From the pulpit on this Sunday, at 11:24 central daylight, you decried and decreed: DevilCut.
B has pulled up the Yankees on MLB.TV, opting to overlay the WFAN radio call on top of the YES TV feed. I've got Rays in one ear and Yanks in the other as I type up my entry from August 3rd, featuring that craZy Snakes-Cubs tilt. If it is possible to overdose on baseball I'm getting there.
I saw a little of Yanks at Indians. Both Severino and Carrasco looked dominant.
Orlando Arcia has broken through against Archer with his 11th home run of the year, tying this 'Cut at one run apiece in the top of the sixth inning. Braun bats, down in the count at one-and-two. He sends an 89 mph slider back up the middle. That was vintage Braun, staying in over the ball, his eyes following the ball in and staying focused on the ball as he sent it back where it came from. Aguilar swings past a fastball. Archer is at 90 pitches. A tight, slightly hanging slider is strike two, cut on and missed. A couple of pitches fouled back. Aguilar can't get any wood on a 95 mph fastball, two outs in the top half of the sixth. This is Thames. Fastball for a strike 0-and-1. A tapper back to Archer, he gets his glove on it and was convinced he had had gloved the ball but as he reached in he realiZed the ball had popped out, Thames on first, E-1, and the bases are loaded. Hernán in the hole. Fastball at 96, low and away. Slider, strikeout.
Mike Clevinger, mound dipper. The Yankees have chased Carrasco after scoring five runs in the top of the sixth. I didn't see any of the scoring except by replay. A bases-clearing Ellsbury triple could have been caught by Abraham Almonte. Clevinger walks Clint FraZier. Didi now. I have to mention again how good Severino looks today. Fierce, focused, sharp, clean, and efficient. Behind only Sale and Kluber, Severino is perhaps the American League's third-best pitcher.
Looking at the league-wide scoreboard, I note some crooked numbers. St Louis are 13-3 Cincinnati. The Red Sox are 6-3 the White Sox. The Orioles are 8-1 the Tigers. The Mariners are up 7-2 on the Royals.
Judge loses one to right-center, his 35th of the year. That is a sweet swing when he takes an outside pitch and hits it where it's pitched. He is strong enough not to have to pull the pitch. Severino, by the way, is one walk and one hit through six innings with eight whiffs. This game has shaken my interest, back to The 'Cut.
The Nats have scored a couple of runs off Lester here in the top of the seventh at Wrigley, the score now 4-3 Cubs. Per Dave Jageler, who is in the Nationals TV broadcast booth this weekend along with F.P. Santangelo, the Cubs are likely without Wade Davis today. The count is full on Adrian Sanchez. He fouls one away. He singles, a pinch hit. Lester will depart this contest after 112 pitches.
Harper squibbed an infield single, Zimmermann smashed a double that twisted up Jon Jay in center, Maddon walked Daniel Murphy, Carl Edwards Jr hit Anthony Rendon with a curve that didn't curve, and now Wieters tweets a granny to center. "That was cool," says F.P.
Bryan Goodwin gets Koji Uehara, 9-4 Nationals.
Matt Belisle, mound dipper.
Sean Rodríguez, in his Pirates redux debut, walks it off in the 12th.
César Hernández takes a throw in the junk. Story stole second on the play. The throw bounced up. The Rockies are down 3-2, bottom nine. Neris walks Lucroy, bringing on Blackmon. Holland came on in the ninth, blew his second save. Blackmon, 3-U. Neris gets his 11th save. Cameron Rupp had the game-winning 2-run-double off of Holland.
I'm a go Trout Fishing on a Sunday, Shorty. That Chris Smith on the mound for Oakland. Juan Graterol gets himself to second with a double.
Kenley Jansen warms. As Jon Sciambi muses on ESPN radio: he is warming because he hasn't pitched much, only once since July 29th. The Dodgers are too good! A.J. Ramos works to Yasiel Puig, who started the day with an .815 OPS, 21 home runs, 12 bags, and a .260 batting average. He is the Dodgers eighth hitter. He walks. I love some Sunday night baseball, catching the ESPN radio broadcast on the FM dial, writing under a desk lamp—if I can even get myself to this moment, if I can moderate.
Jansen takes the mound in the bottom of the ninth, his Dodgers atop 8-0. Here's the rookie Rosario. He's in the hole but fouls a couple back. A ball a little low, 1-and-2. Strikeout. Nimmo now, former first-rounder out of Wyoming. Sciambi: there is no high school baseball in Wyoming, so he was drafted based on what he had done in American Legion ball. Count full, Nimmo walks. "And everyone's excited. You can't really call it a Bronx cheer, so what do you call it? A Flushing cheer, I guess," says Sciambi. Conforto is in the hole. A foul. Conforto, K. Asdrubel. Asdrubel 1-and-2. Asdrubel, K.
Yo No Se
My thought process went: (a) that probably means Tampa, referring to their original team name but I'm not 100% sure; (b) because sometimes you'll use an English word to refer to a player whose last name in Spanish translates to the word you've used, e.g. 'The Stork' is a reference to Matt GarZa; (c) I can't immediately think of what 'devil' is in Spanish, sadly; (d) looking at the slate I see that Brewers at Rays features Jimmy Nelson for Milwaukee and Chris Archer for Tampa; (e) I'll text you just to make sure.The Slate
It is 11:50 central daylight, overcast and quiet. The 'Cut begins in Florida in twenty minutes. How does The Slate shape up? There are seven noon-hour games; four 13:00-hour games; two in the 14:00 hour; D'backs - Giants begins at 15:05, which probably wouldn't be enough to bridge to the Sunday Night game, Dodgers at Mets at 19:00. But: the Mariners and Royals play two today, in the form of a straight day-night doubleheader from Kansas City. Game one begins at 13:15 central. Say it goes three hours, that's 16:15, add half an hour transition time between games, taking us to 16:45, which should be a late-enough start to get us to the Sunday Night game. I'd put the chances of a bridge at 95%. Only weather in Kansas City could keep this bridge from conveying us across the baseball day.Baseball Overdose
Archer hit Domingo Santana near the wrist in the top of the first. Braun then grounded into a double-play. Santana was later replaced in the order by Travis Shaw, with Hernán Pérez shifting out to take Santana's spot in right. I imagine Santana has gone for x-rays and an ice-pack. In the bottom of the second, Morrison and now SouZa Jr have singled. Nelson then walked Brad Miller but 'The Buffalo' aka Wilson Ramos went GIDP and Mallex Smith struck out. The Rays got a run on the double-play ball but they had a chance at more. "It's hard to get runs these days," said Dave Wills on the Rays radio call.B has pulled up the Yankees on MLB.TV, opting to overlay the WFAN radio call on top of the YES TV feed. I've got Rays in one ear and Yanks in the other as I type up my entry from August 3rd, featuring that craZy Snakes-Cubs tilt. If it is possible to overdose on baseball I'm getting there.
Toggling Two Games
Archer throws a slider that spins away, away from a lunging Manny Piña. That is Archer's fourth K. It's the top of the fifth, two out, Tampa leading 1-0 in today's HotCut. Broxton can't quite catch up to a fastball. Archer gets his fifth strikeout and gets through the fifth by striking out the side.I saw a little of Yanks at Indians. Both Severino and Carrasco looked dominant.
Orlando Arcia has broken through against Archer with his 11th home run of the year, tying this 'Cut at one run apiece in the top of the sixth inning. Braun bats, down in the count at one-and-two. He sends an 89 mph slider back up the middle. That was vintage Braun, staying in over the ball, his eyes following the ball in and staying focused on the ball as he sent it back where it came from. Aguilar swings past a fastball. Archer is at 90 pitches. A tight, slightly hanging slider is strike two, cut on and missed. A couple of pitches fouled back. Aguilar can't get any wood on a 95 mph fastball, two outs in the top half of the sixth. This is Thames. Fastball for a strike 0-and-1. A tapper back to Archer, he gets his glove on it and was convinced he had had gloved the ball but as he reached in he realiZed the ball had popped out, Thames on first, E-1, and the bases are loaded. Hernán in the hole. Fastball at 96, low and away. Slider, strikeout.
Mike Clevinger, mound dipper. The Yankees have chased Carrasco after scoring five runs in the top of the sixth. I didn't see any of the scoring except by replay. A bases-clearing Ellsbury triple could have been caught by Abraham Almonte. Clevinger walks Clint FraZier. Didi now. I have to mention again how good Severino looks today. Fierce, focused, sharp, clean, and efficient. Behind only Sale and Kluber, Severino is perhaps the American League's third-best pitcher.
Looking at the league-wide scoreboard, I note some crooked numbers. St Louis are 13-3 Cincinnati. The Red Sox are 6-3 the White Sox. The Orioles are 8-1 the Tigers. The Mariners are up 7-2 on the Royals.
Judge loses one to right-center, his 35th of the year. That is a sweet swing when he takes an outside pitch and hits it where it's pitched. He is strong enough not to have to pull the pitch. Severino, by the way, is one walk and one hit through six innings with eight whiffs. This game has shaken my interest, back to The 'Cut.
The 'Cut Shakes Me
I began some light chores: swiffing the floors and getting laundry out of the dryer. I thought I was keeping one eye on the 'Cut. It was still 1-1 in the eighth, then the ninth. Then I looked and MLB.TV was showing me the logo screen: Thank you for watching. The 'Cut had ended, the Rays must have won. I brought the game feed back on, jumped to the bottom of the ninth inning. It was the first batter. Steven SouZa Jr off of Jacob Barnes. The Rays avoid a sweep with their first walk-off homer since 2014. Game time: two hours and forty-six minutes. Baseball spinner, take me away!The Baseball Spins
Nelson Cruz hits a long home run to center field, measured at 465 feet. That was his second longball of the day and after watching it travel out, it's hard to believe that he has only 24 homers so far this season. Seattle leads this game 8-5, two on, two out. It's the southpaw Scott Alexander on the mound for Kansas City. There goes a passed ball, charged to Butera, who might've been crossed up on the pitch. (Salvador Perez has gone on the 10-day DL with an intercostal strain.) Gamel lines one back to Alexander, LO 1.The Nats have scored a couple of runs off Lester here in the top of the seventh at Wrigley, the score now 4-3 Cubs. Per Dave Jageler, who is in the Nationals TV broadcast booth this weekend along with F.P. Santangelo, the Cubs are likely without Wade Davis today. The count is full on Adrian Sanchez. He fouls one away. He singles, a pinch hit. Lester will depart this contest after 112 pitches.
Harper squibbed an infield single, Zimmermann smashed a double that twisted up Jon Jay in center, Maddon walked Daniel Murphy, Carl Edwards Jr hit Anthony Rendon with a curve that didn't curve, and now Wieters tweets a granny to center. "That was cool," says F.P.
Marking the Time with S-Rod
What I am doing on these pages, in this blog, is attempting to mark the time. Baseball marks the time; it is the months, the weeks, and the days. As this is more journal than it is art I do not intend to obscure myself entirely in this account. From time to time I will mention other markers of these days. The significant event today is the closure of Hanley Road, just down the street from our house. A water main ruptured there last night. The water has ceased flowing like a creek down our street but Hanley represents a major thoroughfare here and its closure could mean havoc, should it remain closed for tomorrow's Monday morning rush. A water worker told us this morning at 7:00 central daylight that the fix would be in place by 13:00. Nah.Bryan Goodwin gets Koji Uehara, 9-4 Nationals.
Matt Belisle, mound dipper.
Sean Rodríguez, in his Pirates redux debut, walks it off in the 12th.
César Hernández takes a throw in the junk. Story stole second on the play. The throw bounced up. The Rockies are down 3-2, bottom nine. Neris walks Lucroy, bringing on Blackmon. Holland came on in the ninth, blew his second save. Blackmon, 3-U. Neris gets his 11th save. Cameron Rupp had the game-winning 2-run-double off of Holland.
Baseball spinner!
I am looking at The Slate, at the General Console. Seattle leads KC 1-0, bottom 3 in the second half of the doubleheader. It's 17:32, that game'll run for at least 90 minutes more—Sunday bridge looking good. Oakland trails Anaheim 10-6 in the seventh, AriZona trails San Fran 6-3, also in the seventh inning. Sometimes I can just sit here, sip beer, write, listen to the box fan, and watch the scores play out on the General Console. I wish I could watch Dodgers at Mets.I'm a go Trout Fishing on a Sunday, Shorty. That Chris Smith on the mound for Oakland. Juan Graterol gets himself to second with a double.
Cody Cracks One
Later, for sure. It is Sunday night at 21:33 central. Hyun-Jin Ryu and the Dodgers lead the New York Mets 7-0 in the bottom of the eighth. Ryu went seven innings, gave up one hit against eight strikeouts; threw 96 pitches; ended with a game score of 88, which is pretty good for seven innings. Cingrani worked the eighth, clean, with two strikeouts. I heard the crack of the bat as Cody Bellinger hit is 32nd home run of his rookie season, off Josh Smoker in the 8th. There is not much baseball left today. I peeked at Monday's Slate, then at Tuesday's. I did not see what I had hoped to see. I'll be catching up on some podcasts I guess.Kenley Jansen warms. As Jon Sciambi muses on ESPN radio: he is warming because he hasn't pitched much, only once since July 29th. The Dodgers are too good! A.J. Ramos works to Yasiel Puig, who started the day with an .815 OPS, 21 home runs, 12 bags, and a .260 batting average. He is the Dodgers eighth hitter. He walks. I love some Sunday night baseball, catching the ESPN radio broadcast on the FM dial, writing under a desk lamp—if I can even get myself to this moment, if I can moderate.
Jansen takes the mound in the bottom of the ninth, his Dodgers atop 8-0. Here's the rookie Rosario. He's in the hole but fouls a couple back. A ball a little low, 1-and-2. Strikeout. Nimmo now, former first-rounder out of Wyoming. Sciambi: there is no high school baseball in Wyoming, so he was drafted based on what he had done in American Legion ball. Count full, Nimmo walks. "And everyone's excited. You can't really call it a Bronx cheer, so what do you call it? A Flushing cheer, I guess," says Sciambi. Conforto is in the hole. A foul. Conforto, K. Asdrubel. Asdrubel 1-and-2. Asdrubel, K.
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