Official Game Thread 6/28/23 Padres vs. Pirates

WildwoodDave2 · Post by **WildwoodDave2** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 12:45 am

Strong 6 innings- Now we have to sweat out the 7th and 8th

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 12:57 am

Mlodzinski gets to start an inning without anyone on base finally, and does a great job. Carpenter getting a hit off a Pirate pitcher is a rite of passage.

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 12:58 am

Does Snell go back out?

Bobster21 · Post by **Bobster21** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 12:59 am

All season long, in every MLB game I've watched, the HP umps have had an expanded strike zone. Much more so than in recent years and conveniently in the season in which shortening games is a priority.

But in each game, the announcers act like they are surprised at the enlarged strike zone that day by that umpire, as if they haven't been seeing the same thing all season long. I suspect MLB instructed the umps to expand the strike zone this year and that the announcers know it and can't point it out. So they have to act surprised in every game.

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 12:59 am

Snell done. He gave up as many runs to us tonight as he did his last 5 starts!

Bobster21 · Post by **Bobster21** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:08 am

Shelton likes to tell players to bunt who have never bunted. Golly, what a swell manager.

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:08 am

Shelton loves two things: bunting with guys who don't bunt, and sending runners on contact.

So you're bunting guys up with Hedges on deck.

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:09 am

Triolo didn't offer at that, he pulled the bat back

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:10 am

Why does Brown keep saying he offered at that pitch? Just because he was squared around?

Melvin gone

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:11 am

Am I the only one that didn't see him try to bunt? He was pulling his hands back