After winning 14-6 on Wednesday following being called out by a front office member, the Padres got out to a 12-2 lead through 5 tonight.
... And lost 16-13.
... And lost 16-13.
The press conference after the game must have been epic.After winning 14-6 on Wednesday following being called out by a front office member, the Padres got out to a 12-2 lead through 5 tonight.
... And lost 16-13.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/sports/baseball/matt-albers-white-sox-pitcher-helps-sink-mets-13-inning-game.html?ref=baseballMatt Albers entered in the 12th inning as the seventh White Sox pitcher and successfully kept the game tied, 1-1, with a scoreless frame. He returned to the dugout, where Manager Robin Ventura, who once hit a grand slam to win a playoff game for the Mets, told him to grab a bat. Albers did not have one. Nor a helmet.
The husky Albers — perhaps, you could say, a poor man’s version of Bartolo Colon — last made a plate appearance in 2009. His first major league hit was in 2007 against Zach Duke, now a teammate.
Four hours 20 minutes into the game, Albers channeled Colon’s theatrics in the batter’s box. Leading off the 13th with his teammate Dioner Navarro’s bat, Albers drilled Logan Verrett’s 2-2 pitch into the left-center-field gap for a double.
His teammates roared with laughter and slapped the dugout railing. That was only the beginning of the high jinks. With Jose Abreu at the plate, Albers cruised to third base on a wild pitch.
“I was going to slide, and I didn’t see it; it was just a mess,” Albers said. “But I made it.”
He scored on a sacrifice fly, beating an off-target throw by center fielder Juan Lagares, a Gold Glove award winner and the Mets’ best defensive outfielder. Waving home Albers was the former utility player Joe McEwing, now the White Sox’ third-base coach. “They didn’t think I could do it,” Albers said, still somewhat in shock at his athletic feats. “It was pretty funny. Man, I did that — a wild pitch, and I scored on a sac fly.”
Rain came first, tarp on the field.Chapman in for the 5 out save trying to hold on to a 1 run lead.
Conditions look bad. They should call it.Rain came first, tarp on the field.
Patrick Corbin may be too; he holds the Cubs to 2 to give Arrieta his first loss in a year.Hey guys... I think Jose Fernandez is back.
All on the same play ... a two-run single off Chapman, compounded by an Ellsbury throwing errorOs score 3 in 8th after 2 hour rain delay
Great kid, terrific family, he'll be back up soon.Kolten Wong sent to AAA
Lester hit 3 balls hard tonight. I was SHOCKED. OF was WAY in from his normal position, so that was a big part of it.Jon Lester just got a double. Mookie or JBJ would have caught it, but the Phillies fielder couldn't.
Yeah, that was the first thing I noticed. I was in the third row when John Shelby charged Roger Clemens, bat in hand, after he was drilled following the Rocket giving up back-to-back home runs. John Marzano, a high school linebacker, ran Shelby down and tackled him just before he hit the mound.Is it just me or did Sal Perez not seem all that interested in wrapping up Machado before he got to his pitcher? I wonder if some of the Royals are sick of Ventura acting like a head case.
Except that his punch showed that the last fight Machado ever had was likely as a toddler. It was awful. Marciano can critique further but Machado should be suspended for shitty form alone.That was a great brawl. Machado wasted no time in punching Ventura which I have no problem with. He's a loose cannon.
He was probably surprised to get to the mound without being restrained and didn't know what to do with himself.Except that his punch showed that the last fight Machado ever had was likely as a toddler. It was awful. Marciano can critique further but Machado should be suspended for shitty form alone.
Especially when Machado didn't exactly rush out right away because he was holding his ribs in pain so his charge was realllllly slow.He was probably surprised to get to the mound without being restrained and didn't know what to do with himself.
It was pretty much if you consider the one with CWS started with him hitting someone in the first series in KC and then doing it again at CWS.Ventura had 3 incidents in April alone last season.
He needs to be traded to the Red Sox and given to Pedro as his special projectI wish I knew why Ventura is doing this. He seems hyper prickly even for a pitcher.
Pitch counts in this game right now are 79 for Shields (through 2) and 9 for Scherzer (through 1). That seems possibly unprecedented.Big Game James has given up 3 HR in 1IP in his White Sox debut. 6-0.
Machado is a punk who didn't learn from his bat throwing incident. Should have gotten 10 games.Ventura suspended 9 games, Machado 4. Both to appeal.
I see nothing wrong with a batter getting 10 games for charging the mound, but only if a pitcher who has made a habit of hitting batters is suspended enough to guarantee missing more than 1 start. I'm sort of stunned that of the two suspensions it's Machado's 4 game and not Ventura's 1 start that has you upset.Machado is a punk who didn't learn from his bat throwing incident. Should have gotten 10 games.
While it seems ludicrous that Ventura is only being suspended for 1 start you have to take into consideration he is losing 9 games of pay. Despite only missing one start he definitely is feeling the effects of bing an out of control dumbass on the mound.I see nothing wrong with a batter getting 10 games for charging the mound, but only if a pitcher who has made a habit of hitting batters is suspended enough to guarantee missing more than 1 start. I'm sort of stunned that of the two suspensions it's Machado's 4 game and not Ventura's 1 start that has you upset.