2016 MLB Regular-Season Thread

Approves of Songbird's stats:

 

Not sure there's a better in season redemption story this year than Ubaldo Jimenez. He's been phenomenal of late. O's and Jays tied for top wild card.

 

Yep. They require you to wear jorts to gain entry.

 

Glad to see the Yankees sweep the Red Sox and prevent Boston from being the team that eliminates them from the playoffs. Given where they were in mid-July, the last two months of the season were fun to watch and I can't complain if they get eliminated sometime after game 158. And, admittedly, there's still that tiny little piece of me that says, "They still haven't been eliminated ..."

 

Goodness gracious, what happened in St. Louis tonight? Looks like not only did the umps blow the call, but they aren't even going to look at the replay.

 

The Cubs and Pirates ended in a 1-1 tie. That's neat.
Game got delayed in the sixth inning, they waited about 90 minutes, then said screw it. It doesn't affect playoff positioning so they won't make it up or resume it, and it goes in the books as a tie.
First tie in the majors since the Reds and Astros did it in June 2005.

 

Meanwhile Tigers-Indians rained out. "If necessary" makeup scheduled for Monday afternoon.

 

Do the Reds file a protest? If so, does baseball even give it a token look? As a Giants homer I want that to be overturned and force Cards to play Monday to settle the wild card if necessary ... And by if necessary I of course mean Giants will blow it agaisnt the Dodgers and be a game back and want that game to be made up.

 

Been reading tweets from Cardinals and Reds writers, and the umps' story on the ruling seems to change more often than Trump changes his mind in one speech. If I'm reading things right, under Busch Stadium ground rules it's a double. But the umpires say the Reds didn't announce their intent to appeal soon enough. I'm a Giants fanboi too, so I hope they may take a look at it, like the Wrigley Field tarp game a couple of years ago. And as a baseball guy, I'm wonder why that's not an automatic review, like the NHL has on goals during the playoffs. Is there a booth review, like in the NFL?

 

From Derrick Goold, Post-Dispatch. I'm still confused, but the Reds have until tomorrow to appeal, and I hope they do.
Umpires: MLB requires an 'immediate' challenge of walk-off double

 

For the integrity of the game, you do everything you can to win. But if they win a protest, they would have to go to St. Louis on Monday and replay it from that point? Think anyone on that team wants to do that?