This game for me was lost today when Frelick came up with 1 out and two runners in scoring position and promptly popped up.
We need better out of Sal. That’s one of the main things holding the offense back.
It seems like this umpire has decided, “haha, they can’t do anything about it, so I’m just going to call the zone like I would have used to call it for them now.”
I think they do need some common sense ground rules. I wouldn’t go this far, though. A bases loaded 3-2 pitch in the 4th inning could end up being far more impactful than anything in the late innings.
Now this ump is going to royally suck the rest of the day and there’s nothing we are going to be able to do about it because we went after 2 calls he actually got right.
I think probably the most obnoxious thing is that I’ve having to come to terms with the fact that perhaps MLB umpires are not as terrible as I suspected they were.
At least, they know the zone much better than our players apparently do.
For some reason Murph seems to ride his arm like a rented mule relative to other pitchers on his staff, but ain’t no way he’s letting Miz throw 130-140 pitches.
Until Yelich gets back, or?
I totally agree that it’s great to see Black doing this. He looked dead in the water as a prospect and now he’s looking back again,
Griffin and McGonigle will be graduating within a couple weeks, so Jesus Made will officially become the #1 prospect in baseball.
He could get passed on midseason lists, though nothing about his performance says he should.