6/3 diamondbacks (bradley) @ cubs (lackey) 120 cdt, csn

[Ding Dong Johnson]

coaching visit to the mound after the first hit? Is he broken?

There wasn't any coaching visit to the mound. Hale came out to contest the call that Bryant foul tipped the one ball.

 

The other delay was when Beef hit Rizzo in the helmet while throwing the ball back to the mound.

Butcher came out to the mound right after Bryant's double

[Tim]

La Stella dies on most of those do or die plays.

[Tim]

coaching visit to the mound after the first hit? Is he broken?

There wasn't any coaching visit to the mound. Hale came out to contest the call that Bryant foul tipped the one ball.

 

The other delay was when Beef hit Rizzo in the helmet while throwing the ball back to the mound.

Butcher came out to the mound right after Bryant's double

ah, must have been grabbing a cold one at that point

[Ding Dong Johnson]

pay attention, lush

[Tim]

pay attention, lush

Top half went too quickly. Threw off my timing.

[BigSlick]

I was just gonna commend Lackey for starting all 6 at bats with 0-2 or 0-1 counts and then he does that.

[Banedon]

pay attention, lush

Top half went too quickly. Threw off my timing.

 

Shouldn't be a problem for you in the 2nd inning here.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Lackey's wife makes some good points...

[Ski]

Come on, Lackey.

[UMFan83]

Ugh we're the only offense that's allowed to go from 0-2 to a walk

[BigSlick]

Ugh we're the only offense that's allowed to go from 0-2 to a walk

agree, but without irony or sarcasm

[Ski]

Jesus horsefeathers, throw a strike, Lackey.

[BigSlick]

hey look, its nick 'the literal horsefeathering devil himself' ahmed

[BigSlick]

Wendelstadt sucks

[Banedon]

I know it's unrealistic to ask John to repeat that first inning each time, but maybe something in between what we got in the first and the 2nd? That'd be nice.

[ChiCubsFan]

Would Zobrist be worse than TLS at 3rd?

[Omar]

came back from a meeting to my desk, opened this thread and thought the D'Backs scored with the amount of PMSing going on around here

[BigSlick]

I really can't hate Tommy La Stella when he has such a self-aware walk up song and his bat is decent

[Ding Dong Johnson]

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[Transmogrified Tiger]

La Stella is hitting doubles in 10% of his plate appearances.

[Tim]

Len having a rough inning

[David]

Man, top ten picks on pitching prospects are so not worth it....Bradley's got a decent arm still but is underwhelming compared to previous imaginings from Prospectlandia.

 

Welcome to the dong side.

[BigSlick]

It pleases me that we have this pitcher up above 40 pitches already

[Tim]

That pitch to strike out Baez was damn nasty.

[Andy]

Would Zobrist be worse than TLS at 3rd?

Probably. I'm guessing TLS has more range and might have a stronger arm, too.