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TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

Frayed Knot Sep 19 2018 02:32 AM

Sawx @ Yanx for the first of three, and the first of six to finish the season. Of course the division is no longer in play as merely One Sox win would clinch the division. So the Yanx are up 3-1 thanks to a late 3R Neil Walker HR (just moments after the Phils 3R HR). Sox get a runner on in the 9th with one out but then start hitting GiDP balls. Yanx messed up the first one (everyone safe), Yanx messed up the second one (everyone safe and a run scores), and the Yanx ... finally completed the third one for the final two outs of the game. Yanx win 3-2

Frayed Knot Sep 19 2018 05:04 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

The A's had their own 'Bartman' incident last night. Up 4-1 vs the Angels in the 6th inning at home, LAA's Andrelton Simmons lofted a one-out foul fly to RF which a fan in Oakland gear reached out onto the field and caught (then dropped) just as RF'er Steven Piscotty was getting there. Looks like the umps should have ruled it an out but they opted not to. Simmons then hit the next pitch for a two-run single en route to a six run inning. Oakland went on to lose the game 9-7 dropping them 2.5 games behind the Yanx in the WC race and 5.5 ahead of charging Tampa

HahnSolo Sep 20 2018 11:41 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

Oh, to be playing .678 ball and have a bit of a dilemma. The Red Sox just watched David Price get eaten alive by the MFYs for like the 900th straight start (not really, he did beat them in Fenway last month but that's the outlier). There is a strong likelihood that those two teams will meet up in the five-game ALDS (unless in the Wild Card game Oakland can break the post-season hex that seems to infect them). If you're the Sox, there's no way you can give Price a start in that series, can you?

Frayed Knot Sep 20 2018 09:54 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

To be fair to Price, at least as far as Wednesday night's game goes, he gave up 3 HRs that, put together, totaled maybe 920 feet That and Eduardo Nunez allowing a 2-out bases-loaded grounder to go through his legs.

Frayed Knot Sep 21 2018 12:40 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

While the Angels were getting steamrolled 21-3 by Oakland this afternoon, LAA rookie Francisco Arcia played catcher, pitcher, hit a HR, and allowed a HR (2 actually), becoming the first to do that combo in one game. He started the game behind the plate but then moved out to the mound to absorb the 7th & 8th innings allowing 3 runs on 4 hits in the process. His HR came in the top of the 9th so he technically hit it as a pitcher.

Frayed Knot Sep 21 2018 01:24 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

Yanx have two more HRs tonight including their 4th in 13 innings (3 yesterday) that landed in the [u:3ld8sd6s]first row[/u:3ld8sd6s] of the RF stands. And actually it may be five but I didn't see the other so I don't know where that one landed.

MFS62 Sep 21 2018 01:27 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

Frayed Knot wrote: Yanx have two more HRs tonight including their 4th in 13 innings (3 yesterday) that landed in the first row of the RF stands. And actually it may be five but I didn't see the other so I don't know where that one landed. As a pitcher said in either Ball Four or The Long Season (don't remember which one), when he visited a bandbox stadium for the first time, "They should drop a bomb on second base and blow the fences back to where they belong". Later

Frayed Knot Sep 22 2018 02:22 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

After Acuna totally mis-judged and whiffed on a fly ball allowing two runs to score in the top of the 7th, the Braves have come back with a five-spot in the bottom half, most of it with two outs and now lead 6-4 (and are still batting). One of the Braves' strengths this year (whether you think it's a skill or not) has been their late inning rallies. An Atlanta win here eliminates the Nats and would set up a potential NLE clinching tomorrow.

Edgy MD Sep 22 2018 02:32 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

I'm not of a mind to try digging up the data to try and prove it, but I'd hypothesize that late rallies are more common in September, as better bullpen pitchers are all starting to hit the wall, a la Gsellman.

Frayed Knot Sep 23 2018 02:52 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

Maybe, although Atlanta has been scoring and coming from behind late all season. 23.2% of their runs scored have come in the 8th & 9th innings compared to a 18.8% league average. Bad week to be Anaheim. They've been out-scored 53-11 in their last four games: 0-10, 3-21, 3-11, 5-10 (vs OAK, OAK, HOU, HOU) They actually had a four run lead late in Saturday's game but then had a wee stumble when they allowed the Astros to [u:b238ovuc]put up a 9-spot[/u:b238ovuc] in the bottom of the 8th There's a call-up OF on Houston named Myles Straw. Do you suppose his nickname is Strawberry?

Frayed Knot Sep 24 2018 12:16 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

So good news/bad news for the Yanx this weekend. Didi Gregorius scored the winning run in extra innings with a mad dash and dive home in Saturday's game to clinch a WC berth for the Yanx ... but then tore cartilage in his wrist in the process (the old headfirst slide into home plate maneuver) and could be lost for the remainder of the year. Currently he's getting cortisone shots and they'll know more in a few days. Meanwhile, both the Yanx & Oakland lost on Sunday (to Baltimore & the Twins) keeping the gap at Yanx +1.5 games for the home field advantage in the WC play-in game. Yanx finish with 4 @ TBR then 3 @ BOS whilst Oakland also closes out on the road with SEA x 3 and LAA x 3 I believe the Yanx hold any tie-breaker with whatever the deal is after head-to-head as those two went 3-3 vs each other during the season. The Orioles will wind up winning close to 1/4 of their games this year vs NYC teams: 3-1 vs NYM, 7-12 vs NYY [10 of 45 = 22.2%] and finishing up with 7 games vs BOS & HOU [current record vs those two teams = 2-17] means they may have already topped out with those 45 wins Only against TB (8-11) do they have more wins than vs the MFY, and only vs the Mets and Braves (2-1) do they have a winning record.

HahnSolo Sep 24 2018 01:45 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- Sept17-23

18 total road wins for the year, and 7 of them were in the NY city limits. NYY hold the tiebreaker over Oakland and would host the WC in event of a tie.