I’m in London for the CUBS game. Going Sunday. Details later. I’ve never been more hot and sweaty in 52 years, and I live in LA.
The Aaron Judge injury appears to be a lot more serious than originally reported. It doesn’t look like he will be back anytime soon.
The Angels beat the Rockies 25-1 tonight.
Had the Rockies not scored that one run, it would have been the worst shutout in the history of modern baseball, e.g. since 1901.
Awwwww yeahhhhh
Immaculate Grid 83 9/9:
IMMACULATE!
Anyone know much about the Marlins who can predict their final wins? .538 has them at 85. Because if they don’t go back to being a .500 team, the Mets are done. They are not making up 8 games against the Dodgers/Giants/Diamonbacks for the 3rd wild card. Right now they are 4 back of the Philllies and Brewers for that spot. Maybe doable.
Disregard. I found the answer.
Re: the 25-1 Angels MLB win on Saturday:
- Tied for the most runs scored in two consecutive innings (21). The only other time was by Pittsburgh in 1884.
- Ohtani went 1 for 7.
- Two Angels went 5 for 5.
- Angels hit three home runs on three consecutive pitches. The last time that was done was by the Yankees on September 17, 2020 - against the same pitcher (Chase Anderson).
- Two Rockies pitchers each allowed 9 earned runs.
- The game was played in under three hours.
- The Angels scored 13 runs in the third inning. This total has been exceeded 10 times - the record being the Red Sox (17) on June 18, 1953.
That there is the most amazing of them all.
I whiffed on that one, too.
Baseball Reference lists their current “Pythagorean W-L” (an expected W/L record, based on runs scored and runs allowed) at 38-41 (a .481 winning percentage), which means that they’ve currently won 7 more games than the model would expect.
If they regress to the mean, it’d mean that they’d win up somewhere between 78 wins (a .481 percentage for the entire year) and 86 games (if they win at a .481 clip from here on out, on top of the 45 wins they currently have).
At nearly the halfway point for games played this season, the A’s are currently sitting at 20-60. That’s a .250 winning percentage, which is not quite as terrible as they were a few weeks ago, thanks to a seven-game winning streak earlier this month; .250 also happened to be exactly the winning percentage of the 1962 Mets (40-120).
On the other hand, the Marlins look to be like one of the most easily improved teams of any contender; Kim Ng could make some affordable additions to really jack up the team’s quality. The offense, aside from Luiz Arraez and whenever Jorge Soler hit a home run, has been terrible, and could be quite easily upgraded at several positions. As to pitching, Sandy Alcantara will get better just because he’s better than this and he’s been unlucky, and another arm can be added. BECAUSE they’ve been lucky, they are in a position to make a deal to get them into the playoffs.
That’s an excellent point; roster upgrades (through trades, any key guys coming off the IL, and/or rookies coming up from the minors) would definitely change the math.
Today’s Immaculate Grid was tough because one of the teams was the Brewers, whoi in their entire history have only had two players, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor, that anyone remembers, neither of whom played for the other two teams in the grid. I got it eventually but it wasn’t easy. One of my responses was a 0.03% response, which says how frigging tough this was. HINT IF YOU ARE TRYING: One option for the nexus of Brewers and Yankees had an odd, silly name.
I got eight out of nine; when I got to the bottom row, I realized that I needed a guy I’d already used in an earlier row: Don Sutton, who pitched for both the Dodgers and Brewers.
I got it, but I used two extremely rare responses: one was .7%, one was .02%. They didn’t even have a picture.
How the hell did I forget him? I used a much less famous guy for that. Geez, what a brain fart.
Ugh. I saw the “KC” on today’s Immaculate Grid and got excited! I pulled a really low KC/Bos player, and got stupid-greedy for the KC/200 K player. I’m gobsmacked my guy never whiffed 200 with the Royals!
Who do you think will finish this season with the worse record?
- Kansas City Royals (currently 22-56)
- Oakland A’s (currently 20-60)
- Someone else
0 voters
The KC/Boston one was easy for me. Johnny Damon.
I had a problem with the KC pitcher, too. For some reason, I couldn’t think of Zach Grienke. My guess was Dan Quisenberry.