Kolek planning to go pro
Maybe the worst offense I have ever seen.
In 4 games, Sox have outscored the Twins 42-17, average win is by 6 plus runs per game. This is with 0 AB’s from Eloy/Robert, and Abreu missing one of the four games. Hard to fathom how far the Twins have fallen.
And a dinger from Yermin. 🤣
La Russa is the worst. Way to back up your player there you spineless coward.
“(Mercedes) made a mistake. There will be a consequence he has to endure here within our family."TLR also called Yermin “clueless.” Thank God we can have 76 year-old Hall of Fame baseball-type people making sure MLB isn’t entertaining.
Thank God we can have 76 year-old Hall of Fame baseball-type people making sure MLB isn’t entertaining.
Watching some guy swing at a 3-0 pitch from a non-pitcher in a 15-4 laughter is my idea of entertainment.
The o/u for no hitters in MLB this year should be 20.
The fifth no-hitter of the season came on May 18. Household-name Spencer Turnbull of the Detroit Tigers blanked the Mariners.
No-hitters are cool, though.They emphasize one of the fun things about sports, unpredictability.Here you have a guy who was 3-17 in the last pre-COVID season, and 9-25 in his career, and yet he steps up and throws a no-hitter. I remember during my Minneapolis days, Scott Erickson -- who in 1993 allowed the most hits in the majors, threw a no-hitter early the following season. Yep, baseball's most hittable pitcher threw a no-hitter. I love that kind of stuff. One never knows when one goes to the ballpark if that's the day they'll see history being made.
One never knows when one goes to the ballpark if that's the day they'll see history being made.
Good (if a touch long) breakdown of the rise of the K and more intelligently gets at some of the things I was bringing up a few pages back.https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31454952/how-k-became-most-destructive-letter-major-league-baseballFun statistical pullquotes:"In April, there were 1,092 more strikeouts than hits, the largest such gap in any month in major league history. The season strikeout record surely will be broken this year for the 15th consecutive time. In 2016, the percentage of plate appearances that ended in a strikeout was .211. It has risen, year by year -- .216, .223, .230, .234. Right now, it stands at .243. Those are, of course, the six highest rates in major league history. In 1968, the famed Year of the Pitcher, the K rate was only .158.""Corbin Burnes of the Brewers set a record for 58 strikeouts between walks this past Thursday; that record was broken four days later by Gerrit Cole, who on Monday made it 61 strikeouts between walks.""The Brewers have a guy [Burnes] throwing a cutter at 97," [David] Ross said. "He makes Mariano's [Rivera, the greatest closer ever, with the greatest cutter ever] look like a child's." (wow, high dang praise, also, the bracketed text is in the original except for where I added "David' to make it clear it was the Cubs manager being quoted."[Tony] Gwynn never struck out more than 40 times in a season. The Rangers' Joey Gallo and the Reds' Eugenio Suarez struck out 40 times in April.""Gwynn had one three-strikeout game in his career. So did Joe DiMaggio and Stan Musial. Bill Buckner and Mike Scioscia never struck out three times in a game. But through Monday, an individual player has struck out four (or five) times in a game 56 times this season. (In 1955, there were 12 such times. No season before 1956 had more than 17)."It's long, but I found it worth a read.
"He has a locker, I have an office." LaRussa showing zero respect for a guy who has been in the big leagues for 10 years.The Twins were trying to gain a competitive advantage by bringing in a non-pitcher to pitch. And LaRussa defends the Twins while trashing multiple players on his own team. Unbelievable.