4 games further back of Milwaukee this year than in 2017. Q trade not technically at the deadline (July 13) and by the time the deadline came around (when they traded for Avila and Justin Wilson), they’d erased the whole deficit and were 2.5 up. Of course, that’s a point in your favor since they made up 8 games between July 15 and July 30.
Making a team forfeit because some dumb fan shined a light in the GKers eye seems just a bit excessive. you can't let fans alter the outcome of games. Doubt they would ever do it but that horsefeathers can't be allowed to happen. Of course it shouldn’t happen. I don’t think anyone is okay with it happening. I’m just saying making the team forfeit a game for something one fan did is excessive. Hopefully they can figure out who the fan was that did it and ban him.
I wonder what’s the all time highest WAR for the MLB leader in K’s Aaron Judge had an 8 WAR season in 2017 by either of the WAR metrics. Trout in 2014 only led the AL but he was either 7.7 WAR or 8.3 WAR. I don’t know how to search for those two combined stats but those two names jumped out immediately. Sammy was a 6.5 or 7.1 WAR player in 1998 and led the league in Ks.
The beginning of 2014 if you exclude the minors. At least the last two months of 2014 you had Baez and Soler getting called up. If you include the minors, then it goes back earlier since we drafted KB in 2013 and he destroyed the ball right from the start.
I’m doing what the Cubs should do: tank for a better draft pick. Because of that strategy, I’ll be dropping all of my players and replacing them with nobody. The #1 pick next year will be mine!
Chapman in the 7th (it was a DH) with a 1-run lead: HR (on a 1-2 count) HBP (on an 0-2 count) Walk And then he got yanked. Both runners scored. He had a 1.98 ERA on June 20. Since then, he's made 3 appearances, 1 1/3 IP, 5 H, 6 BB, 2 K, 9 ER.
2017 4 game series in Milwaukee with like 10 games left in the season and the Cubs up 3.5 games. Last chance for the Brewers in the division race. 1st game of the series the Cubs are down a run in the 9th. Happ beats out an IF hit on a literal tie with the ball, gets to second. 2 outs and Javy up, who somehow dribbles out through the middle to score Happ and tie it. Bottom 9 Wade Davis has the bases loaded with 1 out, believe he gets a K and then goes 3-1 on the Brewers hitter, one ball from losing but instead gets a comebacker to end the inning. Top 10, unclutch KB hits a 2 run HR and the Cubs win. Think they took 3 of 4 in the series and closed out the division in St Louis Then the next day they ended St Louis’s season with a bunch of backups in the lineup.
Marlins pitcher hits Acuna with the first pitch of the game and gets ejected. Acuna ended up scoring so he threw as many pitches as runs allowed. Can’t imagine that’s happened for a starter very often, if ever. Reliever it’s definitely happened before I’m sure.