Yainer hasn't been half bad at the plate since coming back. His catching is a different story but we've still mostly been winning.
There’s another study out there that had a lower number, 5 to 8 W/L or something like that. I want to say it was a Duke study. BTW, I’m sure I’ll go “duh” but Duke seems to do a lot of sports research studies.
Team is really perfecting the art of only scoring runs if you plan on winning...and no more than necessary.
I’ll take luck over skill all day and twice on Sunday. Walker 4-5 - 2 out RBI - lucky Parades 2-4 - 2 out RBI - lucky Pena 3-5 - lucky - 2 out RBI - lucky Diaz 2-5 - lucky Smith 1-3 homer on CU mistake pitch - lucky
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/do-manager-firings-really-change-team-trajectories/ This is pretty interesting.
Nah, see you don’t get it. You’re not allowed to win if you give your best hitter the day off. Hinch is an idiot too and benched their best hitter today so one team had to get “lucky”.
Takeaways 1. **** it, leave Walker in the 4 hole until he dies 2. They don’t quit on Espada when they’re down in the late innings. No matter what “we” think of Espada those dudes in the dugout don’t quit on themselves or Joe.
In case no one here heard, Cam fouled a ball off his foot so he wasn’t staying in the game no matter what according to Espada
According to statcast, he's mostly stopped throwing his 4 seamer and started throwing a cutter instead. His velo on the lone fastball was 96.6, but clearly the Astros are trying some new things to salvage the season for him.
Damn I wish Correa wasn't hurt. This team has a shot with Imai pitching like a starter again. Josh Hader had the tigers announcers in shock
Reading the thread for game 3 is funny lol. I missed the game because was playing basketball. Nice comeback. all with 2 outs too. PP bros doing work (Pena + paredes)
phew Guardians pull out a tight one against the Mariners after nearly blowing a 4-0 lead late. Arozarena got pegged too so that's a plus.
