2024 MLB Season Thread
Nobody wants these games to start more than Mannfred.
Shohei just spoke to the media for the first time. In a prepared s
Verdugo 9th inning magic
LOL BALK
What's a fair line on a COMEDY OF ERRORS headline in a NY paper?
yankees have committed errors, balk and catcher's interference all in the same game.
if they are first team to do that this entire season it wouldn't surprise me.
not familar with yankess bench, will pinch hit for catcher?
Lololol. Nice way to lose a game.
and that's that...congrats to whoever are doyers fans on here I guess
Hell yes...
good god, reporter saying what underdogs and what spirit they have because they were down some runs in one game. They are about as far from underdogs as it gets
L.A. sports cover for newspaper:
Walker’s Day On!
(Get it.. Buehler)
On the bright side for the Yankees,
their starter Gerrit Cole didn’t allow any earned runs.
The Dodgers' 5th inning:
Boone is a massive loser.
He's nothing but a soft yes-man who wants to be best friends with his players and holds no one accountable. You see it in the lazy way the team plays that he doesn't drill the fundamentals.
Don't even get me started on Cashman. With those two clowns in charge I'm done with baseball permanently.
5-0. Put the kids to bed. Come back and it's 5-5. Wild. What a collapse.
Well that's about as bad of a way to lose as you can get.
Unbelievable.
Boone is a massive loser.
He's nothing but a soft yes-man who wants to be best friends with his players and holds no one accountable. You see it in the lazy way the team plays that he doesn't drill the fundamentals.
Don't even get me started on Cashman. With those two clowns in charge I'm done with baseball permanently.
Zero fundamentals whatsoever and guys constantly being lazy out of the box and on throws.
Just little **** they don't do well that goes unnoticed when you do them properly.
Aaron Judge LVP
The 5th inning onward was definitely Boone’s masterpiece of failure
Entering the 5th my thought process was how much longer do you pitch cole before you pull him to save him for game 7. I certainly don’t hold this against Boone, that was an optimistic viewpoint in an extreme scenario
During the 5th: a complete catastrophe of fundamental baseball. Maybe this falls on Boone for not practicing it enough, maybe it was just blind bad luck. I’ll even give Boone the benefit of the doubt here and not hold this against him even though the complete incapability of basic fundamentals 3 ****ing times by 5 different players falls squarely on the manager
During the 5th: not once does anyone call time or give cole a moment during a 17 minute inning with a pitch clock. Boone’s first **** up
Cole gets out of the 5th. At this point he has to empty the tank. You’re on the verge of losing the series, and whatever else cole got 6 outs in the 5th legitimately giving up no runs. He gave up no hits the first 4 innings. You are now on the verge of losing the World Series and you don’t have a better option than to ride the 300 million dollar pitcher
Cole breezes through the 6th. Cole is lifted. Boone lost the game right here. Everything after this is just window dressing
The 5th inning onward was definitely Boone’s masterpiece of failureEntering the 5th my thought process was how much longer do you pitch cole before you pull him to save him for game 7. I certainly don’t hold this against Boone, that was an optimistic viewpoint in an extreme scenarioDuring the 5th: a complete catastrophe of fundamental baseball. Maybe this falls on B
Couple corrections -
Boone actually came out after the first error.
He can't go back out there that inning again without talking him out.
Rizzo went to talk to him after the second error.
He breezed through the 6th.
To my absolute shock he brought Cole out in the 7th for Ohtani. I'm sick and tired of elite pitchers being babied in big spots when pitching well. So I was extremely pleasantly surprised.
He gets Ohtani and Betts and was clearly pitching around Freeman.
That's when he got pulled which I thought was a horseshit move.
Baseball needs to swing back the other way more and teams need to ride the few horses they have harder.
Besides Cole they have a bunch of clowns who can't get out of the third or fourth inning in most playoff games.
Like you said -hes your 300+ million dollar arm. Not some relievers you found off the scrap heep.
Pulling Cole in game 1 at 88 pitches up 2-1 (and this run was also due to bad defense)was absolutely clown ****. Especially when he then used Kanlhe and Weaver for such a short amount of time. 10th inning and a 3-2 game and he's using Jake Cousins and an injured Cortez. That's a fireable offense.
To top it off- not only does he pull Weaver after at 19 pitches that game in a one run extra inning game.
He uses weaver in the 9th inning of game 3- down 4-0 in the 9th.
Why on this planet would you use your best reliever down four in the 9th when you play the next day?
They're maybe 1 percent to win that game. Maybe it goes to 1.01 percent with weaver..
Wellness check for SABR42.
Amy on late night sports radio just provided stats from tonight that show NYY's loss as the worst loss since ERA started being tracked as a thing.
Pulling Cole in game 1 at 88 pitches up 2-1 (and this run was also due to bad defense)was absolutely clown ****. Especially when he then used Kanlhe and Weaver for such a short amount of time. 10th inning and a 3-2 game and he's using Jake Cousins and an injured Cortez. That's a fireable offense.
Yeah this is especially bad because it was clear that Cole didn't want to pitch on short rest at all (or coaches knew he wouldn't be effective, whatever), because even after the short outing, Boone was adamant in every press conference that the idea of pitching him 1/4/7 was 100% off the table. So let the ****ing guy throw 110 pitches when he's in there and pitching well.
My feeling going into this series is that if Yanks could win both of Cole's starts, they'd manage to find two wins in the other five games, and of course they lose both games in the shittiest ways possible. The only silver lining as a Yankee fan is that neither of these were a game 7 or something where it would literally make me have trouble sleeping for like three days afterward.
