Yu Love to See It: MLB 2021

[Cal Alamein]

Just back from my first out-of-state trip in about a year and a half. Visited family and friends in Ft. Collins and Denver.

Checked out the National Ballpark Museum right outside Coors Field. https://ballparkmuseum.com

Tiny, crammed space filled w/ seats, turnstiles and loads of vintage items from a number of old MLB ball parks.


Loved the Seattle Pilots memorabilia...



In addition there was a section devoted to the Denver Bears - dug the uniforms and pennants.



And it doesn't get more 80s than this edition.

[Ginger Yellow]

Amusing/revealing stats to distract from the Cubs embarrassing themselves.

https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1406282289873514496

[ursus arctos]

Buehler six outs away from no hitting Arizona

[jefe]

We have not won a road game since John Means' no-hitter.

[Patrick Thistle]

That Bears shirt is lovely Cal Alamein

Padres beat the Reds last night but Tatis injured himself. Again. At least it wasn't swinging this time. He needs a fielding coach.

[Patrick Thistle]

Arizona won last night, ending a 17 game losing streak.

[ursus arctos]

Another dominant outing by the protagonist of our title against the noisy neighbours to the north

[Patrick Thistle]

Yes, he is doing very well. 5 wins in a row for the Padres but they need to do it on the road.

[danielmak]

I've been in LA for nearly a week but seen very little baseball. Been surprisingly focused on the Euros. I expected this tournament to suck but it has been very enjoyable. Anyway, the Padres are recovering from their recent woes with two in a row against the Dodgers. Today the box score shows a late surge from the Dodgers but not enough.

[Ginger Yellow]

The MLB app has been updated. The icon for when the video is loading/buffering is now a spinning baseball. It's still just as buggy as before.

[San Bernardhinault]

For all the talk of the current apparent massive home-team advantage across baseball, I still wouldn't have seen a sweep coming in that series. Meanwhile the Giants just keep on winning and winning.

[Patrick Thistle]

Someone on this forum was saying the Giants early season form was a blip and they would start losing soon. Here we are a couple of months later...

[Flynnie]

danielmak I believe. I hope he keeps believing that.

[danielmak]

danielmak I believe. I hope he keeps believing that.

Yep. That was me. I didn't trust that starting pitching staff. Too many injuries in the past. We'll see if I'm wrong once we get to 162 but I never saw Wood make it through a season and the same has been true for Sanchez in the past 3-4 years.

[ursus arctos]

I'm genuinely surprised that the athletic gods have let Flynnie pull this for two teams in different sports

Must have been some sort of pandemic special

[ursus arctos]

That'll do Cubbies

That'll do

[Flynnie]

I'm genuinely surprised that the athletic gods have let Flynnie pull this for two teams in different sports

Must have been some sort of pandemic special

Possibly three if I get my way! Oranje boven!

[San Bernardhinault]

That'll do Cubbies

That'll do

Yes, thank you. More of the same please.

[ursus arctos]

Aaron Nola of Philadelphia has tied Tom Seaver's long-standing MLB record of 10 consecutive strikeouts against Seaver's old team in Queens.

Nola also has an RBI double for the only run of the game through six innings.

[danielmak]

The Dodgers have hit bad form (or had bad form brought to them) twice this seasons when they have played the Padres and Cubs in series that were scheduled in close succession. That horrible run earlier in the season started against the Padres, seemed to let up against the Brewers, and continued with the Cubs.

I watched a little of the Red Sox-Yankees game. I have posted this before, but that Yankees team is so poorly constructed. Watching them is like watching the steroid Rangers in the 1990s. Mash or nothing and a sh**show on the bases. At least that Rangers team had some high quality defenders in some positions.

[jefe]

yay. we won. yay

[Patrick Thistle]

Tatis Jr hit 3 homers in last night's game, so he is tied with Guerrero Jr in the Home Run totals. That's despite Tatis having 2 spells on the Injured List.

[ursus arctos]

Ohtani hit another monster shot

And the Cubs' relievers finally failed, which was inevitable

[Patrick Thistle]

Oof. After 9 wins straight at home, the Padres were crushed last night by Arizona who are comfortably one of the worst teams in MLB. The roller coaster continues.

It was the D-Backs first road win since April and ended a record run of 24 defeats in away games.

[ursus arctos]

Whereas the Giants won their 50th and continue to astound and confuse