vs Rays 5/12/12

[scOtt]

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[LA2]

Looks like the Rays have Badenhop coming in. Too bad they don't have Balfour still. Balfour and Badenhop would give me some good vibes.

Ball four and a Bad hop would still only put runners at first and third.

[RavNMadMan]

Crap....Badenhop is really filthy

[scOtt]

Shift THIS! :laughlol:

[SrMeowMeow]

WOW

Tampa Bay is 13-3 at home and 7-10 away. So do they have some kind of blowers down there that they manipulate to give their hitters an edge (or the opposing hitters a disadvantage)?

Seriously, that's a huge difference. They have an EXTREMELY winning record at home and a fairly bad losing record away. Two different teams!

I don't think you'll find teams with that kind of variance too often. Far and away the numbers are within 10 or 20% variance in win percentage. Tampa Bay's win percentage variance between home and away is a whopping 40.07 percentage points of win percent. They win 81.2% of games at home and only 41.1% of games on the road.

In 33 games you'll find that kind of variance all the time.

[Saintbird]

Wieters is going deep here. Calling it.

[LA2]

Matt has a hitter's count.

[scOtt]

Wieters is going deep here. Calling it.

No he's not! :rolleyestf:

[SrMeowMeow]

Some generous calls there but some filthy pitches too. C'est la vie.

[Saintbird]

...I'm embarrassed.

[LA2]

uh

Ok, just concentrate on gettin 6 more outs.

[scOtt]

Palmer: "Sold it like a used car."

And NO offense SaintBird. I was trying to reverse-jinx you.

[CA-ORIOLE]

Some generous calls there but some filthy pitches too. C'est la vie.

Yeah Badenhop was nasty. He had a few Nasty Factors in the 80's and those weren't even those crazy backdoor sliders.

[Can_of_corn]

Sold it or not the pitch was too close for Matt to take it with two strikes.

[weams]

Yeah Badenhop was nasty. He had a few Nasty Factors in the 80's and those weren't even those crazy backdoor sliders.

Pedro Strop on back to back nights.