Boston is Title Town USA

[lady black]

At the risk of making you mad again, tek, I thought I would tell you that I have been hearing on the sports news that it has been 103 years since the Cubs made it to the World Series. But the reason it is on the news is that the Cubs did get Theo Epstein away from your Red Sox after all. I hope he can help the Cubs; you obviously think highly of him.

[sdevaney]

All hail Theo! lol j/k I do hope he helps us though.

[Antison]

All hail Theo! lol j/k I do hope he helps us though.

Nothing can ever help the Cubs except for maybe blowing-up that over rated ballpark.

[goat]

I have 2 signed baseballs from varitek...

[Antison]

I have 2 signed baseballs from varitek...

Really? ! I love Jason Varitek game! I always have (since 1997), just ask my 5 year old what his middle name is.

Goat,

Are you a Bostonian or a new englander too?

[goat]

Southeast Detroit, I work with one of his cousins. So when the bosox come to play the tigers I can usually get signed balls from the bosox. I think I have dustin pedroia also

[lady black]

I had trouble finding this topic, it has been so long since it had a post. I did not want to start a new sports topic, though.
I hope all baseball fans heard about the White Sox pitcher, Phillip Humber, throwing a perfect game on Saturday! Only number 21 in MLB history, and the third for the White Sox (1922, 2009, 2012.) (Of course, it should be #22, because of the blind umpire mis-calling the Detroit Tigers game last year and costing their pitcher his perfect game. Even the ump agreed he was wrong-after the game-and petitioned the Commissioner to count it as a perfect game!)
(Edited to add pitcher's name and correct the first date.)

[Antison]

I had trouble finding this topic, it has been so long since it had a post. I did not want to start a new sports topic, though.
I hope all baseball fans heard about the White Sox pitcher throwing a perfect game on Saturday! Only number 21 in MLB history, and the third for the White Sox (1926, 2009, 2012.) (Of course, it should be #22, because of the blind umpire mis-calling the Detroit Tigers game last year and costing their pitcher his perfect game. Even the ump agreed he was wrong-after the game-and petitioned the Commissioner to count it as a perfect game!)

list of the 21 perfect games. 10 of which have occurred sense 1988 when I was 10 years old and first started watching baseball. I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to see almost half of them (a few of them on live tv).

[lady black]

Thanks, tek.
I checked out the link and saw also a list of 50 pitchers who have struck out 4 batters in one inning. Can you explain how this is possible, since three outs (by strike-outs or not) ends the inning for that team. Does the 4th guy, in the on-deck circle, just walk to the plate, and nobody notices, and he also strikes out?

[Antison]

Thanks, tek.
I checked out the link and saw also a list of 50 pitchers who have struck out 4 batters in one inning. Can you explain how this is possible, since three outs (by strike-outs or not) ends the inning for that team. Does the 4th guy, in the on-deck circle, just walk to the plate, and nobody notices, and he also strikes out?

A batter can reach first base after swinging and missing for the third strike when the catcher misses the ball and fails to get it to first base before the batter-runner does. So when this occurs, the strikeout is credited to the pitcher, a passed ball is most likely given to the catcher unless a wild pitch is given to the pitcher and thus a 4th out is required.