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Tuesday, May 21 / Wednesday May 22 GAME RESUMES at 12:15pm: Orange/Black Birds vs Red Birds


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10 minutes ago, Spy Fox said:

What do you mean, Bryan Baker threw 0.2 scoreless!

To lower his ERA to 7.80

Holliday had an 0-fer with 3 K's to a BB. OPS down to .865. Not terrible, but not great and not headed in the right direction. 

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Just now, Aristotelian said:

Holliday had an 0-fer with 3 K's to a BB. OPS down to .865. Not terrible, but not great and not headed in the right direction. 

I don't think anyone is getting promoted before the All Star break.  Mayo coming back from injury, Kjerstad just demoted, Holliday would need to go on extended hot streak.

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Pursuant to our earlier chat about bad umpiring, and umpires making calls that favor the Yankees, I flipped over to the Seattle game and watched an umpire do his best to give the game to the Yankees. I tried to screenshot the eighth inning K to Mitch Haniger, which featured a called strike that was at least a ball and a half diameter outside.

the TV announcers saw it as well as I did, but ignored it.

It was two batters after a lead homer in the top of the eighth. Ha!

Scrolling through the bats, there were a whole lot of missed calls.

However, as I write this, in the top of the ninth, the Mariners just got another home run and lead 6-3.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Philip said:

Pursuant to our earlier chat about bad umpiring, and umpires making calls that favor the Yankees, I flipped over to the Seattle game and watched an umpire do his best to give the game to the Yankees. I tried to screenshot the eighth inning K to Mitch Haniger, which featured a called strike that was at least a ball and a half diameter outside.

the TV announcers saw it as well as I did, but ignored it.

It was two batters after a lead homer in the top of the eighth. Ha!

Scrolling through the bats, there were a whole lot of missed calls.

However, as I write this, in the top of the ninth, the Mariners just got another home run and lead 6-3.

 

 

I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest. 

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To be fair, the ump missed at least one call against the Yankees, too, but it didn’t check overall misses. More than a few, certainly.

TRIVIA

this was the first time the Yankees have lost back-to-back games since they played the Orioles. 
May it continue…

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