Yes I know Detroit isn’t literally on a Great Lake, but close enough. Detroit and Cleveland is certainly a convenient trip; it’s only 169 miles between the ballparks by car and the A’s plane needed just 28 minutes in the air yesterday. For a traveling fan I think doing those two cities back-to-back is a little too much of a good thing though, a bit on the samey side.
Both the A’s and the Clevelands are coming off (false-?) confidence-building series against the two teams with the worst Pythagorean W-Ls in the American League (Tigers 13-31, which is an alarming 5 games worse than their actual 18-26 record, and Orioles 14-32).
April and May weeknight games at Progressive Field start at 6:10 local time so be alert the next two afternoons. Weather looks cool but dry tonight and tomorrow, then there are rain chances on Wednesday.
Today at 3:10: Brett Anderson vs. Carlos Carrasco
Tuesday at 3:10: Chris Bassitt vs. Trevor Bauer
Wednesday at 10:10 a.m. Frankie Montas vs. Jefry Rodriguez (Cleveland telecast on MLB Network)
Friday at 7:05: Daniel Mengden vs. Wade LeBlanc
Saturday at 1:05: Mike Fiers vs. Yusei Kikuchi
Sunday at 1:05: Brett Anderson vs. Mike Leake
The A’s should explore 6:10 weekday starts at home. I bet any hit to attendance caused by traffic worries would be more than offset by making games more bedtime-friendly for families.
6:10 is a little early for 9-to-5 workers and also for neighborhood restaurants and bars, not that the latter part matters at the Coliseum. Besides Cleveland I have at least seven other teams starting Monday through Thursday night games before 7 p.m. this year, sometimes just April, May, September and sometimes all season, usually at the TV-friendly 6:40.
The A’s have played nine Monday-Thursday night games this year and have exceeded 13K attendance just once, so I don’t think they have much to lose by joining that trend. A Tweeter might want to ask Kaval about that.
Yikes
A “non-horse”? Is that like an ex-parrot?
It sounds like something that he’s specifically prohibited from falling off in his contract…and if he falls off said something his contract can be voided.
Supposedly he stepped in hole and twisted his ankle in a nasty way as he fell, but people are speculating that the insistence that he didn’t fall off a horse means that he fell off a horse.
The other interesting part is that the Mets could try to make him give back some of his salary because it was a non-baseball injury, but his agent when he signed the contract is now the Mets GM.
I stepped in a hole horribly late last year. Thought I shattered my ankle. It’s certainly possible to do all kinds of horrible things to an ankle, especially when you’re made of glass like he is.
Now that I’ve seen this I’m thinking the “non-horse” was the ladder in his multi-level wardrobe closet.
Profar > Mendoza
Profar makes some decisions in the field that are just inexplicable.
What hole/non-horse did Brett step in/fall from?
Brett ducks to avoid injury. Brett avoids injury. Brett injures himself ducking though. How Brett of him.
I just saw the replay for the first time. Amusing that while narrating about Brett turning his neck sharply they immediately show a clip of him turning to watch a long homer fly out.
In keeping with my past comments let me just say that the Sharks are totally fucked and have no chance to make the Cup finals.
“Skies to right but it will stay in the park. Semien is call off”
Come on Vince
What is wrong with this ump.
Just wait till Wednesday when Angel Hernandez has home plate.
Trivino getting squeezed a bit but come on man throw strikes!
Multiple additional A’s runs please.
Thank you.
Yes, that was quite a good idea. Not something that often crossed our minds in 2018.
Clipped!
Clip Art
I suppose now Ray can go on about how 10 years service time in the bigs is sure to include some moments of suck.
Nothing coming easy tonight.
Khris in the starting lineup, since injury, including tonight:
NYNNNYYYYYNYNY
Oddly in those games we are 3-3 when he starts (or 4-3 if we want to count that suspended game as a win) and 5-1 when he doesn’t.
Huh, Tommy Milone will start a big league game tonight. The Mariners have Thursday off so I’d guess the A’s will not see him this weekend.
5 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 6 K, 89 pitches vs. the Rangers in Arlington. Milone was pretty dang good at the Coliseum and if they wanted to switch something in their rotation he could pitch Sunday in Oakland.
OK, I’m going back to my assertion that it’s ridiculous Davis is playing. The guy is grimacing with each swing and even the Cleveland announcers are ripping the fact that he’s playing.
It worked well last time so I’ll agree with you again. But Bob was looking at the lineup card after that first AB so he may not bat again tonight. If they shut him down, they have two off days in the next ten days so it’s the rest of this one plus eight more games. Seems like the right long-term move.
This is so effing ridiculous. Do the A’s not employ a sports medicine person who is competent? Even my bored underpaid Kaiser PT person knows enough to say “you need to rest that shoulder 7-10 days or it could linger for months.”
The 10-day injured list was supposed to make these decisions easier.
This isn’t a tight strike zone or missed calls, this is two pitchers having rough nights.
Hey that Canha PH home run indicates that maybe, just maybe, it’s ok to rest KD.
Aviators are at home, there’s a Frontier nonstop leaving Las Vegas at 9:15 pm (arriving Cleveland 4:18 am) and I’m betting somebody’s been called into the manager’s office in Vegas and being told he has time to run back to his apartment and pack.
Mateo, Fowler, Barreto, Martini all listed in Aviators lineup tonight; Bolt, who plays every day down there, not listed.
Bob does not read FK.
Skye Bolt is not in the Aviators lineup.
Edit: Duh, missed Soaker’s comment entirely.
Fortunately Slusser does check her Twitter feed regularly.
Impressive 70% TTO rate for Bassitt: 6 K + 6 BB + 2 HR / 20 BFP
Something wasn’t quite right as he got one of those mystery trainer visits. I was wondering if he was feeling sick, he was taking some deep breaths out there.
Profar has had a pretty good night not hitting a ball in play.
Not sure how much of this I believe, but it’s an epic tale.
https://boingboing.net/2019/05/21/epic-twitter-thread-from-a-guy.html
Agreed on both counts.
I was just reading this. I like the part where he casually admitted to selling a quantity of heroin that would presumably put him away for life.
no corpus. he’s cool on that front. i don’t know about others.
LOL dumbass
Dumbass indeed. Also my sympathies faded a lot when I got to the GoFundMe link.
Also, this part:
I also don’t need him to be still trying to make himself seem cooler than he is by quoting a highly dubious conversation with his “weed man”.
More Soria. I’m nervous.
This game has never felt like one the A’s are destined to win. There’s a chance the Indians may outsuck us by just enough tonight though.
Unpopular opinion: Soria is good.
I’m more worried about using Treinen two days in a row, given his recent issues.
The A’s may now be at .500.
Confirmed.
how ? what? I mean? What is with you people?
They have not won five consecutive games, Glen. They’ve one six or two consecutive games.
Any A’s fans who chose to use a week of vacation time and money on Detroit and Cleveland have 5 wins, 0 losses, 1 game to go and sent a souvenir 5-3 lead by FedEx back to Oakland.
To start the morning by beating a dead horse, Rodney has pitched once, one inning 10 pitches, since the Pittsburgh debacle which was 17 days ago. Bob didn’t use Casilla much last year but outside of a brief stay on the DL he never gathered nearly that much dust.
Here we go.
There it goes.
Using a roster spot on Rodney is way dumber than using a roster spot hoping Khris is better within 10 days.
It is a sad state of affairs when our roster management emulates a bad Jim Carrey movie
So you’re telling me there’s a chance Krush will be healthy Friday?
Profar has a couple of good games and he’s hitting second.
Bob loves his RLRLRL lineups.
Profar has hit .274/.366/.548 in May (after .165/.223/.272 in March/April) but I’d still prefer to see him lower down.
If you go to lunch with Beane and Forst, plan on needing three waiter visits until they’re ready to give him their orders.
Cleveland TV is openly laughing at this situation.
I don’t understand this. Did they not get him a MRI when he first got injured? And how much more evidence do they need that the two days off, one day on strategy is just delaying the inevitable?
They’re thinking if we can just stretch this out until the ASB…
Guys, they’ve already maxed out on their free MRIs with their insurance + agreement with their ad partner. And putting him on the DL means they have to call someone up and pay them pro-rated MLB wages.
The Cleveland TV announcers are good. Minimal homerism, discussion on baseball rather than ancillary nonsense.
You can’t stop Nick Hundley you can only hope to contain him!
Unless you get someone on first with less than 2 outs.
!!!
I hate it when you need “Catcher Triples” to complete your Baseball Bingo card.
Montas has made some very high quality pitches today when he needed them.
Again, and again.
A rain delay here would be a big bummer with Montas looking he can give a long outing on a day with (I assume) no Treinen and Soria.
Looking at the radar the biggest blob has mostly passed through already.
They made it through the Upper Midwest in May without any rainouts and required return trips.
Aside from the Rodney implosion the Rust Belt has been good to the A’s (he said prematurely today). Maybe we can swap out the Tampa Bay Rays for the Lansing Lugnuts.
Canha: 15H – 7HR
ISO: .342
BABIP: .182
One more run *should* make the lead Rodneyproof and Brooksproof.
Rodney is going to suck enough that Trivino gets the ninth instead of Brooks.
The good news is Trivino was efficient enough to give him two innings, especially with an off day tomorrow.
Or not.
Seriously fucking cut Rodney.
Thanks, and go As.
I’ll be shocked if he’s around on Friday.
Yeah, while I would have dumped him a long time ago (like, last year) this appearance seems like it must be the last straw.
Oh for FKs sake
Four? I’m too lazy to look but I think I would be hard pressed to find 4 good outings he has had since we got him last year.
Per fangraphs, he has the second lowest Win Probability Added (-1.64) of any reliever in baseball. Keeping him out of last place is Wander Suero of the Nationals (-1.71 WPA). Suero’s ERA is only 7.17 to Rodney’s 9.42, but Suero has been showing up in higher leverage situations… so I guess we can be happy that Bob Melvin is not Dave Martinez?
He didn’t allow a run in his first 3 weeks (11 appearances) last year, making many here think he didn’t suck. He followed up by allowing runs (9 total) in 6 of his remaining 11 appearances, which clarified things somewhat.
Even this year, he has been scored on in “only” 6 of 17 appearances, which would not be so bad except that 5 of the 6 have been multiple run innings, for 15 runs total. His peripherals are terrible as well.
At least (per colin’s comment) he is generally not being used in close games. Slusser’s response that they “believe he can handle a seventh-inning role well” is just dumb.
she carries water when fans get off with theirs heads-y with likable players.
This. And I do agree that I think he is more likeable than I thought prior to him joining us. I dont like seeing that he is a pile of hot garbage now, but it is what it is.
(come on karma…make me look like a fool.)
Good road trip
Cleveland post-game guy: “It’s time to panic.”
Seattle is 10-27 since their 13-2 start.
Angels’ starting pitching is awful and now Andrelton Simmons is gone. Rangers have a couple starters but their bullpen is a calamity; Shawn Kelley is the closer by default. There sure are a lot of wins available within the division if the A’s can be good enough to grab them, and the next 16 are inside the division with only 3 vs. the Astros.
Better idea: Rename Kansas City Athletics of Oakland, demand rightful place in central, coast to the ALDS
Z key stop working for anybody else?
Thanks, and go As.
Literally just used it to get to this comment.
Working again now. Odd.
Thanks, and go As.
Very often I positively acknowledge comments with an affirming gesture. Often a thumbs up, sometimes a Dhaka sign, but most frequently the classic OK three fingers plus circle? Am I not supposed to do that any more because of some teenage white power trolls on 8chan? It seems unreasonable.
not not supposed to. you just don’t want to. as a tactical move.
their tactic is to pick (and start as hoaxes) common things that may or may not. new balance, milk, the OK sign… to provoke overreaction, to implicate people who use them innocently, and to fall back on plausible deniability.
and some catch and others don’t. i think NB never got out of the hoax stage and is probably safe now.
so take that away from them. let *only* white supremacists flash OK signs.
milk sucks anyway. except in coffee, so brown. or be-dipped with oreos….
RIGHT, BEN CARSON? RIGHT?? (god that was a self-own with all sorts of levels.)
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https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-hand-gesture
That’s a reasonable approach I suppose. It’s so ingrained for me that I have to focus to not “OK” people, and I hate that these stupid trolls can so readily accomplish that.
Peace sign.
i used to thumbs-up a lot.
till abu ghraib.
it was slowly coming back.
till the datamining phase of facebook.
Jonathan Lucroy is the Angels’ cleanup hitter today. He does somehow have 6 home runs.
Matt Harvey may give up 6 home runs today.
2/3 of the way there.
Dammit Ausmus leave him in there to go for the record.
Nice job by the Angels bullpen picking up where Harvey left off.
Jerry Blevins is pitching in a tie game in the ninth inning for the Braves.
Exercise extra care when working on Owsley’s old synthesizer.
lol.
hippies: the buchla “fell out of favor” in the 60s…
suzanne ciani ~1974: hold my coke.
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It must be somewhat easier for a US citizen to gain Mexican citizenship than the other way around.
Add him to the list if Khris is still day-to-day in August.
Kaval gets the glossy New York Times treatment.
Mengden committed to getting the bullpen some work tonight.
I like how the “Holy Toledo” sign flashes “Oly Toledo” for Olson.
Much needed because Mengden had the crowd in quite a stupor.
Soaker in the house all weekend. Tahoe locals flee on holiday weekends.
I’ll be there today. Will keep an eye out for ya.
119 R15. Plenty of good seats still available today.
Huh, I was about 12 rows behind there. Didn’t see you.
Profar < Mendoza
Arizona scoring by inning so far tonight in San Francisco: 1 2 2 3 3 3 4.
http://oeis.org/A002024
Looking at the out of town scoreboard that slaughter continues unabated.
It’s good to get a Trivino-Treinen game. Last time I was here Kendrys had the 9th.
The nameplates on these Seattle jerseys have the worst kerning I have ever seen.
Can’t find good images from last night…I noticed it especially when Sadzeck was pitching…but here are two examples of awful kerning on their blue road alt jerseys:
https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/usp_mlb__seattle_mariners_at_san_diego_padres_82336134.jpg?w=2000&h=1200&crop=1
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0517/30/de-fratus-sz-48-25-2016-seattle_1_5cd73fc33579b46aecc00b63c803db05.jpg
Something about the way the A is shaped?
is the small challenge the typesetter should accept to solve for.
though there’s room to bring things closer to the As, it doesn’t look like it’ll be enough. the full solution is kerning out the other pairs to even the word out.
OMG WE BEAT THE MARINERS !!!1!11!
mlb lists it as 4 in a row
Future MLB already knows the pen is going to blow that lead.
Treinen’s BB/9 is back to what it was in Washington. This reminds me of my first impressions when he was traded back, better stuff than execution. Whichever repair shop he went to the 2017-2018 offseason or in spring training last year, he could stand to go back there for a tune up.
Front row seats available in the next few days:
Sunday 5/26 — $55 each. Mariners 1.07pm
Monday 6/27 — $33 each. Orioles 7.07pm
Wednesday 5/29 — $33 each. Angels 12.37pm
Let me know ASAP.
Lower the flags to half-staff, please.
Slusser has done well by her close connections with A’s management, and they’ve done well with her. So nothing’s likely to change because they still serve each other’s interests. Still, I wonder if she gets pissed off when Thursday’s info becomes Saturday’s wrong take.
Also, obligatory: Everybody have fun tonight!
It’s a Dance Hall Day for sure!
Our long national nightmare is over.
It became a Nationals nightmare.
This may he the single greatest benefit of having to move to LA yet!
Teamsters Local 70 picnic open to all. They’re hollering for people to come in. Free dogs, brats, beer, soda. Fenced area between A Lot and BART ramp, sort of behind Treehouse.
I’m betting the Santa Anita card today. Winner of the first race was Mr. Brownstone, owned by Axl Rose Racing LLC.
Later I may play an MLB daily double in the 3rd and 4th races, with Farquhar and Ohtani.
Opted not to bet on Farquhar or Ohtani. But Eddie Haskell just came through in the 5th to round out my pick-3 and put me up $10 on the day.
Phegley 0 for 1, 1 K when he uses The Pina Colada Song as his walk up music.
Bolt and Phegley hitting 8-9 today so if Bolt sticks with what he had in Vegas that’s Fleetwood Mac and Rupert Holmes back to back. I couldn’t think of the actual title of the Holmes song yesterday; I knew it’s buried in the lyrics somewhere, and it’s “Escape”.
Fleetwood Mac got left in AAA. Phegley not into yoga, into champagne on that AB though.
In the in-stadium/on-air postgame interview Braden asked Phegley whether he likes Piña Coladas, and the answer was a lame “yeah, sure, on the beach” or something like that. It needed a “Piña Coladas are OK but what I really like is making love at midnight in the dunes on the Cape.”
Terrible 0-2 pitch
Seeing the bat lying in the batters box as Chapman slid over it was terrifying.
A’s put Kikuchi on the old hibachi today. Also the Mariners defense is frightful.
Yeah it’s seriously bad.
I guess Profar has been an impact player after all, and Kendrys left his mark as well.
More runs please. Lou and Blake could use the rest.
Eh, fuck rest.
At least he’s not walking guys.
Hey maybe pointlessly bringing him in last night to throw 30 pitches wasn’t a great idea.
And exhale.
Phew
Servais might want somebody on his roster who could pinch-hit for Shed Long in that situation.
Nice to finally take some games against the mighty Mariners. On the other hand, Toronto would be 14-32 absent playing Oakland (I’m afraid to check what their current -53 run differential transforms into).
Tied for a playoff spot.
heh
Floating above the 50 feet of crap that is the lower half of the American League. It seems to have sorted out quickly this year with the Texas Rangers maybe the only team that’s on the wrong side of .500 right now.
Are the Rays anywhere near as good as their record?
I could maybe name one starting pitcher and one or two starting position players on this team. Maybe.
I think they are.
I mean, when keuchel signs on saturday We’ll be in good shape
It’ll be like getting…eh, I can’t do it.
zone seems a little tight.
Phegley!
Still unclear what Coco brings to the radio booth
6 innings
3 hits
0 runs
0 trainer visits
QUALITY START
Phegley!
Phegley should pay my way to every game.
I would say it’s too bad the Mariners are leaving town but the Angels are here tomorrow so not really.
I’m amazed that Brett survived that 3-6-1 double play.