July Game Thread
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Cubs in a little bit of a slump...Lost 7 of their last 8.
Apparently Maddon hasn't made it abundantly clear, he doesn't want you bunting unless you're told t
The Cubs put the first two runners on base in the bottom of the 11th but Addison Russell bounced into a double play and Jeimer Candelario popped up to end the game.
"The bunt right there, I much prefer Addison swinging right there with Candelario on deck and then Baez" Maddon said. "Addy's really been a good run producer for us. The tying run was already at second base."
Apparently Maddon hasn't made it abundantly clear, he doesn't want you bunting unless you're told t
The Cubs put the first two runners on base in the bottom of the 11th but Addison Russell bounced into a double play and Jeimer Candelario popped up to end the game.
"The bunt right there, I much prefer Addison swinging right there with Candelario on deck and then Baez" Maddon said. "Addy's really been a good run producer for us. The tying run was already at second base."
9-7. And heading into the inning, the Astros announcers gave the stat of Oakland being 0 for a lot when losing after 8 innings.
Astros have the right people coming up, but that's going to be tough to return from
I'm trying to remember if this was a trend. Were his pens in Miami bad?
His contract is a bargain compared to what Heyward is offering the team. No chance he opts out.
Ah, damn. I was so hoping Lackey was getting traded for Bell in 2014.
Then we got Craig and Kelly instead.
Wow, long gone. Amazing that UT had him, Swihart, Owens, and BAll recruited ( among others I'm sure).
“@JeffPassan: The Cubs were 39-15 on June 4. They’re 13-20 since, the fourth-worst record in baseball over that time. A shockingly bad stretch for them.”
Fox announcers (CJ Nitkowski, very good) were saying the Pittsburgh plan was to use Bell solely as a pinch-hitter this weekend, then ship him back down. He singled and hit a slam. Nitkowski was saying you don't send that kind of hitter back down, although with the break here they probably will.
Pirates are playing Jaso and Freese at 1B; although Freese might end up at third if Kang gets suspended
Heyward is on pace to hit 8 HR this year to go along with an 80 OPS+. But he is a great fielder and a solid base runner and so let's pay him 184 million dollars. . . .
For all the adulation Theo gets, this is the same dummy who signed Carl Crawford to one of the worst contracts in baseball history.
Amazing: the Cubs are now playing under .600 baseball.
I know it is almost impossible to root for the Yankees, but I want them to win a few games here in order to give the Steinbrenner family the illusion that the team can actually compete for the playoffs (even though everyone else knows they can't). I don't want to see the Yankees trade Miller and Chapman for a couple of stud prospects.
Texas is the only one of last season's division winners to lead their division at the ASB this season.
The AL East is the only division where the lead is less than 5.5 games.
The AL East is the only division where the lead is less than 5.5 games.
I was thinking more that RSN Dipository thread I dare not enter. That's disturbing.
Weird things happen when Don Orsillo is around.
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/watch-foul-ball-turns-into-an-outstanding-catch-then-turns-into-nachos/
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/watch-foul-ball-turns-into-an-outstanding-catch-then-turns-into-nachos/
I saw this play on the Giants broadcast. Jon Miller and partners had multiple angles and none showed the offending cheese dip ... leading to a few moments of Zapruder-style conspiracy talk
The player number on the vintage late 70s Angels uniforms (wearing tonight) is the exact same font use on the 70s Sox clown suits. Never noticed this before.
Also the ending of the SF/SD game was pretty crazy...
I didn't see any of it until the 9th, so when Posey hit a HR in the top of the 10th to put SF up 6-5, I was pretty surprised at how crazy the crowd in SD was going. I am pretty sure I have never heard a crowd so happy for a likely game-winning HR by the other team.
Then when SD started the bottom of the inning with three consecutive singles to tie the score, the crowd still wasn't anywhere near as loud as for the Posey HR, and when Casilla caught a cleat on the way to delivering a pitch, stumbled off the mound, and balked in the winning run, even then the crowd was still a notch quieter than it had been for Posey in the top of the inning. I guess a lot of SF fans made the trip south...
I didn't see any of it until the 9th, so when Posey hit a HR in the top of the 10th to put SF up 6-5, I was pretty surprised at how crazy the crowd in SD was going. I am pretty sure I have never heard a crowd so happy for a likely game-winning HR by the other team.
Then when SD started the bottom of the inning with three consecutive singles to tie the score, the crowd still wasn't anywhere near as loud as for the Posey HR, and when Casilla caught a cleat on the way to delivering a pitch, stumbled off the mound, and balked in the winning run, even then the crowd was still a notch quieter than it had been for Posey in the top of the inning. I guess a lot of SF fans made the trip south...
Huh. I was under the impression the modern numbers have a second background/border, but I guess not.
Oh ok- no you may be right on that, I didnt dive that deep on it; was genuinely confused because I thought you just meant the general font style of the numbers. Carry on!
Pirates and Nationals in a great one today, Pirates led 1-0 with two outs in the 9th when Daniel Murphy, who has sat out all weekend hurt, pinch-hit a tying HR off Melancon. Now it's still 1-1 in the 16th, Espinosa just gunned out the go-ahead run at home with an incredible relay from short center field.