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His slump is a ray of butt, too.

.196 Avg, .633 OPS from Thu-Sun. Terrible offense, historically horribad. What is that stat? Oh yeah, the Dodgers team line over last 4 days. It's baseball. Weird shit happens in small streaks. How this is news is beyond me.

I can't believe it's not Harvey.

207 PA. Not the smallest of sample sizes, but still not very meaningful.

That was play of the year candidate there. Perfect.

Why is baseball?

Even if he gets it, he'll have still allowed 7 ER in his last 9.2 IP.

Are you shitting me? Younger me was the dude who had theories on destiny vs chaos type conversations, gradually became a believer more in the "life is a crap shoot, like the mlb playoffs" type. The last 24 hours has me thinking on that again, so many crazy "coincidences" that the word coincidence starts feeling inappropriate.

The sbnation Mariners blog: Mariners observe 9 inning moment of silence in honor of Tyler Skaggs" Is my preferred take on the evening. Posted by Yak Wish on Jul 12, 2019 | 11:23 PM

No better way to honor him. His name and number on his teammates, will keep his name in the news and in everyone's thoughts that much longer. What a show on the mound.

Nah, just a boring blowout, nothing to see here.

Replace several with all.

I read that too but totally forgot. So rad.

They were kind enough to already do so with their gloves.

Doesn't matter, I only see one name and number on the back of the pitching unis...

He honestly is. With the richest contract in history. That usually only happens in the NBA, and that's because a player is 1 of 8 or 9 that play regularly and plays all aspects of the game. Trout being 1 of maybe 20-22 that get regular appearances and not also pitching makes it unreal he'd be such a "steal" with that kind of contract. This game, especially given it being the one specifically for Skaggs, is one that barring something really dumb happening, will be a memorable one for a long, long time.

How about no to any more previously A's starters? Between him, Blanton, etc, I'm starting to wonder if the A's Dusty Baker these guys just to troll us.

Saw my one and only game there in April a few years back on a work trip. Think it was against the Brewers. It was cold as hell and early in the year the ivy is brown and lame. While it is cool to be at an historical site, if I lived in Chicago I'd be begging them to renovate, and just stay home and watch on TV. It's pretty gross when you get past the initial "this is cool" factor.

The guy has literally never been a strike thrower. Has never thrown even 47% of his pitches for strikes in a season. 8 years in batters finally figured that out. My question: why the hell is it that this always happens to new Angels pitchers? You can't give us even a year to enjoy decent performance first?

This dude is Phegley.

I blame it more on the pitch pitching.

Usually a big Fletcher fan, and while he's not necessarily sugercoating it, even he should admit the underlying numbers suck, even with this disclaimer. Take out the 6 ER of the 35 he had coming into today and he still has a 5.32 ERA. Sounds better but still shitty, but keep in mind if you did the same exercise for every starter in the league I'd assume their ERA would come down at least 0.2-0.3, too, which doesn't help the case.

I couldn't have planned this better.

Contributed A Handy In Latest Loss

I liked this before I realized it said Herb and not Herp. Both are acceptable to me though.