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I posted this in the game thread, but a similar play happened on Sunday Night Baseball when Jon Miller was announcing. Miller wrote in his book that he happened to be discussing the play the next day with Cal Ripken, Jr. Cal argued that it might have been the right play to tag up so that he could score in case Barfield (who had a fantastic arm) caught the ball on a dive. Senior came over and shot down Junior immediately. He said you should always go halfway on a shallow fly ball.

Jon Miller's book has a paragraph about the play from Sunday Night Baseball I posted earlier. He wrote that Cal Ripken, Jr. made the same argument you are making, and Cal Ripken, Sr. came over and roasted him. You go halfway on that ball so you can score if it drops.

Thrown out from third on a single once happened on Sunday Night Baseball.

He can still get back to the base.

What is he even arguing? Franco screwed up big time.

You go halfway, dummy.

Best hit ball all day.

That 95 must seem like 105 after eight innings of Gibson, but yeah.

What is that based on? Is Gunnar Henderson going to amaze in spring training and win the spot? Are they going to sign Carlos Correa for SS? Are we assuming that Martin will fall flat on his face in AAA or get injured again? He can't even win a utility role?

Maikel Franco did not want to play extras*, did he? My goodness. *If you can call an eighth inning "extras"

He advanced to second on a WP.

Since OFFNY bumped this thread I caught up on some of this discussion, and I'm wondering what I'm missing here. Our "experience" with Martin was one year, his first year playing anywhere above AA. He was brutally bad in the first half and then had an OPS+ of 89 in the second half, which happens to be a higher mark than Galvis's career OPS+. His September was maybe a small sample size mirage but it was legit good (11 for 29). He also looked a lot better with the glove in the second half. Then he missed all of 2020 with injury. Am I completely naive to want to see what Martin can do in a year that we all acknowledge is a lost year? Freddie Galvis is not very good, we're not getting anything meaningful at the deadline for him even if he runs into a few dingers, why are we saying "at least he's not Richie Martin" as if we're 100% sure what Richie Martin is?

My wife was not able to bring her purse into the park last night. It was maybe a larger than average sized purse, but still a purse. She had to check it at a locker and pay a fee. She just wanted to have a hat and gloves with her in case the temperature dropped, and women's outfits don't usually have pockets. To not allow a purse in the park under the pretense of COVID safety is really lame and frankly, sexist, since it's going to be more of a burden on women.

I have to say I'm pretty excited to play some "normal" teams like Seattle and Texas. It's been hard to judge where Kremer, Means, Zimmermann, etc. really are when they've been forced to pitch against these loaded Boston and NY lineups that have already seen them a bunch of times.

I'm about ready to move on from Rio Ruiz. Jahmai Jones couldn't possibly hit worse, could he?

Severino and Mancini hit rockets in the 8th, this could have easily been a 7-3 game going into the ninth.

A couple of terrible ABs by Franco and Ruiz.

Andriese is not good, but I don't really trust the guys coming up.

Tate missing his spots like crazy.

McKenna will be a good guy to have on second

What in the world in going on with this organization? https://theathletic.com/2509560/2021/04/09/orioles-pa-announcer-ryan-wagner/?source=emp_shared_article

In one game of this streak, the Orioles were shut out. In another game of this streak, they scored 11 runs and collected 17 hits. I guess that goes to show that high strikeout totals in a game don't tell you that much about how well the offense actually did. If you want a (mildly) concerning trend in a small sample size, the Orioles haven't scored a run in four games that didn't come via a HR or from having a runner on second to start the inning.

Neat strikeout stat, I'm rooting for history.

How did the Yankees let this guy get away?

How long does the paternity leave excuse Armstrong from throwing meatballs in the middle of the plate?