Morgan423

I don't buy that Harvey is deliberately throwing at his old friends/former teammates, when our teams only play each other 4 games a season. Doesn't make a ton of sense.

That didn't look like that felt good.

Oh, I got you. That's a good question. The sacrifice only increases the chance to score a run from ~63% to ~67%, but they only need one run. Maybe they liked the match up they were getting with that leadoff hitter?

My understanding is that due to the ghost runner rules, it's statistically disadvantageous for the away team to bunt the guy to third. Away team has to try to score multiple runs, and the sacrifice increases the chance of scoring one, but shrinks the chances of scoring multiple.

That was practically ball game. Historically, a home team who starts their half of an extra inning tied, with a guy on second and no one out wins ~82% of the time.

Sadly, we paid him entirely too much money for them to consider cutting him. But yes, he needs to be removed from the closer role ASAP. Literally anyone else would be better.

Mateo looked like a man who was made to do many, many bunting drills over the last week and a half

I was just wondering where the ball was, because Rosario looked like an outfielder who'd totally lost a ball, not an outfielder who was tracking one

Hopefully getting used to any swing adjustments he's working on. O's have an off game tomorrow, I was hoping to catch the Tides game instead to see how he looks, but they have some weird thing with their schedule where all their Thursday games are at noon for some reason.

He's been absolutely lost versus LHP recently. Hopefully he can figure it out.

Bradish at twenty pitches per inning so far. Good thing the bullpen is fairly rested.

Got the grounder, just the wrong spot

Ugh. Thrown out by a tenth of a second.

This isn't looking great.

That was Hyder trusting that O'Hearn was seeing it correctly, but I know Hyder gets super steamed when we get clearly impacted by high or low pitches. You can't always catch inside outside from the dugout, but up and down is visible and obvious.

Robo-umps are simply not going to be an optional thing. They're going to have to be incorporated into the game in some aspect or another. This has been the worst season in memory for terrible ump calls in baseball, and fans all over the league are reaching their boiling point. MLB continues to ignore this issue at its own peril.

We'll get 'em tomorrow guys. The good thing is this guy will not be calling the game tomorrow.

I keep seeing people saying this here and there, but... ALL stats are divided up by regular season and post season. If you're going to track anything statistical in baseball that way, then why should this be any different?

A slump. He's the 12,358th major league player in history to go through one.

One of the few times I agree with throwing over the third attempt. If you can't hold a guy on who's got a 90%+ stolen base success rate, that dude is practically already standing on second anyway. May as well make one more throw over and try to surprise him.

Even with the flyout, that helps a lot. We needed someone to make this guy throw ten pitches in an at bat.

We need a new hero to arrive...

They don't choose when they wear the City Connects, they are pre-scheduled for specific games.

Or the bullpen will enter the game later and they'll score a bunch, as we've seen these guys do many, many times.