Game Thread: 3.30 RayDay

[tzill]

a few GIDPs from a sweep.

 

[tzill]

Heliot Ramos smoking the ball and getting big hits off of tough right-handed pitchers is a great sign.

Interesting: Giants going Hicks, Webb, Roupp at Houston, which keeps Webb on regular rest.

Tyler Fitzgerald turned nothing into something by reaching base via an error, moving 2nd on a ground ball, stealing 3rd, and scoring on a sac fly from Willy Adames. Speed can make things like that happen

 

[Hangman]

Great start to the season in a place that can be hard to play in with the low mound.

 

[calsnowskier]

Heliot Ramos smoking the ball and getting big hits off of tough right-handed pitchers is a great sign.

Interesting: Giants going Hicks, Webb, Roupp at Houston, which keeps Webb on regular rest.

Tyler Fitzgerald turned nothing into something by reaching base via an error, moving 2nd on a ground ball, stealing 3rd, and scoring on a sac fly from Willy Adames. Speed can make things like that happen

FZ HATED this series.

 

[msgkings322]

As long as you can avoid rampant moundshattery...yes

Give it a rest dude. Boring.

 

[msgkings322]

Great start to the season in a place that can be hard to play in with the low mound.

Huh? How is that possible?

 

[Hangman]

Huh? How is that possible?

For which part the winning or the low mound?

 

[msgkings322]

For which part the winning or the low mound?

Low mound. Isn’t it a rule how high it is?

 

[Hangman]

Low mound. Isn’t it a rule how high it is?

As was stated during the game the Reds make the mound slope very slight. So while the rubber is still the same height, the angle of the mound makes it so that you are pitching almost on a flat surface. The Reds and Tigers are really known for this. Instead of throwing down hill on steep mounds it makes it so you are throwing almost with no mound at all. The Reds said that they have changed that, but the Giants pitchers said it is still flat and the Reds have not changed a thing.

 

[msgkings322]

As was stated during the game the Reds make the mound slope very slight. So while the rubber is still the same height, the angle of the mound makes it so that you are pitching almost on a flat surface. The Reds and Tigers are really known for this. Instead of throwing down hill on steep mounds it makes it so you are throwing almost with no mound at all. The Reds said that they have changed that, but the Giants pitchers said it is still flat and the Reds have not changed a thing.

Interesting but obviously both teams have the same mound

 

[Hangman]

Interesting but obviously both teams have the same mound

yep same mound. But some pitchers really do much better throwing downhill than flat

 

[msgkings322]

yep same mound. But some pitchers really do much better throwing downhill than flat

No doubt, but it should even out is all I’m saying

 

[tzill]

Give it a rest dude. Boring.

Well, I mean, they did avoid it.

 

[tzill]

Low mound. Isn’t it a rule how high it is?

Yes, but the slope can be different. Great American Smallpark is notorious for the slope being more shallow

 

[tzill]

Interesting but obviously both teams have the same mound

Sure, but one team plays 81 games there, the others do not.

 

[tzill]

Giants bullpen in Cincy:

10 2/3 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 2 R, 8 K, 1.69 ERA, 0.75 WHIP.

Could be a real strength this season.

 

[msgkings322]

Well, I mean, they did avoid it.

Well, I mean, that part of your schtick is boring

 

[LHG]

Well, I mean, that part of your schtick is boring

His shtick is poopy mounds. Yours is constantly calling him on it. We've all got our shticks here.

 

[msgkings322]

His shtick is poopy mounds. Yours is constantly calling him on it. We've all got our shticks here.

One is the predicate of the other

 

[tzill]

Well, I mean, that part of your schtick is boring

I'm not here to entertain you.


Sorry/not sorry.