MLB regular season thread - Part 6

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Continue laughing at James Shields here.

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[darko]

Marc - I prefer Gregerson blowing saves than Giles. Gregerson does it in more spectacular fashion. There's walks, wild pitches etc.

 

[darko]

18 ER in 8 innings with the White Sox.

 

[Virtanen18]

Giles blows the save

 

[Big McLargehuge]

18 ER in 8 innings with the White Sox.

That's Jeff Locke territory.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Considering that the Giles trade was already a cautionary tale about expending assets on relief pitching when it happened, how do we even categorize it now? It's like a cliched, double down version of a cautionary tale.

 

[darko]

Considering that the Giles trade was already a cautionary tale about expending assets on relief pitching when it happened, how do we even categorize it now? It's like a cliched, double down version of a cautionary tale.

I keep it simple and use the word 'putrid'.

 

[rangerssharks414]

Just seeing the boxscore for the White Sox/Indians game now... Shields sucks.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Don't like the trade for Houston.

Glad to be right on this one (lord knows I get enough wrong).

Meanwhile...

 

[darko]

Speaking of blown saves. Cards are in the middle of blowing 1 right now.

 

[robert terwilliger]

hanley's the best.

 

[robert terwilliger]

 

[UNB Bruins Fan]

Shields somehow was able to raise his ERA today...impressive.

 

[Voight]

Speaking of closers, Steve Cishek has been real solid this year for the M's. Credit to Dipoto.

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

I think its more the awesomeness of Adam #DuvAllstar than putrid relief pitching.

Still think Giles can put up Kimbrel numbers. He just needs to figure it out.

 

[robert terwilliger]

cards blow it. 3-3.

 

[robert terwilliger]

rangers take the lead.

 

[rangerssharks414]

It took all of two innings for everyone on the Indians to reach base at least once.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

He won't be, but Joe Panik deserves to be an All Star.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Lincecum looked decent today

 

[robert terwilliger]

...yeah, against the a's

 

[darko]

Astros walk it off.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

...yeah, against the a's

When you start Graveman, Triggs, and Surkamp in a series, you have bigger issues than just offense.

 

[Virtanen18]

Yeah, the Astros gave up too much for Giles. Can't say it wasn't a position of desperate need though.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Mets in another epic struggle with the Braves, 3-0 lead is gone.

Sandy has to make a trade otherwise all that great starting pitching goes wasted this year.