Another no hitter! Carlos Rodon of the White Sox. It was nearly a perfect game, Rodon hit the 26th batter. And it was barely.. the guy leaned in.
That's two no-hitters this year with the only blemish being a HBP.
He was still throwing 99 well past 100 pitches. But he hadn't pitched past the sixth inning since 2018, and had never gotten outs in the ninth inning of a MLB game.
Let starters pitch longer!
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So they are trying a rule change in the Atlantic league. I think it's quite interesting.
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The DH rule, to be known as the “Double-Hook” rule (because the DH is removed from the game at the same time as the starting pitcher), will be in effect the entirety of the 2021 season, while the change to the mound distance will be made in the second half.
I don’t mind the double hook rule but I think it has problems. I get the intention is to incentivize starters going further into games. However if your starter is getting shelled and you need to pull him after 3 innings, now you’re down 5-1 and you’ve also lost one of your best bats. Also bottom ninth I want to see the best hitter vs the closer. Though it would force managers to be more creative about who their DH is, plus you would maybe get more pinch hitting, make up of the bench would be different, less emphasis on defensive substitutes and more guys with pop in their bat.
The moving of the mound I think would be fine, pitchers will make a stink but apparently how catchers line up behind the plate already adds a ton of variation to how far the pitcher is throwing the ball. If it creates more balls in play and less strikeouts I’m all for it. But Baseball orthodoxy has also completely changed. Management emphasizes home runs and doubles and launch angle and don’t care about strike outs, so it might do nothing.
Edit: didn’t watch the above video so apologies if I just said the same thing as the guy in the video
If the goal is to incentivize guys going longer into games, then why not just limit the number of relievers a team can carry so they can't run the bullpen as easily? Or change some rules about shuttling bullpen guys with options? Seems like that would be much easier to implement and it doesn't create worse hitting later in game when excitement tends to be higher. Seems like a no brainer you'd want a DH coming up in an important spot in the 8th or 9th rather than some bench bat / utility guy, no?
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I think that's all too complicated - just limit the maximum number of pitchers you can have on staff. Most teams have 9 men bullpens, so change the max to 7. Then you just don't have enough bullpen arms to constantly pull starters as soon as they show some issues - you'll burn out the bullpen.
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I'm watching the Rays beat up on the Yankees 6-0 now in the 5th. Roughned Odor had a tailor-made double play ball thrown to him at 2nd and he yanks the throw to 1st under almost no pressure.
Yankees fans are booing him.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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I'm watching the Rays beat up on the Yankees 6-0 now in the 5th. Roughned Odor had a tailor-made double play ball thrown to him at 2nd and he yanks the throw to 1st under almost no pressure.
Yankees fans are booing him.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
As the forum's only Rangers fan I always feel the need to state I hated Odor before it was cool:
May 8, 2014 to be exact.
7th inning: bye bye perfect game (ruled an error at the time)
What's that, 1 out away from a no hitter?
I'm still bitter.
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Sean Kazmar grounded into a double play today. Why does that matter? It marked his first MLB PA since 208, 12 years and 2006 days ago. Every article I read is ambiguous as to whether that breaks Minnie Minoso's record or it's the longest since.
Votto with a sick triple play tonight. Caught a bullet near first, ran down and lunged for the 1st base runner trying to tag up, and the third base runner without tagging came home and into the dugout so fast that Votto kind of threw his arms up like "umm, wasn't there a runner at 3rd?" lol.
Corbin Burnes wasn't quite himself tonight. Let the Padres touch him up for 4 hits in 6 innings and only struck out 10 of them. So far in 24 innings pitched he has 40 strikeouts, 0 walks, and has allowed 8 hits. New MLB record for a starter when he got to 36 strikeouts without a walk.
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Thought this was an interesting read about the strike zone. Despite it seeming like there are more egregious calls this year, statistically umps are doing about as good as they have in the past.
You could use an automated system to determine balls and strikes. Likely still need people to make calls on the bases (and get over ruled by replay). But theoretically if you had an automated system the Home Plate ump could position himself in a safer spot similar to how base umps are.
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I wanna see deGrom hit the open market just to see if someone pays him $50 million per. He has more RBI's for himself than runs allowed and he's on pace for 400 strikeouts. I mean what do you even do to deal with this kind of stuff?
Tatis Jr. just swung at ball four and hit it over the fence for his second homer of the night and fourth homer in the last two days. Two each off of Kershaw and Bauer. Dude is locked in.
