeks ago.
The Rochester Red Wings traveled to Durham, NC, to play the Bulls on July 24. The Red Wings pitcher was Trevor May, and he pitched 3 no-hit innings before rain forced the postponement of the game.
The game was resumed just this Monday, in Rochester this time. May had been called up to the majors in the intervening weeks, so Logan Darnell entered the game in the 4th inning. Darnell pitched 6 innings of no-hit ball.
So, a no hitter, in two different ballparks, in two different cities, and different states, over two days almost three weeks apart, pitched by two pitchers, one of whom was no longer on the ballclub by the time the game ended.
Pretty cool.