My Phillies may have looked good with the bats tonight, but the bullpen is still an issue for me. They’re not going to have 7 or 8 runs to deal with every game. Fingers, toes and bowl muscles crossed they prove me wrong.
Apropos of nothing, I was at Roy Halladay’s high school today for a volleyball tournament my daughter was in. He has a little shrine to him there. He looked funny as a high school kid.
That’s just about an average time for the Yankees to finish a game.
Ivan Nova sure didn’t look like a rookie pitcher last night.
Or Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Man, I was aware that was a hitter’s park, but I had no idea how extremely so … It’s actually worse than Coors for pitchers, based on those stats. No wonder good pitchers don’t like to sign with the Rangers.
This year was an outlier for Arlington. It’s a very good hitter’s park but 2011 was flukey. It’s not uncommon for a ballpark to have a fluke year that isn’t in line with other years.
The way Rangers Park was this year is the way Coors Field is in a NORMAL year.
And even then Coors Field is not the bandbox it used to be; since they started using the humidor on the baseballs it’s returned to being a reasonably normal major league park. Still a great hitter’s park, but it was ridiculous before the humidor.
I thought this was a playoff thread not another silly baseball debate.
How 'boat those Yankees?
Yes, a *building *can have up and down seasons. 
Is that hilarious, or just pathetic?
Oh, the Yankees? They still suck, of course. Because even if they win the Series, they’ll still be the Yankees.
Very clever of them, avoiding Verlander by starting a game they must have known could never be finished.
If you want to give them that much credit that is fine, but the weather services were all reporting the rain would not be due until late in the night. Most saying after midnight.
Nope.It is correct.
Aw, everyone knows the Weather Service is in the pocket of the Yankees. 
Less than average in the majority of cases. Way under.
There is a point? Are you suggesting on a huge stage like that, the players are not trying?
You would be wrong.
Sure looked like it last night…
Hows it look today?
I wish they would get rid of that “strike zone”. Horribly inacurate.
Of course you have a cite for this, other than your say so, right?
Well Joe Torre is anyway.
yes i do.
Is it just me, or is the sound mix really off in Milwaukee? The announcer’s voices yesterday and today seem detached from and under the ballpark sounds. It’s hard for me to understand them.
I haven’t noticed this in any of the other games.