**4th of July Rays at Royals GDT**
 

Happy 4th everybody! Hope everyone is enjoying the day celebrating America's birthday with some barbecue, grilling, adult beverages, fireworks, and fun...

But we've got a baseball game too!

1. Loftin - 2B
2. BWJ - SS
3. Vinnie - DH
4. Salvy - 1B
5. Massey - 2B
6. Renfroe - RF
7. MJ - LF
8. Fermin - C
9. Isbel - CF

Nice to see Massey back at 2nd. Hopefully that sticks. Let's take the series with Marsh on the bump!

LFG.

Jesus Christ... c'mon Marsh, settle in. Or you know, throw ****ing strikes.

Another stupid ****ing rule "to speed up the game".

Come the f on

Alright whatever.

Let’s go score some runs.

Kindergarten MLB

Extra innings? Let's put a guy on 2nd. :doh!:

I missed it. What happened?

Not Marsh’s day

Marsh made too many pickoff throws to 2nd. So both runners get to move up a base.

Marsh is only good against the best teams

JFC...

It's a dumb rule because then the runner knows he can't throw over and can now take a bigger lead.

Even the outs aren’t easy for Marsh.

:rolleyes:This fan base staying for Fireworks

He can throw over a third time but he has to pick him off.

Oh, but it speeds up the game, and that's better, right?

Bush league horseshit. Baseball never misses any opportunity to not get out of it's own way.

So Baahston, Twins, and Houston all won today. The Royals immediate contenders for the last WC spot.

Ok, Massey Dong!

It's his fault. If he had his stuff tonight those guys wouldn't have been on base.

Atta boy Massey! Hang that dong!

Massey has more pop than I expect him to have.

Cleveland won too. Sigh...

It does speed up the game and instead of throwing 10 pick off attempts it actually makes the pitcher pitch.

Jesus... Wake up Quatraro... pull him. He's not fooling ANYONE.

Hey Q, get him out!

Will somebody please wake up Quatraro!!!???!!!

Ok, time for Marsh to go to the pen. ****ing Bubic needs to be up. Getting sick of that shit.

I lost a good deal of money on this game. Feels bad.

Degenerate

Pitch clock pretty much solves the speed of the game problems as it forces the hitters to not turn every at bat into a Mike Hargrove impersonation. The ghost runner shit, the visits to the mound shit, reliever rules and throws to the bag stuff is queer as hell and doesn't belong in major league baseball. If you like it, great, but it's window dressing nonsense.

That's a compliment in the circles I run in sir.

9 outs, 6 hits, 3 walks and 5 ERs. Hell of an outing.

There we go... Nice job Vinnie!

Nice job by Vinnie. Just a single run this frame would have been a bummer.

YUCK

Needed this couple runs. Keep this a game.

I really ****ing hate Carlos Hernandez.

Well, what are you waiting for Q? For him to walk in a run?!?!?!

innings eater I guess...no other way to describe it

Hernandez your bus to Omaha leaves tomorrow at 8am.

Hernandez? No

Have a good night guys!

Straight up hot garbage. Banner day for the pitchers. Bravo ****ers. Truly, tip of the cap you ****ing bums.

He's gonna be a Monarch soon

I’d rather we tossed him from a moving bus.

Another https://cdn.thewirecutter.com/wp-con...048px-1353.jpg

Gross. These pitchers need an enema.

Damn. Caught stealing to end the inning

Witt getting caught is how the night has went

****. Me. One goddamn scoreless inning through 7. Did Marsh take out the entire bullpen and get ****ing hammered last night? Are they drunk now? Christ almighty...

This is an old school 3+ hour game.

We get a rally in the 9th this sucker might go for 4 hours lol

What’s the soiled diaper count, Gaby?

Epic 9th inning comeback in bound.

Bobdong

It's bad. it's really, really bad. There wasn't one damn pitcher who can really claim to have had a good night. Long and Zerpa didn't allow any runs to their lines, but they sucked, and Zerpa gave up a run on inherited runners. Just simply ****ing awful, awful pitching tonight from everyone. Plus a shit night from Salvy that killed several rallies. If we had ANY pitching tonight, that's a win. Goddammit.

Not worthy of a new thread but is anyone seeing JD Martinez from the Diamondbacks kicking ass?

Dude is a home run machine.

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Um, from 7 years ago?

This is what happens when I watch YouTube videos w/o looking at the date.

Someone answer that damn phone!!!

ROFL