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The A's had an answer to Robert's bat flip.
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Yesterday's Top Performers
Batters:
Fernando Tatis Jr.* (SDP): 3-5, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 2 R
Wil Myers* (SDP): 2-5, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 2 R
Sean Murphy* (OAK): 1-2, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 R
Luis Robert (CHW): 2-5, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 R
Kolten Wong (STL): 1-4, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 1 R
Paul Goldschmidt (STL): 2-5, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 R
* - pictured above
We still aren't getting his stats, which is really a shame.
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Yesterday's Top Performers
Pitchers:
Clayton Kershaw* (LAD): 8.0 IP, 0 ER, 3 H, 1 BB, 13 K, 88 GmSc
Ian Anderson* (ATL): 6.0 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 2 BB, 9 K, 75 GmSc
Luis Castillo (CIN): 5.1 IP, 1 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 7 K, 58 GmSc
Brandon Woodruff (MIL): 4.2 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 0 BB, 9 K, 51 GmSc
* - pictured above
I just watched the condensed game. Kerhshaw's expression in the eighth, evidently with Dave Roberts on the dugout steps after Kershaw has walked a batter, is absolutely priceless.
He doesn't come out for the ninth. The condensed game doesn't show how he reacted to that, but even if he groaned I'm sure he understood. There's such a long way to go.
Nice end of the season for Houser as he blanks the Dodgers over the last two.
Rooting for a Padres / A's WS now that the Brewers are out.
Both teams pitchers threw over 180 pitches!
Doozy? All hands on deck! :-)
Homers in the 7th, again in the 8th to lead the Pads back against the Cards, 11-9. Tatis chipped in with two of his own. Cards rolled out eight pitchers, six of which were scored on. Zach Davies lasted two innings for the Pads, leaving with his team down by four, and Trevor Rosenthal, the ninth Padre pitcher, allowed a homer, a walk and a single before getting the third out.
Tomorrow should be a doozy.
Went to a 3 game rehab assignment at Pawtucket when he was 36, in his final season in baseball. It was the first minor league games of his career.
The last one I remember was John Olerud.
Here's a page for Crochet. No BIS ID yet, hence no stats.
Unless he starts in the minors next year, which seems unlikely, or gets demoted mid-season, which might be less unlikely (but still unlikely), he'll join the Al Kaline Club: the exclusive group that has never played in the minors.
Here's the link that the Mob provided.
Need a page for Garrett Crochet
Drafted in 2020, Chicago White Sox, Round: 1, Overall Pick: 11 ... fast to MLB!
In the only AL game today, the starting pitcher for the A's has been changed from TBA to Mike Fiers. The White Sox are still trying to decide. Or still aren't saying.
For both teams the correct answer is Everybody. Much is made of the fact that there no off days in the middle of a playoff series. But whoever wins today won't play again until Monday.
All 15 teams in the XFL are busy listing players they'd be happy to trade (for just about anything). Here's one of the lists.
Marcell Ozuna $26
Kris Bryant (+3) $19
Jorge Polanco (+3) $19 – defense doesn’t count!
Francisco Mejia (+3) $10
Mike Tauchman $6
Jesus Aguilar $6
The Marlins ended last season with 105 losses and began this season with half the team in the grips of Covid. And now...
Yesterday's Biggest Play
Batter: Corey Dickerson (MIA)
Pitcher: Kyle Hendricks (CHC)
Situation: Top 7th, 1 out, 0-0 count, Runners On 1st and 2nd
Score: CHC 1, MIA 0
Home Run (Line Drive to Deep LF-CF)
3 runs scored on the play, and MIA's win probability increased 41% points, to 79%
MIA went on to win the game, 5-1
Another great pitching duel. Fried doesn't win this one but you can tell that his team did by the big smile on his face.
Bauer's expression would be the same, win or lose.
The final interleague score, by the way, was 149-149. NL led in runs, 1420-1378.
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Yesterday's Top Performers
Pitchers:
Trevor Bauer* (CIN): 7.2 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 0 BB, 12 K, 87 GmSc
Max Fried* (ATL): 7.0 IP, 0 ER, 6 H, 0 BB, 5 K, 70 GmSc
Sandy Alcantara (MIA): 6.2 IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 3 BB, 4 K, 65 GmSc
Chris Bassitt (OAK): 7.0 IP, 1 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 5 K, 65 GmSc
Jose Berrios (MIN): 5.0 IP, 1 ER, 2 H, 2 BB, 4 K, 61 GmSc
* - pictured above
He goes with a fastball down and away. Jeffress made his pitch and clearly thinks the wind in Wrigley helped the ball get over the fence. Maybe it did and maybe it didn't but Aguilar made solid contact.
So did Dickerson earlier in the inning with his homer into the wind.
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Yesterday's Top Performers
Batters:
Danny Jansen* (TOR): 2-3, 2 HR, 2 RBI, 2 R
Gio Urshela* (NYY): 2-5, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 2 R
Giancarlo Stanton* (NYY): 1-2, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 R
Yasmani Grandal (CHW): 1-3, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 R
Randy Arozarena (TBR): 3-4, 1 RBI, 2 R
Jesus Aguilar (MIA): 2-5, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 R
* - pictured above
They posted zeros through six. Hendricks cracked in the top of the seventh and when Alcantara started to bend in his half, he also was taken out, looking none too pleased.
I would have left him in for the fateful one more batter.
Freddie won it but the save goes to Austin in the seventh inning.
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Yesterday's Biggest Play
Batter: Fernando Tatis Jr. (SDP)
Pitcher: Giovanny Gallegos (STL)
Situation: Bottom 6th, 1 out, 2-2 count, Runners On 1st and 2nd
Score: STL 6, SDP 2
Home Run (Line Drive to Deep LF Line)
3 runs scored on the play, and SDP's win probability increased 22% points, to 35%
SDP went on to win the game, 11-9
View the full game Boxscore at Baseball-Reference.com
Stathead Spotlight: Fernando Tatis Jr.
Multi-HR games in the playoffs before turning 22 years old
See the list at Stathead.com's Batting Game Finder