DURAN DURAN, Clark vs. Kent, Dreyer vs. Sheets, and the Quirkiest Matchups we’ve EVER SEEN 👀 (Pt II)

in third with one away. And here is Gavin Sheets. A single and a foul out. One for two so far. A little bit low in this spot. 273. 22 runs driven in. All of a sudden, you get the tying run at the plate here for San Diego. Fouled back. Pretty good rip right there. The fast ball. Oh, he likes the high cheese right there. for another look. Lefty on lefty upstairs in a little bit. It’s not where he wanted it. Fly ball to center field. Pah moves over into right center. Gets himself ready. Makes the catch. Tagging and jogging home is Manny Machado with the second Padres’s run. Sack fly for Gavin and sheets and a long drive to left field. Way back goes Gilkkey, but that’s a goner. A two-run home run for Jeff Kent for Mark Clark. That is the third walk he’s issued. And it’ll bring up the man who hit him for a two-run homer in the first inning. Jeff Kent. One of the things about walking Barry Bonds and he had 151 walks Jeff Kent. This is Kent following Bonds’s single with a two-run home run in the first inning. Bonds also a very good stolen baseman, so he can steal bases. 4040 last year, the second man in the history of baseball to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases. Now Kent will try it again. A home run, his second of the year. His first time up. And that was on a first pitch fast ball from Clark who checks Bonds back to first. We’re in the third inning and Mark Clark has already thrown 50 pitches. And again, these pitchers for the most part for both teams, for every one of the major leagues at this stage, aren’t stretched out yet. By that we mean they just haven’t had the number of innings to where they would feel comfortable throwing a lot of pitches early in a game with a chance to pitch deep into the game. breaks inside. One and0 to Kent. Ralph, you think that makes it tougher for pitchers to succeed? They always talk about pitchers being ahead of the hitters at the beginning of a season, but do the pitchers get anywhere near enough work in spring training compared to what the hitters get? No, they don’t. But I think a big factor is cold weather. It’s a tougher thing to hit than pitch in cold weather. Inside two and nothing on Kent in a strike zone jumping all over the place on Mark Clark. The weather today is not cold. It’s a good day for April right here at Shay Stadium. His uh strike ball ratio very poor in this game. So he has not had command of his pitches at all. The Mets have had great starting pitching. So Jeff Kent in his first game back in New York since being traded by the Mets hit a home run. Did a little dance going around first base too. Look at Bob Amadaka the pitching coach. And the Mets appealed thinking that Kent had missed first base. He did not. And Bonds is running off speed pitch inside and Bonds is gunned down by Hunley. So what Mark Clark has been unable to do so far here in the third, Todd Hundley has done a couple of Giants out. He had thrown out one of three prior to this ball game and now he saw him two of two out. So his soul out percentage is extremely high. If a catcher throws out 30% of the runners attempting to steal is considered to be good. He’s way over that. And the tag up high and in time. It’s three and 0 to Kent. And he’s going on three and 0. Swinging the bat, fouling it off. So a pair of Giants thrown out by Hundley. Now gives Clark some room. Nobody on base. Two out. And that’s below the knees. Two consecutive walks by Clark, four for the game as Crawford continues to throw in the bullpen. And a look of puzzlement on Mark Clark and Bobby Valentine. Jiren tonight 0 for four and he struck out a couple of times. We got famous band up. Duran. Duran. Poke fouled on two. So, Bill, if you got in the box right now against this guy, what part would you stand in the very back corner of the batters box, like the very back one, or would you dig in? The only reason why I would dig in is cuz everyone was going to be watching and I would pretend to be brave. But I feel like I can say that up here, but I would be definitely like my bat would just barely be going over the home plate. I would be that far outside. I would be sort of swinging strike three right through 101. Two up, two down. I mean, it’s got to be like whistling at that speed. Then when it hits the glove, that’s really intimidating. Yeah, you’re you’re trying to get a short swing on this and if you don’t, I mean, it is by you. One- nothing Astros lead in Toronto. Bottom of the second. Hunter Brown delivers to Brandon Belt, who smacks it the other way down the left field line. That’s down for a hit pass JS and it’ll two hop before getting to the wall. Belt is on his way to second base and will stop there with a leadoff double. First hit for the Toronto Blue Jays. A little against the the scouting reporter, Brandon Belt, who usually takes that first pitch. Bottom of the first inning, Mike Fires on the mound for the Astros. 5 and N, 4.17 RA in 22 games, 21 starts. Billy Burns will lead it off for the A’s. Fires delivers. And there’s a strike on the outside corner. Burns hitting 292, 334 on base percentage, two home runs, and 22 RBI’s. Corner infielders are in outfield shaded the other way and shallow 01. It’s outside. Well, Fires features a fast ball that it’s averages about 89 miles per hour. Big over the top curve ball. A cutter also a change up. 1-1 off the plate away. Throws straight over the top. Fires. He’ll lean back and get that arm even higher. Acquired by the Astros in that deadline deal with the Brewers. It also netted the Astros Carlos Gomez. two- one head off the hands and over the screen. 89 mph fast ball. Certainly seems like that fast ball in is where Burns would have trouble. It is. Yeah. One of the better hitters in baseball. Number five with a 322 average on pitches away. 2-2 swing and a miss. struck him out on a pitch down and Burns is the first out in the bottom of the first. And that was inside as well. And that was an ugly swing by Burns that time. Not comfortable with that pitch in there. Bryce Jarvis coming off a 13 pitch. One, two, three, six. Back out there to face Alex Cole to lead off the national seventh. Oh, good pitch. Didn’t get the call. Sparksdale. What are we doing? That was right there. Paul has a pair of RBI hits in the game. Both singles. He’s also stolen a base. He’s two for two. Other ball was a strike. Just wasn’t caught that time by Gabby, but it was right there. A good slider. I think that’s the rule. You got to catch it for it to be a strike, right? Maybe the unwritten rule. It used to be. That would have been a automatic breaking service at ABS next year. Yes. Right away down 3 and 0. Dylan Cruz who has struck out twice on Dick. Got to come back here. 94 caught that inside edge. Diamondbacks have a left-hander warming up in their bullpen. Three and one on Alex Call. That’s out of play now. Full three and two. Second of a three-game set here at Nats Park. Joe Mantiply getting loose. Are with you early tomorrow morning. 10:35. It’s breakfast with the Diamondbacks. Corbin Burns makes his second Dback start. Nationals had scheduled Mike Sroka to start in that game, but he just went on the injured list the other day. So they are TBA. Yeah. And Bryce loses callers aboard for the third time. Lead off walk in the seven, but they lead by four. Out hitting the Cubs 86. Here is Posey taking a strike. I mean, you think about the first inning. Pagan was just a little ground ball through the middle. Pence was a dribbler through the right side. You know, Posey hit a little sack fly to right. Morris hit a ground ball off Arietta’s glove and that, you know, they ended up scoring two runs in the first, but nothing hit all that hard. Parker ready for the 01 to Posey. Bouncing ball left side. Glove by Ult moving to his left. Plants the feet. Throws to first. Gets him. Posey bounces out. Giants don’t score. Cubs need some late offense in the Bay Area. We move to the eighth inning. Giants four, Cubs nothing. Jake Cousins, the right, he pitches for a second straight day. Yeah, he pitched the ninth inning and struck out Horwitz and Varjo to start the inning. Then he walked Ernie Clement, but got Davis Schneider to end the ball game. Alejandro Kirk to the Plato for two with a fly out and a strikeout. Swings at the first pitch, hits it to right field. Fair ball. Springer in to score. Guerrero right behind him and Alejandro Kirk is the first non- Guerrero Blue Jay with a hit. It’s a two-run single. Uh terrific approach jumping on the first pitch from Cousins and Cousins gives up the two runs. Those runs will be charged to Rodan and his line now is complete. But Kirk not wasting any time. He’s been swinging the bat well lately and he comes up with a big hit right here with one out. A two-run single down the right field line. So, let’s go boys. Kyle Farmer. Strike one from Will Crowe. Farmer had filled in most recently in the third slot. Nick Costanos has taken that position back. But Farmer’s crushed since the break, hitting just under 400 with an OPS of 1130. He’s getting on base a ton. He is hitting for power. And there’s another base hit for Kyle Farmer. And I don’t know if it’s because he’s been on pace so much, but I’m watching him run. It looks like he’s running better, too, and feeling better. Maybe that’s cuz he’s on base all the time now, but still swinging a really hot bat. And can’t say enough what this guy has done for this team. Stabilizing defensively that shortstop position and always giving a quality at bat. I’ve seen like 75,000 baseball games in my life and every year we still see see stuff we’ve never seen before. Yep. There’s the Hail Caesar matchup. There you go. And it it’s Hail to Caesar, so you don’t even have to mess with it really. Spelling’s a little different, but that’s okay. Fun match up. The movie was a little disappointing. outside and a soft liner. Caesar wins the matchup. All hail Caesar. Watch him pull the hands in just enough to get enough of that barrel on that baseball. Matt Caesar is a an intriguing guy. So an early two nothing lead. Kobe Mayo is now the seventh man to the plate. Right-hand hitter. First pitch from Freed. Runners at first and second and a breaking ball for a called strike. And with that base hit, last four games for Gary Sanchez, five for 12, two home runs and seven RBI’s, he’s having a good run. Mayo Young, he’s actually a third baseman. Came up from TripleA NOFK back on May 31. 01 pitch in tight and little bit high for ball one. So I think they’re all here now cuz I Michael drafted a plethora a slew a lot of infielders and all those years of finishing last and I think they’re all here now. One and one here. Need an out. Here’s a pitch. Swung on. Bounced down the third base line. Pass the third base coach Buck Britain. Except for Joey Ortiz who is now in Milwaukee. They turned him and DL Hall into Corvin Burns for last year. And that’s what happens when you’ve got they say they got too many infielders. Well, they can they got themselves a pitcher last year. Didn’t do it this year, however. Trying to keep this damage limited to two runs. It’s a one-two pitch here to Mayo. And a pitch from Fred. Breaking ball hit to Vulpi on the second hop. throws a second to DJ for the force. And that’ll do it.

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