Need a big K right here

Looked high

Brutal pitch.

Nice pitch!!

Huge pitch ! gravy needed that

might see a plus-runs-Astros scorecard (ump) in the morning

Wabs said:

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This ump card may go our way

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I think it caught the corner.

Massive sigh of relief

Heck yeah .. Graveman gets through the inning

Lordy

agdaddy04 said:

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AggieJ2002 said:

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Texaggie7nine said:

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Coulda been a triple

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It was a ground rule double

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Automatic double

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Correct

agdaddy04 said:

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Wabs said:

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This ump card may go our way

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I think it caught the corner.

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I think it hit the box too, bit that call just doesn't fit with the general trend of us getting ****ed by the umps all year.

Dug in on Pena's fangraphs the other day. Was actually encouraging. His BB% is up and K% down.



His power is fallen off because he's hitting a crap ton more ground balls. Which I know has been noticed on here. I've noticed it. Pitchers are getting him to roll over a lot.


He's getting eaten up by fastballs this year... after he pounded them last year.



I could see a player who's trying to improve their approach from a free swinger to a more calculated pitch taker see this happen to them. You see more pitches and maybe take too many good pitches early, then end up feeling like you have to swing at worst pitches deep in the count.

I feel like the trajectory he's on though, with how young and athletic he is will see him improve. Adding 3% to BB% while shaving 3% off Ks is a great sign. This will eventually lead to better contact and more barrels usually.

Circling back to the increased ground balls. I wonder how many of them have come with 2 strikes and him swinging and putting in play a pitch that's out of the zone that as he matures he'll lay off of.

Did he just decide 2000 is enough?

55% ground ball ratio is rather concerning

Bregman walks

Lol he gave them a strike that AB and Alex complains haha

It is, but that's something that can potentially be fixed with an offseason of tooling the swing. It's super encouraging to see his knowledge of the strike zone increasing.

Was Cora tossed?

Blue Jays beat the Orioles

no mercy in the wildcard race