MLB 2021 Season Catch-All

It's impressive that group managed to stay together for almost 5 years and it's just as impressive that the Cubs got rid of them all at once like it was a Marlins' fire sale.

Astros are really wishing LA had put COVID limits on attendance at the game tonight.

The people who organized tonight's Field of Dreams game do know that in the movie dead people came out of the corn, right?

Dead contracts, at least?

Meanwhile, the Yankees do two things. Hit homers and blow saves. Got both of those tonight.

Living in a world where the current HR leader, in August....

......is a pitcher.

(Also, he went 8 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 8 K)

How bad do you feel if you're the position player asked to not bat because the pitcher is a better hitter than you (and probably the DH)?

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

How bad do you feel if you're the position player asked to not bat because the pitcher is a better hitter than you (and probably the DH)?

Albert Pujols? I'm sure all his money comforted him before they released him.

Ohtani is actually their full-time DH even when he is not pitching. He's played every one of their games.

Prederick wrote:

Living in a world where the current HR leader, in August....

......is a pitcher.

(Also, he went 8 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 8 K)

I feel so fortunate to be able to follow baseball while Ohtani's doing this. It's the same feeling I get about Messi.

It is very mean and unfair to say this, but I just want to note that Miggy's OPS is currently .692.

Jacob DeGrom's is .758.

I love him.

Stop the season right now.

The Mets are 69-69.

Sweeping the Yankees to get into the Wild Card race?

Pretty great.

Sucks that Pearson was Jeckyl & Hyde in that outing though.

Sigh.

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No playoff hopes, but the wife enjoyed this graphic:

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And they won that game. The next two they lost in the final inning (doubleheader, 11-10 and 11-0). The Blue Jays scored 11 runs in the seventh for game 2 after being no-hit the previous 6. They have 22 right now in the 7th. The Blue Jays record for most runs in a game is 24 against…the Orioles in 1978.

The Orioles are must-watch baseball.

(Did it start pouring almost immediately after this? You bet your ass it did.)

The only good thing my Os have done this year - introduce hockey to baseball.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco:

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I'm trying to parse the message. Is that Max's ex or maybe his friends congratulating him on all the free time he'll have to watch the Giants now that the missus is out of the picture?

Still rooting for Shouhei to break his slump and end the season with the most homers, but if he keeps getting walked 3-4 times per game it's starting to look unlikely.

edit: on the plus side, he's tied the MLB record for most walks in three consecutive games. So there's that.

/furious self abuse sounds

The Orioles won a game.

This is not a drill.

Rays won the division back to back. Nice.

Blue Jays might finally win again. Really really hope the Red Sox (UUUGGGHHH) win tomorrow and the Jays even their series.

Prederick wrote:

/furious self abuse sounds

It’s weird that I hate every rival in the AL East and every one of them is uniquely annoying.

Yankees: trash fans in a trash stadium; really like to boast about “doing things the right way” while acquiring Chapman multiple times
Red Sox: Alex Cora shouldn’t be a manager; racist fans
Rays: won’t pay players and masquerade this as being a well-run organization; somehow claim they are a small market; hideous and stupid stadium
Orioles: LOLOLOL; somehow always have an attitude despite never accomplishing anything of note in my lifetime other than have Cal Ripken

Vector wrote:

Yankees: trash fans in a trash stadium;

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Deeeeeeeeeeeeelightful.