Cashman’s much maligned offseason suddenly looks a little better.

Rays take lead over Jays in the 9th.

If Kevin Gregg hadn’t decided walking four batters and then allowing a bases clearing double while trying to preserve what was once a two run lead was a good idea, the Yanks would be a game out of first tonight.

Make that five walks, and add an ejection on top of it.  That’s a meltdown of almost Joba-ish proportions.

The ejection was a nice touch. Here’s a tip, Kev’: if you face eight batters and walk five of them, it’s probably mostly your fault, not the umpire’s.

So Gregg is cooked, and done?

Here at fenway the A’s pitching staff is Kevin Greggin’ it with 9 walks in the game.

btw:

Dustin Perdioa : .255/.333/.446

what the hell? .251 BABIP . WOW.

Marlins selling unsold tickets to the Halladay perfecto. How low can you go daddy-o.

Good thing errors don’t count against WPA, eh?

“Wow Mo got a save. How often does that happen?”

About as often as perfect games lately - apparently I missed one this weekend while I was in a region of the earth where nobody cares.  Is there a sabremetric explanation?

No, sabrmetrics cannot explain people who do not care about baseball.

This start and the Mets game are the only two starts by Unnamed Pitchers that I haven’t watched as they happened. I promise to avoid all of his starts for the rest of the season.

Pedroia’s numbers aren’t all that bad. I’m sure Cano’s had plenty of 2 month stretches where he OPS’d under 800

Phil Hughes Day!

Calling that a “sharp” ground ball to third base is very generous of them.

Phil Hughes starts really are my favorite.  If for no other reason than every successful outing he has causes Sox fans so much anguish.

[16] No kidding, Arod nearly beat the throw without the error.

[17] and he’s the man!

I so hate ESPN. Why do I even bother.

1) Faceless SportsCenter Doofus on the Granderson homer, which to me looked like a pretty solid drive far back into the seats… “but this is Yankee Stadium where you just have to get the ball into the air and it’s going out”.

2) FSCD on a fielding error by a centerfielder, I think in the Ray-Jays game, don’t really care: “{so-and-so} has prospects, but he’s not bonafide”.

Both these sound like they’re torn from one of our drunk-blogs which aren’t nearly as well written as we think at the time. And besides, we’re drunk, and we have no editors to stop us. Other than, you know, the edit button.

18 - well yes, that too.  He’s really fun to watch.

[19] Maybe they know about your vortex machine?

Seriously though, I heard or read that somewhere earlier this year, that DNYS is a “bandbox”.  That’s entirely taken from April of last year, and I think since then there has been a slight HR bias for the park, but not much.  Perhaps I’m wrong on that.

what is the homerun park factor at the Disgraceful Stadium this year?

[21] I think you’re right on, Mike. I seem to remember an article on, I think it was hittracker, that established as much pretty definitively.

Oh, and the vortex got retired. We burned out some of the bearings during Game 6, and the local air currents are all different due to…deconstruction activities (I can’t write it).

But the latest Arc Pulse prototype is beginning to show promise.

Edit: Hit Tracker shows DNYS leading the AL in HR/Game at 2.65, with Camden Yard (2.52) and Rogers CentER (2.50) the place and show.

So yeah, it’s a bandbox.

The good news is we are nowhere near tops in MLB. That honor belongs to the Diamondbacks’ Chase Field (3.30).

[23] Ah I see! (which of course I don’t)

[23] Somehow I feel that is more a reflection of the AL East than their propensity to give up the long ball.
Confirmation?
Rejection?

[13] The pitcher who shall not be watched?

[23] Maybe they should use a humidor in Phoenix.

[25] Yes the HR per game likely has something to do with all the good hitters the Yankees have and not all the Disgraceful Bandboxiness.

Yanks have hit 32 HR at home this season and allowed 31.

There have been 67 HR hit at SkydomeRogers Centre; 49 by the Jays and 18 by visiting teams.

[27]
Schteeve, I presume you have in mind the unstoppable HR machines that are (this year, anyhow) Teix, A-Rod, Jeter, Gardner, Granderson, NJ, etc.?
Or were you thinking of last year?

when you add Cano, Swisher, Posada, to A-Rod and the ghost of Teix, it’s still a decent body of work.