Yep. Kwan gets on alot, but he needs someone to drive him in and Jose is the best at that.
Any particular reason for the two missing teams?
For some reason, MLB.TV is showing me the Orioles-Yankees game when I am trying to tune in on the Nationals.
Seattle is Logan Gilbert, 1.9, remarkably low for a division leader. Texas is Josh Smith, 2.9.
Did you miss George Kirby at 2.1?
(Still low though.)
Willie Mays has passed. Age 93.
Ninth inning rally wasted by Yankees as Chapman- I mean Holmes- flops again.
Orioles crush the Yankees in a 17-5 blowout.
And swapped places in run differentials in one game.
Brewers rookie pitcher Robert Gasser opts to have Tommy John surgery, sidelining him got approximately the next 12 months.
Ohtani has had 6 or 7 HRs in the last few games and suddenly jumped up to No. 3 in the home run leader board.
Moving Ohtani to the lead-off spot is really paying off for the Dodgers. We’ll see how they adjust when Mookie gets back.
I have to admit two things about this play. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this happen before, and I did not know the rule that applies.
Justin Turner ruled safe after replay confirmed obscure MLB rule in bizarre play (msn.com)
I dunno if I’ve ever heard of it before either but it seemed like a common sense rule to me, anyway.
Apparently that’s the baseball equivalent of defensive countermeasures. Giving the defender something to tag that isn’t the baserunner.
Of course, the gear has to come off by accident, so impossible to do on command (and would be an out if it was judged to be intentional).
Speaking of oddities, the Nats lost to the Rockies Saturday night when a time clock violation was called on reliever Kyle Finnegan with the count 3-2 and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth in an 7-7 game. So, a walk-off clock violation, the first ever.
(The pitch would have been ball four anyway.)
What’s odd about this is that the tag pressed the helmet against Turner’s body. It seems to me that should be an out. If the helmet was just lying on the ground away from the runner, of course the tag would not be valid.
If the helmet had bounced away out of the play, the tag probably would have been applied on the runner before he reached the bag. But the rule is clear, and the runner was correctly ruled safe.
As someone who was advocating for the pitch clock for some time now, I say… Good. If we want it to impact the game it has to matter, and if it actually decides a game then it obviously matters.
And as you pointed out, it was pretty much incidental if the pitch was going to be a ball anyway and it would have led to a walk-off walk (wait, would that be what it was called?) and anyway this is unlikely to happen often.
Does anyone know if TBS games are available on MLB.TV a couple of hours after the game is over? I know ESPN games are. Mets/Yankees tomorrow