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A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
Maxbialystock replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Despite my gloom and doom, the Sox hitting seems to be on the mend. -
A Realistic View of 2023: Part II
Maxbialystock replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Give me Reyes any day of the week and twice on Sundays. But, yes, I love having Urias too. -
Shirley you know that's entirely possible. In any case, another gem from SPLENDIDSPLINTER.
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Great point. I've been a little churlish myself, but I love watching the games. This game had something for everyone, even Yankees fans.
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Valentine was awful on the balls and strikes--so bad in fact that he kept the Yankees undeservedly in the game. But that was a really close play at the plate, so close that most of us think the reviewers at MLB headquarters got it wrong and that Valentine got it right. Just a terrific, terrific play by Wong, clearly one of the best Sox catchers ever despite those errors. Was it yesterday he started that double play by catching that bunt in the air? No Sox catcher I can remember was quick enough and alert enough to get to that bunt.
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Bad ump, agreed. But a tough call for anybody because it was hard to see the tag.
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Baloney. Urias bats 9th and just got 2 grand slams. In the Yankees' Greg Allen's case, the pitch he hit hard was high and outside and therefore a good pitch by Jansen.
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The pitch LeMahieu hit for the double was high and outside--just above the corner. He was lucky to hit it at all, and he actually hit it hard and pulled it. If I'm the guy in the dugout calling the pitches--or Wong, for that matter--I'm pretty happy with that pitch. The HBP was bad, I agree. But, since he did it twice, I'm wondering if it was accidental. Those two K's were fantastic, especially on Aaron Judge.
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It's not just not being positive. He has a problem being right. I've been wrong plenty of times myself, but with d-money it's a habit.
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Seriously?
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On the replay I definitely did not think Wong was blocking the plate. He positioned himself off the plate and moved in only when the throw was right over the plate and he had not choice. I think it is possible the tag occurred before the runner's foot touched the plate.
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Great throw home by Devers. If the replay says he was out, he was out. Correction. Great throw by Story.
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Pretty much.
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He swung at 3 pitches out of the zone, not one. While it's possible one or more would have been called strikes, we don't know that. Don't forget this same ump has called balls when the pitchers were inside the strikes zone.
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Terrible at bat by Duran. All 6 pitches were out of the zone and he swung at 3 of them.
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I disagree. I don't think this ump is biased or cheating or whatever, but I do think his lousy calls are truly affecting the outcome of the game.
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The 3d strike called against Judge was exactly where Schreiber had thrown a pitch called a ball against McKinney.
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One more time. The 2d and 3d pitches against McKinney were low in the zone, but above two pitches against Story which were called strikes. Immediately after that at bat, Story had words and then Cora had more words and got thrown out. Plus don't forget that pitch by Pivetta in the middle of the strike zone (2 innings ago?) which was called a ball. This ump has in fact kept the Yankees in the game with his one-sided calls.
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One more time. The pitches by Schreiber called balls were exactly where (but closer to the strike zone) the ump was calling them strikes for the Yankees pitcher against Story.
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Not Cora's fault, not by a long shot.
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Those pitches called balls were called strikes for the Yankees pitcher, after which Cora got thrown out of the game for complaining.
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Good pitching and the 3 run dinger = Earl Weaver's formula for success.
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Excellent bunt by Reyes on his first attempt. They need to get rid of him because he makes the rest of his team look amateurish (when it comes to bunting).
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What is it with Duran leaping up the wall on a fly/liner well out of his reach? He does that regularly. Just once I'd like to see him do that when it actually made a difference. Cora was right to complain and get tossed. Normally, I think it's a bad idea, but the ump is ridiculous--and in favor of the Yankees pitchers. I think they get away with these bad calls because they are unionized. I could fix the bad calls without robo umps, but their union would object. I would simply set a standard--not too high, but not the ridiculous no standard they currently have--that, if not met, the ump would not get paid for that game. I would have another standard, much higher, that, if met, doubled that ump's pay for the game.
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Story seems clueless. He K's on 3 pitches, 2 of which were comfortably out of the strike zone and which he swung at and 1 inside the strike zone which he did not swing at.