Giants (Hicks) vs Cubs (Assad): 6/17/24, 7:05pm

[Tryptamine]

Hahahahahahah

[Transmogrified Tiger]

looked clearly safe in real time to me

[JHBulls]

1 minute ago, Tryptamine said:

You're mad at the one guy getting on base?

I am just mad in genera. Losing 9 of the last 10 series will do it. 

[WhyCantWeWin]

I think hes safe

[Cuzi]

Call stands.

This teams base running is just atrocious. Shallow fly, outfielder charging in, ball gets there like 4 steps early.

Edited June 18, 2024 by Cuzi

[squally1313]

There’s some real tedious argument on if the ball is in the mitt or not 

[Tryptamine]

How is it not blocking the plate when his lead slide foot ricochets off the catcher's knee?

[sweetpeteman]

I don't think this gets overturned, can't see him clearly touch the plate before the tag.

[Cuzi]

Just now, Tryptamine said:

How is it not blocking the plate when his lead slide foot ricochets off the catcher's knee?

Because the catcher has the ball...

[Transmogrified Tiger]

cowards

[DYMNO]

L.O.L.

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 minute ago, Tryptamine said:

How is it not blocking the plate when his lead slide foot ricochets off the catcher's knee?

That's fine once he has the ball.

[CubinNY]

Suck it Morel haters

[Derwood]

Oh look, another terrible send by Harris

[Cubbies1996]

Another atrocious send by Willie Harris lol

[squally1313]

Wait, you absolutely send him there right? If the fly out was the first out, sure. But he definitely had a better than…35% chance of being safe there. 

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 minute ago, squally1313 said:

Wait, you absolutely send him there right?

Yeah, I think it was the right move.

[sweetpeteman]

With two outs its fine to send him there.

[Derwood]

I guess I don't understand the blocking rule, because that looked like the only way for Wisdom to get to the plate was to risk breaking his ankle plowing into the catcher's leg

[Stratos]

2 hours ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Tangentially related to the subject of Happ, I think I asked this before but I don't recall the answer.  Is there any statistical measure of streakiness in a player's performance?

As an extreme example: 

Player A: .250 batting average over the course of the season.  He went 1 for 4 in every game. 

Player B: .250 batting average over the course of the season.  He had no hits in his first 300 at bats, then followed that with 100 consecutive hits. 

So both of these players ended up with the same average at the end of the season, but the way they got there was completely different.  Player A was a perfect picture of consistency, while Player B was essentially the complete opposite. 

Is there any existing measure that teams could look to use to try to achieve a more consistent result on offense?  Would it actually be a meaningful metric?  Are there players who regularly perform more consistently than others or is that not really a thing?  Are the Cubs' hitters streakier than most, or does it just feel that way because we experience the slumps and hot streaks with them every game?

I like questions like this.

Another thing I've thought about is what pitchers a hitter (or team) hits well or not against.  For instance, when a team is down especially by multiple runs they will typically bring in their worst relievers.  Are there hitters who do much of their damage against those kinds of pitchers, which doesn't have as much value as hitting against a SP or better relievers who only pitch during leads or close games?

And for a team, the runs scored/against stat can be skewed by teams that win or lose in blowout fashion more than other teams.  Winning or losing by 1-3 runs vs by 4+ runs is irrelevant, a win is a win, loss is a loss.  Blowouts will pad stats but are totally irrelevant to winning/losing.  So run "efficiency", I would guess, may differ among teams with similar stats and/or records and might matter (no idea).

I also don't think the stats us fans have access to (like wRC+ and WAR) that we use to evaluate players factor situational stats like hitting with RISP or runners on.  Some of that can be random, but not so much over larger samples (multiple years).

[squally1313]

The bonus outside corner that hicks got all last inning has seemingly disappeared 

[Cuzi]

Just now, Derwood said:

I guess I don't understand the blocking rule, because that looked like the only way for Wisdom to get to the plate was to risk breaking his ankle plowing into the catcher's leg

It's not complicated.

Does the catcher have the ball?

No. - Cant block the plate.

Yes. - Block away.

[I owned a Suzuki]

5 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Oh look, another terrible send by Harris

Cubs have like 1 hit past the pitcher with RISP the last week...it was probably wrong but I get it

[squally1313]

Bellinger with a garbage swing on 1-0 and then hitting the ball 215 feet didn’t help anything. 

[CubinNY]

Coomer still bitching about the call. 

Edited June 18, 2024 by CubinNY