Running Baseball VII (or second half I, if you like)

[beefncheddar]

Fine. Switch Mariners and Twins in my previous post. Regardless, the Yankees are done. Thhaaaaaaaaa Yankees are done.

 

[Omar_dont_scare]

By the end of August, the Yankees will be in the race for the A.L. East crown.

The wild card, maybe.

 

[Mayfly]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2941209

Why can't Julio Franco just die already? I mean not really, but you know what I mean.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Anybody know why Carlos Zambrano was pulled after five shutout innings and only 80 pitches today?

Because it's hotter than heck in Chicago today and the Cubs are up 9-zip.

11-0 now. Save some for tomorrow boys.

 

[Tommy_Dreamer]

By the end of August, the Yankees will be in the race for the A.L. East crown.

Have you been sniffing glue again HB?

 

[beefncheddar]

Don't see that every day: Catcher calls pitchout. Pitcher misses signal. Umpire drilled with fastball.

 

[beefncheddar]

I'll give the ump credit: There's no way I'm calling that a strike ... despite the fact it was right down the middle of the plate. Probably and inch or so from straight-up nutectomy. I'm surprised he called a strike the rest of the game. And had the baserunner been paying attention, he could have probably taken third ... the ball bounced that far away.

 

[Mayfly]

Twas a curveball. I guess you could say it was well hung with bad intentions. Jimmy Rollins should have murdered it.

 

[beefncheddar]

Twas a curveball. Jimmy Rollins should have murdered it.

I was watching on mlb.tv, so the screen wasn't that good ... but it sure looked like dead red to me. Either way, cross another thing off the "things I've never seen at a baseball game" list.

 

[Mayfly]

It wasn't a curveball. It was a 92 mph fastball with movement, and Rollins was taking all the way.

And the reason the runner couldn't take third was because the ball hit the ump. If that ball bounces all the way to the backstop, as big as Dodger Stadium is, then he might have been standing on third.

Unless Saito's fastball has a huge break in it, then I don't think it's a fastball. I don't see Saito pitch that much, but that fastball looked like a huge breaking curveball. Bourne could have had third if he was looking where the ball skidded away.

 

[Mayfly]

It wasn't a curveball. It was a 92 mph fastball with movement, and Rollins was taking all the way.

And the reason the runner couldn't take third was because the ball hit the ump. If that ball bounces all the way to the backstop, as big as Dodger Stadium is, then he might have been standing on third.

Unless Saito's fastball has a huge break in it, then I don't think it's a fastball. I don't see Saito pitch that much, but that fastball looked like a huge breaking curveball. Bourne could have had third if he was looking where the ball skidded away.

The pitch was 92 mph on the FSN West radar gun. That was NOT a curveball.

And it really didn't break that much. Maybe 3 inches or so, inward toward the lefty hitter. It was probably a cutter from Saito, and a pretty good one.

I think that's the same gun that gave Madson 96 MPH a few days ago. So it wasn't a curveball, but it had a heck of a lot of movement on it. Maybe from the close-up replay it looked to break more than it did. The ball was well over the heart of the plate.

 

[Mayfly]

Cutters can have that kind of movement, Mayfly. The pitch itself wasn't that unusual here.

I know cutters have a good deal of movement, but it looked as if it broke 1-7, not 3-9.