Those…are AWESOME!!!
I find them a little plain. I would add a cape and maybe jodhpurs.
So, the Giants visit the Great White North for two games, and give up 11 runs in the first inning(s).
I hate interleague play.
And they head to Denver today…well, it’s not like they can give up any ***more ***runs, right? 
Hey, how about them Mariners?
How about them Reds? Six in a row over the AAA Brewers and AA Snarlin’ Marlins…WOOT!
Double sweep! Two brooms! Look out now!
The D-backs have had quite a nice week, first place in the NL West. Dodgers buried in last. The standings don’t count until Memorial Day and that’s fast approaching.
Meanwhile, down in Anaheim, Josh Hamilton continues to be no better than a AA player on the Marlins. .214 batting average, .266 OBP, .351 slugging, and .617 OPS. Of course, this time allergies are his excuse.
The first thing we need to do is send Brandon League down to…what’s below Single A ball, anyway?
Tribe batters around King Felix today, and hopefully complete the 4 game sweep tomorrow.
[Famous Last Words] The Indians’ offense is legit. [/Famous Last Words]
Rookie ball
Then can we PLEASE fire Ned for hiring him in the first place? League has cost the team at least 4 games at this point.
The Indians are 6-1 against previous Cy Young winners this year.
The Giants, if the last week is any indicator.
I hate intra-Division play… :mad:
I LOVE interleague play (and don’t understand those that don’t), but how does this zinger in the Reds schedule figure?
May 27th and 28th, we play the Indians at home. It’s the “battle of Ohio”. I get it. It’s before actual interleague play starts. That’s fine too. But then, we have to play the same team away for two games on the 29th and 30th of May. Again, granted, the travel time isn’t much. But it’s interleague play, right? But no, it’s not happening during “normal” interleague play, that comes later in June at the end of that month when we play the A’s and Rangers (all away, five games, a two game series and a three bagger).
What I am trying to understand is if the Indians series is actually two separate series of two games each, or one four game series separated by a short travel day.
Why can’t this series be played within the context of normal interleague play? Why is it a month before it starts for everyone else?
Meh. Whatever.
Not sure what you mean by “normal” interleague play.
What the Reds and Indians are doing is pretty much what everyone is doing on those four days: the Cardinals and Royals playing 2 in KC, then 2 in St. Louis, the Cubs and Sox 2 on the S side, then 2 on the north side; Nationals/Orioles, Brewers/Twins.
True, geography means that some of the matchups aren’t all that “natural”–Mariners/Padres, Boston/Philadelphia, Tigers/Pittsburgh–but the Reds and Indians fit right in there.
Then never mind my undermined rant! Thanks!
As for the question of whether it’s one series or two, I’m pretty sure it’d be considered two. Otherwise you’d have trouble breaking down series into home and away. But I don’t know for sure.
Something else I don;t know–according to the official mlb schedule, Arizona and Texas will play a (split?) DH on the 27th and not at all on the 28th, before moving on to Texas to finish the series (or do the second series) on the 29th/30th. Anyone know why the DH and the off day? Admittedly I haven’t looked very hard to find out.
Indians have already played Philly 4 games (2 home, 2 away). I guess they changed interleague up this season, unless they did it last season too and I just didn’t notice. But it is kinda weird that they scheduled both of the Indians/Reds tilts back to back. Is there some fixed format for interleague? Indians are supposed to see the Reds every season now, but they have 3 home games against the Mets and Nats, and 3 road games against the Marlins and Braves. Including the games against the Phillies, that’s two 4 game series and four 3 game series. Is that how it’s going to be from now on? One opposite league division and one “rival”? And I’d like to know how they decided on 4 games against Philly and 3 against the other teams in the NL East.
As for the Tribe, their schedule around those Reds games will be pretty tough. 2 games against Detroit, 4 games at Boston, the Reds games, 3 games against Tampa, 9 game roadie against NY, Detroit, and Texas, and 3 against the Nats. That will bring them halfway through June. If they’re still in or hovering around 1st place, I’ll have reason for optimism.
Mariners/Padres got hooked up because they jointly built and share a Spring Training complex in Peoria, AZ.
As for “normal” interleague play, now that there are 15 teams in each league they’ve decided to spread IL series throughout the year instead of bunching them all up at the same time. This is to avoid the situation where having an odd number of teams in each league forces one team in each league to take odd stretches of off-days because they have no available opponent. The odd-teams-out from each league will play IL series against each other.
Aroldis Chapman is mortal after all after blowing back to back saves, and last night’s was particularly egregious given that Homer Bailey had pitched a 7 2/3 inning gem of five hit shut out baseball and left the game with a 2-0 lead.
The Phils get one back in the 8th and then in trots Chapman with a 2-1 lead and he gives up back to back dingers to tie and ultimately win the game.
The dude really needs to get another reliable pitch going. The velocity on his fastball is down into the mid 90’s (!!!) and when that’s your only pitch, it just isn’t good enough for good MLB hitters.
Well, I’m sure there were good reasons for pairing up the specific teams without a geographic partner (like the Mariners/Padres), but I suspect you’d agree that if there were a team in the Portland area, say, they’d be paired with Seattle regardless of where the spring training facilities were.
The issue is just that some teams just don’t have a natural geographic rival in the other league, the kind where fans of one can easily make it to the ballpark of the other–or, as in the case of the Phillies (who could easily go with Baltimore) or the Pirates (who could go with Cleveland), the obvious partner has been paired off with someone else.
I suspect that the Dodgers-Angels and Giants-A’s will always be a bigger deal to fans of both teams than Mariners-Padres or Blue Jays-Braves, is all. The way things work now, though, each pair of “rivals” meets for that split 4-game series at the same time in the season, whether they are true geographic rivals or not.