2021-04-14: Cubs (Arrieta) at Brewers (Burnes) [Brewers win, 7-0 -- Burnes historic start to the season continues]

[Underachiever]

Sogard. SMH.

[AKCheesehead]

And of course Hiura would still manage to strike out.

 

Keston Hiura with two strikes on him is almost an automatic out.

 

Truth. Here's a real feast for the eyes: Keston Hiura results after 2 strikes.

 

I Year G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS

2019 81 195 182 18 34 8 1 8 20 9 107 .187 .241 .374 .615

2020 58 150 138 15 17 1 0 7 15 7 85 .123 .187 .283 .469

2021 9 24 23 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 14 .043 .083 .043 .127

Career 148 369 343 34 52 9 1 15 36 16 206 .152 .209 .315 .524

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table

Generated 4/14/2021.

[jerichoholicninja]

What a horribly inconsistent strikezone today. But at least it's horribly inconsistent for both teams, I guess.

[adambr2]

Really bad call. This umpire is easily influenced by framing, good or bad.

[nate82]

I see the umpires are trying to get MLB to implement robot umps again.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Shaw is strong. It did not look like he got that at all.

[Underachiever]

I like this Shaw.

[markedman5]

Stearns looking like a genius with the Shaw signing so far.

 

Love to see it

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Travis Shaw is making Stearns look like a genius so far.

 

Or, perhaps when you consider what they put out for a lineup last season, perhaps just not bad.

[wildcat2237]

Shaw is strong. It did not look like he got that at all.

 

Shaw is hitting out of his mind.

 

I posted before the season I thought he would be a big failure. I hope he keeps this up and I am very wrong.

[folly412]

The second term for the Mayor is faring better than how his first term ended.

[BruisedCrew]

Shaw’s HR could be used as evidence to rebut the argument that the ball has been deadened. I can’t believe he hit one into the bullpen with that swing.

[Guest]

If you were in a coma for the 2019 and 2020 season and you were watching Shaw now it would look like he's just progressing like we thought he would after 2017 and 2018.

[Underachiever]

 

I posted before the season I thought he would be a big failure. I hope he keeps this up and I am very wrong.

To be fair, he's batting .324. So his failure rate is .676.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Shaw’s HR could be used as evidence to rebut the argument that the ball has been deadened. I can’t believe he hit one into the bullpen with that swing.

 

I don't have the statcast metrics. It looked to me like Garcia's ball was smoked. Hit harder than Shaw's. My eyes must still be adjusting to something like standard baseball.

[adambr2]

Now what were the Cubs whining about? Did Ross forget that the bad call that inning went for him, not against him?

[jerichoholicninja]

Shaw’s HR could be used as evidence to rebut the argument that the ball has been deadened. I can’t believe he hit one into the bullpen with that swing.

 

I don't have the statcast metrics. It looked to me like Garcia's ball was smoked. Hit harder than Shaw's. My eyes must still be adjusting to something like standard baseball.

 

I agree. No way did I think Shaw's was a homerun but I thought Garcia's was or at least would have been close but it wasn't even near the warning track.

[trwi7]

Shaw’s HR could be used as evidence to rebut the argument that the ball has been deadened. I can’t believe he hit one into the bullpen with that swing.

 

I don't have the statcast metrics. It looked to me like Garcia's ball was smoked. Hit harder than Shaw's. My eyes must still be adjusting to something like standard baseball.

 

Shaw's was 101.9, Garcia's 90.5.

[Underachiever]

50 pitches through 4? Yes, please.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

I guess that's why we have robots. My eyes are lying to me all the time.

[DR28]

Baez is a terrible hitter, swings at everything.

 

Good, I can't stand him.

[adambr2]

Scary thing about Burnes is that he's clearly not at his best today. Missing a couple spots, falling behind some hitters. It's just that his "ok" is still better than most guys at their best.

[adambr2]

Wahhhhh !!! Don't throw inside if you can't avoid hitting guys! Wahhh!

[SeaBass]

Imagine that, getting hit by a pitch and just quietly taking your base. Huh.

[Sixtofan]

I didn’t know you were allowed to just walk down to first- doesn’t he need to do some sort of interpretive art dance to demonstrate his displeasure?