2019 MLB Regular Season running thread

Turn that pile of shit into a parking lot.

 

Flaherty no-hitter through six in Arizona. Nine Ks, two walks in the fifth inning. Cards lead 1-0 on a Fowler lead off homer.

 

Broken up, Rojas hit off turf at first base.

 

OK - record number of HRs, record number of Ks. But is there a reason there aren't more players with 50 or more homers? If a player who would normally hit 20 is not hitting 30, why not more at the top end? Does it come down to fewer baserunners, allowing pitchers to pitch around the meat of an order?

 

Cardinals-Dbacks goes to the bottom of the 19th

 

And that's where it ends.

 

Love the sign someone held up.

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I would suspect that's part of it, along with less McGwire-y kind of athletes in the sport. Meaning, guys who look like they came in from a beer softball league to blast some dingers. I imagine that one of the ways that stats have more "quietly" changed the game is defensively, with those types relegated strictly to DH, as opposed to DH, 1B and maybe an outfield corner. Fun chart here, too - Through 2017, player size just kept going up and up and up, peaking in 2010, but it seems to have leveled off. Less Matt Stairs types, but also way less Mark Belangers too.

 

Another one of those broadcasters with no filter was Hawk Harrelson. I'm not sure having no filter is a good thing.

 

I like that he said it because it is absolutely true. Thanks to WGN, I saw quite a few Cubs games during Sandberg's career. His streak of 123 games without an error, then the MLB record for second basemen, was a joke.