At 9:04 this morning, you announced a DoubleCut. The first game brought back the scheduled duo from last night: Arrieta and Senzatela. The back-end will feature John Lackey and Kyle Freeland.
I listened to portions of the early afternoon day-bill. Arrieta wasn't very good. The worst start of his career occurred in Colorado in 2014 or 2015. Nine runs. He gave up nine runs today too but only five were earned. His game score was 14. I heard Charlie Blackmon triple. I heard Mark Reynolds doing damage. Mark Reynolds is batting .336. He has 12 home runs and 30 RBI. Move over Todd Helton! I heard reference on Cubs radio to CarGo's struggles. Carlos González was 1-for-4 to raise his average to .194. Strangely, I have no recollection of hearing Ian Desmond bat. I recall Kris Bryant being lifted prematurely, seemingly so. Ron Coomer, a.k.a. the CoomDog, on the Cubs broadcast suggested this might simply be to get Kris "off his feet". Dylan Floro ate innings for the Cubs, going 4 1/3 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K. Hey, now. Joe Maddon did mention Floro in the pre-game interview, indicating that Floro had "a great arm". Floro through 15 innings for Tampa Bay last year, registering a 4.20 ERA with 14 strikeouts against five walks.
177 to 149. That's the usage of the new 10-day DL as of the end of April 2017 compared to usage of the erstwhile 15-day DL through the same number of days in 2016. I credit the Oriole TV broadcast on MASN for that relevant and timely tidbit.
I've got ScherZer on, Nats at O's, 1-0 Nats, bottom four. So much for the concern about ScherZer's ring finger in spring training. I admit I was worried—he couldn't throw a fastball but you wouldn't know it now. He gets Machado to chase an 86-m.p.h. slider, down and away, not a strike. That Chris Davis bats. ScherZer loses a curve out and high at 76. Tricky change at 85, leaking away at the end. This series moves to D.C. tomorrow night—love it. He crosses Davis up inside. Davis checks his swing and looks bad, tomahawking his bat into the dirt as he walks away. The ScherZ has 6 strikeouts through four innings.
Toothpick sighting!
Passport in hand I've gone north to Toronto. Mainly I wanted to get a look at Carlos Carrasco, who has been good, and who I have not yet watched. Mike Bolsinger, pitching for Toronto into the sixth, walked Edwin, fanned José Ramírez, then yielded a Chisenhall double. John Gibbons came out and lifted him. We've also got the Cardinals on 1120 AM on the kitchen radio. Ozzie Smith does a commercial for Ameren Illinois. Bolsinger went 5 2/3 IP but his book is not yet closed. Dominic Leone induces a Yandy Díaz flyout, 9.
Carrasco now, 2-0 Cleveland, no out, bottom six. Carrasco has thrown 72 pitches...about 14 an inning so far. Coghlan 8—Chisenhall in center. He was woeful in right in the World Series, or maybe I'm just locking in and aggrandizing one or two crucial plays. He came up at third base and now he's in center field? A rookie named Ohlman, a catcher making his MLB debut, goes 6-3. Pillar puts a charge into one but it falls into the depth of Chisenhall's glove, 8. Carrasco has yielded two hits but is otherwise clean through six innings.
Cecil comes on in relief of Waino, sacks jammed. Dietrich doubles home two. Bour singles, another run scores. All runs are charged to Waino but Cecil continues his slow start. Waino's line is 5 1/3 IP, 4 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 3 Ks. Game score of 49. Someone named Riddle, a shortstop, lines out to center and Dietrich scores, it's 5-1 Marlins. Cecil fans Straily. He goes 2/3 IP and raises his ERA to 4.85.
Bautista, who had been 0-for-his-last-18 against righties with ten punchouts, promptly sent a single to center. Pearce now, 9. An 82 m.p.h. tight slider busts Smoak in, 1-and-2. Bautista takes a bag, his second. A slider, down the middle but diving, gets Smoak and that's seven strong for Carrasco. He's probably done, as Miller was warming. The line: 7 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 7 K. Game score 83. When I type all of these up I can compile a rank of game scores I observed at least partially. An 83 is probably second-best I can recall. I feel like there was an 85 by...someone. 97 pitches.
I took a break, tuned into Braves at Astros. Bregman stroked one to near dead-center, just beyond Inciarte's reach. It would have been a Tal's Hill shot or maybe even out of the park under the original Enron configuration. Then Colón was lifted.
Verlander now. Berthiaume: "Verlander thrown over to first more than any other pitcher in the game." He is keeping Goldy close over there. A 'rare changeup' to Lamb and it's 1-and-1 with two down. Lamb walks. In the background of this house I hear Rooney croon out, "A Redbird winner!" That's five in a row. This would be the part in Major League where one guy says to another (I think in another language), "Maybe they're not so shitty." I had called them bad about a month ago. Barraclough had entered the game with a lead but gave up a few hits and a couple of walks, by which the Crads tied it. A.J. Ramos threw one away an inning later—on a comebacker from rookie Magneuris Sierra, who is fast apparently. Sierra would score. I don't want to look at my phone to put fine details on who else played well for STL, or even who closed it out. Pham had two doubles, Gyorko kept hitting. Oh must have closed it out. OK, I looked it up. Save for Oh, his eighth.
James McCann touches you up for a solo. Berthiaume: "He's got eleven hits this year, seven are home runs." Verlander whiffs. Andrew Romine, .727 OPS, LO 6. That's a line-out.
Extras in Baltimore. Nats closer-of-the-week Enny Romero coughed up a two-run lead in the ninth. ScherZer ended up with a 69 game score. He had given up a couple of homers. Now in the bottom of the tenth, the Orioles have two on, one out, That Chris Davis at bat. Shot of Matt Albers, now in jacket on bench. He looked in a daze. It's Ollie Perez working to C Davis...who looks at a fastball right down the middle. Here comes Dusty. He wants a righty to face Trumbo. Commercial break in progress, Jake.
Looking at the MLB.TV console, there are a couple other tied and late games: 9-9 Seattle at Philly, bottom eight; 6-6 Kansas City at Tampa Bay, top nine. Back to Bal'mer. I like this new MLB.TV console interface except for one thing: I can't discern readily which game I am toggled onto, i.e. if I select OK to go to a game, which game am I going to be taken to? Each game is its own box or icon with icons of the two teams playing and what inning, the count, and a diamond showing where the baserunners are, if there are any. The game you have selected has a slightly enlarged box but it is not noticeably larger.
I listened to portions of the early afternoon day-bill. Arrieta wasn't very good. The worst start of his career occurred in Colorado in 2014 or 2015. Nine runs. He gave up nine runs today too but only five were earned. His game score was 14. I heard Charlie Blackmon triple. I heard Mark Reynolds doing damage. Mark Reynolds is batting .336. He has 12 home runs and 30 RBI. Move over Todd Helton! I heard reference on Cubs radio to CarGo's struggles. Carlos González was 1-for-4 to raise his average to .194. Strangely, I have no recollection of hearing Ian Desmond bat. I recall Kris Bryant being lifted prematurely, seemingly so. Ron Coomer, a.k.a. the CoomDog, on the Cubs broadcast suggested this might simply be to get Kris "off his feet". Dylan Floro ate innings for the Cubs, going 4 1/3 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K. Hey, now. Joe Maddon did mention Floro in the pre-game interview, indicating that Floro had "a great arm". Floro through 15 innings for Tampa Bay last year, registering a 4.20 ERA with 14 strikeouts against five walks.
177 to 149. That's the usage of the new 10-day DL as of the end of April 2017 compared to usage of the erstwhile 15-day DL through the same number of days in 2016. I credit the Oriole TV broadcast on MASN for that relevant and timely tidbit.
I've got ScherZer on, Nats at O's, 1-0 Nats, bottom four. So much for the concern about ScherZer's ring finger in spring training. I admit I was worried—he couldn't throw a fastball but you wouldn't know it now. He gets Machado to chase an 86-m.p.h. slider, down and away, not a strike. That Chris Davis bats. ScherZer loses a curve out and high at 76. Tricky change at 85, leaking away at the end. This series moves to D.C. tomorrow night—love it. He crosses Davis up inside. Davis checks his swing and looks bad, tomahawking his bat into the dirt as he walks away. The ScherZ has 6 strikeouts through four innings.
Toothpick sighting!
Passport in hand I've gone north to Toronto. Mainly I wanted to get a look at Carlos Carrasco, who has been good, and who I have not yet watched. Mike Bolsinger, pitching for Toronto into the sixth, walked Edwin, fanned José Ramírez, then yielded a Chisenhall double. John Gibbons came out and lifted him. We've also got the Cardinals on 1120 AM on the kitchen radio. Ozzie Smith does a commercial for Ameren Illinois. Bolsinger went 5 2/3 IP but his book is not yet closed. Dominic Leone induces a Yandy Díaz flyout, 9.
Carrasco now, 2-0 Cleveland, no out, bottom six. Carrasco has thrown 72 pitches...about 14 an inning so far. Coghlan 8—Chisenhall in center. He was woeful in right in the World Series, or maybe I'm just locking in and aggrandizing one or two crucial plays. He came up at third base and now he's in center field? A rookie named Ohlman, a catcher making his MLB debut, goes 6-3. Pillar puts a charge into one but it falls into the depth of Chisenhall's glove, 8. Carrasco has yielded two hits but is otherwise clean through six innings.
Cecil comes on in relief of Waino, sacks jammed. Dietrich doubles home two. Bour singles, another run scores. All runs are charged to Waino but Cecil continues his slow start. Waino's line is 5 1/3 IP, 4 H, 4 ER, 3 BB, 3 Ks. Game score of 49. Someone named Riddle, a shortstop, lines out to center and Dietrich scores, it's 5-1 Marlins. Cecil fans Straily. He goes 2/3 IP and raises his ERA to 4.85.
Bautista, who had been 0-for-his-last-18 against righties with ten punchouts, promptly sent a single to center. Pearce now, 9. An 82 m.p.h. tight slider busts Smoak in, 1-and-2. Bautista takes a bag, his second. A slider, down the middle but diving, gets Smoak and that's seven strong for Carrasco. He's probably done, as Miller was warming. The line: 7 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 7 K. Game score 83. When I type all of these up I can compile a rank of game scores I observed at least partially. An 83 is probably second-best I can recall. I feel like there was an 85 by...someone. 97 pitches.
I took a break, tuned into Braves at Astros. Bregman stroked one to near dead-center, just beyond Inciarte's reach. It would have been a Tal's Hill shot or maybe even out of the park under the original Enron configuration. Then Colón was lifted.
Verlander now. Berthiaume: "Verlander thrown over to first more than any other pitcher in the game." He is keeping Goldy close over there. A 'rare changeup' to Lamb and it's 1-and-1 with two down. Lamb walks. In the background of this house I hear Rooney croon out, "A Redbird winner!" That's five in a row. This would be the part in Major League where one guy says to another (I think in another language), "Maybe they're not so shitty." I had called them bad about a month ago. Barraclough had entered the game with a lead but gave up a few hits and a couple of walks, by which the Crads tied it. A.J. Ramos threw one away an inning later—on a comebacker from rookie Magneuris Sierra, who is fast apparently. Sierra would score. I don't want to look at my phone to put fine details on who else played well for STL, or even who closed it out. Pham had two doubles, Gyorko kept hitting. Oh must have closed it out. OK, I looked it up. Save for Oh, his eighth.
James McCann touches you up for a solo. Berthiaume: "He's got eleven hits this year, seven are home runs." Verlander whiffs. Andrew Romine, .727 OPS, LO 6. That's a line-out.
Extras in Baltimore. Nats closer-of-the-week Enny Romero coughed up a two-run lead in the ninth. ScherZer ended up with a 69 game score. He had given up a couple of homers. Now in the bottom of the tenth, the Orioles have two on, one out, That Chris Davis at bat. Shot of Matt Albers, now in jacket on bench. He looked in a daze. It's Ollie Perez working to C Davis...who looks at a fastball right down the middle. Here comes Dusty. He wants a righty to face Trumbo. Commercial break in progress, Jake.
Looking at the MLB.TV console, there are a couple other tied and late games: 9-9 Seattle at Philly, bottom eight; 6-6 Kansas City at Tampa Bay, top nine. Back to Bal'mer. I like this new MLB.TV console interface except for one thing: I can't discern readily which game I am toggled onto, i.e. if I select OK to go to a game, which game am I going to be taken to? Each game is its own box or icon with icons of the two teams playing and what inning, the count, and a diamond showing where the baserunners are, if there are any. The game you have selected has a slightly enlarged box but it is not noticeably larger.
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