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ben

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #270 on: August 21, 2015, 09:24:34 pm »
How long has Soler been in the league?  Patience.

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #271 on: August 21, 2015, 09:25:14 pm »
Mike Fiers is no hitting the Dodgers through 8 innings.  He's at 120 pitches.  The game is on MLB Network.

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #272 on: August 21, 2015, 09:39:47 pm »
Marisnick catches a fly ball to the warning track for the first out of the 9th.  Fiers was noticeably excited--he wants the no hitter, and he's not afraid to show it like most pitchers.

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #273 on: August 21, 2015, 09:40:26 pm »
Utley flies out, 2 outs.  129 pitches for Fiers.

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #274 on: August 21, 2015, 09:41:41 pm »
Two guys shown filming the (hopefully) last out on their iPhones.  One is filming correctly, the other filming vertically.  Why do people still film vertically?

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #275 on: August 21, 2015, 09:42:48 pm »
Houston crowd is loving this. 

2-2 count on Turner.

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #276 on: August 21, 2015, 09:44:16 pm »
Fiers Ks Turner, no hitter!  Pitch #134.  Fiers really enjoyed that.

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #277 on: August 21, 2015, 09:55:44 pm »
On MLB Network, Pleasac had the same reaction I did--the best part of this no hitter was Fiers' excitement in the late innings.  On the post-game interview, Fiers admitted he knew he had a no hitter going the whole time.

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« Reply #278 on: August 21, 2015, 10:41:12 pm »
How long has Soler been in the league?  Patience.

Actually, the post was mostly about Bumgarner. Mentioned Soler only to highlight how terrific is Bumgarner's HR total (so far).

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #279 on: August 22, 2015, 12:10:20 am »
Carlos Villanueva's pixie dust seems to be wearing off. He's given up 2 run homers to Brett Wallace and Matt Kemp in the 8th in Sand Diego.

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #280 on: August 22, 2015, 07:33:25 am »
The guy they call "MadBum" out here is really quite an athlete...Giants have drafted pitchers SO incredibly well over the past 10+ years (e.g. Lincicome R1, Cain R2, Bumgarner R1).

Now that we have a bunch of guys who can mash, I'll hope there are stud pitchers available to us when we draft and we can nab a couple of them, too.

I'll also hope a some of our young guys (e.g. Johnson, Underwood, Steele) can continue to improve and stay healthy.  Top FA pitching is almost ridiculously expensive (and risky).

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« Reply #281 on: August 22, 2015, 11:39:23 am »
Can somebody explain how the Houston Astros went from being the worst team last year to one of the best this year?

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #282 on: August 22, 2015, 11:59:07 am »
Can somebody explain how the Houston Astros went from being the worst team last year to one of the best this year?

They're in a division with no Cardinals, Pirates, Cubs or Royals?

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #283 on: August 22, 2015, 03:16:00 pm »
They also had a halfway decent farm system in place

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #284 on: August 22, 2015, 10:17:06 pm »
Cards melting down against the Padres.

The Cards have runners on 1 & 3 in the 7th with no outs and the next three hitters K. Bottom of the seventh Martinez gives up a single. Jankowski bunted a hit and a sac bunt moved runners to second and third. Mannes comes in and gives up 5 runs so far.

Edit:  Padres end up scoring 7. My favorite play was the ball that hit the security guard, who was ruled in play that let Kemp score from first.
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