2. Judge & Soto: 6 for 10, 8 RBIs. "Judge & Jury" or "Soto & Uh-Oh."
3. Yanks' lineup has nobody under .200. Ghost of Gallo exorcized? (BTW: Joey hitting .122 for Nats.)
4. Nine straight over Bastaroids. (Cheaters never prosper. And their homes back in Houston are underwater.)
5. Amazingly, game was bigger blowout than 9-4 score implies.
6. AL Homer Leaderboard: Soto tied for 4th with 9, Judge & Giancarlo tied for 11th with 8. (No other comparable three-way.)
7. Soto hitting .338 (2nd in AL), leads league in RBIs - legit Triple Crown threat. (Unless Judge denies him in HRs?)
8. Tommy Kahnle throwing in minors. Pitched an inning yesterday at dirt league Tampa. Fanned two adolescents. Replacement for Golf of Tonkin?
9. Astros look cooked. Nine games behind in Wild Card. Bregman at .189. Verlander said to be in clubhouse, throwing balls at couch. (Domingo German's overturned furniture? BTW: "Mr. Perfect" has yet to throw pitch this year for Pirates.)
I'm no doctor, but to me, Verlander looks like a classic case of dead worm in the brain. Just sayin...
10. Juju icon resurfaces for finale: 5:05 p.m.
Both Rizzo and Wells haven't been bad the last two weeks. Nice to see them contributing a bit.
ReplyDeleteSadly, we'll never hear the Master say "Austin Powers one into the bleachers! Groooooovy baby!)
Rufus - Good one.
ReplyDeleteYep, excellent call. I can hear it in his voice. (Now that John has retired, should we say "His" with a capital H? Giving him deity status? They're already playing one of his "Thuuuuuuh Yankees win!" calls at the end of home wins, just before Sinatra kicks in. Shades of Sheppard.)
ReplyDeleteFirst time Soto and Judge and Stanton all homered in the same game. Looking forward to many more.
Another question: has Houston officially reached tomato can status? It's a long season, but...
Could it be that Houston has begun the tanking process for another reset?
ReplyDeleteI await Stang's response to #10
ReplyDeleteRoofus - Stang is off-world until Sunday.
ReplyDeleteStabilizing solar flare filters in the ArcNet , or so I’ve been told so I advise a wee bit of
patience, Laddy.
ArcNet?
DeleteInterwebs or Archanans?
Or has he just been captured by one of his antihero characters?
Why the 5pm start 🤔
ReplyDeleteGreat win last night! So good to see those despicable ASS-stros get their butts handed to them. Now let's finish the job this afternoon!
ReplyDeleteASS-stros always start slow. It's been like this for at least a few years now. Then they come on in the second half of the season, so it's probably premature to say they're cooked. If they're still this way come trade deadline, you gotta believe their management will be smart enough to tank. They do have a lot of age on the roster, and their young players don't look so good anymore.
Dusty Baker retired, and it seems to me that the things that they used to preach under Baker and that bastard A.J. Hinch aren't being emphasized anymore. They look like an ordinary team. Just another crappy team, in a crappy division, in a crappy league. Hell, it looks like they've STOPPED CHEATING!
BTW Suzyn Waldman says Hader has been lousy so far this year. Hard to believe, but could it be that the Yankees dodged a bullet by not signing him?
It's twue. Hader has sucked.
ReplyDeleteCareer WAR 11.5
This year -0.3
W-L career 21-24 (not exactly world-beating)
This year 1 -3 (so, not so different)
Career ERA 2.63, pretty damn decent
This year 6.14, pretty damn terrible
But we always knew he had one great year and the rest were so-so. Which is why some of the folks here didn't think we missed much by ultimately passing on him.
Who knew that Short-Arm Hal and Confused Cashman did the right thing there? Our rotation has been a pleasant surprise.
Start at 16:30.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBTQvTGW75c
Out of respect to our next President, I will elect not to speak for Stang and instead defer to his response when and if he decides to provide one.
ReplyDeleteCarry on, Roofus. I wish you a prosperous day today hopeful that the fish bite and your are able to hook enough to provide for your family’s bellies for this evening’s meal.
Minor-league hitting coordinator Joe Migliaccio is teaching Caleb Durbin to hit with more power. At the same time, Joe is impressed by the fact that Durbin's swing and miss rate in the strike zone was 4% last year. Is it just me, or is telling the guy to hit for more power a virtual guarantee that he's going to start swinging and missing a whole hell of a lot more?
ReplyDelete“He’s such a fun player to watch,” Migliaccio said. “I can’t imagine there’s not one team out there that wouldn’t want a player like Caleb Durbin.”
Considering the Braves traded him to us for Lucas Lugnut, old Joe seems to have a poor imagination. Hit the ball hard, Caleb! You're on the way to Palookaville.
JM,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Stang update, but it doesn't appear to be recent.
The ability of Yankee coaches to ruin decent prospects is amazing.
JM, good example of how the organization’s one size fits all approach to coaching ruins player development
ReplyDeleteA series/season would definitely merit some orgiastic frivolity.
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