Opening day at Fenway...RING DAY ! SWEET CAOLINE!! BOSTON STRONG!! Watch it on MLB Package..nobody does opening day better then Sox ...
Brewers pissed (sorry for that one) on the celebration.... If you had a 5th one that mighta made the difference Jiffy.... In the mean time....what probably is the TOUGHEST division in all of BB this year....Pirates up 3-0 on Cards....
Then of course there is the only undefeated team in MLBB, the Tigers. Their starting pitching absolutely dominated the WS Champs but their bullpen crapped in the bed. With a healthy Cabrara and Joe Nathan, they just might have enough this year.
2-0 is 2-0. It counts against any opponent. BTW, Go Pirates! Parent club of the AAA Indianapolis Indians. I guess I'm a fan of every NLC team except the Brewers.
Well, I looked in the paper and it looks like those games did. The Royals have very good speed and some flamethrowers. They're tough.
Always have been since I lived in St. Louis as a young kid. Stan the Man was my first idol. We moved to Chicago when I was 8, and I became a Cubs fan. Ernie Banks joined Stan as my second idol. We moved to South Jersey when I was 12. I never warmed up to the Phillies. Always looming were the Reds, my Mom's favorite team. She was born and grew up across the river from Cincinnati. We moved to Indy the summer before my senior year in HS. I attended my first World Series game in 1961 at Crosley Field in Cincy. Saw Mantle and Maris. The Yankees won the game 4-1 and went on to beat the Reds 4 games to 1. I went to a lot of Reds games in the 60s and 70s and became a big fan while always being faithful to the Cards and the Cubs. Probably TMI but I've never been a man of few words. Bobda, I've never disliked the Brewers, but I go back to the rivalry between the Cubs and the Milwaukee Braves in the 50s, when Mathews, Aaron, Spahn et all were playing. (Spahn is my all-time favorite LH pitcher). The Braves beat "my" Cubs often, so I disliked them. I also didn't like it when Aaron hit more HRs than Ernie Banks. They seemed to go back and forth. I remember well the much-anticipated first issue of Sports Illustrated, the cover of which had a wide-angle photo of Eddie Mathews batting in County Stadium. I'll miss the cheese curds. :cry:
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So I'd never heard of the rule where if the ball hits the pitchers mound in the air it's an automatic out. Is that true for if it hits first base in the air? Here's a great play from the A's Pitcher...heads up, being alert type of play. <iframe src='http://m.mlb.com/shared/video/embed/embed.html?content_id=31885869&topic_id=6479266&width=400&height=224&property=mlb' width='400' height='224' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.</iframe>
I'm not sure but I think what the announcer meant was if the ball hits the pitching rubber and goes skyward and the fielder catches it before it hits the ground, the batter is out.
OK that makes sense, then if the ball did actually hit 1st base in the air the A's pitcher didn't have to beat the batter to the bag...which he did of course.
Give me a ruling . Batter lines the ball directly off the pitching rubber and it caroms through the dugout opening without ever touching the ground.