If the first game of a series starts at 10 am on a Thursday, and isn’t on TV, does it make a sound?
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If the first game of a series starts at 10 am on a Thursday, and isn’t on TV, does it make a sound?
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And the Wednesday off day was weird, only one all year except the All-Star break.
Just wait until we get to the Friday off days.
Who knows if this had any impact today but I thought it was odd that the Tigers went with a day game today, considering that they played a night game last night (and faced Verlander at that) while the visiting team had an off day.
The Tigers have 13 home games on Thursdays this year and 12 of them have 1:10 local time starts, so maybe it’s a marketing thing for them. Most of those are the final game of a series, though, not the first game.
Profar grand slam!
Townsend/Fosse radio booth right now…
no tv and townsend on the radio?
Orange and black are objectively the most hideous color scheme in sport.
Six runs, one earned for the Tigers’ starter, who, as mentioned above, gave up a grand slam.
ERA is a fraud.
GM to create all good luck threads from now on.
9-0
I thought about asking questions like “is phegley now good? Has jurickson turned it around? How great is it that olson hits off lefties?”
But…meh
Phegley making a bid to screw Chapman out of the A’s requisite one All-Star spot.
The Pride of Terre Haute has returned to terrorize the Rust Belt.
I’ve only been to Terre Haute one time, probably for no more than a couple hours, but it made an indelible impression as the bleakest town of that size I’ve ever been to in America.
ASG is in Cleveland this year…
Marcus doesn’t like your tone
Townsend does play-by-play like the game action is just an occasional interlude during his talk show. We don’t need your hot takes right now, chicken-pie man.
He referred to base hits as “bay hees.” Bill King would have thrown up on the spot.
13-0
Well hopefully they don’t crash like they did after that first Pirates game.
15-0
17-0
Field goal doesn’t mean much there but the Lions coach wanted to avoid the shutout.
A bullpen-safe lead!
And yet the Rangers win by a greater deficit.
17?
Magary tells the full tale. Yikes!
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-night-the-lights-went-out-1834298070?
Yikes indeed, that is a helluva story.
I will be out of cell signal range when the Preakness runs Saturday, thus depriving you of my progressively more inebriated comments on race day. But I will be putting some bets down ahead of time. Not sure of my ticket yet, but I am liking #12 Anothertwistoffate quite a lot. Hoping his price goes up from the 6-1 morning line.
The Preakness is traditionally the chalkiest of the Triple Crown races but I think this year might be different. All of the top four Kentucky Derby finishers passed. The morning line favorite Improbable is 0-for-3 in 2019.The second choice Win Win Win has a late running style which has not traditionally been favored at Pimlico. Which leads me to Anothertwistoffate. Early speed but likely off a fast pace here, breaking from the outside…posts 1-4 have fared very poorly in the Preakness, excepting horses which totally outclass the field like California Chrome and Justify. There’s no horse like that in this field.
And Anothertwistoffate is our local hero, trained and broke his maiden at Golden Gate Fields. I’ll have a win bet on him for sure, and probably an exacta ticket including him with Improbable, Bourbon War, and Signalman, maybe one more. I think this year’s Preakness could be a real money maker for someone…maybe me!
I don’t know much about horse racing…but if “out of cell signal range” happens to mean the Sierra, we have had snow showers on and off all day and crappy weather is forecast into early next week.
FSU the Red knows rain, dear.
We were in Yosemite Valley where it rained all Saturday night, which was fine, we were prepared and sheltered and it scared off a lot of the crowd. Then Sunday AM it got colder and turned to snow , really fat wet flakes that left an inch or so on ground and coated all the trees spectacularly. Then it was all gone by Sunday night. Great weekend.
Yes, we have had white ground in the morning about 3 times in the last week but it melts by 10 a.m. I have a great attitude about bundling up and getting out and being active in December and January, when I’m tired of that I have a Hawaii trip scheduled as a break in February, but in late May I’m ready to be running around in shorts dammit.
Bets in:
$10 to Win on 12
$2 Exacta 12,4 / 12,4,2,5,8 = $16
$2 Trifecta 12 / 4 / 2,5,8 = $6
12 Anothertwistoffate
4 Improbable
2 Bourbon War
5 Owendale
8 Signalman
Drat.
Well since horse racing came up I’ll add that I’m +$600 on three days of betting the new Golden Gate Fields season. Like the A’s I’m playing much better ball than I was in May.
True Crime stories are all the rage these days. Fitting then to reflect back 33 years to the still-unsolved assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
A fellow by the name of Jharel Cotton is starting tonight for Stockton.
!!!!
The A’s and Tigers are wearing camo hats tonight because….something.
Through 4 innings Montas has the stuff and control of Felix Hernandez 10 years ago.
Can a neck tattoo be far behind?
I admit I was already thinking “perfect game” when I said that. 6 1-2-3 innings out of 7, on 81 pitches, is pretty damned good. The Tigers really can’t either hit or pitch right now; it’s a good weekend to be playing them.
Yikes. That was a terrible play in center.
The A’s brought whatever infected Seattle’s defense over to afflict Detroit.
Playing the Tigers is fun.
23-4. The A’s are not helping the Tigers’ advance ticket sales very much.
The ad behind the plate for Detroit Mercy takes on a different meaning.
I lack the customized search skills to confirm, but one internet rando claims the record for consecutive wins vs one team is from 1969-70, when the Orioles beat the Royals w23 straight times.
Last loss to the Tigers was the first game of the 2017 season series, May 5 in Oakland. So that’s 15 in a row counting the first 3 games in Detroit this year. So the A’s go for #16 in that streak in the suspended game, in addition to trying to complete the 11-game winning streak rather than a 3, a loss, then a 7.
Upper deck homer for Kendrys in his first game as a Yankee.
Solution to the road woes seems to be to play the Tigers and Orioles more often.
Watching Montas highlights tonight and that high velocity + split change combo was very reminiscent of Rich Harden at his best. Him and Bassitt are strong building blocks if they can stay healthy.
MLB is starting the domestic regular season on March 26 next year, the earliest ever. The international games plan calls for Opening Day to be in “Asia”, which could be Japan but might be Korea. Those games would probably be March 18-19.
That means the final day of the regular season is September 27 and Game 7 of the 2020 World Series would be on October 28.
If they pushed everything back one week, Game 6 of the World Series would be on Tuesday, November 3, when there’s an election scheduled.
It took the Rays about five minutes to fix Emilio Pagan.
@lc bilding blocks: and Mengden isnt a terrible #5 with a solid 1-4.
I do think this is why we didnt go out and get real arms, but I still dont agree with it. We are counting on a lot of guys who have never proven anything for a consistent length of time.
You have to expect at least 50% won’t pan out into that 1 – 4 slot. So yeah, dumb not to fill it with real arms.
The called-strikes chart will be quite interesting today. Get it within 4 inches of the outside corner and the right arm is going up.
miguel cabrera is an international treasure, and this is one of 2 ball parks were they a’s don’t trial by 5 after 1
I wasn’t going to say anything until he actually threw a pitch. There’s still a couple hours for him to break again.
2 ip, 1 k, 1 h, 1 r (hr). 22 pitches 17 strikes
why he had to complete this game I don’t know
chapman is very good at third basing
simien with a triple a nd a double. lets hope he gets a single or hime run in the next at bat to put the pressure on vince
Townsend is painfully bad at PBP.
Mets swept by the Marlins, who were 10-31 coming into the series.
This is some bullshit.
It’s a suspended game under 7.02(a)(5). I don’t think the A’s would go back to Detroit to complete this. They’re going to wait several hours but if they can’t resume today they will likely pick it up from this point in Oakland on September 6.
I was thinking finishing it in Oakland would have to be worked out with the Commissioner’s Office but that is what’s specified in this situation under 7.02(b)(3)(A).
At least they did not make them wait the “several hours”, and the A’s have a fresh bullpen going into Cleveland.
I was away when this happened. Last night one of my softball buddies filled me in. Did they really stop play after Hendricks had thrown four pitches, with no rain falling, just in anticipation of rain to come? Is that an accurate summary? If so that is fucking outrageous.
Yes. Maybe not literally no rain, possibly very light sprinkles, but far less than what would normally stop play.
Our announcers said the groundskeeper had talked to the ump in between innings, and presumably had said that radar showed a big storm coming so they wanted to get the tarp on as soon as it started. As it turned out, real rain didn’t come for 10+ minutes so they probably could have gotten the half inning in.
The defense of the groundskeeper there is that those storm cells are often accompanied by sudden strong winds and the heavy tarp can become a dangerous flying object.
Such bullshit. I have never heard of that in the middle of play (between half-innungs, sure). I would have thought MLB had some guidelines against that, maybe with an imminent danger caveat.
If this happened to the Yankees on the road I am 100% sure new rules and a letter of apology would follow from MLB the next day.
Wait till the Yankees are victimized by 7.02(b)(4), which is the old “score reverts” rule that was reinstated a few years ago but only for the last scheduled regular-season game between two teams.
So it’s late September, the Yankees are playing the Red Sox at Fenway in the final scheduled game between the two teams that season. The score after 6 innings is Red Sox 3, Yankees 2. The Yankees score 4 runs in the top of the 7th to take a 6-3 lead. Sometime before the third out is recorded in the bottom of the 7th, the tarp is pulled out and the game cannot be resumed. Under (A), the four runs the Yankees scored are taken off the board and the final score is Red Sox 3, Yankees 2 in 6 innings.
In this game, which had been delayed by rain at the start, the Cardinals led the Royals 2-1 after 8 innings. The Royals scored 3 runs in the top of the 9th to take a 4-2 lead and were still batting when the tarp had to be pulled. It was the last Royals-Cardinals game of the year so the umpires could have terminated the game and given St. Louis the 2-1 win. Instead, they had the teams wait 4 hours and 32 minutes. The game was resumed at 3:04 a.m., the Royals were retired without scoring further, the Cardinals went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 9th and the game ended at 3:14 a.m.
I hadn’t realized they reinstated that old rule.
I still find it hard to believe that MLB doesn’t have guidelines on when to suspend play.
The original rule, which applied to all games, not just the final game of the season between the two teams, was changed after the (ahem) Yankees got screwed by it in 1978, having a game in which they had taken a 5-3 lead revert to a 3-0 Orioles victory.
they won the division that year anyway, they didn’t need that game
I’ve seen in the middle of play, even in the middle of an AB, but never without warrant (like it actually coming down and making the game sloppy). Otherwise, like you said, they wait until the half inning.
I don’t understand why they suspended the game rather than trying to wait it out. The Tigers weren’t going anywhere, and the A’s had just about the shortest flight in MLB.
More fun with suspended game rules: Harrison was Hendriks’ first batter faced. Ordinarily Hendriks would have to pitch to the completion of that plate appearance, or the plate appearance of any pinch-hitter for Harrison.
However, a comment in the suspended game rule provides that somebody else may take over as the A’s pitcher on September 6 with a 2-2 count on Harrison or his pinch-hitter.
Also, for purposes of streaks, e.g. hitting streaks, anything than happens on September 6 will be considered to have happened in Game 48 on May 19. The reverted date also comes into play for such things as a team winning streak. The A’s have won their last 3 games. Say they win the next 6. That’s not a 9-game winning streak; it’s either a 10-game winning streak, or a 3-game streak, a loss and a 6-game streak, but we don’t find that out until September.
lets hope they win the next 16, then we have to wait to see if its a record
The A’s managed to fall from third place to fifth place today despite playing and not losing.
Nope. According to 7.02(c), per Soaker above, we don’t know that for sure.
Yes, in the future if you look up the standings at the close of play on May 19, 2019, the A’s will be either 23-25, tied with Texas in games back but ahead of the Rangers by a couple percentage points, or 22-26, 1/2 game behind Seattle in last place.
Phegley has already been pinch-hit for in this game and perhaps Hundley will have been DFA’d by September. Murphy could be a September callup, and he could potentially make his MLB debut on September 6 by replacing Hundley in the May 19 game.
didn’t juan soto hit a home run a few weeks before his call up?
What am I supposed to tell my kids tonight when they ask me what place the A’s are in??
Limbo. Forever in limbo.
Alternatively, this is a good time to teach them about Shroedinger’s A’s.
retroactively in 2nd?
Cool, we already have a game thread up for this afternoon.
I see Townsend was doing PxP, wonder if he will finish this game while Ken hangs out in the Treehouse.
I gave some thought to coming down for the weekend, but I just got back from a week away, plus it’s the Tigers and they aren’t very interesting to watch.
I was going to pop over for it until I found out the Tigers didn’t bring their home whites on the trip.
(date of post craftily changed to bring it to the top of the list for a couple hours; I’ll change it back later this evening)
Are the beer sales done?
A’s lineup card per the announced switches:
1. Semien 6
2. Chapman 5
3. Pinder 7 –> 9
4. Davis DH
5.
Piscotty 9Neuse 4
6. Olson 3
7. Profar 4 –> 7
8.
Laureano 8Canha 8 (first batter in top of 8th)
9.
Phegley 2Grossman PHHundley 2Murphy 2
———-
Fiers 1Hendriks 1
Also
Turned on the radio, curious if Vince would have the 7th inning call. Turns out its three people complaining how Hollywood is trying to transexualize America.
(Wrong station, turns out. But believable!)
And yes, Vince on the mic for the one-pitch K.
Ken should have done the lineups and then tossed to Vince.
Sorry Josh!
(sitting by pool, watches self strike out on phone, sips margarita)
Super tough sun for OF especially right.
With these sun conditions the performance of the offenses is fairly predictable.
Quick effective inning for Hendriks. I wonder if they’ll have him go 2 or more and just answer the “is he available later” question now.
So he’s available then?
Diekman trying for his second hold of the day. Losing pitcher in the other game is Tyler Skaggs.
Pinder back in his comfortable #3 spot in the lineup…
Pinder with the oppo power! That fastball must not’ve been very good.
Was Wendelken on the team when this game started?
No.
So we had to use Hendriks with a four run lead Wednesday but Wendelken is good enough on Friday.
Tigers
Yes and also Wendelken was nasty AF! Great stuff.
Wendelken looks really good to me and he had put up good ratios in the majors before he got sent down. He does depend on the curveball a lot though, and I’m wondering if that’s been negatively affected in Vegas which is why he struggled down there.
I really dislike that our AAA affiliate is there.
They love the new facilities and the easy transportation access…nevertheless it’s a two-year contract with Howard Hughes and I wonder if they might take a sixth look at Fresno.
Fresno ownership has done good work on the ballpark from what I hear. And (at from a few hrs away) they dont seem enamored with the Nats.
Coco: “How many away games have the A’s played at the Coliseum?”
In 1986 the A’s final two games in Baltimore were rained out, but the Orioles were still scheduled for a 4-game series at the Coliseum, August 28-31. They played doubleheaders on Thursday and Friday and the A’s were the home team for all six games. That has been changed and for games made up in the other ballpark, the original home team now bats last.
The A’s swept both of those doubleheaders BTW.
Sweep!
Nice to see Pinder crush his sixth of the year.
homer in three straight games
Fourth career homer in Detroit
11 game win streak baby
With the 19-25 record coming into the series the 4-game sweep against the pathetic Tigers is not inspiring me, with what we’ve seen from the bullpen. No chance for postseason this year, so listen to offers for Chapman and Olson at the deadline as their value will never be higher.
If they could do something like win the next 7 I might rethink it, but they’re going over to Cleveland to get their butts kicked so that ain’t happening.
May Soaker in peak form.
This could pass for June/July Soaker too.
40 years of Cal football has taken a nasty toll that has spread to other areas of my life.
By the way, you can mark September 4 as the day the A’s clinched No Soaker Day for 2019