San Francisco 5, Arizona 6
Eduardo Rodriguez was terrible – and then he wasn’t. Corbin Carroll spent the evening destroying Mr. Baseball. The Diamondbacks enjoyed aggressive running and small ball, while the Giants forgot hot to make plays at first base. In the end, the result was another Arizona win, one which kept pace with the Mets and secured the tie-breaker against the Giants for the final NL wild card position.
Lawlar Walks Off Giants
Instead of a spectacular bomb crushed at 110 mph that went upper deck, the winning knock came complete with an exit velocity that likely wouldn’t even garner a speeding ticket outside of a school zone and travelled only 60 -70 feet.
Today’s Aces Compared to Aces of Old
The evolution of the ace is examined for each decade, starting with 1975. This is a very good examination of how starting pitching has evolved, both for the better and the worse.
Raleigh Hits 55, 56 – Passes Mantle, Ties Junior
The Big Dumper dumped two more bombs last night, surpassing Mickey Mantle for the most home runs in a season by a switch-hitter. The second bomb tied Raleigh with Ken Griffey, Jr. for the most home runs by a Seattle Mariner in a season. The Mariners still have 11 games left for him to set the franchise record by hitting one more. If he can hit six more, he’ll tie the American League record of 62 hit my Aaron Judge in 2022.
Not going to lie, I just assumed he had already done this for some reason. What makes it even better though is, the Dodgers choked the game away and lost, despite the key event of the night.