UnCut again and I'm starting to wonder and worry. Rats - Reds was to start at 11:35 but it has been delayed by this omnipresent rain. D'Backs - Nats has begun in a sunny D.C. Scherzer for Washington promptly fans Pollock. The crowd is again sparse. The Nats are in their star-spangled whites, where the big curly W has star and is blue and white, not solid red; same twist on the hats. Owings, K. 85 to Goldschmidt, who's out in front. He doesn't miss 95 in the same spot but it doesn't travel far enough, 8.
The just-recalled Braden Shipley takes the hill for Arizona. He was 20 K to 8 BB in AAA Reno. Turner, 4. The Snakes sent HaZelbaker down. Goldy could have caught a Werth foul but it was tricky for sure. Strangely, Chris Hermann—the catcher—is out in left. Werth, K. Harper, to the wall...but 8. Wind held it up?
Lamb walks. Hermann now, .588 OPS. He goes 9. The Nats 'W' on these uniforms is as if it had been cut out of a flag, like with a cookie cutter. Iannetta takes strike two at the knees. A slider at 84 is just outside. Iannetta chases another slider. ScuZzer now. Last we saw him he had walked on off. He goes 4-3.
Rats at Reds did start. I heard Gregory Polanco's at-bat, with mention of his zero home runs, 4 RBI, batting clean-up. But I'm back on Snakes - Nats. Rendon, batting with the bases loaded (Harp, Zimm, Murph), sent one in the direction of Hemann, who misjudged it, two runs score.
Scherzer starts top four, at 40 pitches, gives up his first hit of the day to Owings. Goldy whiffs on a "filthy, diving changeup," making him 0-for-11 with 7 Ks in his career against Max ScherZer.
I took a little catnap during which my MLB feed cut out. I woke back up in time to've caught ScherZer's eleventh strikeout. That's in 7 IP against two hits and two walks. And Harper has been lifted from this game.
Warping over to Kansas City, where Derek Holland has gotten the benefit of the doubt and set down Whit Merrifield. Moustakas goes 4-3 and Holland is building on his 2017 renaissance: 6 IP, 2 H, 7 K...70 pitches. José Abreu doubles and he is beginning to hit: four homers, six doubles, .273 average.
Alex Gordon sets the Royals all-time record for HBPs, with 79. Holland is at 85 pitches and gets a visit from Don Cooper. This game is a blowout, 7-1 Sox, and I am moving on.
ScherZer's game score was 76. Enny Romero just closed it out. And speaking of out, I'm running out of room in this 80-page Moleskine. I wasn't sure what this was going to be when I began it, I just wanted to put pen to paper, and to have it be about baseball. I will try to keep this up and maybe it will lead to something even better.
I hope you will hold on to this, the inaugural volume, and that it will stand up to time, worth a glance a year from now or even when you're as old as Koji Uehara.
...
In later action, in a different notebook, Orioles at Red Sox. There were a bunch of day games. Phillies at Cubs went extras but Rockies/Padres was the bridge to the 18:05 games. It wasn't extras when it bridged but it did go extras, 3-2 Rox. Now Crads/Brew on the radio. I caught some Uecker but he doesn't have this inning. Waino in trouble, Jett Bandy at bat. First and second, one away. Hardy faces Kyle Kendrick on MASN/Roku. Sale, Porcello, E Rod...this is Steven Wright's spot, I saw he was having season-ending knee surgery. Keon B doubles, ties it 3-3; IBB now, brings on Chase Anderson, the ninth batter to his this inning.
The just-recalled Braden Shipley takes the hill for Arizona. He was 20 K to 8 BB in AAA Reno. Turner, 4. The Snakes sent HaZelbaker down. Goldy could have caught a Werth foul but it was tricky for sure. Strangely, Chris Hermann—the catcher—is out in left. Werth, K. Harper, to the wall...but 8. Wind held it up?
Lamb walks. Hermann now, .588 OPS. He goes 9. The Nats 'W' on these uniforms is as if it had been cut out of a flag, like with a cookie cutter. Iannetta takes strike two at the knees. A slider at 84 is just outside. Iannetta chases another slider. ScuZzer now. Last we saw him he had walked on off. He goes 4-3.
Rats at Reds did start. I heard Gregory Polanco's at-bat, with mention of his zero home runs, 4 RBI, batting clean-up. But I'm back on Snakes - Nats. Rendon, batting with the bases loaded (Harp, Zimm, Murph), sent one in the direction of Hemann, who misjudged it, two runs score.
Scherzer starts top four, at 40 pitches, gives up his first hit of the day to Owings. Goldy whiffs on a "filthy, diving changeup," making him 0-for-11 with 7 Ks in his career against Max ScherZer.
I took a little catnap during which my MLB feed cut out. I woke back up in time to've caught ScherZer's eleventh strikeout. That's in 7 IP against two hits and two walks. And Harper has been lifted from this game.
Warping over to Kansas City, where Derek Holland has gotten the benefit of the doubt and set down Whit Merrifield. Moustakas goes 4-3 and Holland is building on his 2017 renaissance: 6 IP, 2 H, 7 K...70 pitches. José Abreu doubles and he is beginning to hit: four homers, six doubles, .273 average.
Alex Gordon sets the Royals all-time record for HBPs, with 79. Holland is at 85 pitches and gets a visit from Don Cooper. This game is a blowout, 7-1 Sox, and I am moving on.
ScherZer's game score was 76. Enny Romero just closed it out. And speaking of out, I'm running out of room in this 80-page Moleskine. I wasn't sure what this was going to be when I began it, I just wanted to put pen to paper, and to have it be about baseball. I will try to keep this up and maybe it will lead to something even better.
I hope you will hold on to this, the inaugural volume, and that it will stand up to time, worth a glance a year from now or even when you're as old as Koji Uehara.
...
In later action, in a different notebook, Orioles at Red Sox. There were a bunch of day games. Phillies at Cubs went extras but Rockies/Padres was the bridge to the 18:05 games. It wasn't extras when it bridged but it did go extras, 3-2 Rox. Now Crads/Brew on the radio. I caught some Uecker but he doesn't have this inning. Waino in trouble, Jett Bandy at bat. First and second, one away. Hardy faces Kyle Kendrick on MASN/Roku. Sale, Porcello, E Rod...this is Steven Wright's spot, I saw he was having season-ending knee surgery. Keon B doubles, ties it 3-3; IBB now, brings on Chase Anderson, the ninth batter to his this inning.
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