The 2010 MLB Game Thread

[italstallianion]

Ubaldo Jimenez continues his string of strong starts with an 8 inning 1 ER effort against the Twins.

[bsox0407]

Just heard this after watching highlights on Mlb.com "Red Sox are the first team to have three starters to 8 wins." Especially surprising since the Yankees had 4 with 5 pretty much after 35 games.

[TedWilliams101]

Strasburg was excellent in his 3rd start, setting the MLB record for most strikeouts through the first 3 games of a career (32). He pitched 7 Innings (just 85 pitches), giving up 1 run on 4 hits, no walks, and 10 strikeouts.

[yrtb]

Strasburg has been very impressive, but I want to see him play a good lineup, that would really prove himself

[italstallianion]

I'm not sure if there is a college baseball thread, so if there is one, this can be moved there. Anyway, is anyone watching the UCLA/Florida game? The UCLA pitcher (Trevor Bauer) is pretty good, and it seems like his pitching motion is similar to Tim Lincecum's. I just wanted to know if anyone else saw a resemblance in pitching motion's as well. It isn't identical, but it has similar torque and explosiveness.

[suns]

I'm not sure if there is a college baseball thread' date=' so if there is one, this can be moved there. Anyway, is anyone watching the UCLA/Florida game? The UCLA pitcher (Trevor Bauer) is pretty good, and it seems like his pitching motion is similar to Tim Lincecum's. I just wanted to know if anyone else saw a resemblance in pitching motion's as well. It isn't identical, but it has similar torque and explosiveness.[/quote']

 

http://www.talksox.com/forum/other-sports/13835-2010-college-baseball-thread.html

[italstallianion]

Damn, Thanks.

[yeszir]

Before dying, John McDonald's dad asks him to hit a home run for him in his next game. And he does.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/For-you-Dad-McDonald-homers-in-first-AB-since-?urn=mlb,250071

[yrtb]

That's an incredible story, especially for a guy who is not known to hit home runs. It must have been a very emotional moment for him when he hit it.

[redsoxrules]

Ive never seen this before

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100623&content_id=11478652&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

[Youk Of The Nation]

Ive never seen this before

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100623&content_id=11478652&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

 

That happened to Ryan Zimmerman a couple years ago. Its always hilarious.

[italstallianion]

Matt Cain is getting murdered by the Astros. God damn it. First Garza, then Jimenez, now this.

[Flynnatic10]

yea, cain is killing my ERA!

[suns]

Fausto Carmona...ugh.

[italstallianion]

I have a couple of questions. First, can somebody explain to me why all 4 of Ben Sheets runs are earned? I understand why the first, third, and last runs are earned, but the 2nd run occurred when, according to Yahoo, "R Doumit safe on first baseman D Barton's fielding error, A McCutchen scored". Both yahoo and espn have all 4 of Sheet's runs as earned. Shouldn't Ben Sheets then be 6 IP 3 ER? Shouldn't it be a quality start?

 

 

My other question (as you can tell, they have fantasy implications) is in the Royals/Cardinals game. In the 9th inning, Ludwick reached on catcher's interference, and later scored. Greinke was responsible for the run, and yahoo said that he had 2 runs, 1 ER, while ESPN marked both runs as earned. Which one is correct?

 

 

Edit: For reference, mlb.com also has Greinke's run as unearned, however, it has Sheet's run as earned.

[Keeper]

LOL @ Carlos Zambrano. What an *******.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Garrett Atkins DFA. How the mighty have fallen. Leaving Coors really killed him.

[suns]

Russell Branyan being traded is the best news of the year.

[Keeper]

Russell Branyan being traded is the best news of the year.

 

Russell Branyan: .263/.328/.491

 

Cleveland Guardians: .248/.324/.378

 

Yeah, I really don't see how you have a better team without him.

[suns]

Russell Branyan: .263/.328/.491

 

Cleveland Guardians: .248/.324/.378

 

Yeah, I really don't see how you have a better team without him.

 

Giving the specs time to play and Russell Branyan couldn't do s*** right. <_ his batting stance is the weirdest one i ever seen.>

[jacksonianmarch]

cause weird batting stance is equal to suck. I see. I actually agree with suns that it is better for cleveland. They got something for Branyan and now have a full time spot for Laporta

[msubulldogs21]

LOL @ Carlos Zambrano. What an *******.

 

That dude is seriously off his rocker, but I think we've known that for a while now. How do you possibly get that furious at Derrek Lee? He's one of the nicest guys in baseball.

 

Also, Josh Hamilton now has a 22 game hit streak after that last base hit. The man is a machine.

[Keeper]

Denard Span with three triples in a game. That might be even more rare than four HRs in a game.

[suns]

That dude is seriously off his rocker, but I think we've known that for a while now. How do you possibly get that furious at Derrek Lee? He's one of the nicest guys in baseball.

 

Also, Josh Hamilton now has a 22 game hit streak after that last base hit. The man is a machine.

 

All of his team mates said that he was just trying to pump up the team and they took it wrong.

 

4000!!!!!

[Keeper]

Um, no they didn't; that's what Zambrano said. One of the worst spin jobs I've ever seen, too. It was pretty obvious that he was out of control. Be a man and own up to your insanity, Zambrano.

[italstallianion]

Another Rockies starter not doing well in Petco vs. the Padres. Jeff Francis is getting F'ed in the A right now.

[Yaz Sideburn]

any thoughts on the rangers? they quietly have the third best record in baseball and they're the only AL team that had a better record than us in june

[Keeper]

Looks like Carlos Marmol might've been traded to Cincy for Chris Heisey. Leave it to Jim Hendry to trade a lights out closer when there is no clearcut replacement for a rookie OF to create an even bigger logjam out there. Earning his paycheck one bad move at a time.

[italstallianion]

Does Cincinnati even need a closer? Isn't Cordero doing the job over there?

[jacksonianmarch]

They probably needed a setup guy like everyone else