Yeah, I actually like Philly (well........maybe not South Philly) - but really........isn't it just an adjunct to the quaint, charming burg of Camden (or that whole swath of riverside NJ?) across the river?
Don't know who Philly's CF is now..........but sometimes I swear he moves around out there a bit like Dykstra.
Padres couldn't fire Melvin as they just hired him .
But they didn't want him either. Giants come to the rescue
and say hey we want him. Padres now accepting application's
for manager.
Remarkable comeback by the Rangers last night to walk it off. Game 2 tonight from Arlington.
That was quality, intense baseball last night.
I am shamed to admit that I turned it off and went to bed, after the Rangers failed to score in the eighth. Reasons: I figured the closer was going to be money. I was sick with acute bronchitis and it was getting late. Not my dogs in the fight anyway. I said reasons, but these aren't excuses. No true baseball fan am I, apparently.
Arizona hammered Texas in Game 2. Total carnage.
Game 3 just finished. Texas won 3-1. Fun series!
That strike called on Moreno in the 9th was abysmal.
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Instead of having a guy on base we had a ground out.
That one *was* horrible. ~7-8 inches outside, if not 9-10. Just another example of what I posted earlier in this thread. [Sorry for not using cm; baseball is such an American game, and American baseball fans are notoriously non-metric.]
Perhaps if Perezchica had tripped Walker, it would have turned out differently.
I am going to love it, in a couple years (three at the most), when due to the robot ball/strike ump I don’t have to watch the catcher hauling every single pitch toward the strike zone and then freezing hoping to have fooled the guy.
Walter Johnson won 38 1-0 games. 😯
No player who started the Sept. 9, 1963 game for the Colt .45s was over age 21. 😯
Breaking!!: Dodgers move to Toronto!!!
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I'd not trust JP Morosi, even on the witness stand, even swearing on his life, even swearing upon his grandmother's virginal (pre-marital) reputations.
Ohtani: Two more MVPs.
Dodgers: No WS titles next half-century.
"No player who started the Sept. 9, 1963 game for the Colt .45s was over age 21. "
I tried to find that game on Retrosheet.org, but it says Houston didn't even play that day. Neither the day before or after, or 1962, seemed to work either.
Interesting, formalhaut. I got that from one of my old '60s Topps baseball cards I was perusing. One of those blurbs on the back they used to have. I *think* I was careful to transcribe the info correctly, as I'm usually quite careful on such things. So.........I have no explanation. Would be nearly impossible to find that card again without hours of effort, so I'm not gonna try. But I've found those things to generally be accurate. Obviously I found it to be a stunning 'stat', which is why I posted it. Puzzling.........
Edit: I just went to that site, which I'd never used before, and no.......no game for Houston is listed for the 9th. But they did play the 10th, in Connie Mack (losing 16-0). And a cursory check shows at least 3 guys over 21 played that day. So now, I'm very curious how that blurb was generated.
Further edit: They did play that date in '62, against the Mets, but again, at least 3 players over 21. Game was called after 7 innings, tied, due to curfew.
FURTHER further edit.........
They actually hosted the Cubbies on that Sept. 8, but at least 4 of these starters were over 21, and I didn't check them all:
So...............either that blurb was wrong, or I mis-transcribed what was on that card. Very likely the card was wrong, imo.
(Hope the link works. And baseball-almanac.com also shows they didn't play on the 9th.)
Ken Johnson apparently pitched 8 innings for the win. Johnson is noteworthy as being the only hurler to lose a complete-game, 9-inning no-hitter - which he did the following April in Colts Stadium.
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