The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

WSJ’s Lindsey Adler and Andrew Beaton with an interesting look at the mathematics involved in the new pickoff-throw rules.

The New Baseball Rule That Has Turned Pickoff Moves Into Game Theory — The Wall Street Journal

 

Seems to me the 7th-inning deadline was so you wouldn't still be feeling the "effects" when you drive home. With games going faster, allowing sales through the 8th puts drinkers closer to drive-time. If that's the case, they should stop sales after the 6th to allow proper sober-up time.

Yes, this is a stupid idea. Yes, I feel shame. Yes, I need a newbie to show up to fetch me a beer or three.

 

Kike Hernandez with five errors in eight games at short stop, while hitting about .100.

Ya know, I loved him during the team's 2021 playoff run, but outside of that he's pretty much been dogshit, and I don't think it's gonna be long till we see Bobby Dalbec manning SS for the Bosox, which underscores how fucked they are by the Duvall injury and the lack of meaningful depth on this club.

They've shown some punch this year and Verdugo, in particular, has made a leap. But unless a few other guys start exceeding expectations -- namely, Justin Turner and Chris Sale -- this season is gonna be over before May.

Yesterday's 1-0 loss to the Rays was, as Boston.com said, something of a moral victory. But Garrett Whitlock is coming off the DL tonight to pitch and this is a game they desperately need to win, not just keep close. Unfortunately, they're facing Rue McClanahan, that saucy minx...

 

The Red Sox winning tonight feels like a slam dunk #WrongSport reverse lock #WrongThread.

 

OH, my. Now schoolchildren all around the Beltway will be spitting!

 

So apparently Franchy Cordeiro is the new Matt Carpenter

 

Cellys? Cellys. What Gen Z fucker came up with that? Cellys?

Fah-Q!

 

Oakland got cute, took a 7-3 lead, fucked around, found out that you need 13 runs to beat the mighty O’s.

 

What's a baseball celly?

 

Two bombs and nine RBI from Ryan Mountcastle will do that. The dong bong is getting a workout tonight!

 

Brewers are 7-3 … and have been shutout 3 times.