2010 MLB Season Discussion

[Trichocyst]

The Bruce walk was a full count walk. That was astonishing though. Halladay is a monster.

[Soa]

Fuck fuck fuck I'm so pissed I had to work today. I was racing home trying to get there before the end of the game, but it ended when I was 2 blocks away. That's it I'm calling out sick every Phillies game for the rest of the year.

[*Shinzon*]

The one walk Halladay gave up to Bruce, how many pitches was that at bat?

I think they said he had 3, 3 ball counts all night. Finished with 103? 104 pitches. I think it was just a 3-2 count.

[Penthesilea]

Omg I fuuuuuck. I missed roys perfecto due to the stanley cup
Finals but Omg
Omg omg

[Akiyama]

lol, foopy. FEEL HONORED.

Anyway, I agree. One of the best pitching performances I've ever seen.

[Headspace]

Reds have been dominated by aces and good pitching all year. Then they play the Cubs/Stros/Pirates and put up 14 runs a game. Inflated offensive stats.

SEPH SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[Conrad]

omggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

[Kurp]

glhf

[GRT]

wow, this man is unbelievable

[Eliseos]

Halladay for president. Had to be in class during the game, was following the play-by-play on my phone, and it wasn't the same

[Trichocyst]

Orlando Cabrera doing himself, and his team, no favors:

“(Halladay) and the umpire pitched a no-hitter. He gave him every pitch. Basically, we had no chance."

Crashburn Alley has a full write up about it with a FanGraphs recap of the strike zone.

[Cephius]

Like I said, stop ignoring this Yankee offense. Oh yeah, and that Mariano guy is pretty good.

Doc deserves the talk tomorrow though. Amazing.

[Trichocyst]

[Penthesilea]

http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/...1&s_type=7.gif

cabrera and those fuckheads at Red Reporter are fuckheads



EDIT: lol at CSN Philly again...

http://c0013509.cdn1.cloudfiles.rack...com/x2_2ed45fc

[Soa]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-co...ladayGrab2.jpg

Here's another graph of the game Hirschbeck called. I count a whole 5 pitches called incorrectly, and they were all within 2 inches of their respective zones.. This was honestly one of the best called games I've ever seen.

I watched most of the Yankees game and I'm a bit puzzled as to why the Twins infield was playing so far in with 1st and 3rd 1 out in the 6th. If the 1B was playing at normal depth Cano's single would have been a fairly routine double play that would have ended the inning with it still 3-0. The Twins have to be kicking themselves for letting this one get away.

[Zoolander]

Gdi, forgot I have a test today from 2pm-3:15. Gunna miss first few innings of Rays game...have class from 330-4:45 but fuck that noise, I'll just stream it during class.

And yea, no one from the Reds should be saying anything after that pathetic performance. They said Halladay was up 1-0 on like 24/28 batters and up 2-0 on like 14/28, shit was terrible. What really got me raging was the guys in the 8th in 9th batting against him, it seemed like they were literally scared.

[*Shinzon*]

Gdi, forgot I have a test today from 2pm-3:15. Gunna miss first few innings of Rays game...have class from 330-4:45 but fuck that noise, I'll just stream it during class.

And yea, no one from the Reds should be saying anything after that pathetic performance. They said Halladay was up 1-0 on like 24/28 batters and up 2-0 on like 14/28, shit was terrible. What really got me raging was the guys in the 8th in 9th batting against him, it seemed like they were literally scared.

Well, I wont lie. The Umps knew what was going on. The last two innings they gave Halladay some leeway on the edges. That's not to take away from how his stuff was moving. But simply put the Reds didn't get to him early, they let him settle in and get in their heads.

[Conrad]

The Umps knew what was going on. The last two innings they gave Halladay some leeway on the edges.

No they didn't.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-co...ladayGrab2.jpg

There's a total of one called strike outside of the strike zone. The rest are solid.

[Soa]

http://web21.twitpic.com/img/1734975...c90-scaled.jpg

I admit, I laughed pretty hard at this pic.

[*Shinzon*]

I know what the graph says. But as you watched the game and where he was placing the pitches, many pitchers don't get those calls even if they are strikes. What I meant was even the borderline chest and knee called strikes, which were good calls, don't always get called strikes unless you've been rolling along like Halladay was.