Rays (Alexander) vs Brewers (Peralta): 4/30/24, 6:40pm

[LouisEly]

16 minutes ago, tmwiese55 said:

What's the take on here regarding the initial throwing out of Peralta?

The silver lining is that Peralta might be able to pitch on short rest.  Possibly Saturday against the Cubs, allowing a starter to pitch out of the pen.  Certainly on Sunday against the Cubs.

[Playing Catch]

1- I think Peralta drilled Siri on the upper thigh on purpose.

2- I think it's ridiculous to toss him for that, w/o warnings/bad blood.

3- I suspect Siri has a reputation, or this whole thing comes from 5-year old minors stuff. Peralta has a choirboy image, Siri seems like he's channeling his inner Jose Canseco. I suspect there's a number of players that hate Siri (not that that excuses violence).

4- Uribe was verbally defending his team, telling Siri what he thinks, Siri verbally defends, the young Uribe loses it.

5- It's early. Peralta has plenty of innings to pitch this season. Uribe could probably use a break.

6- Brewers HAVE to get some breaks tomorrow. Guccioni (sp?) and co., need to mend some fences.

[TURBO]

Kids in the post game press conference again.

What is the point?

[duewizard]

Tomorrow's game will be interesting.

Boneheaded mobe by Uribe. Koenig was just sent down and cant come up unless there's an injury so I think the only guys on the 40-man are Martin and Ashby. Am I wrong?

Will Martin get the Pannone treatment from last year? Up for one game and DFA?

[folly412]

2 minutes ago, duewizard said:

Tomorrow's game will be interesting.

Boneheaded mobe by Uribe. Koenig was just sent down and cant come up unless there's an injury so I think the only guys on the 40-man are Martin and Ashby. Am I wrong?

Will Martin get the Pannone treatment from last year? Up for one game and DFA?

Did they change the rule with some of the pitcher/position player limits a year or two ago, or if Sanchez is indeed going on the IL, can they make a "corresponding" move calling up Koenig? Then a separate move being Junk optioned and Haase's contract purchased, with one of the MilB 40-man DFA'd.

[Joseph Zarr]

13 minutes ago, TURBO said:

Kids in the post game press conference again.

What is the point?

He's a granddad. And, well, he's no spring chicken. He's soaking up the experience and wants to include his grand kiddos? 

[Samurai Bucky]

1 hour ago, Simba2020 said:

I actually think it was intentional. Had great control all night long and then didn't come close to throwing him a strike and then drilled him on ball four. He didn't argue with the ejection at all either which leads me to believe he meant to hit him.

Look at the sign Contreras put down and it says everything you need to know.  🤔

[StearnsFTW]

1 hour ago, wallus said:

How many fights we plan on getting in this year?

As many as it takes.

[tmwiese55]

Caught up on some of the vids.  I'd guess Peralta did it on purpose too but it was all done the 'right way' and shouldn't be a throwout.   And if it is now that way, I look forward to actually being called against the Cardinals but I doubt it will and the 6-10 times per year we all know it and it gets looked the other way.

Peralta handled the interview well and really did seem innocent in his talk but 3-0 count with the big lead why are you even setting up inside. Just chuck it down the middle. 

[MrTPlush]

I have no problem throwing a guy out without warnings…but hitting the guy intentionally in his thigh and to get ejected? Come on…that is like the most harmless place to do it. Hand/Head, send the guy to the showers, but that felt extreme.

I don’t want to be a conspiracy guy, but it felt like the umpire wanted to stick it to us and stand up for us ripping on them multiple times this week.

[sveumrules]

1 hour ago, shanedog19 said:

Is it just me or does Black look a little bit like a young Paul Molitor? Too soon to compare them as players?

Saw that too, especially in the profile.

From straight on I think his head is a little more square.

[KeithStone53151]

2 hours ago, MoreTrife said:

No way it was on purpose! He'll uncork one every now and then. He hit a guy earlier. He has no history of that. No warnings. Ridiculous ejection.

Absolutely this, I've never once seen Freddy throw at anybody on purpose. The Brewers have absolutely no history of throwing at guys on purpose in the last at least 15 years. Yet another example of why this is absolutely the hill I will die on. This power umpires have needs to be taken away. Nothing that happened in the 6th inning improved the quality of the product. Peguero pitching 1.2 innings that Freddy would have pitched is not good for the product or the game. I would bet my bottom dollar that more people were wearing Freddy Peralta jerseys at the game today than any reliever that's currently active on the roster...maybe all of them combined. All because the umpires want to feel important.

Also, more lighthearted tidbit for the conspiracy theorists, Peralta's prop line for strikeouts was 7.5. Notice where he ended the game... I personally took the under(this worked out great for my bet), but the over was heavily favored. Maybe too many people took the over and Vegas made the call?

[KeithStone53151]

2 hours ago, duewizard said:

I doubt it lacked intent after how Siri looked at the homer.

Regardless, stupid ejections with no previous warnings

You'd have a better argument if we were the Cardinals, or Brian McCann or Madison Bumgarner were pitching. McCann would have chased him down with a bat. The Brewers have no history of doing this, Peralta has no history of doing this. Peralta does have a history of poor command and missing the zone by a lot on some pitches...

[KeithStone53151]

2 hours ago, young guns said:

Just looked back since I was in the kitchen for the whole siri at bat, pitch one was a curve a bit off the outside of the plate.  Pitch 2 was a few inches from hitting him in the knee.  3 was in the dirt but over the plate.  Impossible to tell if 4 was intentional which makes it so annoying that the ump was able to read Freddy's mind and know he did it on purpose, but only after standing around doing nothing for a good 20 seconds and after siri was yapping at him.  Kind of ridiculous that he was so sure it was on purpose that he 1 did nothing at all right away and then had to call a conference to discuss throwing him out.  And then to get that heated at Murphy that Murphy had to be held back so he could continue going after Murphy with nobody holding him back.  Umps are jokes.

I wish I could like this twice...

[wallus]

35 minutes ago, StearnsFTW said:

As many as it takes.

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, LouisEly said:

The silver lining is that Peralta might be able to pitch on short rest.  Possibly Saturday against the Cubs, allowing a starter to pitch out of the pen.  Certainly on Sunday against the Cubs.

Even Sunday would be short rest, considering how the rotations' been handled thus far. But yeah, that should happen.

[KeithStone53151]

2 hours ago, markedman5 said:

What the hell is Uribe doing? He just got himself a nice long suspension……..what an idiot.

Ehhh, I really just don't have a problem with anything he did...except slapping rather than punching and hitting the umpire. THAT is the problem and THAT will probably significantly increase any suspension. Throwing a slap might be 2-3 games...I'm not aware of precedent for incidentally hitting the ump...but it frankly should be at least an additional week in my opinion.

[KeithStone53151]

1 hour ago, damuelle said:

So what are we projecting?

- no punishment for Peralta
- fine for Murphy, but no suspension
- umpire goes for sensitivity and de-escalation training
- Uribe suspended 10 games, pleads down to 7 games
- Siri suspended 5 games

I don't think Siri will get 5, my guess is he'll get 2 plead down to 1. Uribe I really don't know because he contacted the ump...but your estimate seems pretty good. I also hope Murphy doesn't get fined. The ump was clearly out of line...it would be even more backwards than it already is for Murphy to get fined.

[wiguy94]

Clown show from the umps in the postgame. 

 

[MoreTrife]

2 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Clown show from the umps in the postgame. 

 

I'm almost positive the previous hit by pitch was a fastball. Idiots.

[KeithStone53151]

5 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Clown show from the umps in the postgame. 

 

What a doofus. Abusing his power. What does he care, the union will protect him. What could possibly happen to him? Boone got thrown out because a fan yelled something at the ump while he stood there silently. Angel Hernandez still has a job somehow. These guys can do literally whatever they want with no consequence, and they'll continue to flex their power every time they feel the need to stroke their own ego...

[wiguy94]

Somehow this Brewer game wasn't the strangest MLB game tonight. The Dbacks-Dodgers game was delayed because a bee hive was in the netting behind homeplate.

 

[wiguy94]

They then had the beekeeper throw out the first pitch

 

[KeithStone53151]

Murphy's post game comments give me the impression that he had a big problem with something the ump said or how he said it. "I hope they have audio of it". 

[yourout]

Brewers seem to be working on a new team image and I think they should just lean into it. 

Grounds crew Should be sponsored by bad boy mowers.

Maybe instead of a sausage race there should be a portable cage brought in and a 2 minute cage match.