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2013 MLB Season Thread

After a disastrous series at San Francisco, the Rockies have come alive. They are the only team in baseball that is undefeated at home. They are 11-4 with a 2 game lead in the NL West. Not a bad start.:D
 
I am assuming the Red Sox game is cancelled tonight, but did the team even get back into the city?
 
ucfgrad93 said:
After a disastrous series at San Francisco, the Rockies have come alive. They are the only team in baseball that is undefeated at home. They are 11-4 with a 2 game lead in the NL West. Not a bad start.:D
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Something bad happened to my Giants. It was certainly an upper to beat the Rockies. Few people realize just how important the first month in baseball can be. Some teams rally later on but it's much harder if you are bad in the beginning and adding great importance to opening day, too. You guys are certainly rocking it big time, and many congrats to you. When the sports reporters are out there thinking that the Broncos are the likely team to bring a title to your city coming up in the next season, it may be your Rockies.

What makes this sport so much entertaining than football is that anybody can win, but with major upsets also done on a very regular basis. We just don't know who will be the hero from day to day. Imagine if Tom Brady or Peyton Manning went out and threw for 400 yards, then less than 100, then back again over and over in a rollercoaster fashion. That just doesn't work that way. But that's what it's like with major league pitchers dominating for a game or two and then giving up six runs. Nobody stays good for long in baseball and a last place team can shellac a first place team in baseball but then have nobody who knows baseball be surprised. That is so rare in football or basketball which probably shows just how mental of a game baseball is on top of being physical.

If I don't get there this year with Giants, and then A's, I will pull for your Rockies. Every year, I always pick a team I don't normally go for as a spare and usually they are out west near me.
 
The baseball season is just so long compared to any other sport and that creates these huge swings that teams can go through. In 2007 the Rockies won 21 of 22 games in the stretch and swept their way into the World Series, only to get swept in turn by the Red Sox. Last night we beat the Diamondbacks 3-1 in spite of only getting 3 hits.
 
Something I have never seen on a baseball field.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=26416825&c_id=mlb

I think we just found baseball's version of Leon Lett.

I'm talking about Brewers shortstop Jean Segura, who, like the mixed-up grandma who made a U-turn on a one-way street, performed an act of baserunning madness Friday that he'll be seeing, on scoreboard video-screen blooper reels, for the rest of his life.

To even try to describe this adventure is almost as challenging as actually doing it. And all the jumbled online play-by-play accounts out there are living proof.

But here's the simplest way to sum it up:

This guy stole second. Then he tried to steal third but somehow wound up on first. Then he got thrown out trying to steal second again. All in a span of five pitches.
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On a 2-2 pitch to Ryan Braun in the eighth inning of the Brewers' 5-4 win over the Cubs, Segura stole second. On the next pitch, Braun walked. So far, pretty standard stuff. But not for long.

Three pitches after that, Segura broke for third. But his first mistake was that he forgot to wait until pitcher Shawn Camp actually delivered the ball.

Camp whirled and got Segura hung up between second and third. That led Braun to follow Baseball 101 protocol and roar into second base. Which was proper and cool -- until Segura scrambled back to the bag to join him.

The Cubs started tagging everyone in the vicinity, and the rules say it was Braun who was out. But that was news to Segura, who thought he was the one who was out. So he started trotting toward the dugout.

Along the way, though, he got the memo that he wasn't out after all. So he pulled back into first base. And first-base coach Garth Iorg wouldn't let him leave.

Not until two pitches later, anyway -- when Segura burst toward second again and, in Take 2, was thrown out.

So there you have it -- a man who stole second and was caught stealing second in the same inning.

Without his team batting around.
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http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/...tures-milwaukee-brewers-shortstop-jean-segura

(i) After he has acquired legal possession of a base, he runs the bases in reverse order for the purpose of confusing the defense or making a travesty of the game. The umpire shall immediately call “Time” and declare the runner out;
Rule 7.08(i) Comment: If a runner touches an unoccupied base and then thinks the ball was caught or is decoyed into returning to the base he last touched, he may be put out running back to that base, but if he reaches the previously occupied base safely he cannot be put out while in contact with that base.
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RoastingPig said:
boston sucks...go angels !
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:D
 
So the Southern Marlins team gets worse. Yes it can get worse.
Marlins owner Jeff Loria has done plenty to destroy baseball in South Florida, particularly by alienating fans with massive fire sales every few years. Nowadays he is actively sabotaging rookie manager Mike Redmond by meddling with the team's lineup and pitching plans. From Jeff Passan of Yahoo!:
Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria personally mandated the lineup card change that flip-flopped starting pitchers Jose Fernandez and Ricky Nolasco in a doubleheader Tuesday and left Marlins players furious with his continued meddling, three sources with knowledge of the situation told Yahoo! Sports.

Rookie manager Mike Redmond delivered the news to Nolasco about 2½ hours before the first game against the Minnesota Twins, and it did not go over well with him or his teammates. Standard protocol for doubleheaders is that veterans choose which game they want to pitch. Not only did Loria ignore that and further alienate Nolasco, the Marlins' highest-paid player who has previously requested a trade, he sabotaged Redmond less than 20 games into his managerial career.
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http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/e...ia-is-already-sabotaging-manager-mike-redmond
 
And 97 was a winner. But I agree over all FL should of never been allowed to venture into baseball territory
 
Meanwhile at the Yankees medical center. Cervelli out 6 weeks with a fractured hand. And Nova in for an MRI.
 
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