07/25/19 Yankees (Tanaka) @ Red Sox (Big Dick)

[TylerD]

We definitely could use some of these runs tomorrow.

 

Ya I just hope we didn’t score them all tonight.

[TylerD]

We shall see but you have to try and take that game. I don’t want a split against these guys. I want to win a series against them.

 

Agreed

[S5Dewey]

Good point, but, personally, I blame it on too many teams and not enough talent.

 

I agree philosophically, but this big drop off happened this year. That tells me that something is different and Manfred has not only said the ball is different, he said why it's different.

[Station 13]

2 hour to play 4 inning. LMAO

[TylerD]

There’s a Porcello

[a700hitter]

A solo Porcello.

[TylerD]

A solo Porcello.

 

Lol you said he would give up one tonight. At least it was just one. So far.

[Station 13]

He needs to stop this crap

[S5Dewey]

There’s a Porcello

 

Yep. Jax will be back anytime to remind us how good this kid is and the Yankees are.

[fxkatt]

Of course, the N.L has 6 pitchers with an ERA of under 3.0 and three under 2.36. Ryu at 1.76.

 

Morton leads the AL with 2.6. (4 pitchers under 3 ear)

[illinoisredsox]

Porcello is the first pitcher in the 20th or 21st century to receive 10+ runs in 5 consecutive starts. The last time it happened was 1896.

[S5Dewey]

Of course, the N.L has 6 pitchers with an ERA of under 3.0 and three under 2.36. Ryu at 1.76.

 

Morton leads the AL with 2.6. (4 pitchers under 3 ear)

 

What I just said? Never mind.

[illinoisredsox]

There’s a Porcello

 

A solo Porcello.

 

 

Not a bad pitch; top of the strike zone. Kid put a good swing on it.

[S5Dewey]

Porcello is the first pitcher in the 20th or 21st century to receive 10+ runs in 5 consecutive starts. The last time it happened was 1896.

 

I find the availability of stats like that to be just amazing.

[TylerD]

Well my prediction was 6 innings for Porcello and 3 runs. Outside of the second Porcello has been very good.

[YastrzemskI]

Just got home and saw the updated score.... how bout that Skank pitching? Lol

[Tedballgame]

The Sox have no competition tonight. Time to watch Christina On The Coast on HGTV. I wish they could play better teams to hold my interest.

[illinoisredsox]

I find the availability of stats like that to be just amazing.

 

As indicated, I have the MLB Network broadcast tonight. They’re putting these up.

 

Costas has nothing to cheer about tonight.

[TylerD]

This ump is getting blasted lol

[Station 13]

I find the availability of stats like that to be just amazing.

 

Baseball-reference has an event finder, but it so confusing to find anything with it. I just give up

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If Rick is pulled after 5, his ERA for this game will be 5.40, which is damn close to his season ERA.

[S5Dewey]

This ump is getting blasted lol

 

Having this guy and Angel Hernandez in the same crew is criminal.

[illinoisredsox]

This ump is getting blasted lol

 

He’s been correct on the time calls though. Both times the Yanks have bitched, Porcello was halfway through his motion. I’d like to see more ps call it that way.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Porcello is the first pitcher in the 20th or 21st century to receive 10+ runs in 5 consecutive starts. The last time it happened was 1896.

 

 

That pretty much explains his winning record.

[jung]

I agree philosophically, but this big drop off happened this year. That tells me that something is different and Manfred has not only said the ball is different, he said why it's different.

 

Things that look like they should always happen in series tend to step function along the way. Its that way in business too. A company often does things on a steady trend line and ends up with step functioned results.

 

Behind these changes to the baseball, the pitching has been getting progressively worse in MLB on a much longer time line than from 2016 till now. I am really roiled about the rocket ship for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is that I would like to know if the 10-15 year trend line of progressively crappier pitching would have taken us to this place without the rocket ship. I suspect that it would be very close to as bad as it is now even without the rocket ship.

 

Lets face it, its really not that long ago in MLB terms when starters were going at least 7 and often completing games. Certainly was happening wayyyyyyy more often even when I was a young man and happened all the time when I was a boy. If you want to just take the time line from starters going at least 7 to struggling to go 7 you have a time line that is wayyyyyyy longer than the three progressively hotter rocket ships we have seen since the first one appeared in 2016.

 

It is going to take awhile for pitching to recover and that is if anybody even cares to compel it to recover. It's going to take less focus on velo at all costs and more focus on the most velo a guy can throw at with reasonable command for one thing. We are burning through arms too rapidly and the result is young pitchers in MLB unis that should not be in MLB unis and older pitchers hanging on throwing as junkers.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Having this guy and Angel Hernandez in the same crew is criminal.

 

 

Angel was in the Tampa series crew.

[Slasher9]

Apparently the Sox think they are back in London

[illinoisredsox]

Sale and to a lesser extent Price have to be wondering where is all this offense when we’re on the mound.

[Station 13]

Apparently the Sox think they are back in London

 

Even better, they're at home

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

This is great for us Yankem haters. A little revenge for our home losses in London.