2021 MLB Regular Season thread

Team wasn't sponsored by Advil?

 

Next Nolan?

 

123 pitches, at least. The coach should be fired.

 

That's a unique definition of "scoring a run." (And which organization does he belong: baseball or cartel?)

 

Almost on the nose -- 124

 

Nolan Ryan was a freak of nature. That curveball should have gorked his elbow at some point but never did. Fuck, he's in his 70s and still hitting 80 on the gun, I think I saw. There might never be another pitcher like Ryan.

 

Good for her.

Bad for her.

 

It did, on the second-to-last pitch of his career. The last one was still 98.

Nolan Ryan - Wikipedia

 

Shit. Didn't realize that. Still a freak of nature.

 

Better Call Ball.

 

Sometimes an old remembers stuff. In his early days with the Mets and then Angels, it was a common thought around baseball that Ryan would never last, and his blisters (a real if minor problem) were the horsehide equivalent of Joe Namath's knees in the New York press.