Major League Baseball: 2013 Season

[JohnBM01]

The Astros will be at home to host the Kansas City Royals. Hope all of your team(s) put on a great show in the new series.

 

[Blitz24]

It was cool watching the Fox Sports postgame show. They do a TON of takes. Jeff Conine looked hung-over as hell and wasn't feeling it. Kept doing facepalms and rubbing his eyes.

The Clevelander is pretty cool though. The seats in there are like thrones. Good for two flaca people or one morbidly obese person. Also, this:

Nekkid painted dancers

You mean there are nude women at the park and people STILL don't show up?

 

[Nicksfix]

Nekkid painted dancers

Lemme guess .... you did not see too much of the game. 💡

Meanwhile, the Tribe is continuing on their winning ways. We just swept the Mariners 6-3, 5-4, 6-0, 10-8. Starting tomorrow we have a 2 game set with Joey's Motor City Kitties @ home, then off on a road trip with the 1st game set being in Beantown against the Red Sox.

It's funny, people here are still downing on the Tribe ... HARD. Attendance is still down, it seems like everybody is saying, "typical Tribe, wait until after the All Start Break and see what happens". Well, yeah, it does kind of seem that way going off of history. Oh well, we'll see.

 

[a6m5]

That's a damn shame. 👎 I wish we had NL baseball in town, but I know it would be just like that. Portland is a weird town, except when it comes to football. It absolutely makes zero sense that we don't have a NFL club in Portland. You can combine popularity of every sport there is & it would not match that of football. Oh, well. I hate the damn sport anyway.

Nice pic, Omnis! If you have more, you should post them all........ we don't mind it in a baseball thread. Nobody looks in here anyway.

 

[Joey D]

I'm really looking forward to the series between Detroit and Cleveland, should provide some really great baseball, especially since both teams are playing really well.

 

[Omnis]

The thing is, most people aren't in their seats for the game. You can see the diamond from anywhere in the ballpark-- even at the concessions. So tons of people are back there and walking up and down and all around instead of being seated where you can see them on TV. It's super annoying and hard to watch a game when you have all these rude clueless people standing right in front of you like morons instead of waiting to get up in between at-bats. I'll post all my park pics tomorrow. Too tired right now.

Would've stayed at the Clevelander for a while longer to watch some dancers, but we wanted to hit up this little Peruvian joint in Coral Gables before they closed on Sunday. Besides, 9 dollar heineken is a rip.

 

[a6m5]

I knew that was coming.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Patrick Corbin with a 3-hit, 1 run game tonight with 10 strikeouts. Now 7-0 on the season.

5-1 win.

 

[JohnBM01]

In Houston, it was 6-5 in favor of the Houston Astros over the Kansas City Royals. I'm glad the Astros were able to go strong. These young Astros just have to keep playing strong and consistent.


In some other games...

* I got to hand respect to the Arizona Diamondbacks with that complete game win at Colorado. You go the distance in Colorado as an opposing pitcher and win- that's worth respect.

* Omnis' Marlins roughed up the Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 in Miami. The Miami Marlins weren't going to be fish dinner for the Phillies on this night. My congratulations go to the fish.

* The Braves won 5-1 in Atlanta against Justin's Minnesota Twins. A solo jack by the Twins prevented Atlanta from getting a shutout win.


Congratulations to all other winners, including the eventual winner of WAS at SF. The pitching duel there is between Duke (WAS) and Vogelsong (SF).

 

[Dolph Drago]

Cueto was a bit rusty in his first game back coming off the DL. He had one bad pitch, but otherwise did well enough to keep Cincy in the game and get a 4-3 victory. Hopefully he gets stronger and back to his old self here soon.

 

[JohnBM01]

The Houston Astros led 3-0 for most of the game until Kansas City came back to win 7-3. I saw when the Astros walked in a run on four pitches to make it 4-3, Royals. Then apparently... the Astros fell asleep at the wheel and crashed and burned. Time for another Rubber Game tomorrow. I just hope the Astros can win again and not fail again. Then again, this is my 2013 Astros we're talking about, so a leaps-and-bounds comeback is rather impossible.

We led, tied, trailed, and eventually failed- AGAIN. Story of the 2013 Astros so far.

 

[a6m5]

Braves I think are now on a five game winning streak. Darvish got rocked today though, Rangers lost.

 

[Patrick]

Trout gets the cycle, wooooooooooooooooo.

 

[Prosthetic]

Giants forgot how to play baseball on that last road trip... But we've come back to win the first two games against Washington. Capped off by Pablo Sandovals monster walk off HR. You just don't see HRs at that part of the park that late at night. Thiiiiiiick air is no problem for the Panda.

Vogie is out 6-8 weeks after being hit on the hand, I think it might be Rosario that takes his place in the rotation for the time being. I think it would be cool to see Kickham get called up. He has filthy stuff though he is giving up to many hits in AAA.

 

[JohnBM01]

Hats off to Trout on that cycle he hit. Even cooler that it ended with a home run. I don't care HOW you do it or who you do it against- hitting for the cycle is worthy of respect.

As for B. Vogelsong, extend my sympathies to him for his brutal injury. Hope he gets back into form when he fully recovers.

 

[JohnBM01]

We took the KC at HOU series with a 3-1 victory Wednesday night. The Astros will be off Thursday before hosting Oakland over the weekend. Can we FINALLY figure out the A's? Or are we going to be their chew toy again? The fun begins Friday night.

 

[JohnBM01]

Still can't beat the A's. 6-5 was our latest fail with us hosting the Oakland Athletics. It was 2-0 in the Bottom of the 4th when I first checked into this game. What has happened since was either the Astros trying to mount a comeback or Oakland just continuing on the punishment. Either way, Memorial Day weekend isn't looking too good right now for the Houston Astros Baseball Club.

 

[Nicksfix]

Congrats to Joeys Tiggers for cooling off the red hot Tribe. Now 27-20, a 1/2 game back out of 1st now. We dumped a pair to them, 1-5 and 7-11. Right now in Beantown, the Tribe is at 1-1 with two more games to play over the weekend. Then the fun starts .... The bragging rights of Ohio. We go to Cincy for two, then head up the highway to Tribe Town to finish off the 4 game series with the Reds.

 

[Patrick]

6 in a row, wooooooooooooooo.

 

[Northstar]

Twins lost their 10th straight.

 

[Dolph Drago]

Then the fun starts .... The bragging rights of Ohio. We go to Cincy for two, then head up the highway to Tribe Town to finish off the 4 game series with the Reds.

Always a good series in Ohio.

The Reds have won 5 in a row and 13 of the last 16, putting us 13 games over .500, but I'm still not quite convinced of just how good we are until we face some stiffer competition.

 

[Patrick]

7 in a row, going for the sweep tomorrow.

 

[a6m5]

I guess they weren't able to finish that delayed game between the Mets & Braves last night....... so the Braves beat them twice today. Yeah, boiiiii!!

 

[JohnBM01]

Did you enjoy Oakland beat my Astros 11-5 in a nationally-televised game? I stopped watching when OAK was up 9-2 as Lucas Harrell was just getting shelled. That was God-forsaken terrible. Our misery will probably be complete once OAK sweeps us AGAIN Sunday afternoon... I can probably care less about that game since I'll be watching the Indy 500 instead.

 

[a6m5]

I haven't been able to watch the boring AL games on Fox Saturday baseball. None of the teams playing interest me, and I'm not a fan of the American League to begin with. If it was Seattle, Boston, Rangers, I would check them out.....

 

[Ken]

Angel Pagan's 'walk-off' inside the park home run in extras, incredible!

 

[BobK]

Indeed it was. Walk-off homers are not an everyday occurrence, but not terribly uncommon either. Inside-the-park home runs are considerably scarcer. To have one hit which is both is, well, incredible.

Meanwhile the Phillies are at one game under .500 for the umpteenth time this season, trying to get back to .500. This year's hard-luck kid, Cole Hamels, against Stephen Strasburg.

I'd have to look up the actual numbers, but the Phils had a string of solo homers that had reached 14 or 16 before Delmon Young homered with a baserunner. Since that time they've hit 10 or so more home runs, all solo shots. Wonder what the record is on that.

 

[JohnBM01]

Maybe we should stop playing against the Athletics because they swept us (as I predicted). Today's loss was a 6-2 Oakland victory as the Astros failed to overtake the Athletics. Astros are used to crashing into the outside wall and not doing much anything to bounce back. This time, it's another sweep. The Athletics are the only AL West team we haven't won a single game against. Hell, we might as well keep playing against Seattle as far as AL West play is concerned.

 

[CodeRedR51]

8-0 for Patrick Corbin. We're now 10-0 when he pitched. Double header tomorrow at home with the Rangers. Tyler Skaggs being called up to pitch in place of Ian Kennedy. Should be interesting.

 

[Blitz24]

Mets win a game vs. Atlanta. I have no idea what got into Marcum tonight (maybe it was Atlanta's complete lack of plate discipline) with his 12 strikeouts. Ike Davis finally found the nut, twice, and had the 2 run single to win it.