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Designated What Now?

G-Fafif Jul 08 2021 08:59 PM

Petco Park continues to nurture pitcher hitting magic. [tweet]https://twitter.com/baseballquotes1/status/1413330752809357313[/tweet]

Edgy MD Jul 08 2021 09:10 PM Re: Designated What Now?

Tough pitch too. Loud-ass crowd.

Gwreck Jul 08 2021 09:28 PM Re: Designated What Now?

Off Scherzer, too. Also: the giant Swagg Chain is incredible.

LWFS Jul 08 2021 10:45 PM Re: Designated What Now?

Even better: the TERRIBLE Nationals booth's... um... description of events.

bmfc1 Jul 08 2021 10:54 PM Re: Designated What Now?

WSH lost that game 9 to 8 despite leading 8-0. So sad. What a pitching matchup... not! Darvish: 6 ER in 3 IP, Scherzer: 7 ER in 3 2/3 IP. The game took 3:40. The one or two WSH fans that understand the game might be upset that Manager Martinez used Sam Clay in the 9th with the game tied rather than Brad Hand, his closer. I thought that you don't save your closer for extra innings on the road if the game is tied.

Frayed Knot Jul 09 2021 03:37 AM Re: Designated What Now?

Grand Slam, tough pitch, off Scherzer, first ML hit, second ML AB, second ML game, 28 y/o career minor leaguer. And mostly a minor league Yanqui (they drafted, purchased, and/or re-signed him three different times, but also released him thrice) so mostly DH so not many minor lg ABs. Also a local kid so quite possibly friends/family in the stands ... and yet he seemed reasonably calm about the whole thing.

Fman99 Jul 09 2021 05:58 AM Re: Designated What Now?

I will always always ALWAYS hate the DH.

seawolf17 Jul 09 2021 06:16 AM Re: Designated What Now?

Agreed, although it says something that baseball has done SO MANY stupid rule changes in the past few years that they almost make the DH seem reasonable.

Fman99 Jul 09 2021 06:27 AM Re: Designated What Now?

Even better: the TERRIBLE Nationals booth's... um... description of events. Sometimes, you know, less is more. But not here. Less is just less.

G-Fafif Jul 09 2021 10:16 AM Re: Designated What Now?

When I saw Tatis had homered earlier in this game, with the Nationals well ahead, I allowed myself to think, “If they somehow lose this, this has the potential to kill their season or at least wound it,” not really believing such a short-term result was likely. Don't know about the rest of their season, but damn, that's a nice National loss. The inverse of Diaz vs. Suzuki.

Frayed Knot Jul 09 2021 07:16 PM Re: Designated What Now?

Even better: the TERRIBLE Nationals booth's... um... description of events. Sometimes, you know, less is more. But not here. Less is just less. Yeah, make the call first. THEN if you want to wallow in the misery this caused your team go right ahead. That's certainly what Gary would do.

Edgy MD Jul 09 2021 07:33 PM Re: Designated What Now?

It was just stunning to see how every seat at Petco seemed to have somebody in it.

Frayed Knot Jul 09 2021 07:45 PM Re: Designated What Now?

Why not, they've got an exciting team.

G-Fafif Jul 09 2021 07:59 PM Re: Designated What Now?

No NFL to any longer distract the pro sports fans of San Diego.

Edgy MD Jul 09 2021 08:13 PM Re: Designated What Now?

Frayed Knot wrote: Why not, they've got an exciting team. They're probably the best show in baseball. I'm just (a) not used to full admission being allowed after the last year and a half, and (b) seeing a sellout actually represented by people in every seat rather than tooling around the concourse, especially down by seven or whatever.

LWFS Jul 09 2021 08:18 PM Re: Designated What Now?

=G-Fafif post_id=70895 time=1625882396 user_id=55] No NFL to any longer distract the pro sports fans of San Diego.

Poor shmucks have to make do with fantastic year-round weather, hard bodies, and countless breweries. And Tijuana an hour south.