Comments on: And That Happened: Thursday’s scores and highlights http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sat, 25 May 2013 13:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: spudchukar http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142851 Fri, 27 May 2011 20:56:18 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142851 Yes, I believe it is exactly that-coincidental. Plus perhaps an overrated and overworked Reds pitching staff.

]]> By: Jonny 5 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142697 Fri, 27 May 2011 17:32:18 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142697 Oh no, Kendrick is definitely the Princess. He’s the Kendrickorn princess, look it up, I beg you. http://www.thefightins.com/tr-pierce/the-futile-utility-of-kyle-kendrick/

Cole is the Prince by far. Who else could have so much fun with that hot wife of his and other people’s children and get away with it? http://images.sportsbybrooks.com/3/9/39a6978d2fbea021c74ded003fcd7eef_hamelsad.png

Oswalt? Jester. http://jockpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/oswalt-smile.gif

And Lee would be like the Kings wild brother who’s also sleeping with the queen behind the King’s back. because he does this to women.
http://www.sawauto.com/uploader/up/omgomgomgomg.gif

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142696 Fri, 27 May 2011 17:31:35 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142696 Fiasonesse assumes that a great deal of skill, practice and concentration goes into the achievement of such incompetence at the professional level.

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142659 Fri, 27 May 2011 16:53:14 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142659 I’m assuming Hamels—despite his King Cole monniker—would be the queen?

]]> By: APBA Guy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142641 Fri, 27 May 2011 16:36:53 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142641 Mr. Anderson had indeed mastered the matrix yesterday in Anaheim. Two years ago his feature pitch was the 97 mph fastball. Last year it was the hard slider at a right-handed hitter’s back foot. Yesterday it was a late-breaking curve ball. As Ray Fosse said in his pre game “keys to the game” for Mr. Anderson the key is staying healthy. He’s the stopper, but with several “forearm tightness” scares in the last two years, we all hold our breath when he takes the mound. Yesterday was 8 innings of 3 hit ball against an Angels team with Morales (out for a year now) and Howie Kendrick on the DL.

Game oddity: Conor Jackson playing first after playing third the night before. As most of you know Jackson is an outfielder by trade, so what was he doing at those infield corner spots? Behold:

Kouz: .571 OPS
Barton: .587 OPS

Jackson’s at .685.

Barton’s RF is amazing again this year, but his nickname has evolved from “Caught Looking” to “Caught Napping”, he’s become so passive at the plate.

]]> By: APBA Guy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142630 Fri, 27 May 2011 16:23:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142630 Yeah, it was all the Bay Area was talking about yesterday (that and how the weather hasn’t been quite perfect yet this year).

I think the mourning was over the loss of the Giants’ chance to repeat. It will be really tough to stay in the race without Posey, and remember the Giants were in first when this happened. The hope is that, like last year., their pitching can keep them in it, but then again, last year Posey’s promotion was the catalyst that fueled the run. As for stunned, not so much, not that I saw anyway. As I said before, at root, SF is built on a solid blue-collar foundation. Contact doesn’t bother most of the old fans, maybe some of the new ones. Nobody likes losing a great young player, especially at a shortage position, but there is some hope that he may be back in 8 weeks, though I’d say that sounds like wishful thinking, but the medical reports yesterday were…opaque…so it’s hope moreso than belief.

]]> By: halladaysbicepts http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142613 Fri, 27 May 2011 16:02:02 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142613 The joker of Doc’s Royal Court would be Kendrick.

]]> By: mornelithe http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142581 Fri, 27 May 2011 15:38:35 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142581 I double-checked, just to make sure, but this issue was already raised, and addressed in a different thread.

MLB Rule 4.11:

“The score of a regulation game is the total number of runs scored by each team at the moment the game ends.”

and continues,

“(d) A called game ends at the moment the umpire terminates play, unless it becomes a suspended game”

Thanks to HeyNerdlinger for the information. (I copied and pasted)

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142566 Fri, 27 May 2011 15:25:53 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142566 Who’s the joker?

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142561 Fri, 27 May 2011 15:20:43 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142561 Masochism makes you do funny things.

]]> By: Jonny 5 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142554 Fri, 27 May 2011 15:16:35 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142554 Charlie said it best I think. He said Lee doesn’t just want to pitch well, he wants to impress you every single time. And that does cause him trouble. And yeah, Doc is basically the king of the staff, with the rest being his royal subjects.

]]> By: Craig Calcaterra http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142525 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:49:48 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142525 Yet you read anyway. What an odd choice by you.

]]> By: purnellmeagrejr http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142522 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:48:22 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142522 Calcaterra must be exhausted after trying to come up with a cute little something for each game. Well, if that’s the price you have to pay to be annoying …

]]> By: clydeserra http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142515 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:39:14 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142515 Bautista must be off the sauce

]]> By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142514 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:38:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142514 that was SUPPOSED to say…”I wouldn’t know where to even look….” Sorry y’all.

]]> By: halladaysbicepts http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142511 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:35:53 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142511 Yeah, Cliff Lee is pitching decent this year. But, as you know, he throws so many strikes that he gets hit around quite a bit because he sometimes just refuses to throw a garbage ball for the hitter to chase to keep them guessing. His key is to spread those hits out through the course of game and not to turn them into scoring chances (like most pitchers, but especially him because his location is so good).

But, we all know who the god of this staff is……The DOC!!!!!!

]]> By: sknut http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142510 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:33:21 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142510 I cry every time Butera steps to the plate, and I have seen the catcher stand up and tell everyone to move in its quite embarrassing.

]]> By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142507 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:30:05 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142507 Admittedly, I would lnow where to even look for a baseball rule book, but I have a question about the DET-BOS rain-out. When a game is rained out in the middle somewhere, aren’t the stats supposed to revert to the last complete inning? So, in this case, shouldn’t the Sox 5-run top o’ the Eighth be wiped out, since the Tigers did not get their hacks in the bottom of that inning? It would not really change the game outcome at all (Sox would win 9-1 instead of 14-1) but I thought that was how it is supposed to work.

]]> By: rsnorth http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142494 Fri, 27 May 2011 13:51:09 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142494 I believe fiascosity would be a better description.

]]> By: phukyouk http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142478 Fri, 27 May 2011 13:11:58 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142478 for the record the NY media would have a field day with a player named whiteside..

]]> By: CJ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142476 Fri, 27 May 2011 13:08:42 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142476 given the definition, I guess those that question the legitimacy of the term are–ironically enough–wonky.

]]> By: CJ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142473 Fri, 27 May 2011 13:06:38 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142473 didn’t hear a peep from me. I was saying to wait until Utley and Brown got back and then see what happened. Granted, they haven’t done a whole lot since returning, but its still no coincidence that the offense picked up virtually the exact moment Utley returned.

]]> By: rebarratige http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142472 Fri, 27 May 2011 13:05:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142472 You’d cry too if your starting catcher was Eli Whiteside.

]]> By: Jonny 5 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142469 Fri, 27 May 2011 13:03:16 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142469 Man Lee gave up 4 runs!! What kinda crap is that?? It’s like a half a run an inning. Well he’s lucky he drove in 3 RBI to make up for it, or he’d be on my sh— list today. so I guess we’ll call it giving up 1 run for him??? (Lee when he was contemplating Texas, NY, or Philly with a pouty face, But hoooooneeyyyyy I wanna hit tooooo! Hitting is fun….)

Anyway, it’s nice to see Philly doing things offensively, nice to see Utley go yard.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142467 Fri, 27 May 2011 12:59:48 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142467 It was one of those games where the team generating the least amount of fiasconesse lost. At least the Cubs don’t have an owner telling them that they suck.

Anibal Sanchez is looking more and more like the kid who pitched a no-hitter as a rookie. Josh, Ricky and Anibal are going to be the Seaver, Koosman and Matlack of their generation. Now if only Hanley would go down to the crossroads and renew his deal with that funny looking guy with the red skin and horns….

]]> By: paperlions http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142466 Fri, 27 May 2011 12:57:42 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142466 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wonky

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142465 Fri, 27 May 2011 12:56:37 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142465 A little over a week ago everyone was in mourning gear for the Feelies. I recall sitting back here with a piña colada and a nice healthy lean pan con lechon with melted lowfat soy cheese on a multigrain roll and shaking my head, thinking all those media-addicted panicking Feelies fans and myopic onlookers were probably confusing the team’s prospects with that moron Camping’s latest doomsday prediction. Folks, this team takes the division. Comfortably. Barring a plane or bus crash. I know the Feesh appear to be blowing bubbles up their tailpipes but they are built to fade the way the jetstream is built to shift southward in September. Let’s enjoy the spectacle while it lasts but let us have no illusions about where this is all going – Blanton or no.

]]> By: yankeesfanlen http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142463 Fri, 27 May 2011 12:53:24 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142463 During this interminable stretch of 48 hours without the Bombers, I attempted to listen to the game(?) between the Mets and Cubs. Reyes stretches a single into a home run with the Cubs throwing the ball around the field like a Memorial Day beach ball (Chicago like timely games during not so timely weather). Then R A Dickey stumbles over himself for a simple play at first.
Howie and that other guy aren’t too bad.
Apparently mid-point in the game they decided it was the Cubs turn to hit. I was long gone.

]]> By: CJ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142457 Fri, 27 May 2011 12:26:03 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142457 The moment of silence last night wasn’t for Posey, it was for their season.

]]> By: bigxrob http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/27/and-that-happened-thursdays-scores-and-highlights-46/comment-page-1/#comment-142456 Fri, 27 May 2011 12:25:31 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=60031#comment-142456 Maybe Bautista is scheduled for a steroid test soon.

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