To play Devil's Advocate on Duran's behalf.......They have drilled into runners' heads that their lead down the 3rd baseline should be about equal to the distance the 3rd baseman is from the bag. Duran's just following instructions. Don't think, Meat.
First thing I did this Moe was look at the box score, scanning for Es committed. I feel like that, and Story’s performance with the bat are the two most impactful improvements that can happen this season. For me at least.
C'mon. You can't spell "patience" without S-o-S . . . .
You're not thinking big enough, we need to bring over mirror dimension Bello so we can get a lefty arm into the rotation.
I know it's tongue in cheek, but as per the opening post I'm asking that we try to keep this thread free from these sort of comments. Please and thank you.
What happened? Did he try the carp tossing at one of the Seattle fish markets today?
NESN talked about the Duran down the 3b line thing early in their pre game show. It showed him, Casas and Story all talking about it between innings on the field right after it happened. Seems like they were all simply getting on the same page. Cora wasn’t involved in the conversation. Casas looked mildly annoyed, Duran seemed to be listening and Story seemed to be showing the veteran leadership that we’ve heard a ton about this offseason. All seems ok
110% is kind of like the mother lifting a car to save her child. But that would probably be more like 1,000%
Actually what happened is that he got into an argument at the fish market and fish slapped a vendor with Chilean sea bass, resulting in a first degree sprain of the fourth lumbrical muscle.
The sweeper is a wipe-out pitch. I counted 7 strikeouts with the sweeper last night, 2 with the cutter, and one with the fastball (which was looking, and a gift to old friend Urias).
I assume Abreu was readying himself to pinch hit if Casas got on. Once he didn't, they let Rafaela hit. Maybe if Rafaela had reached, Abreu might have hit for Reyes. Though I feel a bit more confident in Reyes than Abreu at the moment, so sticking with Reyes didn't really bother me.
I think he was going to hit for Dalbec, who was on deck. If they tied, Reyes would go to third, Rafaela to second, Duran to center, and Abreu to left.
Agreed on the starting pitching. I know it's Seattle and their top 3 are really really good, I just hope this isn't the sign of a trend where the pitching is great but gets no run support. One run (without the aid of the Manfred man) over 18 innings isn't all that encouraging. I'm looking forward to the team getting to Oakland and the bats getting into a groove against that staff (allowing nearly 9 a game so far).
And on to the Angels after that. Their staff has looked pretty bad so far, but Baltimore....
And soon it will be gyroball time:
Yeah, in 8 ST innings he gave up 11 hits and 4 walks. Not sure what he did that impressed them.
I know he was pretty good before we got him for 2023, but he seems to have fallen off quite a bit since. I'll be glad when we finally move on from him.
Yup. That inning’s on the defense.
Huh? I thought predictions were the complete opposite of that- expecting good offense and just okay pitching, no?
The defense failed him, but his command and stuff were trash. He was also facing a murder's row of hitters who had a OPS of .565, .663, .715, .642 versus lefties, so it was a perfect situation for him to succeed.
