OT: If you love Opening Day pitching duels...
...you just might want to tune in to the Tigers opener at Toronto right now. This one is about as good as it gets for the starting pitchers---Zimmerman has thrown only 56 pitches entering the bottom of the 7th inning in a 0-0 game.
A clean infield single busts up Zimmerman's perfect game after 6 2/3.
Jack Morris jinxed it.
Not to be outdone it's currently the top of the 7th in Minnesota and the Tribe n Twins are scoreless. Both teams have combined for exactly two hits.
I'm sorry but baseball is fucking boring as hell.
and people say soccer is boring. In my opinion, baseball is easily the most boring sport to watch on tv, but it is fun to be at the ballpark. Mostly for the atmosphere.
Soccer is easily the most boring sport on the planet for me but I also realize that it’s because I have zero understanding of the game’s nuances. On that line I also think that people that think baseball is boring don’t really understand what they’re watching.
Surprised to read that from one of my fellow old farts. I strongly disagree that a potential perfect game is in any way boring.
In this one, 20 up, 20 down until a weak bouncer ruined a possible Opening Day performance for the ages by Zimmerman. Fun stuff to watch for baseball fans.
I may have the body of an old man but ive got the attention span of a millennial hopped up on Adderall, Snickers bars and a double shot of espresso.
Jinx lag effect confirmed at 3 minutes 15 seconds.
HaHa just kidding thanks for the heads up!
It was your fault. Thanks a lot. Season is over now.
Why were the announcers going on and on about the perfect game try. Totally ruined it.
Jack Morris, of all people.
Tigers just got two-home-run, up 2-0 top of tenth.
I see ya Stewart!
Niko leads off the Tigers 10th with a double and BOOM!! Big fly by Stewart for a 2-0 Tigers lead!!!
Happy Opening Day! Baseball is great, although I'm not a fan of the three true outcomes taking over the game - strikeouts and homers are fun when they're rare. That said, a perfect game is exceptionally fun - every pitch hangs in the air with drama
Introducing the undefeated, unscored-upon, first place 2019 DEEEE-TROIT TIGERS!!!
This Christin Stewart looks like a nice young player. I'm glad the tigers organization invested many years in him....when can they move him as part of the "tear down"? God I love the game but hate the tanking culture. So lame.
Maybe the gap toothed man in charge will do something to change it someday. The way him and ad salesman Adam silver run their leagues make Goodell and Bettman look brilliant.
I enjoyed the very purposeful lack of direct reference to the fact that he had a perfect game going as of when this was posted
Padres with the Opening Day shutout as well.
I'm honestly just happy my two favorite teams are guaranteed not to go 0-162.
Hey, the Padres may have Manny Machado, but yeah.....San Diego needs pitching to even sniff the wild card.
Well, deGrom vs. Sherzer will beat whatever happens in that Tiger game. Both starters set an MLB record for Opening Day double digit strikeouts.
Sherzer allowed just two runs on two hits and made a single mistake to Robinson Cano who went yard in his first at-bat as a Met, crushing a two-strike change-up into the seats in left-center at Nationals Park.
On the day, Sherzer wound up with 12 K's while deGrom finished his six-inning stint with 10, spacing 5 hits in the process. Mets relief allowed no runs and no hits over the final three frames, and Cano capped his first game as a Met with a run-scoring single.
The boys are back in town and the season is underway. Doesn't get much better on a Michigan Sweet 16 night in the NCAA tournament.
It gives him headaches, he thinks they should run the bases in the other direction:)