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Couple of questions.

"Horwitz, who added an RBI double, went 4-for-5 with three RBIs."

Does the 4-for-5 mean 4 hits from 5 at bats?

"Berrios (15-9) allowed one run, five hits and one walk and struck out five in six innings."

What is the 15-9 stat?
 
nightowl said:
Couple of questions.

"Horwitz, who added an RBI double, went 4-for-5 with three RBIs."

Does the 4-for-5 mean 4 hits from 5 at bats?

"Berrios (15-9) allowed one run, five hits and one walk and struck out five in six innings."

What is the 15-9 stat?
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The first one is 4 hits from 5 at bats.

The second is how many wins - losses the pitcher has been credited with in the season.
 
I've noticed from watching some old videos of teams running up big leads that the team getting a pasting eventually brings on what doesn't look like a very challenging pitcher at all. I've seen it in a couple of videos now (see 4.15 in attached one). Can someone explain what that's about? I thought they had a decent bullpen of relief pitchers to choose from. Is it just a case of 'ho hum, the game's gone so sod it'?

 
nightowl said:
I've noticed from watching some old videos of teams running up big leads that the team getting a pasting eventually brings on what doesn't look like a very challenging pitcher at all. I've seen it in a couple of videos now (see 4.15 in attached one). Can someone explain what that's about? I thought they had a decent bullpen of relief pitchers to choose from. Is it just a case of 'ho hum, the game's gone so sod it'?

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Possibly. Maybe rest their best pitchers for the following night or next series?
 
Aaronf said:
Edit: the tennis has finished on time so looking forward to the game shortly.
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Yeah, that fucked me off too. Ditch the tennis, which there's loads of throughout the year, and start the coverage at the top of the first innings, not halfway through the fourth. It wasn't their fault that all but one of the runs had already been scored, but it shows the risk of arriving early.

Double or triple plays are one of the best things in any sport.
 
I've been sadly following some of the Blue Jays games at work via that Google play by play thingy where you see a cartoon batter and each ball appearing in the strike zone or wherever. It's strangely mesmerising for something so simple.
 
Just a quick heads-up that Detroit-Baltimore is on the Red Button from 6:30pm on Sunday. It doesn't look like there's anything which might push back to coverage, as happened last week.
 
That was fun, and we've got the final round of the regular season next week.

What struck me when they showed the teams at the start was how many left-handed hitters were playing. I think there were 5 for Baltimore, and 4 for Detroit, who had a couple of switch-hitters too. Maybe there's an advantage to being a south paw.

I learned a lot more about Baltimore than I previously knew, which was largely about the police, drug dealers, port unions, education, politics and the press.
 
Rockies v Cardinals was an entertaining free game of the day on the MLB app earlier. Rockies were 8-3 down but despite having 2 outs in the bottom of the 8th then scored 5 runs in that innings to win 10-8.
 
Bollocks: I thought the final round was on Sunday, but it turns out it starts at 3pm UK time on Monday.

I'll just have to hope it's available on the iplayer shortly afterwards, or on a delay.
 
Beeb has a whole thing tomorrow apparently for the final day. Starts at 8pm:

BBC MLB Page

MLB Network host Matt Vasgersian and former players Xavier Scruggs and Ryan Rowland-Smith will jump between games as they follow all the major stories from the MLB Bases Covered Live studio.
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Then there are playoff games TBC
 
stavros said:
I can't find anything, but Where's The Match suggests that the Beeb website has Blue Jays - Red Sox tomorrow night. That may be bollocks, as I can't find anything to that effect on the Beeb website itself.
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Must be nonsense as Blue Jays are playing Marlins

Does say on BBC baseball page that apart from Sunday round up programme they'll have wildcard games on Oct 1 and division series ones on Oct 5
 
I'm still making my way through last week's final round. I just watched the Padres give up six runs to the D'backs in one innings.
 
Wondering what the arrangement is in terms of how the BBC just ended up having the rights to show a handful of games because I think after tonight they don't have anything else. Seems slightly odd.
 
nightowl said:
Wondering what the arrangement is in terms of how the BBC just ended up having the rights to show a handful of games because I think after tonight they don't have anything else. Seems slightly odd.
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It's very peculiar. Even the BBC articles about how you can watch it seem vague. The feed they have is some sort of MLB Europe affair so I suspect it's offered cheap and is a way to get people interested. But it won't get the actual world series as TNT already pay for that.
 
I'm trying to understand pitch types better, as the commentators use the terms so flippantly. It's not easy though.
 
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