I'll plan on doing it next year because for some reason I feel like subjecting myself to more pain and frustration than the season is already causing me.
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MLB 2013 Season Thread
- Thread starter Mr.E
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jesus christ clint hurdle managing the game like theyve lost already down 3-0 in the third inning... i love how one of the least intelligent managers in baseball is gonna win manager of the year (and no, this isnt new, ive been saying this for years)
He's the Ron Washington of the NL, a great motivator who the players love, but a fucking shit tactician.
A great motivator when theyre winning, and a terrible one when they arent. Its why his teams are always streaky as fuck
also, with him just driving a run in, i feel like Gerrit Cole could pull a rick ankiel if his pitching career flamed out, he has such a pretty swing and is a very solid hitter for a pitcher, hitting a lot of line drives
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What's up with that sig of Marcum tossing his glove? I remember it on FanGraphs.
http://www.fangraphs.com/not/gif-shaun-marcum-has-sinned/
http://www.fangraphs.com/not/gif-shaun-marcum-has-sinned/
irrelevant as it was, as the pirates got mccutchen in anyways, the play in the first inning where the ball was thrown out of play should have scored him, its kinda depressing when i know the correct rule watching but none of 6 umpires on the field nor clint hurdle do lol
the specific play: mccutchen begins the play on first base, morneau up. Ground ball up the middle, hits the pitchers glove, short stop comes in to pick it up and throw to first. Before he releases the ball mccutchen touches second base. Ball goes into stands. ruling: morneau and mccutchen to second and third. relevant rule:
"7.05
Each runner including the batter-runner may, without liability to be put out, advance -- (g) Two bases when, with no spectators on the playing field, a thrown ball goes into the stands, or into a bench (whether or not the ball rebounds into the field), or over or under or through a field fence, or on a slanting part of the screen above the backstop, or remains in the meshes of a wire screen protecting spectators. The ball is dead. When such wild throw is the first play by an infielder, the umpire, in awarding such bases, shall be governed by the position of the runners at the time the ball was pitched; in all other cases the umpire shall be governed by the position of the runners at the time the wild throw was made;"
While the errant throw was from an infielder, it was not the first play by an infielder, as the pitcher touching the ball with his glove does in fact count as a play... youd think when umpriing is your job youd understand this rule?_?
the specific play: mccutchen begins the play on first base, morneau up. Ground ball up the middle, hits the pitchers glove, short stop comes in to pick it up and throw to first. Before he releases the ball mccutchen touches second base. Ball goes into stands. ruling: morneau and mccutchen to second and third. relevant rule:
"7.05
Each runner including the batter-runner may, without liability to be put out, advance -- (g) Two bases when, with no spectators on the playing field, a thrown ball goes into the stands, or into a bench (whether or not the ball rebounds into the field), or over or under or through a field fence, or on a slanting part of the screen above the backstop, or remains in the meshes of a wire screen protecting spectators. The ball is dead. When such wild throw is the first play by an infielder, the umpire, in awarding such bases, shall be governed by the position of the runners at the time the ball was pitched; in all other cases the umpire shall be governed by the position of the runners at the time the wild throw was made;"
While the errant throw was from an infielder, it was not the first play by an infielder, as the pitcher touching the ball with his glove does in fact count as a play... youd think when umpriing is your job youd understand this rule?_?
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