A month after Dan Jennings was hit in the head by a line drive. Apparently baseball hates Marlins.
(Insult to injury: Stanton swung, so it was a strike. He was replaced with a pinch hitter who was hit on the hand by the next pitch–while swinging. Strikeout.)
Stanton is likely out for the remainder of the season. I’m not a Marlin fan but that really sucks.
Hadn’t heard about Headley.
Hope the injury doesn’t make Stanton gunshy when he comes back. It may reduce the return the Marlins get if they go ahead and trade him this winter, but I still don’t think they will.
Now they pretty much CAN’T trade him. And yes, he’ll be gunshy, at least at first, reducing his value.
Adding raspberries to insult to injury–under scoring rules, the strikeout is charged to Stanton.
I just saw that on ESPN while i was at the gym.
At first glance, it seems like a big blow, but apart from some continued home run power, Davis has been pretty damn mediocre this year. His OPS+ is 97, and his offensive WAR is 0.8, compared to 6.7 for last year.
The Orioles have been patching things together on their infield for much of the year, with Weiters lost early in the season, Manny Machado done for the year, and J.J. Hardy missing some games as well.
Both Steve Pearce and Delmon Young are having better seasons with the bat than Davis—Pearce has been much better—and it seems to me that if they can work out how to fit those guys into the lineup the hitting won’t take much of a dive with Davis’s suspension. The problem is that neither of those guys can play 3B, so today Baltimore has Kelly Johnson at the position, which doesn’t exactly add to the team’s run production.
Only a collapse of historic proportions is going to stop the Orioles from winning the Division, and if they manage to win the ALDS, they’ll probably get Davis back sometime during the LCS.
I saw that the suspension won’t end until the Orioles are eliminated.
It has not been a good week to be a Baltimore sports fan.
Beating the Steelers did take some of the sting out, though.
They beat the shit out of the Steelers and swept the Red Sox. That sounds like a pretty good week in Baltimore.
It’s for the next 25 games. He will be eligible to return the ninth game of the post-season.
I don’t get it. It’s just stupid. He knew he needed an exemption. He had one last year. Why did he not get one for this year? Just dumb.
Giants vs. Dodgers for 3 games this weekend. I think whichever team wins this series will go on to take the Division. Apparently this is the first time since 2004 that both teams were still in the hunt at this stage of the season…sometimes it’s really good to have an arch-rival.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go see if I can find a Clayton Kershaw voodoo doll…
It’s going to be an interesting series. I’m predicting a blowout, a nail-biter and a come-from-behind win in extra innings for a split.
They have another series a week after that so whomever loses this series gets a crack at redemption.
Where did you see that? Because every single source i can find says 25 games, which includes 8 postseason games.
Of course, if Baltimore is eliminated in the Division Series, and possibly even the LCS, he won’t be back at all this year.
Conversely, if the O’s get swept in the division series, he’ll still have five games to serve at the start of the 2015 season.
Really, really stupid. Do these guys not even think about what the hell they’re doing?
Thanks for setting me straight.
Maybe. If the Dodgers sweep (unlikely, but I can dream, can’t I?), the second series may not matter a whole lot.
Outside of playing each other, the Giants have two series against the Padres and one series against the D-Backs remaining. The Dodgers have two series against the Rockies and one against the Cubs. It’s not unreasonable to believe the Giants and Dodgers can both win 2/3 of those games or more, so if the Dodgers were to end this weekend with a 5-game lead, it could be insurmountable.
True, but I just have a feeling that this weekend will decide it. If the Dodgers win the series, picking up either 1 or 3 games, I don’t think the Giants can come back and win the Division. But if the Giants get out of the weekend either down 1 game or up 1 game, I think they’ll carry enough momentum to get (or stay) over the hump and take it.
And whichever of these teams doesn’t win the Division is still almost a lock to make the Wildcard game, so it’s still quite possible they’ll meet again in October.
mhendo-I interpreted “into playoffs” as “until Orioles are eliminated”.6
With the Mariners a game and a half behind Oakland, I’m looking forward to this weekend’s series. The M’s are 9-7 vs. the A’s this year. Since August, the M’s have gone 23-14, while the A’s have gone 14-24. The A’s will be facing M’s starters James Paxton, Felix Hernandez, and Chris Young. I’m … optimistic.