IdahoBert

My understanding, although I have the understanding of a 10-year-old as well, is that the introduction of the automatic ball strike system in AAA has inflated offensive numbers but I don’t know how to explain that precisely. Also, the tigers pay specific attention to aspects of a hurlers arsenal that can be better utilized with their own genius like coaching interventions. And I am really stretching here to make this point.

I’ve been so focused on the Tigers I didn’t even realize that was in play but aside from not liking no-hitters in general, because I expect them to ruin a pitcher’s arm, it’s hard to take a group effort no-hitter, seriously. In addition to strikeouts, I think home runs and no hitters are fascist.

Nice catch by Riley. I don’t know if he misread it and corrected his mistake so it looks more dramatic or if it was dramatic in its own right.

It’ll be interesting when the Athletics play at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento. Relatively small park in a different climate with vastly smaller foul areas.

Only 36 pitches for Madden in 3 innings.

Sweeney the Great makes it 3-0.

Madden doing a Ryne Duren impression with balls so far out of the strike zone they don’t register in AtBat. Got out of the inning though.

Carp singles and it’s 2-0.

Jung doubles.

Sweeney has hit 3 home runs as a shortstop in 20 games and it took Baez 80 games to hit 6.

Trey Sweeney homers (3) on a fly ball to right field.

Aside from this basically being a pitcher’s ballpark, all three of the home plate umpires this series have made sure that if you’re within an inch or two of the strike zone it’s called a strike.

1-22 road trip for Tork.

Got out of that inning by the hair of our chinny chin chin.

I had a feeling no one was gonna catch that foul ball

Dan and Bobby keep talking about what a pitchers ballpark it is and how hard it is to hit home runs at the Colosseum but somehow the bash brothers figured out how to do it. I wonder what they were up to?

Riley Greene takes the no-hitter off the table with a first inning single.

Good for you. Not for the faint of heart

Hold tight Wait 'til the party's over Hold tight We're in for nasty weather There has got to be a way… Burning down the house! — TALKING HEADS

My son and I will probably be going to see it tomorrow.

Thank God. I’m glad it was easy for some reason to close this one out. Also, I haven’t been able to connect to the site for the last 30 minutes or so. I don’t know if it was me or the site.

I am truly not interested in any drama accruing to this game in the bottom of the 9th. I was elated, dropkicked, beat up,left for dead and continually resurrected then finally murdered again in the alley of this series in last night’s contest and I’m not interested in reliving that nightmare. Just get the damn job done.

4-pitch inning for Hurter. Wow!

The Oakland Athletics have some hitters I would love to have on our team, but they have somehow managed to lose 9 more games than our club has so something must be suspect about their pitching so hopefully this chink in their armor will become apparent later in the game