lordstanley Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Picking up Suarez at the trade deadline may have been worth it for Seattle just for the grand slam he just hit. 6-2 Mariners in the 8th. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Yup. Sometime you need to be able to recognize when a guy is on his game and maybe pitch around him, even if it costs you one run. Quote
lordstanley Posted October 18 Posted October 18 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said: Suarez..opened the can! The fly ball looked deep to me right off the bat so I didn't understand why the announcer was calling it in a flat monotone as it got closer to the wall. Then I remember I was watching the Jays feed. Quite the contrast. Edited October 18 by lordstanley Quote
guy incognito Posted October 18 Posted October 18 (edited) Ohtani made history again tonight, hitting the first-ever leadoff HR by a pitcher. That’s in the regular season or postseason. Edited October 18 by guy incognito Quote
lordstanley Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Just now, guy incognito said: Ohtani made history again tonight, hitting the first-ever leadoff HR by a pitcher. That’s regular season or postseason. After he struck out the side in the top of the inning to boot! 1 Quote
guy incognito Posted October 18 Posted October 18 15 minutes ago, lordstanley said: The fly ball looked deep to me right off the bat so I didn't understand why the announcer was calling it in a flat monotone as it got closer to the wall. Then I remember I was watching the Jays feed. That surprises me. Dan Shulman is usually pretty animated when a big play happens even if it’s for the other team. Quote
chasfh Posted October 18 Posted October 18 12 minutes ago, guy incognito said: Ohtani made history again tonight, hitting the first-ever leadoff HR by a pitcher. That’s in the regular season or postseason. That’s because he’s a unicorn. Quote
lordstanley Posted October 18 Posted October 18 9 minutes ago, guy incognito said: That surprises me. Dan Shulman is usually pretty animated when a big play happens even if it’s for the other team. I generally like him. But these playoffs he has been animated on every little single by a Jays hitter or strikeout by a Jays pitcher. Buck Martinez on the other hand, he must have the worst voice in baseball broadcasting. Quote
chasfh Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Joe Davis just referred to Shohei Ohtani as “the greatest player to ever play this game.” Do you agree? Quote
guy incognito Posted October 18 Posted October 18 I mean, it’s not a completely ludicrous notion. Quote
Screwball Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Suarez looked at a first pitch right in the hot zone and looked at it. He hit a tougher pitch, outside and on the bottom part of the plate for the slam. He got it done. That was wild. Quote
papalawrence Posted October 18 Posted October 18 22 minutes ago, chasfh said: Joe Davis just referred to Shohei Ohtani as “the greatest player to ever play this game.” Do you agree? He'll not challenge any all-time records, but yeah. To me he has become the goat. The level he plays in both roles is elite, and today he is showcasing it all Quote
Screwball Posted October 18 Posted October 18 22 minutes ago, chasfh said: Joe Davis just referred to Shohei Ohtani as “the greatest player to ever play this game.” Do you agree? I think you have to go by era. The guys today are incredible athletes. The 68 Tigers, maybe not. Same game, different time, but then again, maybe not. I really want to believe those old guys could hold their own even today. But, I'm old and stupid. 🙂 Quote
papalawrence Posted October 18 Posted October 18 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Screwball said: I think you have to go by era. The guys today are incredible athletes. The 68 Tigers, maybe not. Same game, different time, but then again, maybe not. I really want to believe those old guys could hold their own even today. But, I'm old and stupid. 🙂 Trammel answered this during the spring. He acknowledges how much better the pitching and training is. He said he and old school stars would struggle, then adapt to the current level, and be stars in today's era. That seems right to me Edited October 18 by papalawrence Quote
papalawrence Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Now 3 HR for Ohtani. Along with 6 inn pitched, 1 hit, 0 runs, 10 Ks. This might be the greatest performance in a game that I have ever seen. He plays in a video game! 1 Quote
Screwball Posted October 18 Posted October 18 4 minutes ago, papalawrence said: Trammel answered this during the spring. He acknowledges how much better the pitching and training is. He said he and old school stars would struggle, then adapt to the current level, and be stars in today's era. That seems right to me Why would we argue with Allen Trammel? I named a kid after him. I think those guys had a different approach at the plate. When you need a single or fly ball to score a run, they would find a pitch to do so. Instead of trying to hit the ball to Mars. And defense...Those guys were fundamentally better than MLB today, but so are the kids who play in the little league World Series. I can't believe what I see. I remember a game a long time ago, Detroit was playing Baltimore and Al Kaline stopped into the booth for an inning or two. Great stuff, as we would expect. I wish I could remember the year. They asked him what stuck out to him over the years of how the game has changed. He said; now days, if you can hit 20 home runs you can leave your glove in the bus. So true, then there were guys like Bob Gibson. 1 Quote
monkeytargets39 Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Obviously Harris should’ve traded for Ohtani. I mean…..duh. 1 Quote
Tiger337 Posted October 18 Posted October 18 22 minutes ago, Screwball said: I think you have to go by era. The guys today are incredible athletes. The 68 Tigers, maybe not. Same game, different time, but then again, maybe not. I really want to believe those old guys could hold their own even today. But, I'm old and stupid. 🙂 You can't compare. If you put the stars of the 60s in a time machine and dropped them in a game today, they probably would not do well. If they were playing today though, they would have had the same training, had the benefit of the same technology and analytics, etc and they would be stars. 1 Quote
Sports_Freak Posted October 18 Posted October 18 The announcer said Ohtani just had the best game in the history of the postseason. Ever. I mean, Reggie hit 3 home runs on consecutive swings but, well, he didn't pitch. Ohtani is...AI. 😅 Quote
papalawrence Posted October 18 Posted October 18 In post season games: 26 times a pitcher threw at least 6 shutout innings giving up no runs and 2 or fewer hits, while striking out at least 10. 12 players have hit 3 home runs in a game. Ohtani just did both in the same game. Quote
Motown Bombers Posted October 18 Posted October 18 Oh look, Skubal’s future team is in the World Series again. What fun. Quote
Tiger337 Posted October 18 Posted October 18 2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said: Oh look, Skubal’s future team is in the World Series again. What fun. It's going to feel so good when the Tigers beat them in the World Series in 2028. 1 Quote
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