Morgan423

Whoa blue. I know that benefits us right now, but please stop ringing up armpit-high fastballs.

Adley's heating up.

This ump has been incorrectly ringing up outside pitches with lefties batting all day. If I were a pitcher in this game, I'd be abusing that. Uh oh, it looks like Blackburn just figured that out.

Blackburn will come out of the dugout with new determination, I'm sure he knows that that's all he can realistically expect from this lineup today.

With the entire A's line up, in that situation, Rooker is literally the ONLY guy I'd be pointing to first for.

Ruh roh.

Greetings to our visiting British fans that MASN was showing there. Jackson Holliday got send down, but hey, Tony's still here!

Oh no, someone replied on the Negative Nancy original this morning! Gotta bump this back up!

Makes sense to me. With no ghost runner, Langeliers should never have reached, because there'd have been zero reason not to go straight to first on his ground ball. Like @SteveA said, the rules tell the scorer to reconstruct the inning without errors. As "no error shall be charged to the opposing team or to any player," when you reconstruct, you don't include the ghost runner, because he was placed, and he didn't reach base as the result of a play (as in, no error was changed to the defensive team or any defensive player).

This one hurts. McKenna's miss tonight wasn't as egregious as last year, but it still hurts.

Mateo pinch running for Westburg? As much as I hate Mateo at second, you've got to tie the game to keep playing.

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No Miller. Interesting.

Okay, it doesn't have to be only one closer having a bad game. Let's walk it off boys.

Can anyone explain to me how you call a runner safe who never touched the base? Asking for few thousand friends.

Two Aprils in a row. Uncanny.

Not a great start. Time to K the side.

We'll agree to disagree. It's a long season + postseason.

I take it you haven't been paying attention to the arm blowout epidemic going on across the league?

Lots of 100 mph shots right at fielders tonight. Hopefully we start getting some luck on those the rest of the series.

Also guys, this is absolutely brilliant strategy here by Hyder re: warming up Baumann. Every guy in the dugout sees it and thinks "Baumann's coming in? We've got to score a bunch of runs right now!"

And out of it.

Then tomorrow shall be the Battle of the Clones.