World Baseball Classic

[Jake McKibbin]

6 hours ago, wiguy94 said:

Absolutely agree. DR making a deep run with Adames stuck on the bench would have been terrible for the Brewers. Huge win for us that they lost. 

I think their manager was saying about giving everyone a shot in group stages, he was probably making the effort to get Ketel marte out there in the last game, but yeah Adames actually outperformed them at the plate

Still good to have him back, and he can enjoy Sal giving him **** about how Italy are a better baseballing nation

[Jake McKibbin]

Big game today, who's ready to see big Sal outperform Shohei Ohtani?

 

First pitch, 500ft dead center, and a Degeneration X celebation

[Jake McKibbin]

Oops

 

Frelick struck out on 4 pitches for first time this tournament, then Ohtani seriously unlucky, mashing a 115mph liner with 2 men on straight to short stop

[wiguy94]

1 hour ago, Jake McKibbin said:

I think their manager was saying about giving everyone a shot in group stages, he was probably making the effort to get Ketel marte out there in the last game, but yeah Adames actually outperformed them at the plate

Still good to have him back, and he can enjoy Sal giving him **** about how Italy are a better baseballing nation

That was the second game Marte started. Adames was the only one of the Marte, Pena, Franco group to only start one game. 

[wiguy94]

Italy not doing much to help themselves out. 5 walks through 3 innings and an error that led to Japan scoring their first run of the game. Should add this ump isn't doing much to help. He's totally squeezing Italy's pitchers.

[Jake McKibbin]

A 3 run blast too.. with the way Shohei is pitching, it's tough to see Italy recovering, he's likely going 5 innings today, maybe 6 and this Japanese line-up has been fearsome

[Jake McKibbin]

Frelick struck out looking to  end the game, Japan with a big 9-3 win and looking impressive on their way to the semis

[owbc]

It was great to see Mike Trout carry Team USA last night, combined with an excellent bullpen effort. 

They are likely to get bounced by Venezuela in the quarterfinals, but you never know in single elimination. The lineup needs some adjustments to get the cold bats out of there. 

[owbc]

Passan reporting that Díaz is done for the year with a torn patellar tendon. Ouch. 

[TURBO]

50 minutes ago, owbc said:

Passan reporting that Díaz is done for the year with a torn patellar tendon. Ouch. 

Yup, did it during a celebration.

Made me pretty happy because I had just drafted him on one of my fantasy teams with a very high draft pick.

:(

[wiguy94]

Carlos Rodriguez > Julio Urias

[Brock Beauchamp]

Urias didn’t look good in that first inning, for sure. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Ahhhhhhh Rowdy ties the game there if shift restrictions are in place. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

This world baseball classic is amazing. Anyone who isn’t watching it is missing out on some of the best baseball you’ll see until October. 

[jason21nl]

My goodness do I love the WBC

[MVP2110]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

This world baseball classic is amazing. Anyone who isn’t watching it is missing out on some of the best baseball you’ll see until October. 

I really hate that it's during March Madness. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, jason21nl said:

My goodness do I love the WBC

That game was wild! Oh man, I'm so excited to see Mexico advance!

[owbc]

It’s kind of amazing how many baseball fans there are in Miami who don’t give a s*** about the joke of a MLB franchise that plays there. 

[pitchleague]

1 hour ago, MVP2110 said:

I really hate that it's during March Madness. 

And this is why I’m not watching.  

[MVP2110]

9 hours ago, pitchleague said:

And this is why I’m not watching.  

Yep, I watched some of the earlier games this week but starting the USA games so late made those hard to stay up for and now having the knockout bracket during March Madness makes that hard to watch too. I'll try and tune in for the USA/Venezuela game but not sure how close of attention I'll be paying

[Pugger]

9 hours ago, owbc said:

It’s kind of amazing how many baseball fans there are in Miami who don’t give a s*** about the joke of a MLB franchise that plays there. 

You said it.  All of the Marlins games are televised down here on the gulf coast and if you want to go to a game and be by yourself LoneDepot Park is the place to go!  lol

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 hour ago, Pugger said:

LoneDepot Park

LOL

[owbc]

4 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

LOL

It’s loanDepot park. Don’t capitalize that P or else! 

[Brock Beauchamp]

23 minutes ago, owbc said:

It’s loanDepot park. Don’t capitalize that P or else! 

It’s some of the worst branding I’ve ever seen from a company big enough to afford their name on a sports stadium. 

[wOOgiE22]

Altuve may be out for a while. Just got hit in the hand and walked off gingerly.