2024 MLB Season Thread ⚾

[JGibson]

RIP Whitey Herzog. #STLCards #ForTheLou 
https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1780265172252107106

[100% pro-life no matter what]

The Rangers are calling up former VandyBoy and #2 overall pick, Jack Leiter.  In the first sports game I went to after covid, Leiter pitched a no-hitter for Vandy against South Carolina.

[dead0man]

RIP Whitey Herzog. #STLCards #ForTheLou 

he was the coach of my favorite team when I cared the most about baseball, so he's special to me.  When I play baseball video games to this day, I usually play "Whitey ball" (good D, high OBP, lots of movement on the basepaths).

[GeorgiaModerate]

Odd play in last night's Braves-Marlins game.  In the first inning, with Ronald Acuña Jr. at third base and Michael Harris II at first, Marlins pitcher Sixto Sánchez spun around toward second -- but there was nobody there!  He was called for a balk because he attempted to throw to an unoccupied base, allowing Acuña to score and Harris to move up to second. 

Then in a sort of bookend to the game, the Braves won 4-3 when Harris doubled in Acuña in the bottom of the 10th.