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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 15:30:19 GMT -5
The series finale is tomorrow at 7:10 pm, unfortunately the ESPNSundayNightUmpCamPleaseStopWithTheInGameInterviewsAndLetUsJustWatchTheDammGameCast.
Kutter Crawford who pitched a solid game against the Yanks in Fenway when the Sox ran wild, starts for the Sox. He's 4-7 on the season with a 3.42 ERA. Luis Gil tries to figure out something that will work and get him untracked again; starts for the Yanks. He's been hammered 3 straight games, losing all 3, allowing 16 earned runs in 9 1/3 innings. Gil is now 9-4 on the season with a 3.41 ERA.
OK, game preview for tomorrow done, I go to check notifications.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 15:30:58 GMT -5
uh yeah ...
calling a 3-1 game after 2 1/2 is well ...
Negative comments re players (Verdugo, Cabrera, DJ) pre-game and outcome predictions during the game often come back to bite. Yeah, they do. Except when they don't. |
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Post by inger on Jul 6, 2024 15:31:29 GMT -5
Don’t look at box scores like I used to, but I’ll be checking this one out…
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Post by azbob643 on Jul 6, 2024 15:34:03 GMT -5
Negative comments re players (Verdugo, Cabrera, DJ) pre-game and outcome predictions during the game often come back to bite. Yeah, they do. Except when they don't. 50-50 |
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Post by inger on Jul 6, 2024 15:34:49 GMT -5
7 RBI out of the lead off spot. Not too shabby. I wonder how common that is? …
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 15:36:07 GMT -5
OK, yes the record is 12 consecutive hits, more details later. Judge goes after a 1st pitch cutter at the knees, rolls if over to Devers, throws him out, 1 down. Do you know who has the record? I'm assuming you saw where I posted it later in the thread, but Pinky Higgins of the Red Sox in 1938 and Walt Dropo of the Tigers in 1952 with 12 consecutive hits. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 15:47:57 GMT -5
OK, the record for consecutive at bats with a hit is jointly held by Walt Dropo of the 1952 Red Sox and Pinky Higgins of the 1938 Tigers, both had 12 hits in a row. Dropo did it in 3 games, Higgins in 4 games. Ok... If I'm reading this right... Miranda got a single in his last at bat in the 8th inning Wednesday. Then went 5-5 on Thursday, 3 doubles and 2 singles, in a rain shortened 12-3 win over the Tigers. Then went 4-4 on Friday, single, HR, double, single, and was 10 for his last 10 when Baldelli PH Manuel Margot for him in the bottom of the 9th, with the Astros leading by a score of 13-5. Didn't seem to mean much as Margot led off by striking out, but the Twins staged a furious 7-run rally, capped by a grand slam by Carlos Correa. At which point, Margot came up again. And struck out again to end the game as a 13-12 Twins loss. Today: Miranda got hit by a pitch in the 1st, then singled in his first at bat in the 2nd for his 11th straight hit. His singled again in the 4th to tie the record at 12 hits in consecutive at bats. The streak finally came to an end with a flyout to left in the 6th. Dropo and Higgins finally have company after 72 years of sharing the record between them. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 15:51:39 GMT -5
Wells gets a 1st pitch change down the middle pops it foul off 3rd, Devers catches, 2 down. t Didn’t it take Joey Votto like ten years before he hit his first infield pop up? Incredible… I found this article which says that it was his first popup to a firstbaseman in his 13 year career, but his career popup rate was very low. At that time, his career rate was 1.3%. A first for Votto in 6,829th plate appearance |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 15:53:28 GMT -5
Effross will be brought back when ready. Not sure there's a spot for Brubaker unless they move Gil to the pen. Anything is better than Caleb Ferguson Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk If I'm not mistaken, Brubaker was a starter, but I guess they can use a good long-man/6th starter on the staff, too. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 15:56:08 GMT -5
Sox probably win the game here, scoring 3, and lead 3-1 going bottom 3rd. uh yeah ...
calling a 3-1 game after 2 1/2 is well ...
Another thing...you can argue, but "probably" is not really a "call", either. You want call it a call, that's OK with me. But I rarely make "calls" and even when I lean one way and it happens, I don't call it a "call", as anyone who spent time with me in the chat room at the old place will confirm. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 15:57:17 GMT -5
Yeah, they do. Except when they don't. 50-50 For hitters, more like 70-30; for pitchers, it's the other way around. |
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Post by azbob643 on Jul 6, 2024 16:08:10 GMT -5
For hitters, more like 70-30; for pitchers, it's the other way around. Game outcome predictions are 50-50…just like a coin toss. Guaranteed 2 outs/2 strikes bottom 9th Yanks up by 2 last night all predictions were a Yankee win. Pre-game predictions re hitters performance are nothing more than slightly educated guesses at best. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 16:12:30 GMT -5
7 RBI out of the lead off spot. Not too shabby. I wonder how common that is? … There have been 10 players who got 7 or more RBI from the leadoff spot in a game. The most recent was Tyler Naquin of the Indians, who got 7 in a game against the Pirates in 2021. Active players with 7 or more in a game include Marcus Semien who got 7 in a game against the Royals in 2019, and Trea Turner, who's tied for the all-time record for RBIs in a game from a leadoff hitter. He had 8 RBI batting 1st against the Marlins on July 5th, 2018 on a solo HR, a RBI groundout, a grand slam and a two-run single, leading the Nationals to a tremendous come-from-behind 14-12 win after they were down 9-0 going to the bottom of the 4th. The other leadoff man with 8 RBI in a game is a famous name from my youth, Tigers outfielder Jim Northrup, who got 8 in a game against the Texas Rangers in 1973. Northrup got an RBI on a grounder in the 2nd, hit a 3-run HR in the 3rd, another one in the 6th, and capped his big day with a sac fly for a run in the 8th. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jul 6, 2024 16:16:37 GMT -5
For hitters, more like 70-30; for pitchers, it's the other way around. Game outcome predictions are 50-50…just like a coin toss. Guaranteed 2 outs/2 strikes bottom 9th Yanks up by 2 last night all predictions were a Yankee win. Pre-game predictions re hitters performance are nothing more than slightly educated guesses at best. People who make money off such things don't really believe that, because money lines on baseball games are never even (or 105-105, however you like). That's what money lines in all sports, and runs lines in baseball, point spreads in bacsketball and football, and goals lines in hockey are for. If they didn't set spreads, everyone would bet the favorite every game and clean up big in the long-term, and the gambling sites and sports casinos would be out of business very quickly. My friend Mike used to get on my case for making firm predicttions and resisting counter-argument. But that was almost 40 years ago. I've learned to add caveats to my predictions all the time. Well, almost all the time. And it didn't keep Mike from betting the spreads and the money lines, acknowledging the truth of the information they represent. Yes, you never know, which is why betting is a thing. But most games aren't 50-50. There's a difference between taking the Heisenberg Uncertainty view that you don't really know until the game is played and over and not realizing money could be made easily if every game were a 50-50 betting propositin on-line and in sports books. Which is why the odds are almost never 50-50. |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Jul 6, 2024 16:23:37 GMT -5
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