Watching the Yankees-Red Sox game from London.....
Fourth inning, and the score is more like football: 14 to 6
Yanks.
Fourth inning, and the score is more like football: 14 to 6
Yanks.
Is It Football Or Baseball?????
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Enjoy.
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must be in beanball city where the green monster is.LOL Its a hitters paradise.
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Frickin' MLB won't gimme anything but an audio feed.
Not that that isn't superior but it would be nice to see what the place looks like. Actually I was hoping to catch a British play-by-play announcer but no such luck there either.
Oh well GO SAWX.
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Short porch
What's the temp/humidity out there?
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The stadium is amazing....hugh.....attendance 60,000
Looked like most folks knew what the game is about.
Ended 17-13
What a game for LeMahieu!!!
Cashman paid him $24 mil for two years......it was a steal!!!!!
This guy is the contact hitter the Yanks needed last year.
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Not saying much. You could fungo a ball into the RF seats in Wankee Stadium.
The reason I asked, hot 'n' humid usually propels fly balls.
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Definitely not a pitcher's contest. I was pleased to see a very good crowd though I'm not sure the Reds vs. the Padres would pack the house. On the other hand such a game wouldn't fill the stands here either.
As much as I detest the cultural hegemony of the Yankees it's what the Brits want to see and this is a shot in the arm for baseball during the long interminable MLB season. More games in Europe will be forthcoming next season.
Can you imagine a game in Paris or Rome?
As much as I detest the cultural hegemony of the Yankees it's what the Brits want to see and this is a shot in the arm for baseball during the long interminable MLB season. More games in Europe will be forthcoming next season.
Can you imagine a game in Paris or Rome?
While I'm in full accord with the hegemony phrase, whence are we pulling the idea that "it's what the Brits want to see"? Doesn't speak well of the Brits, does it.
leftwinger
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Sorry PC. I don't watch the DH league. It is not real baseball. NL only.
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Oh, yeah?????
"Let’s Stop Pretending That Pitchers Can Hit
Sadly, not everyone is Shohei Ohtani: Pitcher hitting has never been worse, and it’s time to evolve beyond MLB’s vestigial limb and bring the DH to the National League"
By Ben Lindbergh Jun 7, 2018, 8:17am EDT
Let’s Stop Pretending That Pitchers Can Hit
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Second game in the London series.....
Seventh inning began with Sox ahead, 4-2
Inning ended with the score 11-4.......YANKEES!!!!!!
Seventh inning began with Sox ahead, 4-2
Inning ended with the score 11-4.......YANKEES!!!!!!
Brits are gonna get the complete wrong idea of how baseball rolls.
Once AGAIN the game is blacked out. How the **** can I be blacked out five thousand miles away?? I could watch a game from Washington or Cleveland without blackout.
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8th inning starts with a HR by Didi the Dutchman....
12-4 YANKEEEEEEEEEEES!!!
12-4 YANKEEEEEEEEEEES!!!
Relatively, yeah.
Course, MLB is doing what it can to destroy the game in both leagues. I don't mind replays but this intentional walk without actually throwing a pitch is just bullshit. So is this bogus "defensive indifference". But yes, damn right; a pitcher is part of the defense and therefore should be up to bat just as a light-hitting 2B or RF or catcher should. DH isn't baseball; it's selective-proxy-baseball. Why is it so bogus? Because it's based on ASS-SUMPTION, i.e. that "pitchers can't hit". And that's just insulting both to players and spectators. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy by rule. Baseball fascism if you like.
Fun fact: Babe Ruth came up as a pitcher. Good one too.
leftwinger
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PC, it is not the "pitchers hitting" that is the big deal. It is the different strategy the manager must apply. Both teams, using all players, every game situation, pitch count, injuries, weakness, knowledge becomes a weapon. When to change pitchers becomes a game within a game much of the time. Too complicated to explain.
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Pitchers hitting......BOOOOOOORING!
I just watched a pitcher, Chance Adam, give up hit after hit.....strategy in the AL, too.
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