The entire history of the Mets franchise summed up in one inning.
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Yesterday, Shohei Ohtani pitched 6.1 innings with 10 Strikeouts and only allowing four hits and one earned run.
That same game he went 3-for-3 in the batters box with two home-runs, a single and a walk. He leads all of baseball in homers.
This accrued him 0.8 WAR in this game alone. For comparison, a perfect game from a pitcher accrues about 0.7 WAR.
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lol
Domingo Germán has thrown a perfect game, the 24th in MLB history and the first since 2012. I want to point at the video I posted above and the bizarre history of perfect games. German for example surrender 15 runs in his previous 5.1 innings. Germán also did it in less than 100 pitches, and his team gave him 11 runs of support, the most in perfect game history.
There is however a bigger issue at hand here. In 2019 Germán was accused of beating his then girlfriend, for which he served an 81-game suspension in 2020. He however was never formally charged. Reportedly he has undergone anger management training, the couple is now married and he does charity work for domestic abuse victims.
Also, he plays for the Yankees, which sucks.
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The ending is worth it
Oh, these games are fun. BarDown did these things with Hockey topics, though they eventually ran out of them and switched to more traditional quiz questions. PartsFunKnown does these with all sorts of Wrestling topics, like championships or specialty match winners (Money in the Bank, Royal Rumble).
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Compilation of wet
Last night during the Phillies-Nationals game:
- Nick Castellanos hits home runs #199 and #200 of his career.
- Rookie Weston Wilson plays his first game in the majors, hits a home run on his very first at bat, gets on base two additional times with walks, scores both times, and stole a base in between for good measure.
- Pitcher Michael Lorenzen threw a freaking no-hitter in his second start for the Phillies and his first home game, with his family in attendance. The 14th no-hitter for the Phillies and the first since 2015 by Cole Hamels.
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The Bananas are (kinda) going in the hall of fame:
Above are the individual stats for the California Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Ohtani has been shut down for the season after an oblique strain. Ohtani will become a free agent after this season. The Angels did not trade him trying to make a post-season run but promptly completely fell apart and are now 13.5 games behind a wild card spot.
Ohtani is quickly approaching “best player ever” territory and the Angels being incapable of doing anything despite having him and Mike Trout on the roster is just a complete indictment of the organization at every level. This will be the 9th season in a row they miss the playoffs, and the last time they won a playoff game would be in 2009. Just absolutely squandered.
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Usually on the weekends I watch baseball in the evenings my time as that’s where the day games happen. On Saturdays unfortunately they mostly start at 10 PM for me. I do other things on the side like painting miniatures.
So tonight I was painting some Space Marines (finishing up a Salamanders Infiltrator Squad to be precise) when I look up and see this meatball that Harper promptly sends into the upper deck against tropical storm force winds blowing toward home plate.
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I am sure we know about the Savannah Bananas, they are about to release a mini-series of their most recent tour across the country on YouTube. I had no idea they were doing this and all for it.
Last night Bryson stott hit a grand-slam homerun. Somehow that is only the second grand slam in postseaon history for the Phillies.
However, what I really make this post about is just the sound of the stadium during it. The best video of this is on reddit. The crowd singing along his walkup song. A light swell. The crack of the bat. And the crowd just erupting in cheers.
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Stadium was 7% over capacity (they will sell cheap standing room only tickets for the promenade viewing areas for sold out games).
Nick Castellanos hit 4-homers in about 29 hours. He is the first player ever with multi-homerun performances in back-to-back playoff games. Phillies wrecked the Braves yesterday at 10-2 and won tonight 3-1 with a Trea Turner homer sandwiched in between the Castellanos ones.
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