I'm really not a fan of the Manfred Man, but I guess it would have ended with a Dodgers win anyway. Yes I watched a Dodger game since the Giants were off. Marlins came from 0–5 to tie it up with a grand slam but LA executed perfect baseball to win in the 10th.

Man on 2nd
Walk
Bunt
Single
Gatorade.

 maryte wrote:
That would be a hang dog moment for sure, and it won’t go away. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
That was hysterical! Texas should be embarrassed for weeks over that (and about their politics, too, but for much longer than a couple of weeks).

 geoff_morphini wrote:

I was waiting for the replay where Krukow says "right here between second and third is where he starts leakin' oil..." because he was gassed. That bellyflop onto home was awesome.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I’ve watched that play at least 10 times. Saw it when son was a little leaguer too. Crowd not quite as loud, None were walk-offs.

Home run traveled 2 feet, aka: A Walkoff Little League Home Run.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Yeah, the last time it happened it was the Braves who lost the game; I guess they rectified that yesterday.

19th 4-HR game in MLB history. D'backs still lost. 3rd time a player has hit 4HR and lost.

 Proclivities wrote:

36 years ago yesterday:

 maryte wrote:

Yes. But also he's 50# heavier than he used to be. 
However his vocabulary seems to be expanding because when the manager came to get him, he let go a string of not-very-nice terms that kept going until he was in the dugout.

edit: he's made $420 million. I don't think I could cuss about anything if I was sittin' on a mountain like that.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Isn't he getting a little long in the tooth for this game?   

Verlander just got pulled in the 3rd. I wanted him to do well of course but mostly I wanted him to hold his own and not ...do this.

Are torpedo bats legal? How they work, MLB facts to know

 GeneP59 wrote:


don't be hatin' on the Tush Push!!

 GeneP59 wrote:
There was a big discussion when Barry Bonds was hitting so many home runs; his bat was a 34, McGwire's was a bit longer and heavier but they were both shorter than the traditional "slugger" bats that were often max length and weight. The key for them was to increase bat speed. But Bonds actually choked up almost 2 inches! Any player who goes up to the plate with a 32" bat will get pitched outside all day long but for Bonds, they still made the mistake of coming inside to him. 

So the Torpedo bats are doing this without sacrificing length BUT there aren't a lot of positive results that come from hitting a ball off that last 2" unless it's fouling off strike 3, so I'd be inclined to taper that end down to a point and have as much mass around the 18–28" zone, tapering down to a point. I wouldn't be so subtle and the overall length might be 32. That would get the bat speed up, increase the sweet spot by a lot, and if the batter's fooled by a pitch outside, he wouldn't even hit it into that double play...

The Torpedo bats are as bad as the tush-push.  
Give it to the Yankmees to try and recapture their dominance by creating controversy and skirting the cork bats of old. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Giants have the 3rd best record in all of baseball and we're in 3rd place in the NL West.

 rgio wrote:

Yeah I think the Giants scored 6 with 17 Ks.