The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

Cubs are good?

 

The thing that bothers me about this is people losing their minds over "I swear on my kids' lives."

Evan Roberts: ‘Max Scherzer swore on his kids which makes me very uncomfortable’

It's a throwaway line, and it's silly that people take it as some sort of death vow. I've said "words matter" many times. But sometimes, a line is just a line.

 

Shoulda swore on his grandma's grave instead

 

The inner city Birmingham version is “On my mama.”

 

Dodgers have nothing against Drew Smyly through six. He's around 80 pitches and is up 12-0.

 

He may need to be more economical. He's at 80 pitches through six innings. A 120-pitch pace. Big number in April. I think Smyly has had TJ surgery as well.

 

93 pitches, six outs to go. It'll be touch-and-go.

 

It's over on a swinging bunt where Smyly and his catcher collided. Lousy luck.

 

You gotta be kidding. Broken up on a broken-bat baseline bleeder collision?

 

I don’t know if either one would have thrown the guy out anyway.

 

Smyly's up to 10 Ks through 7.2. So he wasn't doing it with mirrors. He's being pulled now, though.

 

Smyly has two pitches: a 90 mph or so sinker and a 77 mph knuckle curve. Just looking through the StatCast, he had great movement today. Or as Jim Price would opine, "Late movement."