# MLB: June 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [June 1, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499 "2022-06-01T12:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/101 "2022-06-12T16:13:20Z")
Robinson Cano in the minor leagues wearing a Spongbob uniform, I didn’t have that on my bingo card for his career! > ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/102 "2022-06-12T20:45:52Z")
The Cubs have kept the Yankees to 3 homers through 7 today. Unfortunately for the Cubs the Yanks have used other ways to put up a 17-spot so far… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/103 "2022-06-12T20:52:34Z")
And the 3 homers are from the unlikely pair of Matt Carpenter (2) and Kyle Higashioka. Carpenter is 3 for 4 with 7 RBIs. He is now hitting .333 for the Yanks. * * * * * * And Higgy just hit his 2nd homer to make it 18-4. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/104 "2022-06-12T21:02:05Z")
What is it with double digit scores today? Arizona, the Yankees and Baltimore are all in 2 figures today, and the day is only half over. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/105 "2022-06-12T21:39:24Z")
Absolutely no statistics involved, but I do also notice that Sunday day games seem to be more likely to be blowouts. And it could be a team that lost the first two of a series coming back Sunday afternoon and putting up 12 runs to demolish the other team. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/106 "2022-06-12T21:44:22Z")
In the Yankees-Cubs case, The Yanks exhausted the Cubs staff the first 2 games and they were running on fumes. Though Keegan Thompson failing had to be a crushing blow. He was 6-2 with a 3.17 ERA before today. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/107 "2022-06-13T00:34:01Z")
I’m getting seasick watching this Sunday Night Baseball game with all the split screen and interview nonsense. And this was a game I was particularly looking forward to. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/108 "2022-06-13T14:27:59Z")
Weird record set yesterday. > Higashioka homered on a 35.1 mph pitch from Cubs first baseman-turned-pitcher Frank Schwindel in the eighth inning of Sunday’s [18-4 Yankees rout](https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/matt-carpenter-hits-two-home-runs-seven-rbis-in-yankees-win) at Yankee Stadium, marking the slowest pitch ever tracked by Statcast to be hit for a home run. From here: [Kyle Higashioka hits home run off Frank Schwindel](https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/kyle-higashioka-hits-home-run-off-frank-schwindel) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/109 "2022-06-13T16:24:47Z")
In the greatest slump-busting story since Mark Grace was playing, it turns out Joe Madden got his head shaved into a Mohawk last week to fire the troops up, mere hours before getting fired. No one on the team got to see it. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/110 "2022-06-13T23:08:00Z")
> [@Hawkeyeop](#): > > It is hard to trade catchers mid-season as it takes them some time acclimate to a new pitching staff. No shortage of teams that could use a catcher though. Speaking of which: the Giants gave up on their 1st round pick can’t-miss-phenom, the next Buster Posey (Joey Bart). Sent him back to AAA to see if he can remember how to hit, and traded for catcher Austin Wynns from the Phillies. (I notice that he spent part of 2021 in the Mexican League, which immediately made me think of Tom Berenger’s character in Major League.) Bart was hitting something like .150 and striking out 50% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/111 "2022-06-14T01:03:27Z")
After just one start, the Nats’ Stephen Strasburg is going back on the injured list. FML. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/112 "2022-06-14T19:27:16Z")
> **[Orioles place Anthony Santander, Keegan Akin on restricted list ahead of...](https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-restricted-list-toronto-santander-akin-20220613-qyt5m5ft4vf4vc6ikiqfhcftdu-story.html)** > > Due to Canadian federal policy, players who haven’t received a COVID-19 vaccine are unable to enter the country and play games against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Anthony Santander isn’t vaccinated so gets placed on the restricted list while the Orioles play the Jays in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/113 "2022-06-14T20:39:56Z")
Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies has been placed on the 60-day IL with a fractured left foot, which he suffered on an awkward swing in his team’s 9-5 win over the Nationals in DC last night. > **[Braves place Albies on 60-day IL (fractured foot)](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34087598/surging-atlanta-braves-lose-star-second-baseman-ozzie-albies-fractured-left-foot-fifth-inning)** > > The red-hot Atlanta Braves, now on a 12-game winning streak, have placed star second baseman Ozzie Albies on the 60-day injured list with a fractured left foot, the team announced Tuesday. Also in that article, in what I hope won’t be a portent of things to come, Nats right fielder Juan Soto slipped and hit his knee on the bench in the 9th inning and was replaced in the game, and Davey Martinez will see how he feels today. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/114 "2022-06-14T23:03:16Z")
The Nats selected the minor league contracts of RHP Jackson Tetreault (who will start tonight in Game 2 against the Braves), and RHP Reed Garrett. Juan Soto will have the night off tonight because of the aforementioned minor injury. Strasburg has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his second and third ribs. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/115 "2022-06-15T02:21:04Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > After just one start, the Nats’ Stephen Strasburg is going back on the injured list. If he never pitches again, which is certainly possible, he will have been paid something like $2 million per inning since 2019, if I have that right. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/116 "2022-06-15T02:48:57Z")
In the second game of today’s double-header, with the temperature still in the 90s, the Cardinals’ Miles Mikolas had retired 17 in a row and gotten two out in the 9th and a two-strike count when Pittsburgh’s Cal Mitchell drilled a ball to dead center field for a ground rule double, ruining the no-hitter. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/117 "2022-06-15T11:22:42Z")
Last year that would have been a “not a no-hitter” 7-inning no-hitter. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/118 "2022-06-15T11:46:48Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > > [@ekedolphin](#): > > > > After just one start, the Nats’ Stephen Strasburg is going back on the injured list. > > If he never pitches again, which is certainly possible, he will have been paid something like $2 million per inning since 2019, if I have that right. We could start a betting pool to predict which of the following oft-injured pitchers (Strasburg, deGrom, Sale) will pitch the most games for the rest of their careers. Their combined total could reach double figures, especially if one or more of them are converted to relievers. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/119 "2022-06-15T14:38:16Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > when Pittsburgh’s Cal Mitchell drilled a ball to dead center field for a ground rule double, ruining the no-hitter. The center fielder for the Cards, Harrison Bader, was playing relatively shallow in left-center and still almost made a great play on the drive by Mitchell. Had he been playing at normal depth, he likely would have caught the ball. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-june-2022/965499/120 "2022-06-15T15:20:25Z")
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