This Week in Baseball

[Fartsauce 0]

Urgh, please not 18 innings again.

[CanadianChris 0]

They need to be careful with Hernandez. He's only 19, so there's no need to overwork him and risk Tommy John surgery when he's 23.

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So don't trade him to the Cubs.

[KingPK 0]

Nice to see that the Red Sox just seem to be sleepwalking through these Tigers games so they can go get swept by Anaheim.

 

They aren't winning another game until the KC series next week.

[mike546 0]

Why do people pitch to David Ortiz? I see no reasonable answer anymore.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Decent performance from Jon Papelbon. I saw him pitch last week at Scranton and he looked highly impressive. The Sox have a good prospect on their hands.

[mike546 0]

Yankees are screwed by a fan if they lose this game. Fan reached way over the fence for a ball that wasn't going out.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

Rivera is having a tough week.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Yankees are screwed by a fan if they lose this game. Fan reached way over the fence for a ball that wasn't going out.

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Ok. Who here wants to start the pity party? Anyone?

[mike546 0]

Yankees are screwed by a fan if they lose this game. Fan reached way over the fence for a ball that wasn't going out.

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Ok. Who here wants to start the pity party? Anyone?

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I probably can't complain much after Jeffery Mayer, can I?

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Exactly.

[Guest Fishyswa]

I'll join in. Shouldn't of gone that far but there's a pretty HUGE difference between a guy on second or third and a 3-3 game. I think umps won't give the close one's to us for a couple more decades to make up for the Mayer incident.

 

Rivera looked great in the 10th. Now we just need to do what the sox did....

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

Great call on the pitch-out

[bob_barron 0]

They aren't winning another game until the KC series next week.

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No.

[bob_barron 0]

When did Reitsma get the message that it was okay to suck again?

[Guest Fishyswa]

Proctor needs to climb back into his mothers vagina.

[mike546 0]

I don't question Torre much, but loading the bases with Proctor pitching, who first of all has never been able to pitch well in a big situation, and 2nd, cannot throw strikes for his life? Terrible move.

[Bored 0]

First base ump blows a call for the final out of the 7th in the A's/Orioles game, Orioles then turn in a big inning. A's are in a complete freefall now. I'm praying the Royals win tonight or tomorrow in Seattle as I don't want the A's to be the one to end the streak. The team's offense is gone.

[KingPK 0]

Well, my reverse psychology worked out perfectly, so let's try it again.

 

Bonderman will no-hit the Red Sox tomorrow.

 

But seriously, Remlinger is Embree redux. Hopefully Papelbon will only start one more game and then go to the pen because with that fastball, he'll be pretty untouchable for one or two innings (since he seems to tire after about 70 pitches or so).

 

Maybe Remlinger and Proctor can exchange pitching tips.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

I pity anyone who's watched the entire White Sox telecast tonight. Great game, but a guaranteed 16 innings of Hawk and DJ? My god.

[mike546 0]

First base ump blows a call for the final out of the 7th in the A's/Orioles game, Orioles then turn in a big inning. A's are in a complete freefall now. I'm praying the Royals win tonight or tomorrow in Seattle as I don't want the A's to be the one to end the streak. The team's offense is gone.

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You act as if your team has lost ten in a row. You still lead the Yanks by a game and a half in the WC.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

A Yankees fan endorsing the "glass half full" philiosophy? The hell?

[devo 0]

So long as he can remind someone, ANYONE, that the Yankees are currently out of the playoffs.

[mike546 0]

First time this season I've rooted for the Orioles. That was way too uneasy.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

Twins break it open in the 16th and of course, the White Sox announcers are blaming it all on a fielder's choice they thought was a doubleplay.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

The Os are only a game under .500 at 59-60. If they can get the sweep tomorrow...it would put them 7 GB of Oakland for the Wild Card with 42 games left.

 

The way they've been playing under Perlozzo (8-4) and getting really good pitching, its possible. I woudldn't have thought it possible 2 weeks ago either..

[King Kamala 0]

Interesting question I heard on a sports talk show (Can't remember which might have even been Cold Pizza or something of that ilk), will The Royals win another game? Obviously I think they will, but how long can this losing streak go on? Today, they have the series finale against Seattle in Seattle against Jamie Moyer. If I had to bet my money, I'd say they lose today and after that, it's a series against the As in Oakland, a series against The Red Sox at home and a series against the Yankees in New York. I bet they break their losing streak at home against Texas when they face them in early September. By then, their losing streak would be over 30 games.

 

This Royals team is absolutely pitiful, on par perhaps with the '03 Tigers? I think the Royals might have a hard time winning six more games this season to beat The Tigers 43 wins.

 

So how long do you guys think the Royals losing streak will last?

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Two games at most. Anyone who thinks the Royals, bad as they are, can't win a single game against Oakland, Boston or New York is kidding themselves. Even the pathetic Cleveland Spiders didn't lose 30 straight.

[Bored 0]

The way the A's are playing I seriously doubt they'll sweep the Royals.

[King Kamala 0]

Two games at most.  Anyone who thinks the Royals, bad as they are, can't win a single game against Oakland, Boston or New York is kidding themselves.  Even the pathetic Cleveland Spiders didn't lose 30 straight.

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Hey Al....what is the longest losing streak in baseball history? 25?

[CanadianChris 0]

23 by the 1961 Phillies (read it in the Royals-Mariners recap).