Middle of the 10th, 3-2 game, Clev over KC
One team is 3-14 and the other is 0-11 with RISP
It makes me think about the last couple of Stros games I haven’t watched.
eta: KC finished 1-12 and their 1 was an John India HR that walked off the game
“Three-thousand hits and 262 hits in one season are achievements recognized by the writers,” Suzuki said. “Except, oh, one of you.”
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Which Astro would say this to Manfred, and why is the answer Josh Hader?
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Lance McCullers was the Astros players’ club rep, and one of the MLBPA reps. I’m not sure if he still is, but I assume he would be the one.
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I honestly forgot he would be in the clubhouse.
@JeffPassan BREAKING: Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase has been placed on non-disciplinary paid leave as part of MLB’s sports-betting investigation, sources tell ESPN.
Clase is the second Guardians pitcher on leave tied to the investigation, joining right-hander Luis Ortiz.
Yikes
Sounds kinda disciplinary to me.
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I’m not sure how much I like Bryce Harper, but I like him a lot more now than I used to.
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Sports writer I follow on Twitter asked what it means to “strike out the side”:
- three batters, three K’s
- three outs recorded by K
I always understood it to be the former.
According to Levi Weaver’s 2019 article in The Athletic, however, there is more than a bit of disagreement on that point in MLB (admittedly, he primarily interviewed the players and coaches in the Rangers clubhouse).
That was Alkie’s pettest of peeves. If you give up 3 runs and strike out 3 batters, you should not be given the honor of “striking out the side.”
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You can also strike out three straight batters and not record an out. “Striking out the side” means you recorded all three outs in the inning via strikeout. Even if you gave up 9 runs along the way. I save my anger for incorrect terminology like “ground rule double” when a fair ball bounces over the fence, or when the hitter after the hitter on deck is said to be “in the hole”.
You hear this on broadcasts all the time, “he strikes out the side, but…”
I’m with Alkie. As to another age-old debate, I think “batting around” requires at least one hitter to bat twice in the inning. Can’t do it with just nine imo.
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Vin Scully used this definition so it’s good enough for me.
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Of course, Alkie had enough pet peeves to open a children’s zoo.
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That isn’t a ground rule double?
I think it’s a Rule Book Double.
Hudson could open a Bronx Zoo.
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It’s an “automatic double”. It’s a rulebook rule, nothing to do with specific park, or even universal, ground rules. A ball that goes over the fence on the fly isn’t a “ground rule home run”, it’s just a home run…by rule.
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Acknowledging that you’re correct, I’m going to tell myself that they call it a “ground rule double” not because of stadium ground rules but because the rule says it’s a double if it hits the ground before exiting the field of play. This explanation works for me as long as I don’t think about it any further.
There actually IS a thing called a “ground rule double”, such as ball getting stuck in a fence (universal ground rule) or in the ivy at Wrigley Field (field specific ground rule). But I’m all for soothing your troubled baseball soul.
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