April Game Thread

[brandonchristensen]

Holy shit they tied it!

 

[brandonchristensen]

Come on, Mookie. Hit into a DP.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Hah!

 

[shawnrbu]

Pitcher batting 3rd in the 10th.

 

[Brand Name]

No reason to watch ARod if at all possible, Statcast broadcast has been crushing it as usual on ESPN2.

Tatis homers again in the 4th, I think one more and he would be the first player ever to hit multiple HRs in three straight games.

Gus Zernial 1951, Frank Thomas 1962, Lee May 1969, and Jeff DaVanon 2003.

I hate that this series has to conclude with a Mickey Mouse bullshit base runner. Fucking hell. For context, of every team to win in extras since 2020, all but two have scored the ghost runner.

 

[The Gray Eagle]

“Hosmer will be swinging early and often.”

A-Rod

Hosmer walks on 5 pitches without swinging.

My favorite was in the 6th inning-- the Dodgers are playing the Padres, but A-Rod says "Mookie is the only guy in the American League who would go from first to third on that play."
They are not just the most annoying announcers out there, but also the dumbest.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Come on TATIS!

 

[brandonchristensen]

That sucked.

Zero chance the Dodgers don't win it.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Fuck you blue.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Kershaw up with bases loaded.

DaFUq

 

[shawnrbu]

Use a 5th Infielder.

 

[brandonchristensen]

if he walks him, he deserves to get fired from baseball

 

[brandonchristensen]

YUGE K

Get the out, go to 11!

 

[brandonchristensen]

He's not going to get out of this

 

[uncannymanny]

The new rule is growing on me. Constant action.

Wow huge K!

 

[brandonchristensen]

I LIED HE IS!

Padres have the right guys up.

 

[shawnrbu]

I LIED HE IS!

Padres have the right guys up.

Plus, Tatis is the runner. They would need to get creative to not score.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Everyone is trying to hit homers

 

[brandonchristensen]

I will make an exception and root for Machado right now.

Maybe he can hit a homer and die on his way around the bases.

 

[brandonchristensen]

That's fine, too

 

[uncannymanny]

Sweet.

 

[uncannymanny]

Wasn’t Tatis Sr. the guy who did those amazing MS Paint drawings?

 

[shawnrbu]

”Pitch to the guy with the skinniest wallet.”

A-Rod with a nod to the great Whitey Herzog.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

So Mookie is up to 3 RBI. That's pretty good

EDIT--for the season

 

[brandonchristensen]

So Mookie is up to 3 RBI. That's pretty good

EDIT--for the season

Poor guy. Well. Not Poor.

But...yeah.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Wasted opportunity. Dodgers will likely score.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Poor guy. Well. Not Poor.

But...yeah.

I'm a Verdugo fanboy. All good here.

 

[brandonchristensen]

I'm a Verdugo fanboy. All good here.

So am I. I would be A-OK with Mookie's peak being past.

 

[uncannymanny]

Melanin looks exactly like a random guy you call up from AAA in The Show.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Melanin looks exactly like a random guy you call up from AAA in The Show.

Yeah. Generic Face #1

 

[brandonchristensen]

That's a sharp hook.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Looking over Melancon's career, he has been good to great pretty much everywhere other than his time in Boston. So fuck him too.
Melancon vs Betts--no idea who to root for.

 

[brandonchristensen]

This ump fucking sucks.

 

[uncannymanny]

Melanin looks exactly like a random guy you call up from AAA in The Show.

This autocorrect could hardly be more inaccurate.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Mookie doesn't win it.

 

[Brand Name]

Worth staying up for the game and also hearing Benetti say ‘squeezing out number two’.

I know, I’m 13 at heart.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Great Win!

 

[uncannymanny]

What a comeback. Great, great, great game.

 

[shawnrbu]

Statement win.

 

[Ferm Sheller]

Geez, Muncy walked five times. When was the last time someone walked five times in a game?

 

[MuzzyField]

Too bad this great game was wasted on the ESPN booth clusterfuckery of suck.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Geez, Muncy walked five times. When was the last time someone walked five times in a game?

Greg Brock

 

[Ferm Sheller]

Greg Brock

I saw that Votto and Rougned Odor (and maybe others) have done it within the past few years. Not as rare as I'd thought.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

I saw that Votto and Rougned Odor (and maybe others) have done it within the past few years. Not as rare as I'd thought.

Vasgasm mentioned Greg Brock. Not sure what the reference was, if not for this. I have trouble listening to him too intently.

 

[Brand Name]

Geez, Muncy walked five times. When was the last time someone walked five times in a game?

119th time since 1901.

Overall it’s Yelich, 9/26/18. Last Dodger was Greg Brock as mentioned on 5/17/83, last against the Padres was Dusty Baker on 9/28/80, also for the Dodgers.

 

[Ferm Sheller]

Okay. Thank you, both. On average, once per year over 120 years. Fairly rare.

 

[BornToRun]

So am I. I would be A-OK with Mookie's peak being past.

It’s not that I wish him bad fortune but him not being MVP Mookie in LA over that deal would make the whole situation easier to take. That and Verdugo continuing to kick ass and Downs turning into a stud as well of course.

 

[RedOctober3829]

View: https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1386738504609189890

 

[ledsox]

This autocorrect could hardly be more inaccurate.

Melanin was better than Vasgasm, though.

The last two SD-LA games took 8 hrs 52 min to play 20 inn. I’m ok with the runner in extras too.

 

[InsideTheParker]

A-Rod doesn’t even try anymore. On Max Muncy:

“The Moneyball dream player. What Billy Beane would do to have him on his team?”

ESPN had a stats-dominated game. The parts I watched were 1000% better than the main broadcast.