vs. D-RAYS, 8/01

[spiritof66]

Hanser just can]t take ball four. Good AB until then.

[Il BuonO]

Just now, Chavez Ravine said:

My memory is fuzzy, but hasn’t the Rays defense been more bad than good over the last few years? It seems like a chronic issue.

No, historically good team defense, including the last couple.

[OFFNY]

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I imagine that it feels pretty weird to have the ball go through your legs on a grounder, and you then immediately here a bunch of artificial cheers and clapping from the noise machine.

When real fans cheer in the same situation, the player making the error knows that the cheers are simply because the base-runner reached safely ........ when a machine does it, it probably feels like the operators of the noise machine are laughing at him.

o

[scOtt]

Yikes Dwight!

[MurphDogg]

Too bad Mountcastle isn't a good defensive left fielder like Dwight Smith, Jr.

[Chavez Ravine]

2 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

No, historically good team defense, including the last couple.

I think it must just be my skewed sample. Whenever I watch them they make some mental mistake and the Rays announcers say something like “that’s the third time we’ve seen that over the last week, they need to stop doing that”

[O-The-Memories]

Just now, scOtt said:

Yikes Dwight!

I'm listening online, they made it sound like a normal HR. What happened?

[spiritof66]

One of the longer Oriole-themed books:

My Adventures in Left Field by Dwight Smith

[SteveA]

Just now, O-The-Memories said:

I'm listening online, they made it sound like a normal HR. What happened?

Nothing.  It was the next batter hit a routine medium fly ball, Dwight headed back to the fence like it might be another HR then had to race in to catch it.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, MurphDogg said:

Too bad Mountcastle isn't a good defensive left fielder like Dwight Smith, Jr.

I'm just glad Elias and Hyde put such an emphasis on team defense.  We've seen it with Severino, and now with Smith.

[Aristotelian]

2 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Too bad Mountcastle isn't a good defensive left fielder like Dwight Smith, Jr.

Clearly needs exactly 2.4 more games of development. 

[schittenden]

Just now, O-The-Memories said:

I'm listening online, they made it sound like a normal HR. What happened?

I think he’s referring to the next play where he ran back to the wall before running in and catching the ball 20 feet in front of the warning track. Jump was way off timing wise on the HR too though. 

[spiritof66]

NYYs winning for a change. 5-2 over Boston in the sixth.

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, spiritof66 said:

NYYs winning for a change. 5-2 over Boston in the sixth.

Boston doesn't look very good.

[schittenden]

Just now, spiritof66 said:

NYYs winning for a change. 5-2 over Boston in the sixth.

All they do is win win win, no matter what.