KC 4 Cleve 3 b9. Lead off guy gets a double. Kipnis bunts him to third. Linder gets a hit and Terry Francona is a genius. Execution

Cleveland won that? Holy shit. I wish the MLB network would give more look-ins.

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Do you really want to compare Francona's body of work with Ventura? That would be a horrendous losing battle for you, son.

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Strasburg vs Kershaw

Vin with the call.

Yes, please.

Gigantes win again. All they do is win.

Amazing. A team in the NL playing great ball without being the Cubs.

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Brock Stewart is starting for the Dodgers on Wed night. He was a 6th round pick in 2014 from Illinois State. He started this season in High A ball. His Dad was a long time area scout for the Padres.

Brock was a 3rd baseman who couldn't hit but had a rocket for an arm. Everyone wanted him to pitch but he fought it until the end of his junior year when he pitched out of the bullpen. I remember the first time I saw him the first pitch he threw was 88. I thought to myself well that's too bad. Next pitch was 94. He ripped off a few more of those then unleased a wipeout slider. Huge arm but never would have guessed he'd be starting a league game 2 years later. Couldn't happen for a better guy or better family.

Across 3 levels this season he has a 1.47 ERA 86 IP 14 BB 96 K 0.826 WHIP. That works.

Lucas Giolito making his major league debut mowing down the Mets after 3. 93-96. Dude's a man beast. I wonder if they're gonna shut him down for the post season.

It never would have occurred to me that Bochy won 900+ games as Padres boss, or that Sparky won way fewer games with the Big Red Machine than he did with the Tigers.

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http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/stewart-son-scout-gets-call/
Real nice article about the Stew's. I can't wait to watch this game tonight.

Struck out his first batter on all fastballs. 92-94. Awesome

He just struck out the second guy!

Two bloops and a blast. Welcome to the big leagues, Brock!

He looks a lot different than I remember. The body and the delivery. I remember him being tall and fall now he's more drop and drive. Also looks a little inverted though it might be bow and arrow. Hard to tell from these terrible camera angles.

And that's why he was converted to a pitcher. Good God man at least put an aggressive hack on it.

This game at Ft Bragg is really fuckin cool. Would love to see Stanton hit one a mile and give the troops a thrill.

This ought to be required study for every professional athlete. Hell, he learned on the Sox when he saw what Julio Cruz got and one upped him in a big way.

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Bumgarner just gave up his first hit of the game, 1 out in the 8th

until the hit, this error by Blanco on a fairly routine pop up took away Bumgarner's potential perfect game bid:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=16966474&ex_cid=espntw

Duffy for Royals with a no hitter and six outs to go. 1 Walk and 14 K through 7

He just gave up a knock. Still throwing the shit out of it. Ricky is happy.

Gets out of the 8th with only 1 hit registered, struck out 2 more. Up to 16 K's.

Brock Stewart got another start tonight in Colorado. Tough assignment. Staked to a 2-0 lead but he has a couple guys on and only 1 out. 92-95. That works.

And he just gave up a 3 run bomb to Arrenado on a chest high fastball. Damn

Alex Bregman is hitting .029. He's 1 for his first 36. Did not see that happening.

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Thoyer love their juicers.

Nats release Papelboner. Interesting to see if he ends up with the Cubs or Red Sox. Hard to see him as a fit with another team.

not even the least bit ashamed of it either.

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Thoyer? You gotta stick with "Thed" and then you can add a Hoystein or Epster if you want, altho i do concede that "epster" sounds more like a nickname than anything else.

btw did anyone see that a-rod's final game had an (properly?) ominous aura about it?



also i think edwin encarnacion (~.265/33/95? nope it's .265/32/95) is in the midst of having one of the quietest best-masher-in-the-league seasons that i can remember. it's not like there's some kind of Mark Trumbo Deification Parade going on, but EE has led MLB in RBI for awhile now and last night he quietly went and tied trumbo for the MLB HR lead with 32. it's moderately !!! to me because his #s were in a slow but steady lil decline from his 2012 breakout season (.280/42/110 > .272/36/104 > .268/34/98) until appx mid-july of last year when he went absolutely HAM for a month (~12-15HR over a ~30 day span?) and managed to thwart that downward trend finishing with .277/39/111. this year his annual slow start wasn't as pronounced (even if his avg was like ~.240ish for a good chunk of the first half) and suffice to say you have to like his chances at both getting to 40HR and setting a career high in RBI this year... so would you be surprised to find out that this is his walk year?

he was born in january of 1983 so this is his age 33 season, which means that potential FA suitors would have to splash the cash for a guy who's going to start his new deal at age 34. he's some kind of relative-late-bloomer (ht hit 20HR a couple'a times b4 he was 28, with one of those seasons being .244/21/51 in 96 games) but you figure that a mashing 1B/DH might have a bit more longevity (a la david ortiz) than a middle infielder or an outfielder. do you think there's someone out there bold enough to offer him something around 5/125 to 5/150 riddled with opt-outs so he could peace out at any point and thus make him a de-facto luxury rent-a-player for a team with a mind to WIN RIGHT FUCKING NOW?!?!

hey you know the mets are historically known to give age ~32/+ players big $$$ 4/+ year deals (especially latinos when omar minaya was the mets' GM) so do you think they might try to suppress any and all jason bay memories and splash some cash to make EE their new mo vaughn? get that offense going as best you can (by hook or by crook) and then hope that your vaunted pitching rises up and has "the year" akin to the 2005 white sox? hmmmm....

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