5/5 Cinco de Mayo por las Medias Rojas

[JohnnyTheBone]

Criswell needs an amazing escape.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

This isn't good.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Not that he’s in the same category, but I don’t think anybody ever tried to get Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle or Reggie Jackson to cut down on their swings or go the other way. The shift was even invented for defending the GOAT, Ted Williams. He said he didn’t want to risk screwing with his swing by going opposite field, although he ultimately did some of the time.

That's all fine and good, but occasionally Devers does go oppo with great effect. I never heard that that has hurt him.
In the meantime, the game has gone to hell in a handbasket, maybe.

edit: THE AMAZING CRISWELL ESCAPES

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

GOT HEEM!

 

[E5 Yaz]

K, DP ... out of the jam

 

[Rovin Romine]

Criswell needs an amazing escape.

What do you predict?

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

G_G_G_GOT HEEM!

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

What do you predict?

A troiKa of K's.

 

[E5 Yaz]

K, K ... ground out ... out of the jam

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Thank you Angel. That was a sentence I never thought I'd write.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

K, K ... ground out ... out of the jam

Look who found the edit tab.

 

[Rovin Romine]

Damn Criswell. 2 Ks and a heads-up play.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Pretty fucking awesome by Criswell there.

 

[patinorange]

Oppo squander. Sweet.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Unreal escape

 

[InsideTheParker]

Thank you Angel. That was a sentence I never thought I'd write.

Did he help? All those strikes seemed legit to me, but my eyesight is not the best.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Unreal escape

No. It was real we all watched it.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Did he help? All those strikes seemed legit to me, but my eyesight is not the best.

Call on the check swing strike.

 

[E5 Yaz]

No. It was real we all watched it.

Not me, I'm just following on the information superhighway. Was Kepler trying to score on the third single out of the question?

 

[Rovin Romine]

Call on the check swing strike.

Looked like a swing to me. . .

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

Pretty fucking awesome by Criswell there.

Amazing, really.

 

[Just a bit outside]

Not me, I'm just following on the information superhighway. Was Kepler trying to score on the third single out of the question?

It was the right call by the coach. No outs, got to Abreu pretty quick and he has a good arm.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

I understand Ryan is throwing a no hitter.

 

[E5 Yaz]

It was the right call by the coach. No outs, got to Abreu pretty quick and he has a good arm.

 

[mauidano]

I understand Ryan is throwing a no hitter.

@E5 Yaz says; "DON'T BREAK PROTOCOL!"

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

Correa, you bastard!

 

[Hank Scorpio]

It's going to be extra infuriating this year when the Yankees sweep the Twins out of the playoffs. I think Minnesota is my fourth least favorite franchise, behind 1: MFY and a tie for 2: TB/BAL...

 

[Al Zarilla]

That's all fine and good, but occasionally Devers does go oppo with great effect. I never heard that that has hurt him.
In the meantime, the game has gone to hell in a handbasket, maybe.

edit: THE AMAZING CRISWELL ESCAPES

Maybe he just goes oppo when he swings at outside pitches. I would hope he doesn’t try to pull those. Anyway, he is what he is, a swing for the fences guy.

 

[Rovin Romine]

It's going to be extra infuriating this year when the Yankees sweep the Twins out of the playoffs. I think Minnesota is my fourth least favorite franchise, behind 1: MFY and a tie for 2: TB/BAL...

Oh, the trash-can Astros have to be in the top 3. ..

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Is @TrotNixonRing around today?

 

[E5 Yaz]

Oh, the trash-can Astros have to be in the top 3. ..

And the Dodgers

 

[mauidano]

@absintheofmalaise Do you know if we are going to face Chris Sale in Atlanta?

 

[YTF]

Look who found the edit tab.

That brought an audible groan that had the Mrs wondering WTF.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

@absintheofmalaise Do you know if we are going to face Chris Sale in Atlanta?

Thursday I believe.

 

[mauidano]

That was a three wood down the fairway and out.

 

[E5 Yaz]

@absintheofmalaise told me Ryan is pitching something called a "perfect-o-rama"

 

[Al Zarilla]

That was a three wood down the fairway and out.

Or a Jack Nicklaus one iron.

 

[Rovin Romine]

Duran gave that a ride.

 

[patinorange]

@absintheofmalaise told me Ryan is pitching something called a "perfect-o-rama"

Good work

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Or a Jack Nicklaus one iron.

I thought only God could hit a one iron.

 

[Rovin Romine]

Devers doing a Yoshida imitation there.

 

[Al Zarilla]

Infield in this early,? knock it down their throat

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Ref!

 

[YTF]

That'll work!!!

 

[simplicio]

A little BABIP going our way, I'll take it!

 

[Rovin Romine]

"What role does Refsnyder have on this team anyway? He can only do one thing and not very well, so we should trade him."

 

[YTF]

Infield in this early,? knock it down their throat

RFsnyder heard you.

 

[YTF]

"What role does Refsnyder have on this team anyway? He can only do one thing and not very well, so we should trade him."

You're fucking brutal.

 

[mauidano]

Protocol be damned now. We are going to win this!

 

[InsideTheParker]

Middlebrooks seems to be singing my song re Devers "doing the little things right."