Dallas Keuchel to the Braves.
If the Minnesota Twins keep hitting homers at this rate they’ll hit 310 bombs.
The AVERAGE MLB team is on pace to hit 222 dingers, an incredible number.
Wow. Growing up, I remember the '61 Yankees as being the prototypical example of a team that put up huge power numbers; with Maris hitting 61 home runs, and Mantle hitting 54, they totaled 240 home runs. That record has been surpassed seventeen times so far, all in the past 23 years, and it sounds like it’ll be passed by several teams, at least, this season.
The game, she doth change. 
I hate to beat my dead hobby horse, but I’d happily trade 25% of the home runs for a 25% reduction in the strike out rate.
The AAA leagues are now using the MLB ball, and their homer rates are up similarly:
The most frustrating team in MLB, the Nationals, have hit 4 home runs in a row. I have never seen this in many years of watching baseball, not even at class A ball.
Former player David Ortiz was been shot, according to his father. No word yet on his condition.
Shit, why is Ortiz living in the DR? It’s clear they need money down there and a lot of people are willing to kill to get it (yeah, yeah, yeah, tell me I’m a bigot - whatever :rolleyes:)
Where does it say he lives there? He could be there for business or family reasons.
I believe he’s from there. If he still has family there, it’s close enough to living there for government wirk
Yeah, three in a row is the most I’ve seen (and more than once, I believe), but four in a row has apparently only happened nine times at the major league level (before this one, last by the Nationals in 2017). And the last six times were from 2006 onward. ETA: Actually, the one from 2017 is interesting. They missed getting five in a row, but the sixth guy up also hit a homer, so five homers in six batters.
Just ftr, when Papi was married to a woman he met in Wisconsin when playing in the minors, they spent half of their winters in the DR and half in Green Bay.
Latest reports are that he needed a bowel resectioning and lost his gall bladder. The bullet passed all the way through his abdomen and hit a friend in the leg. The shooter is in bad shape too, after other people at the bar got hold of him.
Madison Bumgarner is one sensitive snowflake.
If that’s a “bat flip”, I’m the Emperor of Brazil.
I’m confused, too, because Bumgarner wasn’t even looking towards Muncy when that “flip” happened. (And, yeah, what flip? But Bumgardner clearly didn’t see it, at least the way I’m seeing the video, unless there’s another “bat flip” I’m missing. He’s watching the ball sail, too. Not even peripherally could he have seen it.) There’s something else going on there to piss him off, I think. Probably some jabber jawing or something.
I remember hearing about it when the Braves did it in 1961. Eddie Matthews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock, and Frank Thomas. Those were home run hitters. Then I was at the game the second time it happened. The Indians’ Woodie Held, Pete Ramos, Tito Francona (current manager’s dad) and Larry Brown. Of those only Woodie Held might be considered a home run hitter. Ramos was a pitcher. Brown was a shortstop with 47 career homers. Francona never hit more than 20 in a year.
Adam Eaton (who hit the 3rd of the 4 HRs) says: ““If you know how that happens and how you can hit four in a row again, let me know, because we’ll write a book and we’ll be rich.” I guess his $8.4 million salary doesn’t put him in that income bracket?
The supposed “bat flip” had nothing to do with it. It was the slow walk at the start of the trot that got Bumgarner upset.
Yordan Alvarez just became the first Astro to ever hit a home run in each of his first two games. I have a feeling he won’t be going back to the minors.
Now 4 in 5 games, which has only been done 3 times before, though the list of 3 does not inspire confidence - Trevor Story (good so far), Yasiel Puig, and some guy named Mike Jacobs.
The Yankees reportedly acquire Edwin Encarnación from the Mariners. Apparently the strategy is to corner the market on right-handed sluggers. With Stanton and Judge beginning minor-league rehab games, I have no idea how this is supposed to work. Hopefully it’s part one of some greater plan being hatched by Brian Cashman.