Acuña says “I’m baaaack!” Homers on first AB in return from ACL surgery.
A 467 foot HR no less.
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Been watching Skubal put on a pitching masterclass vs Cleveland: lost the no-no in the 6th, is through the 8th with a 2hit, 0BB, 11K, 85 pitch shutout. He’s never pitched a CGSO.
Tigers found him in the 9th round, I just learned.
eta: 1-2-3 ninth with 2 more K’s…final pitch (94th) was at 103
A 13-strikeout, shutout Maddux. Wow.
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What’s a Maddux? CGSO with fewer than 100 pitches?
I believe it’s just a CG with <100 pitches, but shutout may be part of the equation.
I think it has something to do with getting pitches eight inches off the plate called strikes.
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When the last pitch is 102.6 mph for a K…whaddya call that?
A Johnson? A Ryan?
It would have to be “A Ryan”. If I remember correctly, Ryan was the first person humans for sure knew actually threw a ball at 100mph. Or is has my childhood deification of that man taken on yet a new myth?
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The first with a radar gun. I believe someone made a measurement of Bob Feller before that.
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IIRC, Walter Johnson had a pitch measured against a speeding motorcycle. In 1914, so I found.
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I know Feller threw against a motorcycle and Johnson had his pitches measured by military ballistics testing. If you’ve never seen it, the movie Fastball documents some of that. It’s quite good.
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Framber had a great performance on Friday night, with the fewest pitches tossed in a complete game in quite a while.
I’m just throwing this out to you folks for entertainment purposes. I’m sure that most of you are familiar with this game. I have always been fascinated by it.
Softball miscellany. Randy Johnson-esque.
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Not only that, but some of the exploded clump of dirt makes a beeline for the catcher’s right eye. Incredible.
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Hunter Brown has 8 wins.
The Rockies have 9.
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In absolutely shocking news, an online gambler was behind the death threats to LMJ’s family.
See above.
This threat on Lance’s family is brought to you by FanDuel, the official gaming sponsor of Major League Baseball.
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Getting in bed with the professional gambling world in a time of betting apps is the moral equivalent of MLB hiring Arnold Rothstein in the 1920’s.
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TJ Friedl just pulled back a homer to preserve the win for Cincy in the top of the 9th. High drama.