Official Game Thread 6/9/2021 LA Dodgers vs. Pirates

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:00 pm

City of the Angels:

Betts RF

Taylor 2B

Turner 3B

Pujols 1B

Bellinger CF

Pollock LF

Smith C

Lux SS

Gonsolin P ***Season Debut***

The Corsairs of the Confluence:

Frazier 2B

Hayes 3B

Reynolds CF

Moran 1B

Polanco RF

Newman SS

Perez C

Tom LF

Anderson P 3-5 4.67 ERA

This might quite possibly be the last time Albert Pujols is seen at PNC Park, save a PH appearance tomorrow.

Let's Go Bucs!!!!!

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:02 pm

Sorry if I stepped on toes for posting the GDT.

Bobster21 · Post by **Bobster21** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:05 pm

The Pirates don't do well against season debuts. Or career debuts. Or even debutantes.

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:12 pm

406D60717667703033020 wrote: The Pirates don't do well against season debuts. Or career debuts. Or even debutantes.
Well done, sir, well done!

GreenWeenie · Post by **GreenWeenie** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:15 pm

We're 23 and 36. When DO we do well?

2drfischer@gmail.c · Post by **2drfischer@gmail.c** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:49 pm

Has there been a player in history who's destroyed Pirates pitching more than Albert Pujols? I know he's not what he used to be but, if he were to have his usual PNC Park game tonight, we're looking at three hits (one a home run), four RBIs, and another Pirates loss, mostly because of him.

He's been a special player. Just like people today look back at Lou Gehrig's career with great reverence, people 100 years from now will do the same regarding Pujols.

DemDog · Post by **DemDog** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:13 pm

567077626B6770666E050 wrote: Sorry if I stepped on toes for posting the GDT.

No toes stepped on. If you would have done so I would have hunted you down and whacked you upside the head with the cane I am using for my severely sprained ankle. I am serious about the cane and ankle. Personally, I get a kick out of the great poetic ways you post the initial message when you start the thread. You are free to start the OGT any time you like and I don't beat you to it. Thanks guy.

Bobster21 · Post by **Bobster21** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:27 pm

Maybe they'll color code the bases for Hayes tonight. And have him carry a checklist to check off each base he touches.

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:36 pm

Start time 8:15 just announced on the television side

Surgnbuck · Post by **Surgnbuck** » Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:48 pm

Why my mind wanders where it does, IDK. So I'm watching the Giants-Rangers game, and thought, "that looks like artificial surface". So I did research on the new digs for the Rangers, which amazes me that the franchise, which began in 1972, is already on their third stadium.

The distances in the park are in honor of various players and teams, like 329 feet down left field line, to honor Adrian Beltre's #29. Home plate to the wall behind it is 42 feet to honor Jackie Robinson. Stuff like that.

The retractable roof is 5.5 acres, and weighs 24 million pounds. The playing surface is an artificial surface, that uses ground up coconut husks and fibers as the fill, which has less "splashing" then similar surfaces.

The roof is a special polymer that is transparent to allow natural light, and is the largest single panel operable roof in the world.

Watching the Brewers and Reds right now. We all know about Great American Smallpark.