2023 “Other Games” Thread

[PackLandVA]

Aaron Judge crushed the second pitch he saw over the CF wall. Picking right up where he left off in 2022.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

boy are things bleak for the Nationals

[TomtheBombadil]

Guy’s going to be the best pitcher in baseball this year:

https://twitter.com/MLBNerds/status/1641512461210664961?s=20

[itisallpartoftheplan]

Got to admit this was pretty cool.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Miles Mikolas turns 35 in August, and since his first year back from overseas has missed about 30% of available starts and pitched at a 2.5 win pace when he has been healthy.  The Cardinals just extended him for 2/40 for '24-'25 and he is rewarding them by giving up nearly as many runs as he has outs so far.

[TomtheBombadil]

Adley Rutschman goes 5-5 with a HR and BB. Unbelievable player of baseball this guy, and still 3 pre-arb salaried seasons (including this year) for that to be the story 

[David]

I'll leave it to the rest of you guys to decide what Week 1 means.  I figure it's today through Saturday 4/8.

 

Willy just took a 103 mph pitch to his right knee (while catching).  Blue Jays had runners on first and second, both advanced.  Willy had to come out (hope he's relatively OK, I guess) and had to be helped down the dugout steps. 

Then Vlad Jr. drove in the runners to give the Jays an 8-7 lead in the 8th.

Edit - Also, I knew they had these guys, but it is still wild to actually watch a Jays game and see kid after kid of guys we grew up watching in the 90s/00s come up to the plate lol

Edited March 30 by David

[17 Seconds]

this cards game has been nutty

[UMFan83]

Watching the Cardinals blow a 9th inning lead to lose on Opening Day

[David]

Cards lose!

[PackLandVA]

Dylan Cease gave up a lead off single. He’s then struck out 8 of the next 12 batters. The Astros hitters look completely lost at the plate thru 4 innings. 
 

Cease is dealing!

[imb]

So the pitch clock kinda fucks?

[David]

Absolutely fucks

[Sammy Sofa]

Wait, we can horsefeathering swear in here?  What about the social forum?

[Sammy Sofa]

What the horsefeathers.  You horsefeathering sorcerers.

[UMFan83]

Dylan Cease is an animal. I don’t even care about the resentment about the Cubs trading him anymore, he’s just fun to watch. 

6.1 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 R, 10 K so far

Edited March 31 by UMFan83

[Ding Dong Johnson]

 

[soccer10k]

Testing out the horsefeathering swear filter.

[Derwood]

That's the most Angels game ever. Ohtani goes 6IP, 10K, 0 ER and they lose 2-1 to the A's

[Derwood]

We seem to have "Other Game" threads in two different places

[gflore34]

Cardinals lost however, I'm a little bit jealous, Jordan Walker only went 1-5 he, nevertheless, looked good.  Maybe his minor league success won't translate to the big leagues, but I doubt it, they have Walker from the 2020 draft while the Cubs have Ed Howard.  I know Howard' recovering from an injury however, he's light years away, if he makes it at all.

Edited March 31 by gflore34

[David]

2 hours ago, Derwood said:

We seem to have "Other Game" threads in two different places

Yeah, I suppose that's on me.  Didn't see one in the Game Threads forum, which is where it usually is.  

[Rob]

5 hours ago, Derwood said:

We seem to have "Other Game" threads in two different places

It's an embarrassment of riches.

[PackLandVA]

3 hours ago, David said:

Yeah, I suppose that's on me.  Didn't see one in the Game Threads forum, which is where it usually is.  

That’s on me.  I didn’t remember which forum to open the “2023 Other Games” thread. Clearly picked wrong. Feel free to merge/delete/whatever as necessary.  The topic, not me!

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I moved/merged them.  This doesn't have to be the singular thread for the whole year but I kept the overarching title so no one felt obligated to start a new one if the current thread was working fine for the purpose.