August 2015 Game Thread

[ngruz25]

Seriously though, two run lead in the 7th inning, and a reliever is on the hook for EIGHT runs?! That's bananas. Only two of those runs were inherited runs that scored. Jim Johnson came in with a 5-2 lead and left trailing 9-5, entirely due to singles, walks, hit batsmen, and sacrifices. Just awful managing.

 

[E5 Yaz]

After all the talk that Kang's success in South Korea wouldn't translate to the major leagues, he's had a damn good season

 

[soxhop411]

After all the talk that Kang's success in South Korea wouldn't translate to the major leagues, he's had a damn good season

I wonder if that makes the sox more likely to go after Byung-ho Park for the 1B job this offseason.

 

[kieckeredinthehead]

Cueto comes back out to start the ninth with 108 pitches. The crowd loves it, it feels like August baseball, but with the Royals bullpen and Cueto's rumored arm issues?

 

[kieckeredinthehead]

Finishes with 116. Blue Jays - Royals ALCS would be so fun.

 

[soxhop411]

Poor Dodgers. Collapsing.

 

[soxhop411]

 

[canderson]

Blue King?

 

[grimshaw]

The Mets haven't walked anybody since the 6th inning on Saturday (about 27 innings now).  They've had 19 games with no walks issued so far this season which is already a franchise record.

 

[jon abbey]

The Angels haven't won a road game since before the ASB, 0-7 coming into tonight. If they lose tonight (down 3-0 in the 6th), it will be their longest road losing streak in 22 years.

 

[shawnrbu]

Nelson Cruz with another home run tonight.  Leads the majors with 34 on the year. 13 have been hit Post ASB in 102 AB's. 

 

[kieckeredinthehead]

All games were won by the home team today.

 

[MakMan44]

Anyone watching the game on MLB network right now? Wayyyyyyy too much on the screen.

 

[Rasputin]

The Blue Jays just don't ever plan on losing again.

 

[soxhop411]

of course Grady Sizemore is playing better with TB than with us......

 

[canderson]

The Blue Jays just don't ever plan on losing again.

Good.

 

[Lowrielicious]

858 feet worth of HRs (2) for Sano today so far.

 

[VORP Speed]

Rays score 6 in the 7th for a come from behind victory. Strange forces are at work as Rays are starting to show some life on offense.

 

[soxhop411]

https://vine.co/v/edddKJpwiI9
 
what a play by RIZZO

 

[soxhop411]

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[soxhop411]

stupid browser

 

[nattysez]

That's it - Jays take the AL East lead.

Over the weekend, the Cubs' closer Rondon loaded the bases with no one out and a one-run lead and struck out the side to win the game. Tonight, he wound up with runners at second and third with no outs and a one-run lead and again struck out the side.  Unfortunately, he mixed in a WP that allowed the tying run to score this time.  The Cubs won in 10 on a Montero HR.

 

[nattysez]

Lester just tried a pick-off throw to first and missed Rizzo by about five feet.
 
Then the runner, Segura, stole third without a throw.  Lester was just holding the ball and he took the base.
 
After singling home Segura, Braun then stole second and third.  
 
And then the next hitter walked and stole second.  
 
Yeesh.

 

[jimc]

Lester just tried a pick-off throw to first and missed Rizzo by about five feet.
 
Then the runner, Segura, stole third without a throw.  Lester was just holding the ball and he took the base.
 
After singling home Segura, Braun then stole second and third.  
 
And then the next hitter walked and stole second.  
 
Yeesh.

 
Lester's batting line for the year is down to 0.24/0.24/0.24. Probably not coincidentally he's 3rd from last in run support in MLB with 2.78 per start. Between the running game and his complete contempt for the concept of batting, I wonder if his teammates get pissed off at him. To top it off the Giants announcers made a big point over the weekend about his petulant response showing up his infielders after an error.

 

[Arroyo Con Frijoles]

"Probably not coincidentally"?  So the Cubs hitters, on a team fighting to make the playoffs, all decide to just pack in in once a week because they don't like Jon Lester?  

 

[jon abbey]

I think he's saying that Lester's beyond awful hitting even for a pitcher contributes to that directly. 

 

[phrenile]

Lester's batting line for the year is down to 0.24/0.24/0.24.

You mean his batting line for the year is up to 0.24/0.24/0.24.

 

[kieckeredinthehead]

FFS his batting line is .023/.023.023. If it were 0.24 he could be starting at first base for Boston on days he didn't pitch.

 

[soxhop411]

Jeff Samardzija is so bad...

 

[E5 Yaz]

FFS his batting line is .023/.023.023. If it were 0.24 he could be starting at first base for Boston on days he didn't pitch.

 
Numberz iz hard

 

[kieckeredinthehead]

Jeff Samardzija is so bad...

How bad is he?

 

[LogansDad]

5 days after breaking up Kluber's no-hit bid, Mauer had the only hit off of him tonight.
 
Fuck you, Joe Mauer.

 

[soxhop411]

“@dennistlin: HISTORY: Matt Kemp triples in the ninth for the first cycle every for the Padres.”

That's shocking

 

[LogansDad]

That it's Matt Kemp, or that it's their first ever?

 

[E5 Yaz]

That it's Matt Kemp, or that it's their first ever?

 
every

 

[soxhop411]

That it's Matt Kemp, or that it's their first ever?

SD never had a cycle in team history. Next on the list is a no hitter. They have not had that either.

 

[jon abbey]

3-3 PIrates/Mets top 9, insane throw by Cespedes to nail Rodriguez going for a triple, spinning and one hop from the CF wall. That dude is going to get paid this winter.

 

[Joe Shlabotnick]

Chris Davis with two more home runs tonight, the second on a lazy swing. I am absolutely convinced that he is juicing and using something which hasn't been detected yet.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

He got an exemption so he can start taking Adderell again.

Major League Baseball. Where we suspend you for a substance but then let you freely use it again.

 

[Joe Shlabotnick]

I can't believe that Adderall would lead to this result .

 

[Gdiguy]

3-3 PIrates/Mets top 9, insane throw by Cespedes to nail Rodriguez going for a triple, spinning and one hop from the CF wall. That dude is going to get paid this winter.

 
Video: http://m.mlb.com/tv/v373089983

 

[Soxfan in Fla]

Uribe gives a look back to CF after the play that looks like he's thinking "holy shit, did that throw just happen?".

 

[soxhop411]

https://twitter.com/Str8EdgexFriar/status/632749531998720000

Justin Upton is lucky he didn't cause serious injury

 

[soxhop411]

soooo.... If the Nationals miss the playoffs, Matt Williams has to be fired right?

 

[jon abbey]

soooo.... If the Nationals miss the playoffs, Matt Williams has to be fired right?

Especially with how awful that division is, far and away the weakest in MLB.

 

[canderson]

soooo.... If the Nationals miss the playoffs, Matt Williams has to be fired right?

He should be fired even if they win the division. I watch a lot of Nats games, he is brutal.

 

[LogansDad]

Uribe gives a look back to CF after the play that looks like he's thinking "holy shit, did that throw just happen?".

He might have been thinking something like "How do you misplay that ball so badly that you have to make a throw like that?"

 

[soxhop411]

Uh.... Holy crap
https://twitter.com/BarstoolNate/status/632774077002973184

 

[nattysez]

He should be fired even if they win the division. I watch a lot of Nats games, he is brutal.

 
Bryce Harper fouled a ball off his foot and was in obvious pain.  He limped around, got back in the box, and flied out.  When he got to the dugout, he pushed his helmet off his head and walked to the clubhouse seemingly without anyone saying anything to him.  Giants beat writer then wrote:
 
 

Alex Pavlovic ‏@AlexPavlovic  20m20 minutes ago
Weird vibe in Nats dugout. Nobody seemed to care that Harper was hurt ... looked like he noticed. Not a lot of urgency from that group.

 
That kind of sounds like a writer looking for a story, but then the Giants play-by-play guy chimed in:
 




 

Dave Flemming @FlemmingDave

@LOLKNBR @AlexPavlovic he had every right to be pissed. That was a bad bad look for Nats
 

 

[LogansDad]

Uh.... Holy crap
https://twitter.com/BarstoolNate/status/632774077002973184

Holy crap indeed.  Wow.