Conquer Club

Twelve teams already have 40+ wins, with the Cardinals on top at 47-27.
Enjoyed watching the Rangers pick up 2 runs in the top of the 9th last
night. Shame they couldn't hold on like that in Game 6 a few years ago.

Lyons and Holland both had rough starts, but Holland pulled it together
and went seven innings. Tonight it's Perez (0-1) vs Miller (8-4).

oVo wrote:Twelve teams already have 40+ wins, with the Cardinals on top at 47-27.
Enjoyed watching the Rangers pick up 2 runs in the top of the 9th last
night. Shame they couldn't hold on like that in Game 6 a few years ago.

Lyons and Holland both had rough starts, but Holland pulled it together
and went seven innings. Tonight it's Perez (0-1) vs Miller (8-4).

I'm pretty sure that Lyons is headed back to the minors. The Cards have off days where they only need a fifth starter 2 before July 15 and it looks like they might let Joe Kelly do it, like he did last year for them. And Miller is a beast right now. I'm looking forward to seeing him tonight. It's too bad that the Rangers changed up their rotation, because Sunday's game was gonna be Wainwright against Darvish, but they pushed Darvish back so that he could go against the Yankees.

Max Scherzer is 11-0. First pitcher to be 11-0 since Roger Clemens in Toronto, back in 1997.

Bollocks.

Toronto now has 11 straight wins after they crushed Baltimore 13-5 today!!

isaiah40 wrote:Toronto now has 11 straight wins after they crushed Baltimore 13-5 today!!

They keep this up, I'll have to re-think my most recent prediction that the Jays won't make up the difference!

Bollocks.

Serbia wrote:

isaiah40 wrote:Toronto now has 11 straight wins after they crushed Baltimore 13-5 today!!

They keep this up, I'll have to re-think my most recent prediction that the Jays won't make up the difference!

Bollocks.

Thanks to the Tigers taking 3 of 4 from Boston!

As a side note, in the last 2 weeks, Toronto gained 7 games on Boston. On June 10th, they were 12 games out, now they are 5 out!

The Rangers enjoy a few close one's in St. Louis to go up one game on Oakland.
how sweep it is

oVo wrote:The Rangers enjoy a few close one's in St. Louis to go up one game on Oakland.
how sweep it is

That last out was a little bit lucky...

Indeed... thought it might go extra innings
and be a real late night event.

A double followed by a pair of singles with two outs
plated the two Ranger runs in the top of the 7th...
after the Cards got a solo homer in the bottom of the 6th.

oVo wrote:Indeed... thought it might go extra innings
and be a real late night event.

A double followed by a pair of singles with two outs
plated the two Ranger runs in the top of the 7th...
after the Cards got a solo homer in the bottom of the 6th.

1 ER only for Waingwright, and I thought the Cardinals were going to kick Tepesch out of the game early..

nietzsche wrote:

oVo wrote:Indeed... thought it might go extra innings
and be a real late night event.

A double followed by a pair of singles with two outs
plated the two Ranger runs in the top of the 7th...
after the Cards got a solo homer in the bottom of the 6th.

1 ER only for Waingwright, and I thought the Cardinals were going to kick Tepesch out of the game early..

So did I. That was a disappointing weekend.

which one did you like most?

A cricket commentator tries to describe baseball:




--Andy

AndyDufresne wrote:A cricket commentator tries to describe baseball:




--Andy

I'm at 0:56 still and cannot stop laughing

"gordon-levit the star of third rock from the sun" lmao

"salamander"

"fbi agent" lmao

Max Scherzer is 12-0.

Bollocks.

Scherzer is now 13-0, and the Tigers are 7-2 against the Tribe so far, with their 7-0 victory on Friday.

And in other fun news, we're going to next Sunday's game vs. Texas, and looks like Verlander is scheduled to pitch. Hopefully he's corrected his pitching issues. If Thursday's game was any indication, looks like we'll see the old Justin.

Bollocks.

AndyDufresne wrote:A cricket commentator tries to describe baseball:

Oh my God, that was great. "The power of Gordon-Levitt", indeed.

How is nobody here talking about Puig?

Army of GOD wrote:Puig is a beast. Imagine if he played for a team that didn't suck balls?

Sort of the same thing I was saying about Miguel Cabrera a couple of days ago...can you
imagine if he played at Wrigley Field for half his games? Good God.

Oh, and the Dodgers are decidedly starting to not suck now...Puig (and getting healthy) seems to
have lit a fire in their tails.

Puig should NOT be in the All-Star Game. He's awesome, but he's only played 1 month.

Bollocks.

Serbia wrote:Puig should NOT be in the All-Star Game. He's awesome, but he's only played 1 month.

While I tend to agree, I do think there's some validity to the argument of "Batting .436 after a full month perhaps warrants it". I mean...that really is astounding.

Woodruff wrote:While I tend to agree, I do think there's some validity to the argument of "Batting .436 after a full month perhaps warrants it". I mean...that really is astounding.

It's astounding for the moment, but it's only been a month. The league will sort him out and that batting average won't likely remain above 400. In fact Puig went 0-4 at the plate last night, all punchouts. Of course he's also a very good defensive player and I hope his career is a long one and just warming up.

oVo wrote:

Woodruff wrote:While I tend to agree, I do think there's some validity to the argument of "Batting .436 after a full month perhaps warrants it". I mean...that really is astounding.

It's astounding for the moment, but it's only been a month.

Of a season that's only been two months long, I would point out. While that is a significant difference (double the at-bats), it also shows that he has done it for a significant length of time.

oVo wrote:The league will sort him out and that batting average won't likely remain above 400. In fact Puig went 0-4 at the plate last night, all punchouts. Of course he's also a very good defensive player and I hope his career is a long one and just warming up.

He is a good defensive player. In fact, I think the only thing he needs SERIOUS work on is baserunning. He's got the speed for that too, though, once he can get it figured out.

Puig has had perhaps the greatest first month in baseball ever. Obviously he'll normalize but still...this is like DiMaggio status.

I don't understand the "he's only played for a month" argument. He's arguably the hottest player in baseball right now and factually the most exciting. Since Kershaw is the only Dodger in the All-Star game you'd probably get a million+ more viewers if you stuck Puig in the starting lineup.

This is a no contest from a marketing perspective which baseball needs to consider seeing how much attendance is down this year.