Baseball Discussion Thread

[phelps 8,287]

52 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Couple of legit places.  Mountain West have good website & apps on all the majors.
 

https://themw.com/

And Pac 12 has a rolling (just scroll back) 12 Hour stream and a lot of the big teams.

 

 

yeah, I know...

 

but without the ondemand service by espn player I'm lost...I don't have so much time to follow live action, I used to watch later in the middle of the week

[Topicmaster1010 5,369]

Completely missed this from a few days ago. We have the venues for the 2026 World Baseball Classic!

 

 

Only one East Asian host this time . Hopefully this means more balanced pools.

[Olympian1010 8,230]

Time to make one of my rare posts about baseball 

 

 

[Topicmaster1010 5,369]

Finally for the first time since the tournaments inception, we aren't in the same pool as the US!!! 

 

Also assuming they qualify, you can pencil in Taiwan as the qualifier team in Pool C

 

 

Edited August 21, 2024 by Topicmaster1010

[intoronto 6,420]

What a statistic, don't think this has happened in any sport ever.

 

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

4 hours ago, intoronto said:

What a statistic, don't think this has happened in any sport ever.

 

 

I thought that'd make for a cool little article in Dutch, but then....damn, how is he not Dutch with that name?  

 

So the only Danny Jansen in Dutch sports remains this mullet and the body that's attached to it.

 

Spoiler

 

[phelps 8,287]

5 hours ago, intoronto said:

What a statistic, don't think this has happened in any sport ever.

 

 

yes, this is a first time in the MLB, but it did happen before in the minors (a player named Dale Holman in 1986), but the distance between the start and the resume of that game was actually a lot bigger than in this case

 

however, the world of US PRO sports* is filled with some crazy "market moves", with players traded in the middle of a game and/or playing twice in a day for 2 different teams

 

https://www.mlb.com/news/joel-youngblood-two-hits-for-two-teams

 

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/panthers-grimaldi-plays-two-games-in-one-day/

 

*actually, it happened also in football (European version, AKA soccer) 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/oct/07/football-questions-trivia-the-knowledge

[Topicmaster1010 5,369]

 Taiwan is going to the Little League World Series final!!! 

 

[Topicmaster1010 5,369]

Sounds like there could be some MLB players playing in the Premier 12 tournament in November

 

Edited September 3, 2024 by Topicmaster1010

[phelps 8,287]

meanwhile the 2 next best Baseball Leagues in the World have also reached the Final Series

 

in , the 2024 Japan Series will feature the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks (back to business after the awful 2023 season), winner of the Pacific League, and the surprising Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars, winners of the Central League after an amazing series against the heavily favoured Tokyo Giants

 

the Japan Series (best-of-7 games, 2-3-2 format) will start next Saturday, October 26th in Yokohama @ 6.30 p.m. local time

 

 

in  South Korea, instead, the 2024 Korean Series will see the KIA Tigers from Gwangju facing the Samsung Lions from Daegu

 

the series is a best-of-7 matchup, but with an unusual 2-2-3 format, with the best seeded teams (KIA in this case) hosting not only 4, but 5 of the potential 7 games 

 

game #1 was scheduled for earlier, Today, but it was suspended in the top of the 6th inning (Samsung leading 1-0, runners on 1st & 2nd, 0 out) due to heavy rain

 

it should resume Tomorrow @ 4 p.m. local time (before game #2 @ 6.30 p.m. local time), but the weather forecast is awful also for Tomorrow and there's a good chance that there won't be any ball played all day long

Edited October 21, 2024 by phelps