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TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

Frayed Knot Jul 31 2019 08:04 AM

Lots of day games going on today either just prior to, or in some cases possibly straddling, the trade deadline. Could be more than a few 'pulled during game' situations across the league ... and not just those involving hamstrings. Braves @ Nats at noon (Soroka vs A. Sanchez) Nats treading water at 5.5 behind after splitting the first two games of this series. Braves' need for a reliever (or two) was emphasized by holding on for a 11-8 win Tuesday night after leading 11-1 in the 6th. (gave up 1 in the 6th, 1 in the 7th, 3 in the 8th, 3 in the 9th) Fortunately for the Braves they got Erick Fedde (9 ER in 3.2) as the opposition starter in place of the recently re-IL'd Scherzer so had a big enough cushion. Pirates/Reds rematch also at noon (Tyson vs Buster Douglas) Not sure who's ahead on the refs' cards right now. Yanx/DBacks at 1PM (Greinke v Tanaka) which is especially interesting considering there have been rumors of deals between those teams (Robbie Ray mostly). Snakes won the first of a two-game set last night despite a good start by Yanx' JA Happ (3 run/6 IP). At this point the Yanx consider it worthy of celebration if the starter manages to hold the opposition to single-digit runs Dodgers/Rox @ 3 in Denver (Ryu vs G. Marquez) LA has been quieter than expected so far.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jul 31 2019 08:31 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

The "good" start by Happ wasn't what the MFYs needed tho. Bad first inning put the MFYs behind right away, and coulda been much worse. Goddamn Wilmer Flores popped out to the catcher with a chance to bust it open.

Frayed Knot Jul 31 2019 08:49 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Goddamn Wilmer Flores popped out to the catcher with a chance to bust it open. Yeah, that was one of the few ABs I saw for the whole game. Just 2 HRs for Wilmer this year although in only 146 ABs due to -- say it with me folks -- ill-timed injuries. 34 games at 2B for WF this season; 13 more at 1B. 33 games started out of 108 Missed two months from mid-May to mid-July

Frayed Knot Jul 31 2019 01:16 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

Braves pen coughs up 1 in the 8th then 2 more in the 9th to tie the game Braves take lead in top 10 (Donaldson HR). Josh Tomlin trying to close it out (1 out / 2 on) On a not unrelated note, Braves are said to be on the verge of acquiring ex-Yank/current-Tiger reliever Shane Greene But that won't help them today.

Frayed Knot Jul 31 2019 02:42 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

I was hoping that the last thing Greinke did in an Arizona uni was beat the Yanx. He left today's game during a rain delay up 3-2 but the Yanx just went ahead in the bottom of the 7th 4-3 MFY, bottom 8 Braves closed it out. No apparent arrests in CIN/PIT this afternoon.

Frayed Knot Aug 02 2019 07:47 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

6.1 IP for Vargas in his Philly debut: 2 ER on 5 hits, 5 Ks, 1 BB Phils just took the lead but JV gets a ND no matter how this one winds up.

bmfc1 Aug 04 2019 05:37 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

Has a team ever been combined no-hit twice in a season? The Seattle Mariners have, including last night against Houston.

Frayed Knot Aug 04 2019 05:18 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

=bmfc1 post_id=17535 time=1564918625 user_id=73] Has a team ever been combined no-hit twice in a season? The Seattle Mariners have, including last night against Houston.

Twice inside of a month! (July 12 vs LAA). And with combined no-nos being rare until just recently, I'd have to guess that this was a first.

And while obviously the Mariners made the Cano/Diaz deal (and others) for the future, they had better hope those work out in the long run because right now

they're looking at a drop of 23 wins off of last year's record -- 89 wins down to (a projected) 66. That's a big effin' drop for a single season.







Braves lost today (Sunday), Phils lost, Nats [CROSSOUT]are losing (7-5 end of 8)[/CROSSOUT] lost, Brewers lost, Giants lost, Cards are losing.

So really, of the NL teams ahead of us, only the Cubs (beat Brewers), the Snakes ([CROSSOUT]leading[/CROSSOUT] beat Nats), and the Dodgers (uncatchable anyway) won or are winning today.

You can drive yourself nuts getting either too high or low based on daily O-o-T scores, but days with a NYM win and the above results are better than the alternative.









The Sawx is dead ... at least as far as the AL East goes.

I mean they probably were anyway. But last week when they won the first three vs the Yanx there was some hope if they really stepped on it. Instead, they lost the

final game at Fenway and then seven straight since so that their 14-game stretch playing the Rays/Yanx/Rays/Yanx now stands at 5-8 and will end tonight at

either 5-9 or 6-8 when they probably needed at least 9-5 if not 10-4. A loss tonight will put them at 10-20 vs TB & MFY for the season which is about as much as one

needs to know when figuring how they went from WS champs to about the same place we're currently in as far as fighting for a WC slot.

Chris Sale's last two starts (both vs MFY): 9 innings combined, 14 ER. Eh, don't worry, you're only on the hook for $25-$30 mil over each of the next six years.

Frayed Knot Aug 04 2019 07:40 PM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

So David Price remembered that he's David Price and that he was pitching in the Bronx tonight. iow: Seven ER allowed and he still couldn't get out of the 3rd inning 7-0 Yanx, top 4 Sox currently on pace to win just 84 games, 24 fewer than their 108-win regular season team of a year ago.

bmfc1 Aug 05 2019 05:17 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

I guess that it was Dennis Eckersley's fault.

Vic Sage Aug 05 2019 07:51 AM Re: TWiB Notes -- July 29-Aug 4

And while obviously the Mariners made the Cano/Diaz deal (and others) for the future, they had better hope those work out in the long run because right now they're looking at a drop of 23 wins off of last year's record -- 89 wins down to (a projected) 66. That's a big effin' drop for a single season. Since Cano and Diaz have a combined WAR of -.04 so far this season, i don't know that their absence from the Mariners roster has necessarily had any particular effect on their downturn.