8/31 - 9/13 Game Discussion Thread

[Majingir]

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If it happens multiple games,then yes

[Sportsforever]

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I know it's a small sample, but Hector Olivera doesn't seem to have very good command of the strike zone. Will be interesting to see if he picks it up this month.

[PhilliesFan13]

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Just read the Braves are 3-23 in their last 26 games. That is beyond brutal. Didn't realize it was that bad until I saw that.

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[Mabster]

Re: 8/31 - 9/13 Game Discussion Thread

Doolittle needing only 5 pitches to notch his 1st save of the year.

That's one tiny bright spot in the A's season.

[LowerWolf]

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Just read the Braves are 3-23 in their last 26 games. That is beyond brutal. Didn't realize it was that bad until I saw that.

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Seven game losing streak - win over the Rockies - 12 game losing streak for a 1-19 mark in our last 20. We're just terrible right now.

We've got a lead tonight, but there's plenty of time for the pen to blow it.

Edit: And we actually win a game.

[Steven78]

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Man Scherzer has been terrible since his no hitter. Wonder if he's hurt.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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Hittrackeronline.com has it at 467 feet, which I am more inclined to believe.


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I think it doesn't seem to come to realization that it made impact with the scoreboard less than 400 feet away from home plate. Wrigley has the shallowest LCF in all of baseball, and those bleachers are plenty steep. There is a created illusion of it being a monstrous blast (which it was, no doubt), but when you hit it somewhere like Comerica it looks like... ehh a pretty good HR, but still not the farthest.

It basically has it hitting around the base of one of the buildings beyond Waveland Ave. If it went at ~500 feet, it would have hit higher off the building's facing. I don't have a picture with Wrigley's scoreboard in place, but even as high as it hit off it it, imagine how far it really has to be hit to go through every obstructing facade and land about 500 feet away from home plate. This one would not have done that.





Doesn't make it any less impressive, but it's still not the longest HR this year. I don't know where other sites (particularly MLB.com which uses Statcast) got their 495 foot projection.

Giancarlo Stanton's 483 foot blast on June 23rd is still the farthest of the year, and I am inclined to believe that. Here's the shot, tracker, and an image as a reference point on if it fell to the ground, it would have gone out of the stadium.


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If that doesn't convince you, it was even lower elevation and 5 MPH faster speed off bat in a closed park (perhaps that contributes to the distance, but it doesn't make it any shorter, that's for sure).

Speaking of which, take a look at what J.P. Arencibia just did with his blast at Comerica. It's currently estimated at 464 feet, and looks every bit as crushed as Bryant's home run. Randy Wolf's reaction says it all.


(NSFW language warning from Wolf)

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Nothing yet on Hittrackeronline.com for this until tonight or tomorrow, but this was basically where it landed up in the stands (impact is above the ground), so 464 feet is very believable. Again, compared to Bryant's they are essentially the same thing. Don't let a scoreboard fool you into where the ball was hit, look at the range wings.





Essentially, if you put an overlay around Wrigley and include Arencibia's hit, the green shows you about where the ball would have landed if it was at Wrigley (going through structures and all) compared to that of Bryant's.





As you can see, Wrigley has a very small CF area. I just don't know where the 495 number comes from. I would have loved to see such a blast, but it just didn't happen yesterday. Why am I so defensive about this? No vendettas against Bryant (if you've seen any posts I've made about him besides in the HRD you'd know that I love the guy), but he didn't hit the farthest HR this year and I'd like that to be heard. Arencibia hit one just as impressive minutes ago, yet no one will give it mention because he doesn't have the "name" or the ball didn't hit a scoreboard, yet he probably would have taken out his own face on the screen if he was at Wrigley. They have to adjust that so that credit is owed where it is due.

I'm not gonna say you're trying too hard here, but I'm not gonna say that you're not, either.

The 495' was from watching the live broadcast. The Cubs have a Southwest Airlines "how far did it fly?" sponsorship for estimating HR distance so that's where that came from.

[Blzer]

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I'm not gonna say you're trying too hard here, but I'm not gonna say that you're not, either.

The 495' was from watching the live broadcast. The Cubs have a Southwest Airlines "how far did it fly?" sponsorship for estimating HR distance so that's where that came from.

I was definitely trying to hard.

It's just physics for me. You want a far blast? Check out this one!


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EDIT: Arencibia's home run is now on Hittrackeronline.com.

[Trent Booty]

Re: 8/31 - 9/13 Game Discussion Thread

Mariners have been rattling off runs like it's their day job recently (oh wait..... It is.) only to get shutout by Texas, the team we need to be beating.

Back to 7 GB, in what has been a terrible frustrating season.

[jb12780]

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Eovaldi being shut down for 2 weeks due to elbow inflammation. Damn.

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[Speedy]

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Just read the Braves are 3-23 in their last 26 games.

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[TripleCrown9]

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LASER SHOW BACK

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[bcruise]

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Rizzo! Great start after the explosion yesterday.

[LambertandHam]

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With the Cubs beating up on the Cards, good opportunity for the Pirates. They couldn't take advantage of it last night. Will be crazy if Pirates, Card and Cubs are within 1-2 games of each other at the end of the year.

[SPTO]

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The bats have become frigid

Worst time of the year for this to happen IMO.