Ouch. I’d have liked to have been a fly on the wall in Torre’s office after the game.
To be fair to Mattingly, he was called back by James Loney. .
Last night’s game physically hurt.
Rangers finally break their recent curse at Comerica park by beating the Tigers the last two games. Apart from Nippert getting that line drive to the head, it’s been a great series.
It sucked. Inge hit by a pitch ,out for 4 to 6 weeks.
Cleveland beat Detroit by 1 run 3 out of 4 games, then we lose in 14 to Texas. Bad second half start.
those easily breakable bats are going to hurt someone. A bat broke during a swing in Detroit the other day. It hung together until the swing was almost complete and ejected the barrel in back of the batter hitting the catcher, Laird, in the back of the neck. He went down for a while but continued for an inning or 2. He had a big red mark. It could have been a lot worse.
Finally got to a live game last night. It always sucks when the D-backs play a New York team since there are usually half the fans cheering for the other team. But, D-backs held on to win their second game this series against the Mets.
May as well enjoy it before the D-backs start becoming sellers at the trade deadline. Not going to pay MLB prices to watch minor leaguers the last 2 months of the season.
Yanks got spanked last night but the Rays lost a heart-breaker and Boston picked up a late night loss.
Yanks look shaky coming out of the All Star break. AJ is self-destructive. We lost Andy Pettitte for 3-5 weeks with a groin pull and Hughes has been shaky and looked terrible last night.
This should be good news for the Rays. The Red Sox have their own problems and they are worse than the Yanks at this time.
Giants look like much bigger dicks for bringing it up.
Heaven knows who’ll replace Werth in the Phillies lineup. Ben Francisco?
The Phillies have gotten themselves in to one of those fixes where they HAVE to do something or else everyone will blame them for not “trying” to win it all this year. And they’re in that fix precisely because of their desperation to do the same thing last year, followed by their desperation to get Roy Halladay at any price even if it meant dumping Cliff Lee. They’re making decisions based on placating the doubters in the next four weeks, which is a sure recipe for collapse.
Now that Jamie Moyer’s hurt I guess they need a new starter but I sure as hell wouldn’t trade Jayson Werth to get one. The delta between just giving those starts to your next best starter, which I guess would be Happ or Drew Carpenter, can’t possibly be that much bigger than the delta between Jayson Werth and whomever you’d dig up to replace him.
Dominic Brown, their top prospect, but I don’t think that lessens your point. What they should do is bench Ibanez who hasn’t hit in over a year and is terrible defensively, and bring up Brown to play left.
Domonic Brown is ready to come up from AAA, where he’s been killing the ball, and he’s a legitimate top shelf prospect - #1 on Keith Law’s most recent list - so that’s the rationale for that part of the deal. It’s another problem they’ve given themselves (by giving Ibanez a 3 year deal) that there’s no room for Brown on the major league roster until they get rid of somebody, and of course Werth will be the easiest to move.
I seriously doubt they’re making decisions based on placating anybody, though. Trading Lee to the Mariners was about the least popular thing anybody’s ever done in this town.
I hate the Phillies! We get swept by them in four very close games, and now they can’t return the favor and beat the stinking Cardinals!
Anyway, looks like tonight’s Reds/Nats game will be on ESPN because Strasbourg is pitching. I hope we chase the kid back into the dugout with his tail between his legs after 4 innings…
I’ll be very interested to see where the NL East stands on Aug. 1. If the Mets and Phils keep struggling the division may just turn into a runaway. BUT if the Phils do get Oswalt and sneak into the playoffs, they become a very scary team…trotting out Halladay, Oswalt, and Hamels for 6/7 starts.
Gosh, I wish the Jays had gotten Brown in the Halladay deal.
Why they worked it to get the inferior Brett Wallace I do not understand.
Almost as strong as Halliday, Lee, Hamels…
I don’t see Oswalt being dealt though. The Astros want the receiving team to pick up the entire salary and give them a few top rated prospected, and I don’t see anyone absorbing that cost.
Why? Mattingly made the mistake, why shouldn’t they call him on it?
The Giant’s come out of that whole game looking like dicks what with throwing 4 pitches directly at Dodger Batters heads, (and don’t get me started on the plate umpire who was just all kinds of an asshole) but I think you are right on this one. Mattingly wasn’t paying attention to where he was standing, and he should have been. He even claims to have heard the umpire warning him not to go back, but didn’t process it until it was too late. He messed up.
It was effectively one trip to the mound, not a delaying tactic. Sticking to the letter instead of the spirit of the rules is unsportsmanlike. Is that hard to understand?
Well yes, how many balks do you think are anything but an accident?
The rule is a simple one.
What’s hard to understand is when major leagues teams started just ignoring this sort of thing and NOT taking advantage of it whenever possible. Would a major league team ignore a runner missing a base or leaving a base early on a fly ball? Would they have ignored a guy batting out of turn?