This Week in Baseball

[ISportsFan 0]

A quick question. I know there is such a thing as the Pythagorean record, but how is it calculated and where can I find them for the teams this year? Thanks guys.

 

Jason

[MikeJordan23 0]

http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2813

[sfaJack 0]

Anybody see the lineup the Astros have thrown out there today? Man is it awful...

 

Taveras, CF

Bruntlett, 2B

Ensberg, 3B

Lamb, LF

Vizcaino, 1B

Lane, RF

Everett, SS

Chavez, C

Astacio, P

[CanadianChris 0]

A quick question. I know there is such a thing as the Pythagorean record, but how is it calculated and where can I find them for the teams this year? Thanks guys.

 

Jason

ESPN.com has them in their extended standings.

[MikeJordan23 0]

Cardinals have 11 runs in the bottom of the first, and the inning isn't over yet.

[megaadvice 0]

ha ha 11 runs for cards in the bottom of the first

[Bored 0]

The A's are three innings from me about to throw in the towel on the season. If you get shutout by the current incarnations of Mike Mussina and Kevin Brown, you have no hope. This offense could end up being historically bad in the current slugger's era.

[razazteca 0]

Anybody see the lineup the Astros have thrown out there today? Man is it awful...

 

Taveras, CF

Bruntlett, 2B

Ensberg, 3B

Lamb, LF

Vizcaino, 1B

Lane, RF

Everett, SS

Chavez, C

Astacio, P

Goodbye Killer B's........Hello Loser L's (Lane, Lamb, Lidge)?

[Mik 0]

Sounds like someone has been hanging out with strummer.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Ooo, Cubs signed Darren Oliver to a MLC. In October they'll look back at this as the turning point for the NL Central champion Cubbies.

[mike546 0]

The A's are three innings from me about to throw in the towel on the season. If you get shutout by the current incarnations of Mike Mussina and Kevin Brown, you have no hope. This offense could end up being historically bad in the current slugger's era.

Moose is still an above average pitcher, great on a good day. Brown on the other hand, theres no excuse.

[DerangedHermit 0]

Ooo, Cubs signed Darren Oliver to a MLC. In October they'll look back at this as the turning point for the NL Central and WORLD SERIES CHAMPION Cubbies.

Edited for increased improbability.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Gregg Zaun got his neck snapped back going into second trying to break up a double play and hasn't moved since. They're prepping to take him out on the stretcher. Hopefully he's okay.

[ISportsFan 0]

Zaun is the most important story coming out of the Blue Jays/White Sox game today. He, on a clean slide with a clean attempt to throw to first by 2B Pedro Lopez, got kneed in the head when Lopez leaped to make the throw. Hopefully he is ok, but it looked like a whiplash effect. I hope it isn't serious.

 

The White Sox won 5-4 behind a strong performance by Buehrle, allowing 4 runs in the 4th (only 2 earned) and nothing else in 7 1/3 innings. 2 more home runs by the Sox today, with Dye and Uribe hitting them. Uribe did have both the errors in the 4th inning, though, so he was not on my good list today.

 

Jason

[Bruiser Chong 0]

So the Cubs are still up 2-1 barring some offense from them in the eighth (HA!) and Zambrano is gonna try and finish it off despite throwing 114 pitches already. Could get interesting (which I don't want it to), because Abreu leads off in the ninth.

[Vern Gagne 0]

Morneau is a HR shy of the cycle. Should get one more AB.

[Lightning Flik 0]

Gregg Zaun got his neck snapped back going into second trying to break up a double play and hasn't moved since.  They're prepping to take him out on the stretcher.  Hopefully he's okay.

Oh damn. There goes an important part of my fantasy team! NOES!

 

Seriously, hope he's ok. That had to kill.

 

Morneau is a HR shy of the cycle. Should get one more AB.

Wee... Go Morneau!

Edited May 8, 2005 by Lightning Flik

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Charlie Manuel's stupidity leads to the first Cub win in over a week. Zambrano walked the leadoff man (Abreu), who then advanced to second on a wild pitch. A groundout sent Abreu to third, and a Ryan Howard groundout couldn't get the run in. So with Marlon Byrd do up, what happens? JOSE OFFERMAN TIME BABY~!!! Offerman K's in a good battle, but the real kick was that Burrell was available to pinch hit. Phew, my nerves are shot.

[MikeJordan23 0]

Charlie Manuel's stupidity leads to the first Cub win in over a week. Zambrano walked the leadoff man (Abreu), who then advanced to second on a wild pitch. A groundout sent Abreu to third, and a Ryan Howard groundout couldn't get the run in. So with Marlon Byrd do up, what happens? JOSE OFFERMAN TIME BABY~!!! Offerman K's in a good battle, but the real kick was that Burrell was available to pinch hit. Phew, my nerves are shot.

LMAO. You can't make this stuff up.

[Guest OSIcon]

Crazy game in Baltimore today.

 

Kansas City jumped out to an 8-1 lead off of a 6-run 4th inning. An error, a fielding miscue from Rodrigo, and a couple homeruns lead to the big inning. The O's have four errors on the day. They came all the way back in the 6th by scoring seven runs. Then just a few minutes ago in the 8th, Steve Kline got called for a balk with a runner on third to give the Royals the lead. The replays don't show Kline doing anything that would constitute a balk. It looks like a really bad call and a poor way to fall behind.

[Brett Favre 0]

Yankees win their second straight on a solid perfomance from Kevin Brown. Shut out the A's. Haha! Lets laugh at the Yankees now!

[MikeJordan23 0]

13-19, let's not get crazy.

[Brett Favre 0]

I'm not. But I have to balance the hate with some love here.

[the pinjockey 0]

Charlie Manuel's stupidity leads to the first Cub win in over a week. Zambrano walked the leadoff man (Abreu), who then advanced to second on a wild pitch. A groundout sent Abreu to third, and a Ryan Howard groundout couldn't get the run in. So with Marlon Byrd do up, what happens? JOSE OFFERMAN TIME BABY~!!! Offerman K's in a good battle, but the real kick was that Burrell was available to pinch hit. Phew, my nerves are shot.

It took all of one day for Manuel to prove my point about Offerman's hit yesterday being bad in the long run.

 

That had to be the worst umpired game I have seen in a while (and it was terrible both ways). Anything that was within 8 inches of the outside corner was called a strike.

 

Shame for Myers to go down like that, but still an impressive outing. And a tough SOB taking a line drive off the head and not even flinching.

[Guest Smues]

Haha! Lets laugh at the Yankees now!

Ok. Hahahahahahahaha probably the highest paid pitching staff in the league and a team ERA of 4.93. 25th in the majors. hahahaha

[strummer 0]

Mets lose the game to a .178 hitter. Sounds about right. Mike DeJean sucks

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Odd to see that both the Athletics and Indians have scored 108 runs this season. Given that the Athletics are really much better than what they're producing, I think they need a spark of some sort. The team will turn around. They are still just 4 games back, with five months to play.

 

As for pathetic offenses, how about the Colorado Rockies? 14th in the league in runs scored is inexcusable when you play in Coors.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Charlie Manuel's stupidity leads to the first Cub win in over a week. Zambrano walked the leadoff man (Abreu), who then advanced to second on a wild pitch. A groundout sent Abreu to third, and a Ryan Howard groundout couldn't get the run in. So with Marlon Byrd do up, what happens? JOSE OFFERMAN TIME BABY~!!! Offerman K's in a good battle, but the real kick was that Burrell was available to pinch hit. Phew, my nerves are shot.

Manuel's infatuation for pinch hitting Jose Offerman for Marlon Byrd is really starting to piss me off. Here is a fun fact. Byrd and Offerman both have four hits this season. It took Byrd 8 at bats to get them, and Offerman 23. Offerman hit .256 in limited at bats last year, and somehow that qualifies him as a proven pinch hitter? The man has not been a credible threat at the plate since 1999.

 

Byrd hit .303 in 2003. He had an off-year last year. This year, he has done everything he can to prove that was a fluke. They sent him to Scranton, and he responded by hitting three home runs in 19 at bats. They bring him up, and not only is he 4 for 8, but he is the one player on that team who can play a legitimate center field.

 

I've watched Marlon Byrd play in Scranton for two many years. It has been almost three years since he graciously took time to sign my baseball cap. I want him to succeed, and at this point, if Charlie Manuel are going to fuck around and use washed up slap hitters to pinch hit for him, trade him. Send him to a place where a team can place him in center field, and leave him the fuck alone so he can just play baseball.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Man, the Nationals are getting jobbed. Up 3-2 in the bottom of the eigth and a runner on first, a ball is hit down the left field line and touched by some dumbass fan. The Nationals immediately made the sign for a groundrule double, which would usually mean the runner who was on first goes back to third. But the umps decide to let the runner score tying up the game. What a crock of shit.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Mets lose the game to a .178 hitter. Sounds about right. Mike DeJean sucks

It probably wouldn't have come to that if Mike Piazza could throw anyone out trying to steal.