That is very scary.
I once saw a field up get hit in the shoulder by a throw. The shortstop had ranged to his right, planted and threw to first. The field up was behind the mound and was on a knee expecting a throw at head height. It was low and caught him in the back of shoulder as he was turning away from the ball. The ball ended up about 15 feet shy of the RF wall in foul territory. That ump stayed in the game but he was moving that arm between every pitch for several innings.
With the history of that series, I still had to check to make sure the Twins had actually won. (They did, 11-2.)
This is just a stupid pitch.
Also, when did the term âsweeperâ come into use as a pitch designation? Iâve noticed it on espn gameday this year but donât recall ever seeing it before.
We talked about that here a couple of days ago.
HehâŚjust looked at that thread. It was 12 days ago, you expect me to remember that far back?
Ha!
So I have Youtube TV so I no longer have the MLB Network available to me. I am in west Texas today for some work meetings and thought cool I will get to watch the Astros game. The hotel has MLB Network but no, it is blacked out and does carry either teamâs regional sports network. MLB blackout rules suck!
At least according to the Athletic article today, Manfred is at least giving lip service to the issue:
âThe problem is we granted exclusivity in places where the cable distributors never actually distributed the product,â Manfred said. âThose people are just out of luck right now.â
But donât expect changes anytime soon.
âMajor League Baseball has zero chance of putting all 30 teams together in a national package,â said one lawyer in the sport familiar with the contracts who was not authorized to speak publicly.
The reason, the lawyer said, is that the large-market teams will not want to put their digital rights into an all-30 pot unless it makes financial sense. The most prominent teams draw the most money for their broadcast rights. The likes of Amazon or Peacock might pony up big dollars to broadcast one of the premier teams, and baseballâs central office might not be able to match that offer.â
The Angels had THREE catcherâs interferences in a row to load the bases in the 8th that led to 3 runs and lost, 9-7 today.
Thats the most Angels shit I have ever heard of. Gonna have to watch that inning later
Good grief. Did no one tell the catcher to take a step back?
The pitcher was throwing it six inches short.
Was it the vaunted OâHoppe doing all that interfering?
No, it was the other guy, Thaiss. Well the box score has him with two.
Yup, it was just two. The highlight package i watched last night made it look like 3, but it was just bad editing.
Regardless, 2 in an inning that eventually led to them giving up the winning runs. Woof.
He had one earlier in the game but the MLB highlight package put them all together.
Apparently I canât put together coherent sentences presently. Thatâs what I meant.
Or I just need to read slower. I could read that in there when I went back and looked. My bad.
There were 3 in total but the Red Sox catcher had the other one in the 2nd inning
In the least surprising news youâll hear this week, Giancarlo Stanton injured himself this weekend (hamstring, iirc) and will miss four or more weeks.
Angels DFAâd David Fletcher today.