MLB: September/October Regular Season 2022

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The White Sox haven’t done much better without La Russa and with him, but maybe it was too late for a change to make any difference.

Let’s have a look at the managers shitcanned in 2022 and how their replacements are doing!

Phillies - Fired Joe Girardi (22-29) hired Rob Thomson (61-39)

The very definition of a management change helping. Thomson, when the Phillies visited Toronto, became the first Canadian manager to manage an MLB game in Canada. The Phillies haven’t made the playoffs in ten years and the Thomson move might get them there. If they do he’ll likely win Manager of the Year.

Blue Jays - Fired Charlie Montoyo (46-42) for John Schneider (39-25)

Montoyo is the only manager in this list shitcanned when his team was over .500. Not as dramatic an improvement as the Phillies, but still a really big one that appears set to put them in the playoffs. Schneider was drafted as a player by the Jays in 2002 and has worked for them ever since; almost all the team-developed players they have had been managed by Schneider in the minors at some point. By all accounts, no one in the clubhouse had a problem with the change.

Rangers - Fired Chris Woodward (51-63) for Tony Beasley (14-23)

I didn’t think the Rangers had high expectations for this year anyway and they were playing better than they did in 2021 so this surprised me. I know they spend half a billion dollars on the middle infield, but Woodward didn’t have a lot of pitching to work with. Anyway they’re not playing better with Beasley.

Angels - Fired Joe Maddon (27-29) for Phil Nevin (39-57)

Ouch. The Maddon firing, it should be noted, wasn’t exactly for being 27-29, but for starting the year 27-17 and then losing twelve in a row. Obviously, things have not gone better. Given Maddon’s track record and the Angels being a disaster, I am inclined to believe firing him wasn’t some sort of well calculated move.

The Angels are such a bizarre tire fire of a franchise that I really have no idea what to tell you about Phil Nevin or if this firing made sense or not. It’s Ohtani, Trout, and a cast of apparent losers, and an owner everyone hates. Has any team EVER had two talents of such rare greatness and been this terrible, year after year?

So kind of a mixed bag of results.

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The Mariners still have a four game lead over the Orioles for the final wild-card spot in the AL, with 10 games to play, but should they lose that lead over the last two weeks of the season, they will look back on today’s game.

Seattle scored 8 in the fifth and 2 in the sixth and took an 11-2 lead into the bottom of the sixth. But the Royals had their biggest inning since 2004, scoring 11 runs to take the lead in a game they would eventually win 13-12. 8 of the runs were scored with two outs.

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With today’s win, the Dodgers have clinched the best record in the National League. The magic number is 4 with Houston to have the best record in MLB.

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It is the largest blown lead of 2022, and is tied for the season high for runs scored in a loss. The Royals tied this year’s high for most runs scored in one inning.

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I was watching the Cleveland-Texas fame to day. A win would clinch the division title, but so would a loss by the White Sox. The White Sox game started about a half hour earlier, but somewhere around the 6th or 7th inning, the Cleveland announcers said the Guardian’s game had caught up to the White Sox game – they were both in the same inning.

It was never announced during the game that the White Sox had lost (so the Guardians had clinched) but I was wondering when exactly the Guardian players knew they clinched. Was it when the last out was made in their game, or had they heard a bit earlier that the White Sox had lost? Does anyone know?

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And the Mariners are known this year for pretty good pitching, including bullpen.

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Miguel Andujar picked up by Pittsburgh on waivers. After a great rookie season, he just didn’t seem to have a spot in the lineup so maybe a change of scenery will do him good.

So much drama with Judge and the quest for 61. Great to see the Maris family cheering him on. The Maris son is just the spitting image of Roger and coaches now so that’s pretty cool. I still consider Maris to be the home run leader and the steroid boys were an aberration. That Judge can do this now seeing the pitchers that he sees is pretty impressive.

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The Yankees are in Toronto for three games. Outfield seats in left field are going for $250-$350, 5 times face value. Whatever could it be?

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I hope this the right thread for this, but I have a baseball question:

I was just reading about the rarest occurances in baseball like perfect games, unassisted triple plays, and other things you don’t see in baseball very often.

My question is not about rare occurances, or things that may have only happened once.

My question is, within the rules of baseball (MLB), is there any concievable occurance that has not happened yet?

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There’s never been a perfect game thrown by multiple pitchers (i.e., the team throws a perfect game, using two or more different pitchers).

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Some firsts yet to happen.

6 homers in a game by 1 batter.

Still no pitcher with 22 strikeouts in a game or 21 in a 9 inning game.

There are a lot of odd ball things that haven’t happened yet.

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Interesting. I came across an article talking about games with four strikeouts in one inning. Further, I found an article about Phil Neikro who pitched 5 stikeouts in one inning during a preseason game in either the grapefruit or Cactus league.

Is it possible for a pitcher to pitch 6 or more strikeouts in one inning?

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An infinite number of strikeouts is possible if the third strike is dropped and the batter reaches first without being tagged

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10th inning, 2 outs and 2 on, intentional walk of Judge to load the bases. And sadly it worked for them.

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In theory, a pitcher could get 27 outs on 27 pitches

ETA. It hasn’t happened yet

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Do the dodgers have pitching problems ? I’ve seen articles like this since July and my question is if they do how bad are they ?

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Considering that there were 25 runs scored and 15 walks, I’m amazed that they were able to play the game in “only” three hours and 43 minutes.

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Is the mickey mouse runner in extra innings happening in the postseason? Next season?

If I’m watching a game and it goes to extras, I switch it off. That my team wins some of those games matters not. I really, really want to see it gone.

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I’m pretty sure this is the last season for that stupidity. I don’t know about this post season though. I hope not, but you never know.

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Yeah, both the league office and the players union liked it, so they brought it back this season. Gone for the playoffs, though. I would think they keep it for next season as well.

Personally, I don’t really care. Of the things to go purist over, this is low on the list. There aren’t that many extra innings games and might as well get them over with or let regular season games end in ties (gasp).

Can’t have everything - we have some kind of imagined baseball ‘purity’ but that’s just not possible to reconcile with getting the length of games shorter and making things better for fans. So, pitch clocks, shift bans, minimum batters faced for pitchers, ghost runners, all of the above. This is what happens in sports that aren’t designed well to begin with. The rules get fiddled with until you get the results you want.