Here's the play Rangers-Rockies ended on today.

Overturned slide ruling at second base turns this into a game-ending double play.

Many in the state of Texas still trying to figure out what happened.

Colorado wins, 6-4 pic.twitter.com/Hn218Bc7o8

— Joey Hayden (@_joeyhayden) April 12, 2022

Coppell97 said:

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Here's the play Rangers-Rockies ended on today.

Overturned slide ruling at second base turns this into a game-ending double play.

Many in the state of Texas still trying to figure out what happened.

Colorado wins, 6-4 pic.twitter.com/Hn218Bc7o8

— Joey Hayden (@_joeyhayden) April 12, 2022

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Their shirts even say "F" TX

Coppell97 said:

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Here's the play Rangers-Rockies ended on today.

Overturned slide ruling at second base turns this into a game-ending double play.

Many in the state of Texas still trying to figure out what happened.

Colorado wins, 6-4 pic.twitter.com/Hn218Bc7o8

— Joey Hayden (@_joeyhayden) April 12, 2022

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After watching this I think it was a good overturn by New York. My issue is they need to be consistent on this call. Maybe it's because not enough managers are challenging slides

vander54 said:

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Coppell97 said:

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Here's the play Rangers-Rockies ended on today.

Overturned slide ruling at second base turns this into a game-ending double play.

Many in the state of Texas still trying to figure out what happened.

Colorado wins, 6-4 pic.twitter.com/Hn218Bc7o8

— Joey Hayden (@_joeyhayden) April 12, 2022

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After watching this I think it was a good overturn by New York. My issue is they need to be consistent on this call. Maybe it's because not enough managers are challenging slides

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I think that's basically the issue.

By rule, it was a bad slide... But by rule roughly 70% of slides in the MLB are bad slides and we really shouldn't be wanting to go down the road of reviewing all of them.

Ultimately what it turns into is in late game situations you challenge things just because there's no downside to it and maybe by the letter of law a rule was broken.

What I find even funnier about the whole ordeal is that MLB actually made a big deal about how great an innovation they were making this year that the umpires would "tells the fans" what the call was -- because seemingly with something as simple as "safe" or "out" the fans needed to hear it rather than just see the outcome?

Then you have an opportunity to actually have the umpire explain on the call *why* the runner was out. And they didn't. So you still had 30,000 people leaving the park not really knowing why the game ended like it did.

And that's baseball. Can't get out of it's own way.

Agree. Is there no "irrefutable" standard applied in baseball reviews?

I will give you the fact there are several slides in most games that are borderline or straight up illegal and if it is going to be enforced it needs to be modified.

Quite the Pandora's box here.

The rough equivalent is asking for a replay in football for a out of bounds and the replay booth saying "runner was in bounds, however there was a hold that was missed so team is being penalized 10 yards from spot of the foul"

That's why I'm fine getting rid of replay altogether. Sure, you'll have your Denkinger/Jim Joyce moments every decade or two, but it's not worth all this ancillary stuff in between on a nightly basis in my opinion. There's 162 games. A missed call isn't gonna be the reason your season is ruined. And the bad calls will even out over time.

Coppell97 said:

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Here's the play Rangers-Rockies ended on today.

Overturned slide ruling at second base turns this into a game-ending double play.

Many in the state of Texas still trying to figure out what happened.

Colorado wins, 6-4 pic.twitter.com/Hn218Bc7o8

— Joey Hayden (@_joeyhayden) April 12, 2022

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Just wasn't our day man. Ever since the first inning, all of the calls and breaks went the Rockies way. Oh well. We still almost beat them. Lets get them today.

Agree with what he says. I think the slide rule needs to be changed to be intent to hurt or just ridiculous out of your way slide.

Also keep in mind that call didn't lose us the game - it just ended it.

No guarantee we'd have gotten another run. And even if we did, better than even chance our bullpen would blow it again in the 11th.

This was posted on the Astros season thread, when I saw it I figured ya'll would enjoy it also -

The @FacingNolan trailer is live! This movie is incredible, one of the best baseball documentaries I have ever seen.

You will be able to see this in theaters for one night only across the country on May 24th. Directed by @BradleyJackson pic.twitter.com/ANVnF06hUr

— Michael Schwab (@michaelschwab13) April 12, 2022

jkag89 said:

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This was posted on the Astros season thread, when I saw it I figured ya'll would enjoy it also -

The @FacingNolan trailer is live! This movie is incredible, one of the best baseball documentaries I have ever seen.

You will be able to see this in theaters for one night only across the country on May 24th. Directed by @BradleyJackson pic.twitter.com/ANVnF06hUr

— Michael Schwab (@michaelschwab13) April 12, 2022

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My understanding is that the documentary will be showed on May 1 after the Rangers' game against the Braves.

It will be interesting to watch this team gel and hopefully get better. Because they are kinda looking like ***** right now.

Well damn. Great play, but that sucks.

That was gone and he brought it back. Hell of a play. Sucks it happened

Mr Gigem said:

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Would be nice to get Semien going. Seems like a void in the lineup right now

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My fantasy team could use it too

Yeah, i don't knownif he is pressing or what. I think he'll come around though

Mr Gigem said:

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Would be nice to get Semien going. Seems like a void in the lineup right now

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This is from. Chris Halicke's report.

As for Marcus Semienwho signed a seven-year, $175 million contract with Texas this offseasonhe's opened the season with a rough stretch, slashing .091/.130/.136/.266 with just one RBI in 22 at-bats. Woodward said that Semien would never use it as an excuse, but the Rangers skipper revealed that his new second baseman was under the weather and "felt terrible" during the series in Toronto, which could explain the slow start for a guy who set the Major League record for home runs in a single season by a second baseman last year.

Hopefully just a really bad cold or something.

I'm grateful for the off day. Looks like the team could really use it.

He could have been killed. He's very lucky to be able to walk it off.

Don't look now, but Leody Tavares is hitting .538 in AAA. Granted, it's a fairly small sample size, but that's a pretty torrid start.

Bubba Thompson is hitting .407. Stats as of last night's game (Tuesday).

Bubba was smashing in Spring ball. Hopefully he's finally growing into the draft pick invested in him.

rbtexan said:

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Don't look now, but Leody Tavares is hitting .538 in AAA. Granted, it's a fairly small sample size, but that's a pretty torrid start.

Bubba Thompson is hitting .407. Stats as of last night's game (Tuesday).

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I'll be glad to eat crow, but Taveras strikes me as one of those AAAA type players where they dominate in triple A, but it just doesn't translate to the majors.

Grapesoda2525 said:

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rbtexan said:

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Don't look now, but Leody Tavares is hitting .538 in AAA. Granted, it's a fairly small sample size, but that's a pretty torrid start.

Bubba Thompson is hitting .407. Stats as of last night's game (Tuesday).

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I'll be glad to eat crow, but Taveras strikes me as one of those AAAA type players where they dominate in triple A, but it just doesn't translate to the majors.

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Agreed on Taveras, but would love to be wrong. I think Bubba Thompson has a higher ceiling.

Took a deeper dive into Tavares' stats so far.

26 ABs, 14 hits. 4 2Bs, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 2 SB. 1 walk, and this is what got my attention, only 4 Ks.
He's making contact, which was his issue last year. He's only 23, so maybe he's getting some stuff figured out. When the Rangers brought him up in '19, he had only played 65 games at AA, the rest of his professional career had been in the Rookie league & A ball. He got rushed to the majors before he was ready.

I certainly want to see him at AAA for a while, and see if he can continue to hit. If he can, Eli White better start looking over his shoulder.

Defensively Taveras was pretty good at least in terms of sped and range in the outfield. Don't remember how good his arm was/is, but if he can hit he'd definitely be valuable with added speed on the base paths