The radio crew was talking Hoberg up as a great balls-and-strikes ump, and that’s the best rating I’ve seen all year. Figures that the one bad miss was to Acuña.
I’m enough of a fan of the way the team has been scrapping the last several games that it’s barely sunken in that Abraham Almonte is our cleanup hitter.
Baseball is amazing. We traded Adam Wainwright for JD Drew and that mf’er sonned us like that, 17 years later. I’m just in awe. I guess Father’s Day is as good a time as any.
“Death Pitch” is pretty metal, but still comes up a bit short for me.
This dude has a classic baseball name already, it literally rhymes with “slider,” and “Death Pitch” is the best they can do? It sounds like a Google Translate of a writeup of a Nippon Professional Baseball game.