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Altuve did NOT read the decision tree.
One pitch, one out. LOL.
I hate you.
Tell me something new.
Let’s Go Orioles!
“How is it possible that hitting .333/.429/.500 in my most recent callup isn’t good enough to play myself ahead of Punto and Sogard on the depth chart?”–Andy Parrino
Options, options, options. Andy, meet Tommy.
Who cares if the actual player sucks. What are we holding onto Punto for?
I’m pretty sure it’s just to aggravate the fan base at this point.
I must have a giant mug.
i must have a tiny can.
my pants keep falling off!!
Biz Markie is going to be at Root Beer Float Day. That’s bizarrely wonderful.
what’s the connection?
We got what he needs, apparently.
Boooo!
he must need the dragon. ’cause man do i got that right now.
Serving diabetic floats specifically.
funny how writing an email screed to a crappy client will make you forget about the game you’ve been waiting for all day.
Dumbass
Well you know why the outfield was playing so hilariously shallow for him.
Dumbass x2
Well that inning sucked.
And of course this game is blacked out for me because I’m somehow in the Astros/Rangers/Royals/Cardinals market even though only the Rangers and Cardinals are shown here. Thanks as always, Bud…why I keep paying for this package is beyond me.
Dear Houston Astros,
No one in the state of Arkansas likes your team. Please leave us alone.
Not sure if anyone’s mentioned this yet, but there’s a TOOTBLAN tracker.
So what’s the argument by the umps here? “We don’t really call that”?
“I’s waz chewin’ my chaw an’a di’n’t see it.”
Non-reviewable, I guess. And on the replay, it’s not 100% cut-and-dried that Altuve interfered with Freiman’s reception of the ball. Like you can make the (wrong) argument that since he was already past Freiman’s glove hand, he didn’t interfere.
Replay showed that he made contact with the glove just as the ball was hitting it. So 100% interference.
I’m going to walk away from this shit show for a few minutes.
Grumpus.
It’s a good thing I did. I found a bug in my hair!
Someone is spying on you!?!
Dammit Chris
BURNINATED
ugh
The umps just gave them a run.
Texas vs The Evils 0-0 in the 12 inning…that sounds exciting.
Going to the 13th after a pretty nice Beltre catch with the bases loaded.
Angels? I feel like they’ve played a lot of extra inning games as of late.
So my sports choices are a Yankees game, the WNBA, and pocket pool.
Or strikeout.co
I just called that High School.
For the love of god vince, if the ball is bounced to third, its not foul
This is now an official game thread…someone has posted about Vince’s “talents”.
No Ray, it was not hit hard.
OMG Vince just tried to do Samuel L. Jackson.
he’s no stephan vogt
I require audio of this.
Jules? SoaP? Django-now that would be awesome…
Frozone
Is that like the Friendzone? I find cold showers help.
Ed can I get a count? Was that our 8 pitch inning of the night?
an inning early. usually the 5th
Ed can I get a Count? Preferably Count Chocula.
Vlad watched Altuve’s swing there and said WTF…
vince dropping advanced stats. not just confidence. but confidence per height.
22,000? what’s it look like tv people?
More than half that.
So, around 8,000 then.
and KK, it’s dead ticket night. that’s your attendance story.
Is Coco going for a classic Oakland OF look now?
Okay, I went with the WNBA game…just kidding I’d rather watch a Nic Cage movie while being stung by bees.
Including the Nic Cage movie where he gets stung by bees.
I hate you. So much.
My wife was just saying this to me a few minutes ago.
To be fair she only married me to get out of that hellhole that is Hawaii and move to Arkansas.
slides in but he’s out?? slides in AND he’s out.
(i’m frikkin punchy tongiht ain’t i?)
You gotta slide in to be out.
No-a dumb play by a bad player as told by a middling announcer. You’re entitled.
I just realized why Oberholtzer annoys me. He looks kinda like Barton.
Note to self…you now hate Olberholtzer.
I always wonder how bad the ex-athletes ESPN doesn’t hire must be?
bad at what? ’cause they’re probably better at investing than the ones who still have to work ESPN.
Talking. It would appear many of the folks at ESPN struggle at talking which seems like a drawback for someone pursuing a career in talking.
yeah but, that’s their second career. what about someone like vince, who (i’m assuming) went to college and had years of goal-driven practice before not being able to tell me 3 events in chronological order.
I don’t pretend to understand why Vince is there. I haven’t heard him in a couple of years but I’m sure he’s still bad.
Failing upward, just like the rest of showbusiness.
three runz please
They seem to be hitting the balls hard, just at or near people. At least from the radio call.
Except Punto, they are.
where is brian?
I’m right behind you, Ed.
gak!
I tend to have that affect. Three nippled men aren’t for everyone.
Mark Wahlberg has 3 nipples. He’s done okay.
He gets by with his height. I can’t compete with someone 5 foot 6 like him. Also, I really only have one nipple.
Ho stole your nipple!
Glen Kuiper: Misjudging fly balls for 10 years.
KK implied JD misjudged it too. coulda had 3rd (and scored just now), but was at partial trot.
Unlikely. Donaldson isn’t fast enough to have turned that into a triple.
woo!
3-0 O’s
I’ve changed a lot since my last post.
Diapers? Channels? Underware?
when underwear and hardware meet…
um, they already have underwire bras
when underwear and barbwire meet…
i never got there because i kept putting “i bought you a wristwatch but you wouldn’t even give me the time of day” and “hotwire my heart” together.
that’s all you’ve e’er given me
orioles scored 3,
3 nipples?
3 aspirin??
Anyone else rooting for Punto to be as terrible as possible such that it forces Billy’s hand to acquire someone (anyone) better?
I would, but I’m not convinced it would matter.
gasp!
vince on vacation?
Are they getting Roxy Bernstein to replace him?
yep.
Daughter number 1’s cat got on the scoreboard again tonight. She’s now murdered five rats (that I know of) in the last month or so. I spent part of the evening disposing of the latest kill, which thankfully she left out on the patio this time.
YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOARD!! ACK!
No, that would be a hair ball.
This is NOT going to be another ex-A’s moment. it’S NOT.
he has already done that
I know all the numbers say otherwise but I am never comfortable with Gregerson on the mound.
Yup.
For about a month, I felt pretty comfortable with him. But that inning made me uneasy. There were a lot of hittable pitches.
Data trumps all, I know. But I’m glad that inning is over.
I have a lot more confidence in him than back in April. But yeah, it would be better if he’d stop hanging sliders.
I’m confident I have no idea who he is.
What do you have against Wendy Thurm?
Eh, no problem.
I am getting reminded that Carter can be dangerous when he gets hot.
I’m rooting for the A’s, how about you folks?
the same
Ew, no.
I prefer the letters B, E, and D myself. The letter A just never did anything for me.
brin
See, without the a he could be a billionaire.
It is difficult rooting for a perennial leader.
the more things change
I did not miss Reddick.
Would’ve rather seen Vogt there.
Or Jaso.
It ain’t Stockton.
On the plus side, Reddick can only get better after monstrosity of an AB>
well, he can’t get worse, he could stay the same.
He can get worse. He could take out his teammates and hit into double and triple plays.
Now hold on. Which teammates?
she has a point
Coco and Gentry are usually near him in the Outfield. Donaldson, Cespedes, Moss, Vogt get on base a lot.
So the Giants are still playing in Philadelphia. TIMMUH is coming in to pitch.
I love starters coming in in extras
Bottom of the 14th.
There are some people behind the visiting dugout holding up weird signs.
Garbage
You have bad teeth
Hippie trash
the fuck?
Win now please, I don’t want to see Altuve again.
On that one pitch, Doolittle’s K/BB dropped by more than 10
Well. Had that asshole of a firstbase ump made the correct call earlier, the game would be over.
Ok then
Shockwave in my MLB.tv keeps crashing and when I reload it, it always takes me away from the A’s game to the Yankees game.
that guy is so frustrating
Altuve/Freiman = lower/upper case
Out.
what is happening this inning?
Tagged his hand.
Seriously. How do you even miss that call? He was off the bag and TAGGED TWICE.
Altuve is soooooooo out.
If you ever wondered why we needed replay review, it was that call right there.
How was that a foul ball?!
His glove caught the ball on the foul side while the rest of his body was on the fair side.
Was his glove on the foul side? The only thing that I saw being on the foul side was a tip of his shoe, and that doesn’t matter. Must have seen wrong, then
Yeah. Just barely. They never really gave us a good angle of it though.
Looked like the glove was just on the foul side.
Trout will not come up in the 9th.
Good job, unnamed non-Angel-Hernandez replay ump.
Nice tag, Punto. Now we better see catchers pinch-hitting.
Sigh. Nope.
OK, what kind of odds can I get on a Nick Punto walkoff home run this inning? Because I am feeling it.
Did you eat a LOT of beans tonight? The feeling is similar.
STOP RUBBING YOUR TACOS IN MY FACE.
Tagline.
Acceptable.
Just so long as he doesn’t Puntblan.
O’s WIN
Well done, birds
Porter brings in the lefty so Melvin will leave Punto in the game. Can’t blame him.
Plus Freiman. I don’t blame him either, even though . just singled.
Pie pls.
I am Punto’s lucky charm.
Heh. SSS, but Parrino in his short time had a .2 WAR. Punto? .1. Sogard? -.1
I’m calling that a walkoff in Punto’s world. To scale.
It would be appropriate if Reddick walked it off in his first game back.
The mouthguard is back?
Punto had BETTER have beat that.
Yeah, you would hate to take the bat out of Reddick’s hand
Or have to watch him strike out again leading off the A’s 12th.
Hah – CSNCA’s graphic said that Carter is 4 for 3 tonight.
This one is going all the way up to 11.
That was a better PA for Schlong, at least.
there is that
I would like the best team in baseball to score a run off the worst bullpen in baseball.
NICE! FUCK YEAH! ALRIGHT! WE GOT THIS!
If my memories didnt last longer than a temporary tattoo I would be worried.
11th? pull harder guys. i expect a 3 game lead when i check in again.
fans are booing because cespedes should have taken that one for the team
first baserunners
Shut up Ray, I do not want Cespedes trying at the last second to go head first at 1B.
Head first isn’t necessary in the situation anyway. Just a feet first slide to the side of the bag to dodge the tag is all that’s necessary. There’s seriously never a good time to dive into that bag. Ever.
TWSS?
Stupid cable goes out. Win while I reboot pls.
This game is getting dangerously close to Jim Johnson territory. Better win soon.
We still have Cook and O’Flaherty. And seriously. That’s an awful name to try to spell.
I just wanted to scare people.
Why did I decide to follow a west coast team?
i’m guessing for the gamer babes.
they are hitting the ball hard against everyone and not getting hits
Yup. Just really shitty luck.
Chavez is up past his bed time and would like to go to sleep guys.
FYI: Lew Wolff has not left the game yet.
He signed a 10 year lease extension and he’s damned well gonna get his money’s worth.
LOL.
Hey, new scoreboards!!!
… check again.
Still there!
keep the line moving jed
I need a sammich.
I am ok with vogt pinch hitting no matter who comes in
oh, moss, my mistake, I thought freiman was up
It’s time, time for pie.
Guess it’s not time for pie.
I had contemplated attending this game. But if I had gone, and it was almost 11 on a worknight in a game against the Astros, I would have been very unhappy.
I almost went to the game too. And by almost, I mean I never even gave the thought of going even a remote thought deep in the back of my mind.
No Ray. At no point was there actually 22k there. A lot, sure. But not 22k.
Was he perhaps talking about the strikeouts?
There were a lot of people there though. The parking lot was packed.
dead ticket night + free parking.
I made the discovery last night that I may never miss another Tuesday. Free parking + Flacos has $1.36 vegan Taquitos Tuesday….
Abad pitch there.
There was something in the air last night
The game was tight, Fernando
It was shining there for you and me
A victory! … Fernando
Though I never thought that we would lose
There’s a regret.
If I had to do the same again
I’d call the pen, Fernando
Yes if I had to do the same again
I’d call the pen, Fernando
ABBA woulda given me a spanish version too…
Excellent
nice
Hee hee!
God damn prestiege worldwide.
Damnit.
I would like to be mad at someone, but this game just feels cursed or something.
I’m mad at Glen. He’s the one who mentioned Abad not having given up a run in 9 appearances when he came in. You knew that was over.
I’m even more pissed off at the first base ump for not making that interference call that eventually allowed 2 runs to score.
I’ve also mad at Abad for throwing a shitty pitch.
Oh, yeah. I am angry about that.
If you are still awake, what happened?
runner at first, batter Altuve hits the ball off Kazmir deflects to donaldson. he picks it up throws wide to first. Freiman comes off base to field ball. ALtuve who ran on the grass the whole way, collides with Frieman causing him to miss the ball. both runners advance. 2nd 3rd no outs.
Carter eventually singles them in. Argument with the umpires not reviewed.
not having seen it, I don’t know anything about the collision. KK indicated that he thought altuve should be out, But I don’t know
Thanks, pretty on the outside
Ed is always awake…lurking, ready to strike, and hand out justice to those who would do us harm.
I’m getting sleepy, I hope the A’s quickly complete this impending comeback victory.
I’ll bet there is still no pinch-hitter for Punto now. Vogt is hitting for Freiman.
If Freiman or Punto hit in this inning, Melvin should be fired.
Okay. I guess you can’t pitch hit for both. Fuck. I’d prefer Freiman bat than Punto.
Punto had the best at-bat, but it is a problem that the left-handed hitting second baseman can’t be trusted to hit even in that situation.
the A’s love a challenge.
let’s go oakland!
Almost a carbon copy there of the called strike 3 to Punto in Seattle. This time, ball 3.
No loss is exactly good, but this one is only made worse given the chance to go back up by 3 in the division.
oh coco.
oh well.
What an irritating game. A 3 game losing streak to the Astros is not acceptable.
Well, that was FKing lame.
I have nothing good to say about this game. Bad umpiring. Bad luck. And long.
That was interference. It wasn’t close.
just saw it on my phone (its not on the regualr internet highlights). At least the Houson people didn’t show an angle that looked like interference.
they showed a lot of angles that looked like it was a shitty play by frieman. In fact every angle showed frieman trying to hold the bag when he shouldn’t. I didn’t see any contact.
but that is the houston feed.
It definitely didn’t look like interference at full speed. If he was out of the baseline it wasn’t by much.
He was way out of the baseline and he was out of it in such a fashion as to have interfered with how JD made the throw and how Freiman received it, but he did not, in my estimation, actually make contact with the glove or ball. But the rule doesn’t require that. It only requires that he have interfered, in the umpire’s judgment, with the reception of the ball by the fielder. This should be a reviewable play, because clearly the umpires didn’t have a very good view of it.
Agreed on this. I think Ed’s point above though is the part that screws it up. The fact that Frieman tried to stay on the bag was the issue. He should have came off and used 6’7″ to turn and tag. Even if he missed the odds are much better that we get out of the inning with less than 2 scored.
I think every first baseman or sort-of first baseman we currently have on the 25-man roster screws that play up, because you’re not expecting to contend with a runner. Daric Barton might make that play, but if the runner creates a situation where the only guy who makes the play is a top-flight defensive first baseman, it’s gotta be interference. So yeah, it’s a poor play on Freiman’s part but it’s not a situation that should occur in the first place.
They did a close up on the glove and you can see that he made contact with the glove just as the ball made contact with the glove.
OK, I found the CSN replays (no link, I just went to the spot in the mlb.tv replay). He was definitely way out of the baseline until veering back toward the base at the last moment. I still don’t think it’s interference, though, even if he touched Freiman’s glove, because a) he wasn’t trying to avoid a tag, and b) I don’t think you can say that he intentionally interfered with a thrown ball. It was just a bang-bang play, and he was basically at the base when the ball arrived.
Here’s the relevant part of Rule 7.08:
Wrong rule.
6.05 A batter is out when—
…
(k) In running the last half of the distance from home base to first base, while the ball is being fielded to first base, he runs outside (to the right of) the three-foot line, or inside (to the left of) the foul line, and in the umpire’s judgment in so doing interferes with the fielder taking the throw at first base, in which case the ball is dead; except that he may run outside (to the right of) the three-foot line or inside (to the left of) the foul line to avoid a fielder attempting to field a batted ball;
Hmm, OK. I’m an idiot. I still think the call was correct though, because I don’t think his being out of the baseline interfered with the catch.
So you’re saying that if he runs on the basepath, Freiman still doesn’t catch that ball and keep his foot on the bag?
well, I think it should be reviewable, but I am not convinced it was interference.
I haven’t seen the play, so I’m 100% convinced we were robbed.
rebecca rose, is that you?