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Didn’t Hanifee throw 30 pitches yesterday?

EDIT: Maybe AJ’s idea is, if Hanifee gets us through, we still have three fresh guys for extras, and if he gives up the game here, we still have three fresh guys for tomorrow.

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Just now, Sports_Freak said:

I hate being walked off. I feel like a Boston fan....😅😅

Feeling like a Red Sox fan is a terrible thing. Don't go there. 

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What happened to the bullpen? What a frustrating game the Tigers hit so many hard hit balls right at people and they Jays won on bloopers and bleeders.

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4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Didn’t Hanifee throw 30 pitches yesterday?

EDIT: Maybe AJ’s idea is, if Hanifee gets us through, we still have three fresh guys for extras, and if he gives up the game here, we still have three fresh guys for tomorrow.

Yeah, he pitched Friday, 30 pitches. No Brieske tomorrow, please.

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Just now, Adullin said:

What happened to the bullpen? What a frustrating game the Tigers hit so many hard hit balls right at people and they Jays won on bloopers and bleeders.

Fans will say how great our BP is, statistically. But they've been giving it up for a couple of weeks now. Not as shut down as it was.

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53 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Actually, stupid question by me. The only time an umpire would himself return a ball to the pitcher is after a dead ball incident such as a foul ball—i.e., he would never take a live ball from the catcher after a pitch and then throw it back himself. And as we all know, a foul ball results in a dead ball, and the ball is not live again until the pitcher touches the pitcher’s plate (aka “the rubber”) while in possession of the ball.

You don't see it much anymore, because you don't see umpires throw all that much period (though the guy in the 1st Boston game did). Anyway - it didn't use to be rare for a catcher to toss a ball out of play and the ump throw a new ball out (instead of handing it to the catcher) without the live ball every going dead because of a play event - it's dead by virtue of the catcher having tossed it. I suppose in theory there is an explicit TO there, but it's all so automatic that it's never sensed.

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52 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I find myself turning the audio off on the game on the TV and I have some kind of recollection that MLB TV used to give you the option of just listening to crowd noise in the background and not listening to broadcasters, but I might be hallucinating this memory. 

I looked it up and I was not hallucinating. They got rid of it a couple seasons ago and I couldn’t see any reason given but it probably had something to do with interfering with advertising. I never used it, but I would use it now at least on occasion. 

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41 minutes ago, Adullin said:

What happened to the bullpen? What a frustrating game the Tigers hit so many hard hit balls right at people and they Jays won on bloopers and bleeders.

That's baseball.

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1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Despite his outcome success yesterday, Beau did not have a clean enough two outings such that would warrant him another crack at a leverage situation anytime soon. He’s giving up too much loud contact and he’s missing the zone wildly too often. He’s barely better than garbage time at the moment. I get what AJ is trying to accomplish, because 162 games is a lot and you need to try guys in situations sometimes, but I think AJ has enough information on Beau to push him to the front of the pen.

Beau gets the long look because he's got a hot fastball, and maybe his Ks will eventually follow upward.

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2 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

It feels like bringing Beau in is sort of like playing Russian roulette with a gun with only two chambers, but maybe he’s settling down. 
 

watching modern baseball can be frustrating. Olsen should have gone longer. Hell, with his pitch count could have pitched a shut-out. In the good ol' days a no-brainer. Especially, the way the pen has been of late. Hinch always has an early hook sans Montero.lol

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