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[Teh One Who Knocks]

Meanwhile, still no Darvish.

But, so far at least, Hamels looks awesome!



They are chanting MVP for Baez at Wrigley these days....

It's not like you guys paid a lot of money for Darvish or anything


Oh wait

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It would be nice, but I would take another WS trophy over the regular season wins record any day of the week

9 game road trip starts today, we'll see how that goes. Will there be some kind of let down after sweeping the Yankees?

I don't know, man, they are on fire.

Still not sure why Cora lost his mind over a bench warning in the Yankee series. Even stormed out of the press conference.

[RBP]

It's not like you guys paid a lot of money for Darvish or anything


Oh wait

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I don't know, man, they are on fire.

Still not sure why Cora lost his mind over a bench warning in the Yankee series. Even stormed out of the press conference.

If you would have told me that Alex Cora in his first ever managerial job in MLB would have the Red Sox performing like this, I would have laughed at you. What he's done there is just phenomenal. We'll have to wait and see until next year whether it's a 'beginner's luck' fluke or not though.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

by Dakota Randall - NESN

There’s bad umpiring, and then there’s what took place Monday night in the Southeast Regional tournament for the 2018 Little League World Series.

With Georgia leading Alabama in the second inning, Georgia batter Chase Fralick began trotting to first base after a 3-0 pitch missed high. Clearly displeased with Fralick’s premature exit from the batter’s box, the home plate umpire called a very late strike, prompting Fralick to turn around.

If that weren’t bad enough, the same thing happened on the next pitch, except the ball was even more outside and the umpire’s call was made even more egregiously late.

Listen, we understand umpires don’t want batters showing them up, and it’s not a bad idea to keep little leaguers in check. Those calls were complete garbage, though, and that Umpire should be ashamed of himself.

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Yeah, I'm hoping that's all it is too.

Off the "DL" and starting Sunday.

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My new Yu Darvish gif.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

He's saving himself for the playoffs

[RBP]

He's saving himself for the playoffs

Hopefully he does as well as he did for the Dodgers. Oh wait, crap.

[RBP]

Man, glad I watched that one to the end. Pitcher's duel ended with a rookie walk off grand slam.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

4 game sweep of the o's and now 50 games over .500

Baltimore is now 49.5 games behind the Red Sox in the division, unreal

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Cesar Brioso, USA TODAY




It's impressive enough to double up a runner with a 321-foot throw, but to do it by throwing out the runner at first base?

A's center fielder Ramon Laureano did just that in Saturday night's 7-0 victory against the Angels.

In the third inning, Laureano tracked down a drive from Justin Upton at the warning track in the left-center field gap, running 76 feet in 4.4 seconds, according to MLB.com.

After slamming on the brakes, Laureano turned and fired a strike on the fly to first baseman Mark Canha to double up Eric Young Jr., who had rounded second base when the ball was caught.

"The catch, I know I've made it before, but the throw is pretty crazy," Laureano said after the game. "It was a crazy play, a crazy moment. I was shocked."

So were his teammates.

"That's the best throw I've ever seen," A's shortstop Marcus Semien said, "at least the farthest throw I've ever seen on the line."

According to Statcast, the throw was clocked at 91.2 mph.

A's outfielders have a recent history of making ridiculous throws against the Angels, specifically former Oakland outfielder Yoenis Céspedes.

Remember this one from June 10, 2014? The victim then was Howie Kendrick.

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My thought when I saw that throw over the weekend was, "amazing catch...great fucking throw... but that's a shitty baseball play". That's an extremely low-percentage throw and probably slower than a hard relay. He should have been out by a mile, but was almost safe.

[RBP]

4 game sweep of the o's and now 50 games over .500

Baltimore is now 49.5 games behind the Red Sox in the division, unreal

They have to pick up the pace to get to 117.

Sale looked amazing for having come off the "DL". wink wink.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

My thought when I saw that throw over the weekend was, "amazing catch...great fucking throw... but that's a shitty baseball play". That's an extremely low-percentage throw and probably slower than a hard relay. He should have been out by a mile, but was almost safe.

I guess the only thing with a relay is you increase the chance of an error? I don't know what was going through his mind at the time, but man he has an arm on him.

They have to pick up the pace to get to 117.

Sale looked amazing for having come off the "DL". wink wink.

Pretty sure they won't come close to 117 wins They'd need to go 32 and 10 down the stretch to do it.

And they pulled Sale early, but he did fan 12 in 5 innings