And with two runs in the first inning, they match the run total of the previous two games.

:spock:

Still can't believe they lost two games to Colorado where they only gave up two runs.

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Baseball is funny sometimes. Royals and White Sox are playing home run derby this series. Pitcher duels in Denver.

Well now we have a conventional Coors Field game.

I think I liked the first 2 days better...

Ravello hit the 3rd longest measured home run in MLB since statcast started.

I just want to point out Marp is 0-4, he and the pitchers are the only players without a hit so far today.

And he looks like shit doing it too.

I'm sure there has to be a cliff somewhere near there they could drop him off.

Of course, he'd probably miss the ****ing ground at the bottom. :shake:

that last AB was pathetic. He looked like a rookie ball player trying to hit Scherzer.

Why did you put the “I” inside the parentheses as well? Doesn’t make any sense.

The whipping boy just blew it open.

carps “hit” should have been an out and potential double play with bases loaded. You know, his usual AB. Murphy blew that and the official scorer took pity on carp.

But at least that hit got Martinez out of there. Going to need him against the Brewers. They don’t take 2/3, they are toast.

Can’t really complain about where we are. We have a “real” chance to win the division. Play meaniful baseball the last week of the division. Catch a few breaks maybe steal the series from the Braves then get roasted by the Dodgers.

Are you seriously going to defend him this season? Counting last September he has hit under .215 for a year with ZERO power.

I’m pretty sure Hamas is the engineer of the marp hate train.

Of course not. Am I going to laugh at you for wanting to throw him off a bridge and 30 minutes later he drives in a couple of runs? Of course.

No one has been more irrational about Carpenter since 2018 than you, and it's fun to make you wear it.

Nothing irrational about my opinion of Carp, BTW that wasn't me throwing him off the bridge but I didn't disagree with it so I'll wear it.

If you are going to try to make some type of point with every Carp hater the list is very very very long. Better get crackalackin.

Oh no he isn't, he isn't even riding in the caboose.

You were lambasting him throughout 2018 when I told you again and again that his peripherals showed it was just batted ball luck. You continued to lambaste him throughout the year, even though he put up 5 wins and had the second most valuable year of his career. You were wrong and the numbers eventually regressed to the mean.

I have been highly critical of his play this season, because it's clear from his exit velocities and Statcast numbers that he's in an obvious and precipitous decline. I hated his contract extension and immediately went on record as such because I saw it as an unnecessary risk for someone you already controlled through 2020 w/ the option of tagging on a QO to keep for 2021. It's all in this thread, too.

You can be pro-2018 Carp and anti-2019 Carp. In fact, it's the only rational stance to take.

His 2019 season was a bust. Yes he had an INSANELY hot 2-3 month streak but he then folded in September again. And we missed the playoffs by a handful of games.

I don't care what his saber metrics were overall for the season, if your numbers are smashed in the middle of 2 black holes its not a good year, period.

He helped dig the hole they were in, he helped pull them out of the hole, he then put them back in the hole. Not a good season. Period. And thats not irrational.

As I have said his whole career he is a head case.

Tommy Edmond will never have Marps career numbers or be an MVP candidate, but he is a much better player right now.

Tommy Edmond may not play in the big leagues next year.

Baseball is a cruel ass game.

Flaherty has snuck into the top 10 in era and whip - he trails Kolten wong in War on the team

Ever thought you'd see the day when Wong lead the team in WAR?

They’d better get the win tomorrow. Losing 4/6 then you got Corbin/Scherzer/Strausberg and then on the road to Wrigley.

Flaherty would be in the Cy Young conversation this year if he could figure out Milwaukee.

These guys are really gonna cough up the division in the last two weeks, aren't they?

****ing ****s just gave up a GS to Roid Braun in the top of the 9th. :banghead:

Wasn’t watching the whole thing, but I blame that on Shildt. How do you leave Gant in to walk 3 people?

Saw that

Trying to follow the game cast on my phone while I watch the Chiefs game. It's over. This team ain't winning anything.

We will all look back and say this was the day we lost the division. Holy shit, we're looking like the pre C Useless By September.

Supposedly, Carlos had the "flu", so he was unavailable. Shildt had already used Gallegos and Miller, so he brought in Gant, who immediately shit himself by overthrowing every fastball. Webb actually got Moustakas to fly out and preserve the lead, but then Shildt went to Junior Fernandez who threw an absolute cement mixer to Braun, despite the fact that Braun could not get around on his fastball. It was one of the worst pitches of the season to one of the biggest shitbags in professional sports.

Team looks like it's headed for another September collapse.

Thank God for the Blues !

Words I thought I would never utter in my lifetime. Up really is down.

Lulz...

Good win last night, but goddamn, am I already sick of looking at Ben Cuckbrist's stupid ****ing face.

hitting .117 for the last 17 games, about time Ozuna contributed something in the stretch run.

So the Pirates are probably wishing they had traded Felipe Vazquez right about now. He's going away for a long time.

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Ozuna just struck out with the bases loaded without even being thrown a strike.

Then Corbin damn near bounces two in a row to Dejong. Put the bat on your shoulder and make him throw you a strike.

Jfc these idiots are blind. Just go up there and swing wildly.

those were total pathetic AB’s. Those weren’t just balls but barely out of the dirt. Inside. They just went up there to swing no matter what he throws, I’m swinging. He got 3 batters out with bases loaded without throwing a strike. :mad:

A good day - Cards win, Brewers and Cubs lose.

Huge four game set at Chicago starts tomorrow.

yeah, 3 game lead with 10 to go. 7 against the Cubs and 3 against the Braves. Going to have to earn that division title.

Dbacks, not Braves. But yeah, it won't be easy.

sorry no idea why I typed Braves. :doh!:

No Baez,no Rizzo...it pains me to say but your Cards will just be fine

Go Brewers!! :D

I'm hoping to be at the game on Saturday!

Hendricks throws a lot of change ups. Every time we face him our hitters act like this is new information. What? He throws change ups? I was sitting on that 89 mph fastball totally surprised.

Shitbird Maddon didn't insert Rizzo in the lineup until right before game time.

Too bad we can transplant all of Alex Trebek's cancer cells into that supercilious ****.

He's about to get fired anyway.

First fail. Bases loaded, no outs, top of the lineup up, 1 run.

Of course Rizzo jacks one.

that was a good pitch. Don’t even think it was an outside strike down in the zone.

I’d be perfectly happy with a 2-2 split in this series.

Edmon triple. Incoming K, ground out, K

thats at least 2 runs left on the bases that 90% of the time scores. That’s how you lose games.

Eh, still winning over an average ass team

Home plate ump sucks ass.

Some nice work here in the 6th.

He sure is having a bad night. At least he is sucking both ways though.

yeah both teams are getting equally screwed.

Flaherty looking like an ace.

Jack ****ing Flaherty

Don’t worry, Tsunami in to make it interesting.

Jesus Christ Carlos

Martinez is trying to blow this game.

Get this mother ****er out of the game.

that ball looked foul to me.

Martinez is ****ing horrible

My god

Can we end the Carlos Martinez shit and let him be elsewhere

I turned it off. I know how this one ends.

he hadn’t thrown a strike with that slider, not even close but Yadi calls for it again. We got a 3 run lead. Throw a fastball for crissakes.

I’m ready for Martinez to go in the off-season.

I know you guys follow them harder than I do, but I have never been a Carlos Martinez fan.

Why wait until then? Release his ass today.

Rizzo gonna walk it off somehow.

He's been playing with fire all year, but Shildt has managed him like a moron, thinking that strand rate is sustainable.

Because of course.

Fowler playing like a double agent again.

Eat **** pie Kimbrel.

It would be huge if Carpenter could get hot now.

Holy shit, Marp just put us back in front.

finally he does something to help the team win this year.

Okay, can we get three goddamn outs here and end this turd?

I think this bullpen is unraveling from overuse.