Guardiac Kids

[Mickey34jb]

Tom Hamilton's call of the Jose Ramirez-Tim Anderson fight on Cleveland radio is the stuff of legend.

"DOWN GOES ANDERSON! DOWN GOES ANDERSON!"

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[Buckeye Dale]

Aug 5, 2023 21:16:13 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Guardians lose the game but wins the fight.....Ramirez KO'D Anderson

I watched the vid several times...I didn't get what triggered Ramirez to go off like that.

[Mickey34jb]

Aug 6, 2023 22:31:17 GMT -5 Buckeye Dale said:

Aug 5, 2023 21:16:13 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Guardians lose the game but wins the fight.....Ramirez KO'D Anderson

I watched the vid several times...I didn't get what triggered Ramirez to go off like that.

The White Sox player stirred up some crap in the 4th inning that carried over into the 6th inning....Jose was sticking up for his teammate and Francona who got ejected

[mscott59]

Aug 7, 2023 5:47:29 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Aug 6, 2023 22:31:17 GMT -5 Buckeye Dale said:

I watched the vid several times...I didn't get what triggered Ramirez to go off like that.

The White Sox player stirred up some crap in the 4th inning that carried over into the 6th inning....Jose was sticking up for his teammate and Francona who got ejected

anderson also was the guy who the night before got away with literally knocking the hand of a guardian player off the base (can't remember who... rochicio?) who'd slid into 2nd for double and was stationary holding the bag. umpire called him safe... mlb in nyc reviewed it and called him out, which sent tito literally into hysterics, getting tossed.

[Buckeye Dale]

Aug 7, 2023 8:54:39 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Aug 7, 2023 5:47:29 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

The White Sox player stirred up some crap in the 4th inning that carried over into the 6th inning....Jose was sticking up for his teammate and Francona who got ejected

anderson also was the guy who the night before got away with literally knocking the hand of a guardian player off the base (can't remember who... rochicio?) who'd slid into 2nd for double and was stationary holding the bag. umpire called him safe... mlb in nyc reviewed it and called him out, which sent tito literally into hysterics, getting tossed.

WOW...was this game protested???  My info on Cleveland games is 99.9% watching highlights & Quick Pitch at night after Sharon goes to bed...I saw the initial call about knocking the hand off...didn't know the rest of the story...

[mscott59]

well, you combine a depleted pitching staff w/your hottest hitter (naylor) getting injured and you get 8 losses in 10 games. williams was simply dynamite last night, showing his true potential as a top starter, giving up 1 hit and striking out 12 in 7 innings but the offense got just 1 hit in support, and the bullpen continued its slump. 3-1 loss to toronto, leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th. and like mickey said a week or two ago, the schedule does the guards no favors. 3 more vs the blue jays, then 3 at tampa and 2 at cincy. after 4 w/the tigers, you have 3 vs the dodgers, 3 at toronto, 3 at minnesota, then home for 3 more vs the rays, 3 vs the twins before 3 vs the angels and giants. so in the next 11 series, you have 10 opponents either leading their division or squarely in the playoff race. brutal. and a tall task for a young team that's scored just 24 runs in its last 10 games.

normally 5 1/2 games back the first week of august is not impossible by any stretch. but with that list of teams on the horizon, cleveland would need to basically take at least 5 of the 6 upcoming games vs the twins, and go 14-13 vs the rest of the next month in order to be in a position to win the division come the September stretch. I'm a pollyanna optimist, but that reality looks like too much.

[Mickey34jb]

Aug 8, 2023 8:30:21 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

well, you combine a depleted pitching staff w/your hottest hitter (naylor) getting injured and you get 8 losses in 10 games. williams was simply dynamite last night, showing his true potential as a top starter, giving up 1 hit and striking out 12 in 7 innings but the offense got just 1 hit in support, and the bullpen continued its slump. 3-1 loss to toronto, leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th. and like mickey said a week or two ago, the schedule does the guards no favors. 3 more vs the blue jays, then 3 at tampa and 2 at cincy. after 4 w/the tigers, you have 3 vs the dodgers, 3 at toronto, 3 at minnesota, then home for 3 more vs the rays, 3 vs the twins before 3 vs the angels and giants. so in the next 11 series, you have 10 opponents either leading their division or squarely in the playoff race. brutal. and a tall task for a young team that's scored just 24 runs in its last 10 games.

normally 5 1/2 games back the first week of august is not impossible by any stretch. but with that list of teams on the horizon, cleveland would need to basically take at least 5 of the 6 upcoming games vs the twins, and go 14-13 vs the rest of the next month in order to be in a position to win the division come the September stretch. I'm a pollyanna optimist, but that reality looks like too much.

The trades last week or so did not make the guard players happy. Tito stated before that he was happy with what he has and ready to go with this group....The new GM Chernoff more likely made these moves without Titos approval or maybe he brought it to Titos attention and went with it anyway. The new players and the rookies have to excel to have a shot

[Walter]

Hate to rub it in...well actually, that's not true...but Rosario has 9 RBIs in 10 games as a Dodger and is hitting .286.

[mscott59]

Aug 8, 2023 9:52:02 GMT -5 Walter said:

Hate to rub it in...well actually, that's not true...but Rosario has 9 RBIs in 10 games as a Dodger and is hitting .286.

bastard. . thx. the kid we have up to replace him, brayan rocchio, has the potential to be a better hitting version of omar vizquel, which is a pretty high bar and lofty expectations for a 22 yr old kid. he made a defensive play up the middle last night w/a spin throw to first look easy that was anything but easy. but rosario, after a very slow start this year, was literally just starting to find his groove at the plate when he got dealt so I'm not surprised that he's gotten out of the gate decently in l-a.

[mscott59]

Aug 7, 2023 10:49:18 GMT -5 Buckeye Dale said:

Aug 7, 2023 8:54:39 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

anderson also was the guy who the night before got away with literally knocking the hand of a guardian player off the base (can't remember who... rochicio?) who'd slid into 2nd for double and was stationary holding the bag. umpire called him safe... mlb in nyc reviewed it and called him out, which sent tito literally into hysterics, getting tossed.

WOW...was this game protested???  My info on Cleveland games is 99.9% watching highlights & Quick Pitch at night after Sharon goes to bed...I saw the initial call about knocking the hand off...didn't know the rest of the story...

it should've been if it wasn't. I've never seen such an idiotic explanation from mlb/ny. something about how the umpires called in on the field that forced them to reverse the call. absolutely ridiculous.

[Walter]

Aug 8, 2023 11:22:33 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Aug 8, 2023 9:52:02 GMT -5 Walter said:

Hate to rub it in...well actually, that's not true...but Rosario has 9 RBIs in 10 games as a Dodger and is hitting .286.

bastard. . thx. the kid we have up to replace him, brayan rocchio, has the potential to be a better hitting version of omar vizquel, which is a pretty high bar and lofty expectations for a 22 yr old kid. he made a defensive play up the middle last night w/a spin throw to first look easy that was anything but easy. but rosario, after a very slow start this year, was literally just starting to find his groove at the plate when he got dealt so I'm not surprised that he's gotten out of the gate decently in l-a.

Dodgers are playing Rosario at second base. I'm not that familiar with him, but he seems like a solid, if unspectacular player on both O and D. I have no idea what the Gs saw in Syndergaard (probably the same thing the Dodgers thought they saw) but he was flat awful here. Maybe it clicks for him there and he can eat some innings for them.

[mscott59]

omg. in the first 3 games of the series vs toronto, below are the stat lines for our starters;

7 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs, 12 k's,
7 innings, 6 hits, 0 runs, 6 k's
5 innings, 4 hits, 1 run, 3 k's.

that's an era of 0.47. 0.47!!!! yet the guardians won just 1 of those games, and have scored only 2 runs in the series, which they've doubled so far today, going up 2-1 into the 3rd.

[Mickey34jb]

Aug 10, 2023 13:03:42 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

omg. in the first 3 games of the series vs toronto, below are the stat lines for our starters;

7 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs, 12 k's,
7 innings, 6 hits, 0 runs, 6 k's
5 innings, 4 hits, 1 run, 3 k's.

that's an era of 0.47. 0.47!!!! yet the guardians won just 1 of those games, and have scored only 2 runs in the series, which they've doubled so far today, going up 2-1 into the 3rd.

Yep...They wasted Logan Allens effort yesterday___Syndergaard is holding it down now in the 5th.

[Mickey34jb]

Rocchio just got an rbi double...3-1 Guards

[mscott59]

Aug 10, 2023 13:43:15 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Rocchio just got an rbi double...3-1 Guards

nice win yesterday to get the series split. but going to need more than 6 runs every 4 games from here on out to make a final run. like what I see out of rocchio.