Looks pretty cut and dried to me. You slide to the fielder side of the bag and go past it sliding hard and high into the legs of the pivot then the second half of the double play is called out every time.
From the delivery to the sliding catch that whole clip is amazing. You never see a pitcher leave a mound for a popup let alone do that.
1-2 with two more walks and a sac fly today, still hasn’t missed a pitch. He saw 33 pitches in 5 plate appearances
I was listening at work and the radio guys said he went too far on a check swing today, but the no strikeout streak continues. He also set a new record for most times reaching base in the first 5 games of a career with 18.
This post hasn't aged well. They are now averaging 7.6 runs/game and have 2 grand slams.
Yup. I plan on whining about this for a long time. Never should have let him get away.
This was fantastic. I think the only person not amused in the least was DSG.
Just to follow up on this. Brett Phillips caught the first pitch last night from this girl Chloe who is fighting cancer for the second time. He then proceeded to hit a home run, while she was being interviewed by the Rays reporter. Between this, and the video I saw of him running the bases after their game with the kids the other night, he might end up being one of my favorite players to follow.
He’s kind of the team mascot, I think that’s why they keep him around. He’s also a hometown kid. Seminole High.
The fact that Bellinger was one of the three makes it even more improbable.
The rest of the team was just 1-18 with one walk off Cole, talk about a one man offense.
Last night's TOR/NYY game also gave us this treasure.
He's over 80, so that makes sense, but he's been having these issues for years. It's a feature for him at this point.
But nobody goes from irrelevant to relevant faster than the A's. Way too early to say that's what's happening now, but that franchise seems to rebound quicker than most ('67 to '72-'73-'74, '79 to '81, '97 to '01). And if they somehow give Houston fits, sign me up.
He was mostly a reliever last year, too. Only made 11 starts in 39 appearances.
In fairness, he'd probably start for a lot of teams out of necessity if nothing else - including, let's be honest, the Red Sox. But who would he displace from the Dodgers' rotation?
I'm not sure that's really true, LAD tried to stretch him out last summer and had him in a 60-70 pitch role which he was not very good at, then they sent him back to a one inning role for September. He had a 4.85 ERA after July 23, despite LAD trying to put him into roles that he would be able to succeed in.
This isn’t the first time he has done this
