Despite ash falling on your city like snow, you supplied a HotCut at 9:19 central daylight: GutCut.
Manhattan is glowing in the sun's setting light. I am taken by the view, all the buildings, the water. It makes me want to be there, among them.
It's Jacob deGrom for the Mets. Hernández looks at a couple of pitches. There's a fastball at 97 mph for a strike. The fifth pitch was up a little, I suppose. Full count. deGrom isn't going to get the high strike but he gets the inside pitch, way inside, and César is rung up. Galvis goes down looking, too. "If deGrom is going to get that pitch, he's going to have a big night." Here's Odubel Herrera. Odubel is in the hole. deGrom shoves 99 past Odubel, the side is retired, all by strikeout.
Strasburg went complete against Miami the last time out. He works on an extra day of rest today. Gordon, 4-3. Here's Giancarlo Stanton. There's no one at this game. Hurricane Irma churns and burns in the Caribbean. Strasburg has a 0.90 ERA in his last five starts. Inside to Stanton. Stanton, K. Nasty tight dropper. High socks, beard, Strasburg. Yelich singles, a first-pitch chopper that hops just above Strasburg.
Marcell Ozuna, 107 RBI, .305 avg, 32 home runs. Those players with at least 30 home runs and 100 RBI so far this year: Arenado, Goldschmidt, Ozuna and Schoop.
Ozuna hack-fouls 98. Strasburg is throwing seeds tonight. The echo of high-pitched whistles in a mostly empty park. There aren't usually many fans in Miami but the numbers are especially low tonight. A disgusting wipeout slider makes Ozuna look bad but he has nothing to feel bad about. This is as good as Strasburg has ever looked.
Early runs: Mets 1-0 Philly; Cubs 1-0 Pirates; Royals 1-0 Tigers; Blue Jays 1-0 Boston.
"Díaz passed away a few years ago," says Gary Cohen.
What made me edge into this was, when I heard 'Bo Díaz' my first thought was that baseball card on the stack of cards I had left behind. The second thought was that I recall a news tidbit from a while back about Díaz being crushed by a satellite he was setting up at his house. Or maybe he fell off his roof while trying to make a fix to his satellite.
While I was writing all of this Ben Lively, the pitcher, padded his career RBI total after having already collected six RBI in his first 18 at-bats. César Hernández is caught looking again. The runs off de Grom are apparently all unearned but it's 3-1 Phillies nonetheless.
The Gut trails 1-0 but he continues to throw strikes, get groundballs. Hechevarria grounds out and Colón is through five. His line: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 HR, 58 pitches. Odorizzi's line is better but Colón should be happy with his work so far. Odo fans Jason Castro. Some fervor, some cowbells, I swat at a fly, the count runneth full. Backdoor breaker, Grossman down looking, end of the top of the sixth inning in a little something we like to call the HotCut.
First Play From Scrimmage
Among the options for the earliest games, I opted for Phillies at Mets. It has an 18:10 listed first pitch. I will watch César Hernández bat and then likely switch to Nats at Marlins. Stephen Strasburg pitches tonight.Manhattan is glowing in the sun's setting light. I am taken by the view, all the buildings, the water. It makes me want to be there, among them.
It's Jacob deGrom for the Mets. Hernández looks at a couple of pitches. There's a fastball at 97 mph for a strike. The fifth pitch was up a little, I suppose. Full count. deGrom isn't going to get the high strike but he gets the inside pitch, way inside, and César is rung up. Galvis goes down looking, too. "If deGrom is going to get that pitch, he's going to have a big night." Here's Odubel Herrera. Odubel is in the hole. deGrom shoves 99 past Odubel, the side is retired, all by strikeout.
Dusty Opens a Tin
Daniel Murphy clanks a grounder off of Alejandro De Aza's right heel. That goes as an infield hit. I did not know that. De Aza is out. Odrisamer Despaigne—D-Paigne—has two outs in Miami. Almost no one is seated behind home plate. Rendon pops out foul, not far from home.Strasburg went complete against Miami the last time out. He works on an extra day of rest today. Gordon, 4-3. Here's Giancarlo Stanton. There's no one at this game. Hurricane Irma churns and burns in the Caribbean. Strasburg has a 0.90 ERA in his last five starts. Inside to Stanton. Stanton, K. Nasty tight dropper. High socks, beard, Strasburg. Yelich singles, a first-pitch chopper that hops just above Strasburg.
Marcell Ozuna, 107 RBI, .305 avg, 32 home runs. Those players with at least 30 home runs and 100 RBI so far this year: Arenado, Goldschmidt, Ozuna and Schoop.
Ozuna hack-fouls 98. Strasburg is throwing seeds tonight. The echo of high-pitched whistles in a mostly empty park. There aren't usually many fans in Miami but the numbers are especially low tonight. A disgusting wipeout slider makes Ozuna look bad but he has nothing to feel bad about. This is as good as Strasburg has ever looked.
General Console
Yanks at Orioles, delayed. Rangers at Braves, delayed. The globe has all the rain mankind could ever need but the globe does not distribute that rain very well. We could use some rain in St Louis. Houston drowns. Portland, OR could use some rain because of an ass-hat with fireworks. But Irma's got all the rain wound up in her bonnet. She's the jerk in the chicken that's about to cross the road and wreck the Caribbean.Early runs: Mets 1-0 Philly; Cubs 1-0 Pirates; Royals 1-0 Tigers; Blue Jays 1-0 Boston.
Back in Flushing
There aren't many fans in the stands in New York City, either. On a beautiful night. They're all at the tennis tournament. In his first major league at-bat J P Crawford grounds one to Dominic Smith who picks it smoothly but then tyrannosaurs a throw to second in an effort to get a double-play started. Reyes can't pick it, a runner scores, deGrom is suddenly in trouble. Alfaro bats, he's in the hole.Bo Díaz
Ron Darling makes a Bo Díaz reference. I had the Bo Díaz 1986 Topps. He caught for the Reds. We went out to eat one night, me and my family. I took a stack of baseball cards with me for no reason. When we got home I realized I had forgotten to collect them from the table. I was despondent. But my dad had them, he had scooped them up from the table, I guess."Díaz passed away a few years ago," says Gary Cohen.
What made me edge into this was, when I heard 'Bo Díaz' my first thought was that baseball card on the stack of cards I had left behind. The second thought was that I recall a news tidbit from a while back about Díaz being crushed by a satellite he was setting up at his house. Or maybe he fell off his roof while trying to make a fix to his satellite.
While I was writing all of this Ben Lively, the pitcher, padded his career RBI total after having already collected six RBI in his first 18 at-bats. César Hernández is caught looking again. The runs off de Grom are apparently all unearned but it's 3-1 Phillies nonetheless.
Gordon Gets a Hit
He pokes one the other way, to left, on a Strasburg changeup. Miami TV says it's only the twelfth hit Strasburg has allowed all year on his changeup. Stanton fouls one down the right-field line. He flies out, 8. The Marlins are getting a hit an inning but that is all against Strasburg.GutCut
Needless to say, there is no one in the stands at Tropicana Field. I am on ballpark sound, inadvertently. There is very little ballpark sound. Where the catcalls, where the nature-boys? The umpire is the main source of sound in the park. Eddie Rosario walks. Longo visits the mound to give Jake OdoriZzi a little pepper. There are, in the Florida baseball attendance race to zero, fewer people at the Rays game than there are at the Marlins game. I've said it before, I'll say it again. The Rays will be moving. The ballpark is a fug, the fans are not there. Buxton down on strikes.The Gut trails 1-0 but he continues to throw strikes, get groundballs. Hechevarria grounds out and Colón is through five. His line: 5 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 1 HR, 58 pitches. Odorizzi's line is better but Colón should be happy with his work so far. Odo fans Jason Castro. Some fervor, some cowbells, I swat at a fly, the count runneth full. Backdoor breaker, Grossman down looking, end of the top of the sixth inning in a little something we like to call the HotCut.
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