Interesting! I had never the phrase before now.
Appears it’s fixed now. Obviously mlb monitors the Dope.
Ha! It is fixed. Odd.
It’s decided now. Cubs hosting.
Detroit at Boston tonight is on Apple+. There no play stats on screen: no balls & strikes, no outs, no men on base graphic, nothing. WTF Apple.
That’s definitely weird. I’ve watched the Apple+ streams and while they do things differently, there is usually most of the info you’d expect to see in a baseball game.
Now it’s there! There must have been a technical glitch.
Could someone explain to me why the Red Sox are wearing green home jerseys. . . and not wearing red socks?
Ugly ‘City Connect’ jerseys which are often used on Fridays.
Those are “Green Monster” jerseys.
There have been a record six players hit the 30/30 mark this season. Pete Crow-Armstrong became the record-breaker earlier today. He’s also only the second Cub to do it, joining Sammy Sosa.
Red Sox clinch the wildcard when Cedanne Rafaela hits his third walk-off of the season (all three wearing the green jersey!)
That’s actually pretty clever.
Still ugly and boring though.
(I actually like the yellow and blue “marathon” version a bit though.)
As a Sox fan I want Cleveland to win the division but the Sox to be the final seed so they’ll play here next week (vs. the Yankees-note Detroit can still beat Boston out since they hold the tiebreak).
Juan Soto was the first to reach 30/30 this season. After watching him run the bases for the Yankees last season, I found that rather shocking.
I just looked at the leader board and Soto leads the NL in steals! If he bags two more this weeked, he’ll have a 40/40 season.
The Yankees are winning against bad teams, but it’s what you have to do and you’re supposed to do. The good news for them is it seems like judge and Stanton are peaking at the right time. Judge hit his 53rd Homerun today. Stanton hit another one.
The Cubs are losing Cade Horton for the first round of the playoffs due to a fractured rib.
I thought with the new liberalized stealing rules that we’d soon see a few people challenge the 100 mark after not reaching it since the Rickey/Vince Coleman 80’s. Shocked to see the NL leaders (tied with Oneil Cruz of the Pirates) are that low. José Caballero leads the AL with 48.
I’m not very surprised. Even with the change to the “throw to first” rule, teams are still far more conscious of success rates for stolen base attempts now than they were 40 years go. I suspect that they are primarily focusing on trying to steal against certain pitchers and certain catchers, against whom the success rate is sufficiently high.
I doubt that many players are being given always-on green lights to steal now, and only a relative handful of teams have embraced stealing more often. With the season about over, only three teams (Rays, Brewers, Cubs) are averaging 1+ steals per game, and only nine teams are even averaging 1 stolen base attempt per game.
Tigers just defeated the BoSox 2-1 and have clinched a spot in the postseason. They will either be the AL Central Champion or a wild-card team. If Cleveland wins tonight, they will also clinch a postseason spot and eliminate the Astros.
The Diamondbacks have been eliminated. Cubs will host the Padres in a wild-card series. Dodgers will host the other wild-card series against the Mets or Reds.
Interesting. Where did you find those stats?