2013 MLB Game Thread

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Playoff Freese is back, watch out Dodgers.

[Youk Of The Nation]

I am incredibly disappointed that in a series that went all 5 possible games, they didn't manage to have even one game where the SP matchup ended up being Fister and Colon.

 

EDIT: If everything aligned perfectly, both starters would pitch complete games, and the Tigers would win 1-0 on an RBI infield single on which Colon couldn't handle a low throw to first base. Then the headline could be "Colon's Stretch Not Enough to Handle Fister"

Edited October 10, 2013 by Youk Of The Nation

[yeszir]

Haha dude how do you come up with this stuff

[Youk Of The Nation]

I'm just saying, they could have done me a favor. No consideration at all.

[Thunder]

Now that the Pirates are gone, any NL team that goes to the WS will earn the league big money. A Sox-Dodgers WS will be a gold mine for the league.

[Palodios]

I am incredibly disappointed that in a series that went all 5 possible games, they didn't manage to have even one game where the SP matchup ended up being Fister and Colon.

 

EDIT: If everything aligned perfectly, both starters would pitch complete games, and the Tigers would win 1-0 on an RBI infield single on which Colon couldn't handle a low throw to first base. Then the headline could be "Colon's Stretch Not Enough to Handle Fister"

 

Helpful tip -- Stephen Drew's nickname is "Dirt". Might be useful with the Tiger's #3 starter on the mound.

[Station 13]

I wish Fister and Furbush pitch in the NL so we can hear announcers snickers when one is pitching and the other is at the plate. Fister pounds Furbush inside with a heater!

 

Once Fister takes his turn at the dish, "Fister takes Furbush deep to center"

Edited October 10, 2013 by Station 13

[jacksonianmarch]

Now that the Pirates are gone, any NL team that goes to the WS will earn the league big money. A Sox-Dodgers WS will be a gold mine for the league.

 

When Bud is wearing his business hat, he is loving the prospects of a Sox-LA WS. When he is wearing his "former owner of a small market club" hat, he'd be swearing

[jacksonianmarch]

You know the stooges at ESPN will be talking about how the small market mantra isn't working if Boston and LA made the WS. #2 vs #4 payrolls in baseball

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

f*** ESPN. They barely cover baseball outside of baseball tonight, they suck.

[Navafan29]

f*** ESPN. They barely cover baseball outside of baseball tonight, they suck.

 

Tell me about it. One season of baseball is as massive as 10 years of NFL seasons. So much has led up to this point in the playoffs and baseball gets treated as just another sport with the media. There are so few NFL games that the sport shouldn't even be on the same map as baseball. There's plenty of drama and character in baseball, but some media would rather talk about NBA players callin' each other out in the preseason. Yeah let's show clips of all these freaking cool slam dunks in a sport where you aren't even allowed to play defense.

[Thunder]

f*** ESPN. They barely cover baseball outside of baseball tonight, they suck.

 

They barely cover college volleyball. They used to, when they first started. Your point?

[User Name]

They barely cover college volleyball. They used to, when they first started. Your point?

 

Is this srerious?

[Jasonbay44]

I'm also disappointed in ESPNS coverage of cricket.

[Thunder]

Is this srerious?

 

Not really.

[Station 13]

Ok hopefully tonight Tigers/A's game goes 20 innings.

[Station 13]

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[Thunder]

Ok hopefully tonight Tigers/A's game goes 20 innings.

 

It has potential. If Vogt hadn't ended game 2 in the ninth, they could have remained scoreless for a long time. Sonny Gray looks like another great A's pitcher.

[Brennan]

You know the stooges at ESPN will be talking about how the small market mantra isn't working if Boston and LA made the WS. #2 vs #4 payrolls in baseball

 

 

Not so much, the annual #1 payroll team failed again.

[sk7326]

Not so much, the annual #1 payroll team failed again.

 

It is so silly - baseball's economic system is probably the most stable outside of the NFL (where so much of the revenue is centralized). Is it sad that Tampa has to trade guys? Sure - but they at least do not have to maintain a minimum payroll (and thus employ useless veterans) and tie Friedman's hands behind his back. That was the beauty of Moneyball for baseball fans - it took the excuses for smaller market teams and created some expectations.

[redsoxrules]

2 run bomb for Cabrera. The way Verlander is pitching it looks like the Sox will be facing the Tigers.

[User Name]

Verlander's velocity is way down.

[User Name]

Gray's losing it.

[redsoxrules]

Verlander's velocity is way down.

 

it always is early in the game. Wait in a few innings he will be hitting upper 90's if not 100

 

Edit: he's hitting 95 now.

Edited October 11, 2013 by redsoxrules

[Station 13]

C'mon A's

[User Name]

it always is early in the game. Wait in a few innings he will be hitting upper 90's if not 100

 

Not as low as 91-92 though. He's usually topping out 94 the first few innings.

[redsoxrules]

Not as low as 91-92 though. He's usually topping out 94 the first few innings.

 

Hitting 96 now

[User Name]

Per Gameday, he's hit 96 all of once.

 

For the record, Fangraphs has his average fastball velocity a tick down from last year, and on a decreasing trend since 2009.

[Bellhorn04]

He hit 96 or 97 5 times in the 5th right?

[Thunder]

Per Gameday, he's hit 96 all of once.

 

For the record, Fangraphs has his average fastball velocity a tick down from last year, and on a decreasing trend since 2009.

 

But yet he still hasn't allowed a hit.