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And Pittsburgh without Cole and McCutchen is 8-2.

 

Molina will be serving his one-game suspension during Wednesday's series finale against the Brewers...

 

Todays action had some action...

 

With his second hit on Thursday evening against the White Sox, Twins first baseman Joe Mauer became the 287th member of baseball’s 2,000 hit club. He singled in the third inning to knock in the Twins’ second run and hit a two-run single in the seventh off of White Sox reliever Aaron Bummer to extend his team’s lead to 4-0.

 

crazy how great Mauer started out with an MVP and a batting title, which was rare for a catcher to pull it off. Injuries and the new stadium hurt his numbers. I don't know if he's a HOF'er or not, but man he had a great first start to his career. Only Buster Posey has out produced him as a catcher the last 10 yrs with an MVP, 3 WS rings and batting title of his own.

 

81 degrees today. it's about time. now this is baseball weather.

 

Luis Perdomo and Nolan Arenado suspended five games for Wednesday’s altercation



Seven players have been suspended following an intense altercation between the Rockies and Padres on Wednesday afternoon, the league announced Friday. Padres right-hander Luis Perdomo and Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado were hit the hardest for their actions during the brawl and will each serve a five-game suspension. Perdomo, who instigated the confrontation after purposefully throwing at Arenado, is not expected to appeal his suspension and will need to be replaced in advance of Monday’s series opener against the Dodgers. Arenado was also charged as a co-instigator of the fight after charging the mound and is planning to appeal. “I was just defending myself. […] They throw hard out there and reactions happen, and that’s all it was,” he told reporters.

Five other players also received penalties for their actions: Rockies outfielder Gerardo Parra was saddled with a four-game suspension and Padres reliever Buddy Baumann was given a one-game suspension. Rockies right-hander German Marquez was slapped with a fine for his involvement in the fracas, as was Padres catcher A.J. Ellis and shortstop Freddy Galvis. Parra, whose four-game penalty stemmed from a punch he landed during the brawl, also intends to appeal the decision.

AJ Cassavell of MLB.com points out that the Rockies can stagger the suspensions for Arenado and Parra so they won’t need to replace both players at once. The Padres, meanwhile, will need to select a replacement for Perdomo against the Dodgers; while they have yet to announce a starter, possible options include right-hander Jordan Lyles and southpaw Robbie Erlin.

 

Red Sox improve to 11-2, equal best start in 100 years...

 

this weather is killing games. I think the Chicago White Sox were cancelled all weekend for snow. Same in Cleveland or Detroit ? Not good.

 

Tigers have 5 PPD's already. Kind of stupid to open in Detroit in the first place.

 

AGREED Will. why not play in domes and the South and West Coast as much as you can the first 2 weeks of the season ?? This is getting ridiculous.

 

Bartolo Colon loses perfect game bid in eighth inning against Astros

 

if he pulled it off, he would've broken the record for the oldest man to throw one. Randy Johnson has the record still.

weather played more havoc yesterday. tons of cancelled games.

 

Aaron Judge becomes quickest to hit 60 career home runs...
Aaron Judge reached 60 career home runs in 197 games, beating the previous record of 202 games held by Mark McGwire.

 

just think 100 yrs ago, it took many season for a player to reach 60 till the Babe did it in 1 year. haha.

 

Jose signs a deal with the Braves Minor League team...

 

^^ wow. how far he has fallen. guy was bashing 35-40 hrs a year 3-4 yrs ago.

 

We have our first fired manager...

Cincinnati Reds fire Bryan Price

The Cincinnati Reds have fired manager Bryan Price. He’ll be replaced on an interim basis by bench coach Jim Riggleman. The team also fired pitching coach Mack Jenkins. The club also added Louisville manager Pat Kelly to the staff as the new bench coach and Double-A pitching coach Danny Darwin as the new big league pitching coach.

It was only a matter of time for Price, whose Reds have begun the season 3-15. This was Price’s fifth season at the helm and the Reds never won more than 76 games in any of his previous seasons, doing so in his first year, in 2014. They won 68 games in both 2016 and 2017 and 64 games in 2015. While that’s far more attributable to the Reds talent level than anything Price ever did or did not do, at some point the manager will take the fall for a team that makes no progress.

Price’s tenure will likely be considered largely forgettable in the view of history, but he did have a pretty memorable moment as Reds manager in April of 2015, when he went on a profanity-laced tirade at the media because they reported the availability or lack thereof of certain players for an upcoming game. Which is part of the media’s job, even if Price didn’t fully grok that at the time. The tirade itself was pretty epic, though, with then Cincinnati Enquirer reporter C. Trent Rosecrans reporting that “there were 77 uses of the “F” word or a variant and 11 uses of a vulgar term for feces (two bovine, one equine).”

Taking over will be Jim Riggleman, who last managed in the big leagues with the Washington Nationals, resigning in June of 2011 because he was unhappy that he did not get a contract extension. It was a weird episode, the sort of which a lot of guys couldn’t have come back from, perhaps being considered quitters. Riggleman took a job managing the Reds’ Double-A team, however, then moved on to Triple-A and then the Reds’ big league coaching staff. There’s something to be said for persistence. And for being a big league lifer.

Anyway, Price’s exit is not likely to change the Reds’ course too much in 2018. But, as it is so often said in baseball, sometimes you gotta make a change all the same.