Baseball Miscellany

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Angels chasing 2 in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs and nobody on against the Nats.

Trout and Ohtani due.

2-2 to Trout and swings through a fastball right down the middle at 97, ballgame.

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I was half watching the game and every time I looked up the Angels were committing some egregious defensive miscue. Itself pretty crazy to have the two best players in baseball and not be able to get to .500 on the year.

What vpn do you use? I have Surfshark and suddenly it really sucks.

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NordVPN is the VPN that I have glommed on to, and it’s great. Sometimes you have to try a few locations to get the game to stream, but from what I can tell that’s the stupid MLB.tv “security” they’ve upped this season.

I occasionally have to close and reopen the tab as well when connecting to get it working, but it’s a tiny price to pay to not have to pay 100+ bucks for cable just to watch the Astros.

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Same question as Chuck.
Which VPN do you use or recommend?

Oh, and thoughts and prayers for the halos.

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(see above)

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And even more fun.

The Yankees started their day with the bases loaded and nobody out, and Stanton hit a ball off the wall in deep left center to plate two, and that’s all the scored for the game.

Torres (hitting leadoff both in the game and the inning) hit a triple (on an ill advised dive attempt by Myles Straw) in the 8th and the Yankees couldn’t push him across.

Final 3-2 Guardians

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Fantastic!

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“Looking at a pitch from about 60 feet 6 inches.”

Brilliant.

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“He hit it to the short grass.”

Equally

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I use AVG Antivirus/Internet Security and it has a good VPN. There are locations listed as being “optimized for streaming or video” and I haven’t had any dropouts so far this year.

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Interesting but weird stat. Can’t imagine how they track that.

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Everything in baseball is tracked. They can tell you most times in an inning a Puerto Rican player with three or more sisters adjusted his cup.

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It’s all about ball bearings algorithms these days

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“We want to make sure that it’s rebranded a little bit. It’s a homer hose, not a, uh, a dong bong,” pitcher Kyle Gibson told The Baltimore Sun

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How about trotting around the bases and then just sitting down?

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Luis Arraez hits for the cycle tonight. First time in Marlin’s history.

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That trade is going to be good for both teams as López has been dealing for the Twins. Arraez is a player I’ve always wanted in Houston somehow. He’s a professional hitter like Brantley.

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I just asked Google Bard (their GPT AI) this question that I made up on the fly: “ When was the last time that two major league baseball MVPs on the same team when hitless in a game?”

it returned this answer in less than two seconds: The last time that two major league baseball MVPs on the same team went hitless in a game was on April 10, 2023, when the New York Mets lost to the Philadelphia Phillies 4-0. The Mets’ two MVPs, Jacob deGrom and Pete Alonso, both went 0-for-4 at the plate.

deGrom, the 2018 National League Cy Young Award winner, allowed four runs on six hits and two walks in six innings. Alonso, the 2019 National League Rookie of the Year and 2021 National League MVP, struck out twice and grounded out twice.

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