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That was my instinct but I didn’t know for sure. My one hold up was if a ball hits directly on top of a wall and bounces over, it’s a home run but if it counted back into play it’s a live ball. Of course that’s diirecty on the barrier between HR and in play whereas this play was clearly on the “in play” side of the home run line. And yeah, usually the inside the park homers are at least close at the plate unless a guy gets hurt and can’t chase the ball.
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If that had hit the wall where it did but ricocheted over the wall and out of play rather than bouncing along the wall and down to the ground, is it a ground rule double or a HR?
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That was not the best of pitches.
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Counterpoint: Adam Wainwright is toast. Hendricks is merely average.
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Somehow not a penalty.
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It sucks that he's gone but it was the right thing to do when he wouldn't sign a new contract. I hope he returns in 3 years to break the EPL goalscoring record. I'm glad they got a shitload of money for him but wish the deal could have been done more than 2 days before the new season started.
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The Giants could be in some trouble in about 2 weeks. After this Texas series, they go Tampa, Atlanta, Philly, Atlanta. Even after that it's Cincy, San Diego, Cubs. If things go bad, they could be a couple games out of the WC by the end of August. Of course, outside of the Cubs, none of the other teams chasing them appear all that interested in winning baseball games right now.
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Nice and easy in the 9th please, Adbert.
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Win the division and you avoid Atlanta in the NLDS if you win the WC round. Of course LA is hot and is only 4.5 back of Atlanta so that might not matter anyway.
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Rosenthal on how the Cubs became contenders
soccer10k replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I can't speak for the baserunning but the 2016 Cubs were an incredibly good defensive team that also ground pitchers down with very good PA's. They were 2nd in OBP despite being 14th in BA and were 13th in HRs. They were also 4th in pitches seen per PA. The Fowler-Rizzo-KB-Zobrist combo was brutal for pitchers. They did lead the league in walks but there's nothing wrong with not making an out. -
Thank goodness.
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We’re going to have a first time winner of the Women’s World Cup. Of the remaining 6 teams only Sweden has even made the final before.
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Miami isn’t very good either. 11-22 since June 30. They’ve ridden a 25-10 record in 1 run games to where they are. As long as one of them didn’t sweep (which neither did), it was a fine result to me.
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The only team we didn't gain ground on today was the Marlins and they played the Reds so we couldn't gain ground on both. Great day. Now win the series tomorrow.
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Yeah, they were a few games over .500 and got swept by the Phillies in late July, including getting no-hit. The next day they were beating the Rockies before giving up a lead in the 9th only for KB to save them with a walkoff dong in the bottom half. They lost the next day to Colorado but won the series and never looked back. Then a week or two later they swept the Giants in a 4 game set at Wrigley, finishing it off when Rondon loaded the bases with no outs in the 9th only to strike out 3 straight hitters. That gave them some space in the WC race.
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Rarity score of 191 but I actually got 9 of 9 for once.
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Also we’ll have Ohtani as the DH next year so that spot won’t be open.
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This might be premature but horsefeathers it I don’t care. #WEAREGOOD
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Nice and easy here in the 9th please.
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Yeah, created plenty of chances, just couldn’t score. That never should have even gone to PKs. And even then if Rapinoe or Smith score they move on anyway.
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Semantics but I'd call it very good. The Pirates and Dodgers crapping the bed late hurts a bit. But the fact that even if we lose tomorrow and everyone else wins, we'd only lose 1 game to the Brewers, Phillies and Padres, a 1/2 game to the Giants and would lose no ground to the Reds, Marlins and DBacks is great.
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Brewers tie it up in the ninth.
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Giants just lost to the A’s too. Anytime anyone makes a comment about how the Cubs have only beaten up on bad teams rhe pst few weeks, this weekend is a reminder that it’s not that easy.
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That’s a weird one. Something else must have happened for Ramirez to get so ticked. Like did he not like Anderson holding the tag or something? That kind of thing happens all the time.
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So Spurs then?
