Mariners (Castillo) vs Twins (Woods Richardson): 5/6/24, 6:40pm

[Shaitan]

I was hoping for some classic small ball, but I'll take it.

Coming through when needed.

[ashbury]

Official scorers are loath to let the first hit off a good pitcher be questionable like Kepler's was.

Had Correa's hit preceded Kepler's attempt, I think Max would have been awarded a double.

[IaBeanCounter]

Castro has to move Correa to 3rd (or home)

[Shaitan]

at minimum, work that pitch count

[USAFChief]

Just now, ashbury said:

Official scorers are loath to let the first hit off a good pitcher be questionable like Kepler's was.

Had Correa's hit preceded Kepler's attempt, I think Max would have been given a double.

Well then they should all be fired. 

[Parfigliano]

1 minute ago, IaBeanCounter said:

Castro has to move Correa to 3rd (or home)

He didnt

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, ashbury said:

Official scorers are loath to let the first hit off a good pitcher be questionable like Kepler's was.

Had Correa's hit preceded Kepler's attempt, I think Max would have been awarded a double.

As a reliever, I did a lot of scoring (games) in college. That would have gotten an error from me.

[Shaitan]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

Well then they should all be fired. 

Is it even a paid job?

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

Well then they should all be fired. 

*shrug* Like any corporate employee, they do what the company wants.

[Aggies7]

1 minute ago, Shaitan said:

Is it even a paid job?

Absolutely.

*not well, though 

[USAFChief]

3 pitches to dispatch Vazquez. 

[ashbury]

1 minute ago, Shaitan said:

Is it even a paid job?

Yes.  No one gets rich doing it, but it's not like the old days where a beat reporter would pick up a few bucks for the effort.

[Mike Sixel]

Just now, USAFChief said:

3 pitches to dispatch Vazquez. 

I didn't think it could possibly be worse than last year.....

[ashbury]

There's your run, Mr. W-R.  Make it stand up.

[USAFChief]

woof. Nice to get a run, but pffffffft after that. 

[Tlaker]

2 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

As a reliever, I did a lot of scoring (games) in college. That would have gotten an error from me.

So since games is in parentheses….. does that mean that you didn’t do much other scoring in college?🤷‍♂️

[Parfigliano]

When is Margot going to be Margone?

[ziggy]

Margot hit the snot out of that one.

[Mike Sixel]

I really hope this is margots last chance....

[Shaitan]

1 minute ago, Aggies7 said:

Absolutely.

I feel like it's one of those jobs like organist where the giant corporation "lets" people do it almost on a volunteer or severely underpaid position. Maybe I'm mixing it up.

That would be weird, as they're almost the official archivists.

[Aggies7]

3 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

So since games is in parentheses….. does that mean that you didn’t do much other scoring in college?🤷‍♂️

I’d have let the league in strikeouts…

and doubles

[USAFChief]

1 minute ago, Mike Sixel said:

I really hope this is margots last chance....

I feel like there's no chance of that. 

[Aggies7]

Just now, Shaitan said:

I feel like it's one of those jobs like organist where the giant corporation "lets" people do it almost on a volunteer or severely underpaid position. Maybe I'm mixing it up.

That would be weird, as they're almost the official archivists.

Looks like it was $35 an hour a couple years ago. I wonder if they got a raise after the pitch clock was implemented 😂

[Mike Sixel]

Just now, USAFChief said:

I feel like there's no chance of that. 

Sigh. Agreed. 

[ashbury]

3 minutes ago, Shaitan said:

I feel like it's one of those jobs like organist where the giant corporation "lets" people do it almost on a volunteer or severely underpaid position. Maybe I'm mixing it up.

That would be weird, as they're almost the official archivists.

I forget exactly but it's a few hundred a game.

[Shaitan]

The pitchers' duel we all predicted. Impressed with SWR today. So much that I might even spell his full name next time.

[USAFChief]

3 minutes ago, Aggies7 said:

I’d have let the league in strikeouts…

and doubles

I rarely got to first base in my college years. 

[IaBeanCounter]

Do they let SWR start the 7th

[USAFChief]

Tremendous outing for SWR.

Pretty sure that's it for tonight, and I'm OK with that.

[Aggies7]

Just now, USAFChief said:

I rarely got to first base in my college years. 

Of course, they looked like this when you played