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Post by kaybli on Oct 7, 2024 16:28:23 GMT -5
I looked at a couple of sites and it appears this is the first time Berti every played 1st base. Wow, in the playoffs! What could go wrong. |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 7, 2024 16:30:18 GMT -5
I think he played one game there in little league. Of course, they threw Jazz at third base in the middle of a playoff push and got away with it. |
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Post by ill636 on Oct 7, 2024 16:34:45 GMT -5
Maybe Rodon will throw all fly balls outs ?? |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 7, 2024 16:42:43 GMT -5
Lifelong Yankee/AL fan, but the games today have to go a long way to match the entertainment & excitement of the recent NL games. I thought the first game on Saturday evening was gripping. Poorly played, perhaps, but I was riveted the whole way. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 7, 2024 16:48:01 GMT -5
I looked at a couple of sites and it appears this is the first time Berti every played 1st base. The Crack Analytical Team™ strikes again! I'm sure the Royals won't be able to use their team speed to take advantage of Berti's inexperience in blocking bad pickoff throws, in digging out throws from the other infielders, on starting a 3-6-3 double play and other throws the first baseman has to make in the opposite direction as throws from 2nd, short and 3rd to first, and on bunt plays won't come back to haunt, especially if this is a tight low-scoring game. No sirree, Bob! And yes, no record of Berti ever play first base before this game, not in the majors, not in the minors, not in the Cape Cod League. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 7, 2024 16:49:08 GMT -5
Maybe Rodon will throw all fly balls outs ?? And K's. And Rodon also allows a high number of home runs, and you don't need a first baseman for those. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 7, 2024 16:50:57 GMT -5
If I'm the Royals, as soon as they get someone on with anyone other than Witt, Perez or Pasquantino at the plate, and less than 2 outs, I'm bunting down first and making Berti PROVE he can handle it. Rodon even falls off to the 3rd base side, so he won't be able to help. I'm sure if Berti blows a bunt or two, that'll have no effect on Carlos' psychological state. Oh, yeah.
Please be better than I half-expect at 1st tonight, Berti.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 7, 2024 16:52:32 GMT -5
In Game 2, the Royals try to even the series by starting their alternate ace, lefty Cole Ragans. Ragans pitched against the Yanks in the series in the Bronx last month and pitched well, so no need to recap his career. The start against the Yanks was part of 4 great starts in September, and he had another great start against the Orioles in game 1 of the Wild Card series. In the playoff game, he threw 6 shutout innings, allowing 4 hits, striking out 8 and walking none, and got the 1-0 win, with help from the Royals’ pen. In the 5 starts since the end of August, Ragans is 2-0 with 3 no-decisions. In 31 innings, he allowed just 18 hits, going at least 6 innings and allowing 3 or 4 hits in each of the 5 games. He gave up a total of 3 runs, and went unscored on in 3 of the 5 games. Ragans gave up just 1 HR in 5 games, walking 11 and striking out 34. His WHIP for the 5 games was 0.935. On the season as a whole, Ragans wound up 11-9 with a 3.14 ERA. In 186 1/3 innings, he allowed just 146 hits, 71 runs, 65 earned, 17 HR, walked 67 and struck out 223. He wound up on multiple AL top ten pitching lists: 3rd in pitcher bWAR at 4.9, 8th in ERA, 6th lowest hits per 9 innings, 1st in K’s per 9 innings, 7th in innings pitched, 5th in games starts, 2nd in strikeouts, and 5th lowest HRs per 9 innings at 0.725. He also allowed the 5th most walks at 67, the only minor flaw in his game. Ragans should certainly be top 5 when the AL Cy Young votes are tabulated. The start against the Yanks last month is the only start he’s ever made against them: 6 innings, 3 hits, 2 earned runs, 1 HR, 3 BB and 7 K. He also pitched a 1-2-3 inning of relief against them while still pitching for Texas, striking out 2. His WHIP against the Yanks is 0.857, and their quadruple slash line against him is .130/.231/.261/.492, but that represents just 26 total plate appearances. This is Ragans’ 2nd postseason start, the first was the great one against the Orioles 6 days ago.
Repertoire: I gave all the usual repertoire data and stats when he pitched against the Yanks four weeks ago, they haven’t changed much since. Instead, I’ll give you a link to an article written in March by Ben Clemens in Fangraphs describing his pitching in great detail and why he was going to be one of the top 15 pitchers in MLB this season:Cole Ragans, Highly and Appropriately Hyped
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Post by inger on Oct 7, 2024 16:54:11 GMT -5
May your sombrero always keep you dry! Thanks for the tip, I think I will do the same.  j Just say TBS into the remote mic and follow the simple instructions. No credit card required… Alert 🚨. This will fail if you don’t have a TV “provider”, which I don’t. John and Suzy again… Eff you see kay… |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 7, 2024 16:56:49 GMT -5
j Just say TBS into the remote mic and follow the simple instructions. No credit card required… Alert 🚨. This will fail if you don’t have a TV “provider”, which I don’t. John and Suzy again… Eff you see kay… Just go on a desktop or laptop and use the streameast link I can give you. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 7, 2024 16:59:18 GMT -5
Playing the Name Game: I did a long, wandering Name Game for Ragans when he pitched against the Yanks in the Trane Memorial Game Thread for September 11th, here is the link if you want to read all that again:
Cole Ragans Name Game
I did a desperate search of all the remaining Coles to see if I could turn up anything interesting to no avail, so I cast my eye further, stopped looking at men named Cole and started looking at Cole men, or rather, individual Colemans. There was Clarence “Choo-Choo” Coleman, drafted by the Mets with the 28th pick of the first-ever Expansion Draft in 1961, and who caught in 55 games for the Mets in their disastrous inaugural season of 1962. There was Jerry Coleman, who started at 2nd for the Yanks in the first three of their five straight title-winning seasons from 1949 through 1953, even making the All-Star team in 1950. He had missed three seasons in the minors as a Marine Corps naval aviator flying SBD Dauntless dive bombers from 1943 through 1945 (57 missions), and had only limited time with the 1952 and 1953 title-winning Yanks because he was recalled for active duty during the Korean War in those years, this time serving as a fighter pilot in the F4U Corsair (63 missions). After his playing career was over, Colman served briefly as the “personnel director” under general manager George Weiss, which involved scouting players. When Weiss was fired along with Casey Stengel after the World Series loss to the Pirates in 1960 and Roy Hamey became the GM, he fired Coleman. After a suggestion by Howard Cosell of all people, he tried broadcasting baseball games.
Coleman started off as the sideline announcer who did pre-game interviews for CBS Game of the Week, and was fired almost immediately by continuing an interview during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner before one game. From 1963-1969, he served as a play-by-play broadcaster for the Yanks on both television and radio, even working with former Yankee double-play partner Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. in 1968 and 1969, Coleman moved to California and called Angels games for two seasons, then headed south and began a long tenure as the main broadcaster for Padres games. He did the play-by-play for San Diego every year until 2014, except for 1980, when the Padres oddly brought him out of the booth and made him the manager. In his one season running the team, the Padres went 73-89, finishing last in the NL West. As a broadcaster, he was known for his bloopers and malapropisms. Some of the most famous ones:
"Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros and before that he was with the Orioles."
"(Johnny) Grubb goes back, back. He's under the warning track."
"He (Graig Nettles) leaped up to make one of those diving stops only he can make."
"He slides into second with a stand-up double."
If (Pete) Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck."
"Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen."
"Winfield goes back to the wall, he hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!"
In spite of his many on-air howlers, Coleman was a beloved broadcaster among Padres fans for many years, and his long success eventually won him the Ford C. Frick Award in 2005, the 29th broadcaster chosen for a place on the plaque at Cooperstown (not an officially enshrinement as a member, but the best a broadcaster can do).
Among players, the best hitter named Coleman is not Jerry, but Vince, the outfielder with the St. Louis Cards and Mets, among other teams. Not really much of a hitter, almost all of his offensive value came from his legs, not his bat. He was an electrifying base stealer, winning the Rookie of the Year Award in 1985 primarily for stealing 110 bases and scoring 107 runs for the pennant-winning Cards. He made two All-Star teams, got down-ballot MVP votes in two other seasons. At 752 career stolen bases, he’s 6th on the all-time list, he holds the major league records for most consecutive seasons and most seasons with 100 or more steals, three in a row his first 3 seasons, the record for most stolen bases in a season by a rookie, and the record for most consecutive steals without being caught, 50 in a row from September 18, 1988 through July 26, 1989. Vince had a lot of problems with teammates and managers later in his career, famously fighting with Mets manager Jeff Torborg in 1992, injuring teammate Dwight Gooden’s arm by recklessly swinging a golf club in the team clubhouse (maybe he though a clubhouse is where you’re supposed to swing clubs) in 1993, and most notoriously, throwing a lit firecracker into a crowed of fans waiting for autographs outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles later that year, injuring three children, including a two-year old girl. Hard to believe that's 30 years ago already. Maybe Vince mellowed over the years, because both the White Sox and Giants hired him to coach base-running in 2015 and 2017, respectively.
The best pitchers named Coleman were père et fils, the Joe Colemans. The father pitched 10 seasons for the A’s, the Orioles and the Tigers, missing 1943-1945 because of serving in the Navy during World War II. Coleman made one All-Star team while with the A’s, and got a stray MVP vote while pitching for the very first Orioles team in 1954, after the Browns moved from St. Louis to Baltimore. The son was much better, pitching mostly for the Senators and Tigers in a 15-year big league career. Joe the Younger was 143-123 lifetime, and won 20, 19, and 23 games for the Tigers in 1971 through 1973. He made the All-Star team in 1972 as Mickey Lolich’s sidekick for the division-winning Tigers (managed by Billy Martin!), and got a down-ballot vote for MVP in that 23-game winning season of 1973. Coleman started 40 games or more in four different seasons, and pitched at least 280 innings for four straight years, and was top 10 in the AL in those three big seasons 1971-3 in starts, innings pitched, wins and strikeouts.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 7, 2024 17:00:47 GMT -5
Carlos Rodon throws game 2 for the Yanks. Rodon was a disaster last year, and has been much better this year, but is still not close to what he was in 2021 for White Sox and 2022 for the Giants, when he was top 5 in the Cy Young voting. On the season, Rodon was 16-9 with an ERA of 3.96, but pitched more like a #3 starter than the #2/backup ace to Cole that he was signed to be. In 32 starts, he pitched 175 innings, allowing 157 hits, 81 runs, 77 earned, 31 home runs, 57 BB and struck out 195. His WHIP for the season was a pedestrian 1.223, a bit below MLB average, which was 1.270. It offers some hope that he was quite good in September, 2-0 in 5 starts with a 2.20 ERA. In 28 2/3 innings, he allowed just 21 hits, 9 runs, 7 earned, 6 HR, 10 BB and struck out 34, and his WHIP was better as well: 1.081. Of the 6 HRs he gave up, 5 were solo HRs and one was a 2-run HR. He finished the season tied for 2nd in wins, 7th in K’s, 4th in K’s per 9 innings, but also 2nd in HR and had the 3rd highest HR allowed per 9 innings.
Rodon has made 13 career starts against the Royals, and has not done well, despite the Royals winning combined winning percentage during his 10-year career of under .450. He’s 4-6 with a 4.66 ERA against Kansas City; in 67 2/3 innings, he’s allowed 80 hits, 39 runs, 35 earned, 9 HR, 21 BB and struck out 67. His WHIP against the Royals is a very poor 1.497, and their team quadruple slash line against him is .294/.350/.445/.795. It was much worse before the two starts he made against them this season. On June 10th in Kansas City, Rodon got to his peak in the regular season, winning for the 7th straight start, getting to 9-2 on the season with a 2.93 ERA. He threw 7 innings that day, allowing just 5 hits, 1 earned run, walking none and striking out 3. Starting with his next start, a dreadful game at Fenway that could be argued to be the game that begin that terrible 10-23 team slump, he went on to pitch 5 terrible games in a row, basically coinciding with the overall team flop. In the series at the Stadium in September, he wasn’t great, but did pitch decently, giving up 4 runs in 6 innings, but two of them were unearned on separate errors. He also gave up 2 solo HRs and 3 other hits, but walked 1 and struck out 9, and the Yanks blew that game open after he left trailing 4-3, taking him off the hook, and he wound up with a no-decision in a 10-4 win.
Rodon has appeared in two postseason games before and both were failures. He came on in relief in the 4th inning of the 3rd game of the 2020 Wild Card series against the A’s with the White Sox up 3-2, two outs and nobody on, and gave up a BB, a double and an IBB before being pulled. Evan Marshall came in to relieve him, and gave up back-to-back walks to force in two runs before getting the 3rd out. The White Sox took Rodon off the hook for the loss by tying it up at 4 in the top of the 5th, but still lost the game 6-4, completing a 3-game sweep for the A’s. His other postseason game was a start in game 4 against the Astros with the White Sox down 3-0 in games. He got through the first two innings scoreless, but was chased in the 3rd when he hit Altuve with 1 out, and with 2 outs, walked Bregman and Alvarez to load the bases, and Correa hit a 2-run double to knock him out down 2-0. The Astros went on to the 10-1 rout and swept the series.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 7, 2024 17:03:23 GMT -5
Yankees' lineup vs. Ragans:
1. Torres (2B) is 0-2 with 1 BB and 2 K
2. Soto (RF) is 1-3 with a 2-run HR and a K
3. Judge (CF) is 0-2 with 1 BB and 1 K
4. Wells (C) has never faced Ragans
5. Stanton (DH) is 0-3 with 2 K
6. Chisholm (3B) is 0-4 with 2 BB and 1 K
7. Volpe (SS) is 0-3 with 1 K
8. Verdugo (RF) is 1-2
9. Berti has never faced Ragans.
On the bench: Trevino is 0-2. Rizzo was 1-2 vs. Ragans with a K, but no matter, he’s not on the roster.
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Royals’ lineup vs. Rodon:
1. Garcia (3B) is 2-7
2. Witt (SS) is 1-6 with 1 BB and 1 K
3. Pasquantino (DH) has never faced Rodon
4. Perez (C) hits Rodon very hard: 12-26, 1 double, 3 HR, 9 RBI, 1 BB, 6 K and 1 GIDP
5. Gurriel (1B) is 3-15 with 1 BB and 5 K
6. Massey (2B) is 0-3 with 2 K
7. Pham (RF) is 2-14 with 1 RBI (sac fly), 3 BB and 5 K
8. Renfroe is 1-9 with a solo HR, 2 BB and 6 K
9. Hampson is 0-8 with 4 K
On the Bench: DeJong is 1-5 with 2 K and 1 HBP; Melendez is 0-2 with 2 K; Blanco is 0-2 with 1 K; Fermin is 1-3 with a RBI and 2 GIDP
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Post by qwik3457bb on Oct 7, 2024 17:07:30 GMT -5
Yesterday: The Mets stage another wild battle, blowing leads of 3-0 and 4-3 before rallying on a 2-run HR by Vientos in the 9th to tie the game at 6, before Castellanos walked it off with a single to the wall in the left-field corner for a 7-6 Phillies win to even the series at 1-1. Jeff Hoffman got the win in relief after Matt Strahm blew the save on the Vientos HR, he lost game 1, so he’s now 1-1 in the playoffs. Tylor Megill gave up the run in the 9th on walks by Turner and Harper (after nearing allowing Harper to double in the game-winner on a drive down the line in right that barely hooked foul), and the Castellanos game-winning hit, he’s now 0-1.
In Los Angeles, the game got ugly for the Dodgers early, and stayed that way. The Padres jumped on LA starter Flaherty for 3 runs in the first two innings on homers by Tatis and Peraza; and an RBI single by rookie Jackson Merrill made it 4-1 in the 6th. The game was held up for 12 minutes at the start of the bottom of the 7th when Dodgers fans starting throwing things at Padres’ left fielder Jurickson Profar who had trolled them in the bottom of the 1st by stealing a HR from Mookie Betts, then jumping up and down as if he didn’t make the catch, and finally turning and throwing the ball back in. Didn’t matter: Padres starter Yu Darvish completed an outstanding 7 innings of 1-run ball, pitching around a leadoff walk to Teoscar Hernandez, and the Padres made a rout of it in the 8th and 9th with four more home runs: a 2-run shot by Merrill to make it 6-1, following immediately by a solo HR by Bogaerts going back-to-back, a solo HR by ex-Yankee Higashioka in the 9th, followed later in the inning by a two-run blast by Tatis, his 2nd HR of the game. Darvish got the win to get to 1-0 in his first post-season start this year, and Flaherty took the loss to drop to 0-1 this October, and 1-4 in the playoffs in his career. That series is also tied 1-1.
In the other AL Division series game 2 today in Cleveland, the Tigers and Guardians are in a pitcher’s duel, 0-0 through 7 innings. Probable Cy Young Winner Tarik Skubal is still in there for Detroit, and has given up just 3 hits, no walks and struck out 8. Rookie lefty Matthew Boyd started for Cleveland and was pulled with 2 outs in the 5th, having given up 4 hits and 2 BB while striking out 5. The Guardians went to their all-purpose rookie bullpen ace, Cade Smith (who leads all off MLB in bullpen K’s at 103 in 75 1/3 innings with a 1.91 ERA and just 1 HR) and he got the last out in the 5th, and retired the Tigers 1-2-3 in the 6th and got the first out in the 7th, before being lifted for lefty Tim Herrin, who got the last two outs in the 7th, walking one and striking out 1. Hunter Gaddis is starting the 8th on the mound for Cleveland.
Both NL Division Series have a travel day off today, as they move from Citizen’s Bank Park to Citifield and from Dodger Stadium to Petco Park in San Diego.
And, in about 100 minutes at the Stadium, it’s Ragans vs. Rodon. See you then.
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Post by inger on Oct 7, 2024 17:20:15 GMT -5
Alert 🚨. This will fail if you don’t have a TV “provider”, which I don’t. John and Suzy again… Eff you see kay… Just go on a desktop or laptop and use the streameast link I can give you. I’ll try, but yesterday it was blocked by a FUBO add I couldn’t close. Those bass turds are trying to suck every cent out of us… |
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