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Post by chiyankee on Sept 10, 2024 21:50:43 GMT -5
I hope I am wrong but I suspect "gottagotomo" has passed Mo was a great poster and dedicated Yankee fan on the Yes Board. She often spoke about her failing health She joined this board around Dec 22 2023 and last posted on Jan 6th 2024 Given his age at the time, 20 plus years ago Joeseadog likely has passed on. I think he said he was quite old then Joe never made the move from Fanhome to Scout but he would email me every Sept. 11th just to check and see how I was doing. That went on for several years and then it just stopped. He was a good guy. |
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Post by noetsi on Sept 11, 2024 11:39:42 GMT -5
Given his age at the time, 20 plus years ago Joeseadog likely has passed on. I think he said he was quite old then Joe never made the move from Fanhome to Scout but he would email me every Sept. 11th just to check and see how I was doing. That went on for several years and then it just stopped. He was a good guy. yes. Wonder how many fanhome posters are still active here. Hard to believe that was 23 years ago. |
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Post by JEGnj on Sept 11, 2024 16:22:15 GMT -5
Dugo and Tevi in the lineup. The big boys bat's need to wake up but Wells and Jasson should be playing.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 16:37:28 GMT -5
I add my condolences for those who perished 23 years ago today.
Condolences also for those posters at message boards old and new being remembered in this thread, including the ones I "knew" as well as those I never "met".
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 16:37:50 GMT -5
The Royals start power lefty Cole Ragans in the rubber game against the Yanks. If the Royals are to go far in the postseason, Ragans and last night's winner Seth Lugo will have to pitch well almost every game they start, and they have the stuff to do it. Ragans was drafted by the Rangers with the 30th pick of the 2016 June Amateur Draft, they let him throw 7 2/3 innings in rookie ball that year, then held him in instructional camp until June of 2017, before sending him to summer-A ball. His stuff was overpowering but his control was poor, 87 K's and 35 BB in 57 1/3 innings. He came out after just 1 2/3 innings in his last start that year, and yep, it was the inevitable torn UCL and Tommy John surgery, which meant that Reagans would miss the rest of 2017 and all of 2018. While still trying to rehab from the surgery in May of 2019, he suffered a tear in the graft used for the TJ surgery, and had to go through the whole thing again. He missed all of 2019, and as with every other prospect, had to spend all of 2020 in developmental camp.
In 2021, he was finally healthy again, and the Rangers sent Ragans to where he pitched well in 10 starts and 44+ innings, so they moved him up to AA, where he got hit hard: a 5.70 ERA and a 1.624 WHIP. In 2022, they let him open the season back at AA, and he pitched very well, and even better, he was going deeper into games, 5-3 with a 2.81 ERA and averaging over 5 innings per start. They promoted Ragans to AAA and he did well in 8 starts there, 3-2 with a 3.32 ERA, again pitching more than 5 innings per start. The Rangers called him to the majors for the first time in mid-August, and while he wasn't good, he wasn't terrible either, 0-3 with a 4.95 ERA, giving up more than 3 earned runs in just 2 of his 9 starts. The Rangers had a much better rotation last year, so they opened him up as a reliever. He had more good games than bad but some of the bad ones were awful, so they sent him back to AAA in mid-June after 17 relief appearances and 5.91 ERA. They let him stretch out there in the rotation, and contending for the divisional title and needing bullpen help for the stretch drive and post-season, the Rangers traded Ragans even up for ex-Yankee closer Aroldis Chapman, who was playing out a cheap one-year contract. Chapman did well in a set-up role for Texas, earning 6 holds in 8 games, and flags fly forever, but the Rangers may come to regret that trade long-term.
As for Ragans, the Royals let him make 2 starts in AAA for them, called him up for one spot start, sent him back to AAA for 2 more starts, then called him up for good at the beginning of August. He was terrific for the Royals down the stretch, 5-2 with a 2.70 ERA in 11 starts, a WHIP slightly over one, just 3 HR allowed and 86 K's in 66 2/3 innings. He was at the top of just about every fantasy websites "sleeper" list for 2024, even though his stuff was "loud enough" wake every fantasy player from their slumber. In the first 9 starts this season, he took two rough beatings, but pitched well in his other 7 starts, and on May 11th, he was 4-5 with a 4.22 ERA. Since then, Ragans has been one of the 10 best pitchers in MLB, going 9-6 with a 2.97 ERA, allowing less than 7 hits per 8 innings and striking out more than 11 per 9. On the season, Ragans is just 11-9, but his other numbers across the board are outstanding, except for his walk rate, which is slightly high, but easily acceptable because of the high K rate. In 29 starts, he's pitched 167 1/3 innings, allowed 136 hits, 68 runs, 62 earned, 14 HR, and 57 BB, while striking out 204. His WHIP for the season is a very good 1.153. His last 5 starts haven't be as good: 2-2 with a 3.67 ERA, but with just 2 HR and 38 K's in 27 innings. This will be Ragans' 1st start against the Yanks. His only other appearance against them came in relief for the Rangers in a game in Texas at the end of April. He pitched 1 inning of perfect mop-up relief, striking out 2 in a brutal beating the Yanks took from Texas, 15-2. Some easy calculations will let you know that his ERA and WHIP against the Yanks are both 0.00, and that the team's quadruple slash line against Ragans is a perfect .000/.000/.000/.000 in all of three plate appearances.
Repertoire: Ragans is a 5-pitch lefty with the same assortment as Carlos Rodon, if you add a cutter (which Rodon tried earlier this year and it got hit hard, so he dropped it fast). Ragans throws 4-seam, change, slider, cutter and knuckle curve. The 4-seamer gets a bit above average rise, and failing violent tail in on righties, 9th most in MLB among 414 pitchers who throw a 4-seamer. His change gets less drop than average but good tail away from lefty hitters. The slider gets average drops and well below average break into righties, it's almost vertical, bottom 10% in MLB in horizontal break. The cutter is also nearly vertical, a bit of drop and 8th lowest horizontal break among 164 pitches who throw a cutter. The curve gets a bit better than average drops and significantly more break glove-side. In run values, the FB is a moderate plus; he throws it a lot, so the cumulative run value is +14 runs. The curve is also a moderate plus, but he doesn't use it nearly as much. The change is a moderate plus. The slider and cutter are moderate minuses. The FB velocity is well above average, and the spin rate is elite; top 3% in MLB. The curve spin is slightly below average and it's remarkable that he's pitching this well when his extension is poor, bottom 20% on MLB. His chase rate is a bit above average. His average exit velocity is better than average, the barrel rate is solidly below average, and so is the hard hit rate, the line drive rate, the ground ball rate and the popup rate. The flyball rate is somewhat above average. His called strike rate is below average, but his swinging strike rate is the best in MLB among qualified starters at 14.6%, so his CSW is slightly above average. In "luck" factors, the BABIP is higher than average, .298, the strand percentage is below average, but more back news for the Yanks, the HR/FB rate is much better than average, 5th best among 59 qualified starters. His ERA estimators say that his ERA is pretty much on the money, if anything, he should be doing slightly better than his current 3.35 ERA at about 3.20.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 16:42:28 GMT -5
Playing the Name Game: We've had the name Cole before; Cole Irvin of the O's pitched against the Yanks in June, about 15 MLB players with first name Cole, of which the best is pitcher Cole Hamels, who won 166 games for the Phillies and three other teams from 2006 through 2020, got Cy Young ballots in 4 seasons, and led the Phillies to the title in 2008, and he's just one of four players to win both the Championship Series and World Series MVP awards in the same post-season, along with Willie Stargell (Pirates, 1979), Orel Hershiser (Dodgers, 1988), David Freese (Cards, 2011). Hamels comes up for Hall of Fame voting in the fall after the 2025 season, so I'll ask the question: is he a Hall of Famer, and the brief answer is: no. Fails all four Bill James measuring sticks, none of his top 10 stat comps are in the Hall, and none are likely to go in, and he's ranked as the 71st best starting pitcher in MLB history by Jaffee's JAWS system. If you look at the 10 pitchers above him on the list, three are in the Hall, if you look at the 10 below, just one is in the Hall.
The best hitting Cole...there really isn't one, none of them have been much good at all. The best Cole in MLB history is Yankee ace Gerrit. Only 6 other players in MLB history had last name Cole. Although they all lasted about 5-6 years in the majors, none of them had much of a career. The best of them was the only one who played for the Yanks, pitcher Leonard "King" Cole, who pitched for them in 1914 and 1915. He went 20-4 for the Cubs in 1910 with an ERA of 1.80 in almost 240 innings. To show you how dead the "deadball" days were in MLB in that era, that brilliant season was worth just 5.0 bWAR. He won 18 for the Cubs the next season, but must have hurt his arm that year, because his performance dropped off a cliff the next year, and he was in the minors in 2013, before emerging to win 10 games for the Yanks in 2014 with a 3.30 ERA in just over 140 innings. After one more brief season, his career was over.
Cole is the only Ragans in MLB history. There were two players with last name Ragan; one was Pat Ragan, who pitched for all but one of the teams in the NL in his 11 year career; the only one he didn't pitch for was the Cards. The best of four "Regan"s was starter turned reliever Phil Regan, who won 40 games as a starter for the Tigers in the early 60's, was traded to the Dodgers mid-decade and became their relief ace, leading the NL in saves in 1966 when the Dodgers won the pennant with 21, and all of MLB in saves in 1967 with 25. Yep, those totals were good enough to lead the league in the primordial days of the modern "closer". Regan won over 10 games out of the pen in each season from 1966 through 1969 because closers pitched the 8th and 9th, and sometimes 3 innings back then, so they had more chances for vultured wins.
Of course, the most famous person with the same sounding name who was involved in any way with baseball was President Ronald Reagan, (it's somewhat of a surprise there are no MLB players with last name Reagan) whose involvement with baseball was two-fold. In the early 1930s, before starting even his acting career, he worked as a sports announcer for radio station WKO in Chicago. For several years in the 1930's he "announced" Cubs games, not in person, but in studio, creating fanciful play-by-play from in-progress wire service reports. One story of his time doing this goes: "On June 7, 1934, with the Cubs and the Cardinals tied 0-0 in the ninth inning, with Billy Jurges at-bat and Dizzy Dean out on the mound, the line went dead. Rather than lose his audience, Reagan improvised a streak of foul balls that lasted nearly twelve minutes until the wire came back." The next season, the Cubs hired their first regular in-person radio game broadcaster, none other than Russ Hodges. He's most known for his famous call of Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning three-run HR in the 3rd game of the 1951 NL playoffs...
"Branca throws...
[audible sound of bat meeting ball]
There's a long drive... it's gonna be, I believe...THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!! THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT! Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field stands! The Giants win the pennant and they're goin' crazy, they're goin' crazy! HEEEY-OH!!!
[ten-second pause for crowd noise]
I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I do not believe it! Bobby Thomson... hit a line drive... into the lower deck... of the left-field stands... and this blame place is goin' crazy! The Giants! Horace Stoneham has got a winner! The Giants won it... by a score of 5 to 4... and they're pickin' Bobby Thomson up... and carryin' him off the field!!!
As for Reagan's other baseball involvement, during his career as a movie actor, he portrayed Hall of Fame pitcher and alcoholic Grover Cleveland "Pete" Alexander in the movie The Winning Team.
Well, that Name Game wandered all over the place, didn't it?
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 16:46:03 GMT -5
Luis Gil starts to try to win the series for the Yanks. He's had major hot streaks and cold streaks this season, but how good has he been? Good enough to be one of the top 3 favorites for the AL Rookie of the Year award in the gambling markets. He was overpowering in his first 12 starts, and then teams starting to ignore his change and weak slider, and wait for his fastball in the zone, and he was pounded for five straight games. At that point, he started working with Blake to change the grip and break on his slider, and it worked, four straight excellent starts. His slider was so improved that it blew past his changeup in usage; the change became his 3rd pitch. Then he got hit hard in two starts, leaving everything up in the zone, especially the new slider. After the second of the two starts, we found out why: he was pitching with a minor back strain. After resting the injury for two weeks, he came off the IL, and looked like his usual outstanding self in a game against the Cubs in Wrigley: 6 scoreless innings, just 1 hit and 2 BB and 7 K's. The wind blowing in heavily helped him on a flyball or two, but he looked pretty much back to normal, able to locate all three of his pitches down when he wanted to. The Royals and Ragans are a difficult matchup, so we'll see.
On the season, Gil is now 13-6 with a 3.24 ERA. In 25 starts, he's pitched 130 2/3 innings, allowing just 84 hits, 48 runs, 47 earned but also an MLB-leading 68 walks, with 151 K's. Despite the BB total, Gil still has a very good WHIP 1.163. He's not going to accumulate enough innings to qualify for any of the rate categories, but if he was qualified, he'd be 1st in the AL in fewest hits per 9 innings, somewhere in between 7th and 9th in HR per 9 innings, 9th in ERA, 4th in K's per 9 innings, and yes, also the most BB per 9 innings. Tonight is his 1st career game against Kansas City.
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Post by ill636 on Sept 11, 2024 16:47:14 GMT -5
The Royals start power lefty Cole Ragans in the rubber game against the Yanks. If the Royals are to go far in the postseason, Ragans and last night's winner Seth Lugo will have to pitch well almost every game they start, and they have the stuff to do it. Ragans was drafted by the Rangers with the 30th pick of the 2016 June Amateur Draft, they let him throw 7 2/3 innings in rookie ball that year, then held him in instructional camp until June of 2017, before sending him to summer-A ball. His stuff was overpowering but his control was poor, 87 K's and 35 BB in 57 1/3 innings. He came out after just 1 2/3 innings in his last start that year, and yep, it was the inevitable torn UCL and Tommy John surgery, which meant that Reagans would miss the rest of 2017 and all of 2018. While still trying to rehab from the surgery in May of 2019, he suffered a tear in the graft used for the TJ surgery, and had to go through the whole thing again. He missed all of 2019, and as with every other prospect, had to spend all of 2020 in developmental camp.
In 2021, he was finally healthy again, and the Rangers sent Ragans to where he pitched well in 10 starts and 44+ innings, so they moved him up to AA, where he got hit hard: a 5.70 ERA and a 1.624 WHIP. In 2022, they let him open the season back at AA, and he pitched very well, and even better, he was going deeper into games, 5-3 with a 2.81 ERA and averaging over 5 innings per start. They promoted Ragans to AAA and he did well in 8 starts there, 3-2 with a 3.32 ERA, again pitching more than 5 innings per start. The Rangers called him to the majors for the first time in mid-August, and while he wasn't good, he wasn't terrible either, 0-3 with a 4.95 ERA, giving up more than 3 earned runs in just 2 of his 9 starts. The Rangers had a much better rotation last year, so they opened him up as a reliever. He had more good games than bad but some of the bad ones were awful, so they sent him back to AAA in mid-June after 17 relief appearances and 5.91 ERA. They let him stretch out there in the rotation, and contending for the divisional title and needing bullpen help for the stretch drive and post-season, the Rangers traded Ragans even up for ex-Yankee closer Aroldis Chapman, who was playing out a cheap one-year contract. Chapman did well in a set-up role for Texas, earning 6 holds in 8 games, and flags fly forever, but the Rangers may come to regret that trade long-term.
As for Ragans, the Royals let him make 2 starts in AAA for them, called him up for one spot start, sent him back to AAA for 2 more starts, then called him up for good at the beginning of August. He was terrific for the Royals down the stretch, 5-2 with a 2.70 ERA in 11 starts, a WHIP slightly over one, just 3 HR allowed and 86 K's in 66 2/3 innings. He was at the top of just about every fantasy websites "sleeper" list for 2024, even though his stuff was "loud enough" wake every fantasy player from their slumber. In the first 9 starts this season, he took two rough beatings, but pitched well in his other 7 starts, and on May 11th, he was 4-5 with a 4.22 ERA. Since then, Ragans has been one of the 10 best pitchers in MLB, going 9-6 with a 2.97 ERA, allowing less than 7 hits per 8 innings and striking out more than 11 per 9. On the season, Ragans is just 11-9, but his other numbers across the board are outstanding, except for his walk rate, which is slightly high, but easily acceptable because of the high K rate. In 29 starts, he's pitched 167 1/3 innings, allowed 136 hits, 68 runs, 62 earned, 14 HR, and 57 BB, while striking out 204. His WHIP for the season is a very good 1.153. His last 5 starts haven't be as good: 2-2 with a 3.67 ERA, but with just 2 HR and 38 K's in 27 innings. This will Ragans' 1st start against the Yanks. His only other appearance against them came in relief for the Rangers in a game in Texas at the end of April. He pitched 1 inning of perfect mop-up relief, striking out 2 in a brutal beating the Yanks took from Texas, 15-2. Some easy calculations will let you know that his ERA and WHIP against the Yanks are both 0.00, and that the team's quadruple slash line against Ragans is a perfect .000/.000/.000/.000 in all of three plate appearances.
Repertoire: Ragans is a 5-pitch lefty with the same assortment as Carlos Rodon, if you add a cutter (which Rodon tried earlier this year and it got hit hard, so he dropped it fast). Ragans throws 4-seam, change, slider, cutter and knuckle curve. The 4-seamer gets a bit above average rise, and failing violent tail in on righties, 9th most in MLB among 414 pitchers who throw a 4-seamer. His change gets less drop than average but good tail away from lefty hitters. The slider gets average drops and well below average break into righties, it's almost vertical, bottom 10% in MLB in horizontal break. The cutter is also nearly vertical, a bit of drop and 8th lowest horizontal break among 164 pitches who throw a cutter. The curve gets a bit better than average drops and significantly more break glove-side. In run values, the FB is a moderate plus; he throws it a lot, so the cumulative run value is +14 runs. The curve is also a moderate plus, but he doesn't use it nearly as much. The change is a moderate plus. The slider and cutter are moderate minuses. The FB velocity is well above average, and the spin rate is elite; top 3% in MLB. The curve spin is slightly below average and it's remarkable that he's pitching this well when his extension is poor, bottom 20% on MLB. His chase rate is a bit above average. His average exit velocity is better than average, the barrel rate is solidly below average, and so is the hard hit rate, the line drive rate, the ground ball rate and the popup rate. The flyball rate is somewhat above average. His called strike rate is below average, but his swinging strike rate is the best in MLB among qualified starters at 14.6%, so his CSW is slightly above average. In "luck" factors, the BABIP is higher than average, .298, the strand percentage is below average, but more back news for the Yanks, the HR/FB rate is much better than average, 5th best among 59 qualified starters. His ERA estimators say that his ERA is pretty much on the money, if anything, he should be doing slightly better than his current 3.35 ERA at about 3.20. Sure doesn’t sound good for the Yanks. Maybe he will have an off night??? Great analysis, by the way. Thanks |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 16:49:03 GMT -5
The Royals start power lefty Cole Ragans in the rubber game against the Yanks. If the Royals are to go far in the postseason, Ragans and last night's winner Seth Lugo will have to pitch well almost every game they start, and they have the stuff to do it... Sure doesn’t sound good for the Yanks. Maybe he will have an off night??? Great analysis, by the way. Thanks You're welcome, 636. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 16:49:37 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Reagans: he's never started against them, and just two Yankees have faced him:
1. Torres (2B)
2. Soto (RF)
3. Judge (CF)
4. Chisholm (3B) is 0-2 with 1 BB and 1 K
5. Stanton (DH)
6. Verdugo (LF)
7. Volpe (SS) is 0-1 with 1 K
8. Rizzo (1B)
9. Trevino (C)
On the bench: None
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Royals' lineup vs. Gil: He's never faced them, and just 2 Royals have ever faced Gil. I'll list them below:
1. Pham (RF) is 2-3 with a double and K.
2. Witt (SS)
3. Perez (1B)
4. Melendez (LF)
5. Fermin (C)
6. Massey (2B)
7. Frazier (3B)
8. Garcia (3B)
9. Isbel (CF)
On the bench: DeJong is 0-2 with 1 BB and 2 K
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 16:51:32 GMT -5
Yesterday: the Yanks got completely shutdown by the Royals' pitching. Seth Lugo was brilliant in 7 innings, giving up just 3 singles, no walks and striking out 10. He was ahead of almost every hitter, and very few balls were even hit hard off of him. The two relievers Bubic and Schreiber, each struck out 2 in 1-2-3 innings in the 8th and 9th. The Royals' speed helped them get 2 in first. Massey was sent, preventing a DP grounder from becoming a DP, Witt singled him in. Then Perez lined one to the corner in left and although Rodriguez got him trying to stretch to a double, Witt blazed around the bases and preventing the Yanks even trying to make a play on him at home. The Royals made it 3-0 in the 5th on another RBI single by Perez, 4-0 in the 7th on a solo HR by Gas Can, Leiter, and pinch runner Blanco stole 2nd and 3rd to set up Garcia's sac fly for the final run of the game, 5-0. Lugo got the win and leads the AL with 16 wins against 8 losses, dropping his ERA to 2.94, 2nd in the league. Stroman pitched OK again, his usual #4-5 starter effort, and took the loss. He's now 10-8 on the season. The loss dropped the Yanks back to 21 games over .500 at 83-62 with 17 games left on the schedule.
In Philly, the Rays' Taj Bradley got hit early in the game again, giving up a leadoff HR to Schwarber, a RBI double to Rojas in the 2nd and 2-run HR to Turner in the 3rd. The Rays fought back with runs in the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th to make it 4-3, and tied the game in the 6th on a RBI triple by Morel, but the Phillies exploded for 5 in the 8th, getting to current Rays' closer Edwin Uceta, who came in an immediately allowed the 2 runners he inherited to score on a double by Stevenson, a RBI single by Kennedy, and Turner's second 2-run HR, going on to win 9-4. Jose Alvarado pitched a scoreless 8th and benefited from the rally by picking up the win, going to 2-5 on the season. Richard Lovelady left Uceta with 2nd and 3rd and 1 out, so the first two runs were his, and he takes the loss, dropping to 1-2. The Rays have now lost 6 of 10 and are 14-20 in their last 34 games.
At Fenway, Kutter Crawford added to his major-league leading total of HR allowed against the O's by giving a solo shot to Henderson in the 1st and a 2-run blast to Mullins in the 3rd. The Sox got a run back in the 4th on a RBI double by Casas, but the O's added two important insurance runs in the 7th on a 2-run single by Rutschman, so even though the Sox got those two back in the 8th on a RBI double by Yoshida and a balk right after,, they got no closer, and the Orioles won 5-3. Albert Suarez went 6 strong innings, allowing just 4 hits and a run while striking out 8, and improved his record to 8-5. Crawford took the loss, giving up 4 (3 earned) in 6 1/3 and dropping to 8-14. In addition to increasing his MLB leading total of HR allowed to 31, Crawford is now tied with Chris Flexen for the major league lead with 14 losses. Considering Flexen has the crippling disadvantage of pitching for the historically awful White Sox, that's tough to do.
In Toronto, two pitches moving rapidly in opposite directions traded places. Yankee nemesis Chris Bassitt, who had been terrible since the end of June (just two quality starts in his last 11 games with an ERA over 6.00) pitched 6 outstanding innings, allowing just 4 hits and a run while striking out 8, while David Peterson of the Mets, who had been white-hot in his last 7 starts (4-0 with a 1.81 ERA and no more than 2 runs allowed in any of the 7) got hammed for five runs in the first three innings on a RBI single to tie the game by Jimenez in the 2nd, and an RBI double by Kirk, a 2 run triple by Schneider and a RBI single by Loperfido in the 3rd, and the Mets were down 5-1, never recovering and losing 6-2. Bassitt moves to 10-13 on the season, while the loss was just Peterson's 2nd against 9 wins.
Coming into the games today, the Yanks' lead in the East was back down to 1/2 game. The Sox and Jays stayed 10 and 12 games behind, respectively, while the Jays moved up a notch, and are again 14 1/2 back. The Sox fell behind the Tigers in the chase for first runner-up behind the three Wild Card teams, the O's, the Royals and the Twins. The Yanks gained no ground with either magic number, which remain 9 for a Wild Card slot and 18 for the divisional title.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 17:01:11 GMT -5
In other East games today: the Mets and Jays played the rubber game of their series at Rogers Centre and it was pitcher's duel. Sean Manaea pitched an outstanding 6 2/3 innings for New York, giving up just 1 runs on 3 hits with 8 K's, with the Jays scoring on a fielder's choice grounder to 3rd in the 4th inning. For 8 innings, Bowden Frances was even better, no-hitting the Mets on just one BB and one HBP, but Francisco Lindor lead off the 9th with a HR on an 0-2 FB up in the zone, and they took Francis out with the game tied. Chad Green came in and promptly loaded the bases with nobody out on a single and two walks. He gave up a sac fly, another walk, another sac fly, and Francisco Alvarez put it out of reach with a 3-run bomb, his first HR in 3 1/2 weeks, to make it 6-1, Mets. Ryne Stanek made things a bit interesting in the 9th as he walked a man who came around to score on a single, and gave up another single, turning it into a save situation with the tying run on deck; 4-run lead, 2 men on base and 2 outs. Closer Edwin Diaz came on to get Lukas to fly out to Nimmo to end it, earning his 18th save. Danny Young got the last out of the Jays 8th, getting himself a cheap W and moving to 4-0 on the year; Green took the loss by being charged with the 4 runs after the Lindor HR; Green has been struggling lately, dropping to 4-6. With the win, the Mets took the series and the Jays dropped back to 15 games behind the Yanks.
At 6:40 in Philly, the Phillies, going for the sweep against the Rays, are starting their ace, Cy Young contender Zack Wheeler (14-6, 2.59) against the Rays' Shane Baz (2-3, 3.24 ERA). Both pitchers come in pitching very well; Wheeler was 4-1 in 7 starts with a 1.60 ERA since the Yanks beat him up in late July, while Baz was 2-2 in his last 4 starts with an ERA of 2.38 in his last 4.
In Fenway at 7:10 pm, The O's and Red Sox play the rubber game of their 3-game series. Dean Krermer (7-9, 4.27 ERA) starts for Baltimore; he threw 6 shutout innings for a win against the Rays last time out. Nick Pivetta (5-10, 4.38 ERA) throws for Boston, He's pitched two excellent games in a row, without winning either because of poor run support.
And at 7:07 pm at the Stadium, it's Ragans vs. Gil. See you in a little over an hour for the game
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 18:06:59 GMT -5
Yankees take the field. Gil starting his final warmups.
I have the game on webcast, so I'll be behind the actions by the usual 2-4 pitches.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 18:08:01 GMT -5
Pham steps in. Game underway.
Pham takes a FB down the middle at 95, 0-1
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Post by qwik3457bb on Sept 11, 2024 18:09:11 GMT -5
Slider on the outside corner, taken, 0-2
Slider well outside, taken, 1-2
Slider near the corner inside ties him up, pops to short right, Soto comes in and catches, 1 down.
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