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54 minutes ago, Halo in Chicago said:

You guys have better memories than I do.

I actually tend to not remember much about individual games.  It just so happened that one historic thing (Horner's four homeruns) and one shocking thing (Galarraga getting beaned) happened in the first game I went to.  If it had been any other Expos/Braves game from the mid-'80s, I doubt I'd remember anything about it.  Ha. 

Without spending too much time thinking about it, the only other individual game that's crystal clear/top of mind is the Yankees @ Angels on Aug 21, 2007.  That's my birthday and it's the game in which Garret Anderson had 10 RBI--and I was there with one of my good friends who's a huge Yankees fan, so I got to mock him. 

Ward has now been thrown out 3 times and picked off once.  He's not that fast.  Just stay at first base, dude.

I missed the last few minutes, though I did hear the announcers talking about how Soriano looked annoyed at a missed strike call.  From looking at Gameday Live on MLB.com, it doesn't look like any of the balls called this inning have been bad calls.  Am I just missing something?

2 minutes ago, BTH said:

He’s like a year away from getting DFAd if he doesn’t turn it around.

He never should’ve been up that early to begin with.

Yeah, I still don't know why he got called up.  Maybe just availability at that exact time?

Btw, Rocket City is playing a day game right now.  Mederos got pulled after 4 1/3 innings.  Gave up 3 runs on 3 hits, 3 BB, and hit 2 guys.  Only K'ed 1.

3 minutes ago, BTH said:

It’s been really disappointing to see Adams, Paris, Mederos, Joyce, and Kochanowicz REALLY struggle.

They aren’t just struggling, they are doing really bad.

Mederos has never produced good results, even in college. I know he was a 6th-round pick and supposedly has good stuff, but at some point, the dude actually has to, ya know, pitch well...

5 minutes ago, greginpsca said:

1960 Dodgers vs Pirates at the Coliseum. Pirates win 4-2. Dodgers scored both runs on a Wally Moon moonshot over the lf screen. Pirates had 2 2-run hr's by Bob Skinner & Bill Mazeroski.

Any chance you might be merging memories of two games? I found this one from 1961 where the Pirates beat the Dodgers 4-2 on HRs from Skinner and Maz, but Moon didn't do much that game: 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN196106080.shtml

2 minutes ago, Chuck said:

 

His lineups are a joke. 

Given some of his comments about how he picks his lineups, I think this is almost actually true. 

Martin Perez on the mound for the Pirates. 

My first in-person game was July 6, 1986, Expos @ Braves.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL198607060.shtml 

I was 11. I went with some people from my church after services ended that day. We got there a little late. Two things made that game memorable: 1) Andres Galarraga got hit in the head by Jeff Dedmon. The sound of the ball hitting his batting helmet was so loud we could hear it in the upper deck. I thought he was dead. Lol.  2) Bob Horner hit 4 HR in the game, but we left before his last AB. I wanted to stick around, but the people who took me to the game wanted to get home. 

Just now, Stradling said:

According to that he only threw 3 fastballs tonight. I can remember all 3, he threw 2 to McCutchen in one at bat and his last pitch was 97.2. I find it hard to believe he only threw 3 fastballs. 

Gubie commented on his low fastball usage fairly late in the game and said he only had thrown two at that point.  I don't know if he's looking at the StatCast/Baseball Savant stuff or just tracking it on his own, but just thought I'd note that.

1 minute ago, Angels 1961 said:

Any word on Pillar bobblehead night?

4 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Is there a website to see how many of each type of pitch a pitcher throws in a game, preferably live?

Baseball Savant has live box scores that can show this.  Here's the Angels/Pirates one:

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?date=5/7/2024&gamePk=745508&chartType=pitch&legendType=pitchName&playerType=pitcher&inning=&count=&pitchHand=&batSide=&descFilter=&ptFilter=&resultFilter=&hf=playerBreakdown&sportId=1#745508

EDIT: To give some more detail:

- The live box scores are at the top of the BS home page: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/

- Click on the game you want and if you want to see the pitch breakdown, click on the blue "Player Breakdown" tab in the middle of the page, on the line that starts with a blue "Scoreboard" tab.

Good to see O'Hoppe with four hits tonight!  He'd been having a tough time recently, so hopefully this can get him back on track.

31 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Lol, Pillar again.

Angels have 7 runs and 13 hits, but Drury is gonna Drury: 1 for 5 with 2 K.

Just now, Jay said:

Now are you excited?

No. 

Lol, Pillar again.

Denzer Guzman hit a HR in his first AB at Rocket City. 

Meanwhile, Kochanowicz is struggling yet again.  Still early in the game, so maybe he'll settle down.

Really nice outing for Sandoval so far.  No walks, five Ks.  47 of 69 pitches for strikes.  More of that, please.

Call me a Debbie Downer if you want to, but it's hard for me to get very excited about Kevin Pillar hitting a three-run HR.

Just now, Taylor said:

I've been a fan since 1999 and I still don't understand the DFA rules.

https://www.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/designate-for-assignment

So one official error for Tucker, and two other plays that he probably should have made.