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Tuffy

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1005 on: April 16, 2019, 09:02:57 pm »
Strop closes it out; Cubs win.  Great game; let's have about 100 more of them!
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craig

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1006 on: April 16, 2019, 09:07:37 pm »
Great outing, great sequence of two outings, by Quintana.  Really sharp.  Hope he can ride this streak all year long. 
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Deeg

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1007 on: April 16, 2019, 09:07:45 pm »
Playing the equivalent of about a AA team certainly helps, but wins are wins.
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craig

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1008 on: April 16, 2019, 09:09:32 pm »
Pretty rare to lose baserunners in back-to-back-to-back innings! 

For Baez, and Russell does it too, I wonder if there couldn't be some adjustment to the slides and built in more intent to ensure the capacity to maintain contact with the bag.  In the one tonight, Starlin's tag wasn't within inches of him.  If Javy had targeted to have two more inches of security, what would be the harm? 
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Chris27

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1009 on: April 16, 2019, 09:21:48 pm »
Quote from: craig on April 16, 2019, 09:09:32 pm
Pretty rare to lose baserunners in back-to-back-to-back innings! 

For Baez, and Russell does it too, I wonder if there couldn't be some adjustment to the slides and built in more intent to ensure the capacity to maintain contact with the bag.  In the one tonight, Starlin's tag wasn't within inches of him.  If Javy had targeted to have two more inches of security, what would be the harm?

I don't know why the Players' Union doesn't just argue for a rule that players who are safe but are taken slightly off the bag by momentum shouldn't be called out. Unless base runners make an effort for the next base the play should be dead, imo.
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Tuffy

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1010 on: April 16, 2019, 09:37:20 pm »
What they really should do is make the base bags themselves less bouncy and less easy to lose contact with through ordinary motion.  Either that or turn them into holographic projections of the correct length, width, and height so that players' hands and boy parts can pass right through the airspace, and if any part of his body is in that space, he's "on" the base.
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Deeg

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1011 on: April 16, 2019, 09:41:56 pm »
I'd pay good money to see that.
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CurtOne

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1012 on: April 16, 2019, 09:51:05 pm »
We allow running past first.  Standardize the importance of initial safety.  As long as a slide is employed and the base is within reach, so if the bag is touched before being tagged, the runner should be safe.  Jmo
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« Reply #1013 on: April 16, 2019, 10:33:09 pm »
I think the Baez play tonight is more like the traditional off-the-base slide that has been called forever, rather than those in recent times that are entirely a product of freeze-frame technology.

Baez’ momentum trying to elude a tag took him off the base. Base ump just missed seeing it. Although usually more flagrant and clearer to the eye, that has always been an out.

The play I hate is when the runner is just shifting weight over the bag or moving contact with the base from one hand to another or the like—the play is basically over in “normal” terms—and freeze frame catches a fraction of time just off the bag. Before replay, nobody would have given that play a second thought. Safe and no discussion..

The Baez play would have been a big argument before the days of replay. The play was ongoing and he slid off the bag. Don’t have a problem with that being an out.

In any case, very hard if not impossible to write a clear rule that distinguishes between the traditional runner sliding off the base and the freeze-frame mini-second play that nobody really likes but is now part of the game thanks to replay.
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craig

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1014 on: April 16, 2019, 10:37:12 pm »
Those are all good ideas.  Unfortunately it will take years for the union and the owners to come to an agreement to revise those rules, though, and it isn't a priority negotiation issue for either party. 

In the meantime, the Cubs Way might want to teach slides that can maintain contact. 
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DelMarFan

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1015 on: April 17, 2019, 02:32:24 am »
Automate the strike zone first, please
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davep

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1016 on: April 17, 2019, 09:46:14 am »
I have been watching the replay over and over, and the only problem I have with the final call is that it appears that the only reason why Baez' hand came off the base is because the second baseman forced it off with his body.  It looks to me as if Baez momentum had already stopped by the time that the second baseman fell upon his arm.
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Bennett

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1017 on: April 17, 2019, 06:18:32 pm »
Cubs go 1-2-3 in the top of the first.  Bryant, Rizzo, and Schwarber are now hitting a combined .190
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brjones

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1018 on: April 17, 2019, 06:34:08 pm »
Willson really does look like an MVP level hitter so far this year. 2 out double followed by a Descalso single gives the Cubs a 1-0 lead in the second.
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Chris27

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Re: Today's Game 2019
« Reply #1019 on: April 17, 2019, 06:59:16 pm »
Descalso now hitting .372 with 9 RBI.

Be nice if the folks with the pedigrees and hype would hit like that.
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