BPR:
MLB is playing games with baseballs, Los Angeles Angels pitcher Michael Lorenzen has implied, metaphorically calling upon the league to get a grip.
Lorenzen was reacting to an incident in which his 91-mph fastball hit Mariners’ outfielder/DH Justin Upton in the head on Friday night at T-Mobile Park in Seattle in the fifth inning.
MLB vet Upton, who was cut loose by the very same Angels in April, had just been called up from the Mariners’ Triple-A Tacoma affiliate.
After the game, Lorenzen reportedly claimed, “I don’t know what Major League Baseball is playing with these baseballs, but that fully slipped out of my hand. It’s just crazy man. As a kid you think Major League Baseball is the greatest thing ever, and you get here and you realize, what are they doing?” more here
It’s called a resin bag..look it up moron.
…he forgot to blame Putin, Trump, and White Supremacy, that would get him more media sympathy than blaming a woke organization…
a. baldwin syndrome, his hand did not throw the ball
Umps used to rub dirt from New Jersey on every ball prior to use to take away the slickness. Is this not happening these days?
if it hit the batter in the head, why are they calling it a ‘sinker’?
oh, yeah, that’s right- they do sort of the same thing with vaxxines
Blames the baseball when it’s obvious that the batters head was in the way.
He probably takes a knee, too. Or gladly will when he’s told to.
Actually it is the baseball. MLB keeps messing with it and the complaint is that it is way to slippery. They banned Spider Tack which helped pitchers get a grip so to speak. American players that play in Japan say how much better the ball is there. Coarser stitching and Japanese players say how much trouble they have adjusting to the ball here. The balls are still rubbed in dirt pre game.
from the same group that originated “gun violence”
Mr. Keebasa, assuming your are correct, what is the purpose of these cueballs? More hits? more runs? More conservative pitching due to less ball control? The geniuses who run baseball must be trying to make the game more flashy and exciting by driving hitter stats up and pitcher stats down.
Didn’t the pitchers used to hide sandpaper in their caps and scuff the balls?
That wasn’t a sinker. That was a stinker.
Mr Keebasa
JUNE 20, 2022 AT 8:44 AM
“Actually it is the baseball. MLB keeps messing with it and the complaint is that it is way to slippery. ”
…perhaps, but when you have a job, you have to adapt to the available tools or get another job.
Craftsman wrenches NOW are NOTHING like the Craftsman wrenches I started working with decades ago, but that does not give me an excuse to not do my job because the tools are now inferior. I simply have to make allowances for the difference and not lose control even though the grip is not the same and its much more likey to break, and I DO figure out how to adjust because THAT’S THE JOB.
This guy’s paid WAY more than me, doesn’t work at all several months, and CERTAINLY doesn’t work every day because pitchers are too delicate.
Surely he could work on perfecting his chosen craft with the available tools during some of that richly rewarded downtime, at least to the point where he isn’t a danger to his co-workers any more…
On another note, the Mariners suck, they went 3 and 8 in their last homestand at T Mobile Park including losing the first game against the Red Sox a week ago Friday which I was at watching from the lower level of the right field seats along the 1st base side of the field. Marco Gonzalez took 20 minutes and walked most of the batters he faced just to get out of the top of the 1st inning and almost gave up a grand slam to the Red Sox but was saved by his defense. I love baseball, but the Manures stink as usual, I guess I’ll go back to being a loyal Dodgers fan. They’re on a pace to lose 95 to 100 hundred games this year which is not a good thing. And now we play the crummy Oakland A’s and we’ll probably lose to them as well.
2022 dodgers are emulating their idols, the dodgers of 1962 & 1966
I think the batter is guilty, of over acting.
Damned white ball.
What is this thing, ‘baseball’ of which you speak? There once was a game called that, but it died many years ago.
Whitey white white cracker ass
JUNE 20, 2022 AT 10:02 AM
“Damned white ball.”
..yeah! Give him a BROWN one, maybe with some texture, and put some laces on it so he can get a REAL good grip, and taper the ends so it can be more accurate, and fill it with air so it doesn’t hurt so much, THAT’S the way to go!
https://www.tiktok.com/@dunk/video/7108154415424621829
…after all, in the current year, it’s a baseball if we CALL it one, and you’re haterz who will be banned for life if you callz ot ANYTHING besides what they TELL you it is!
apologize to the batter, then shut your fkng pie-hole
Must be those new AR-15 assault balls, they need to ban those vile things.
pitcher did not see the hbp-free signs
It’s a poor craftsman that blames his tools.
Much like those guns that go off all by themselves.
Geoff the aardvark – Sandy Koufax was honored over the weekend with a new statue at Dodger stadium . (My Dad was a boy from Brooklyn who preferred the Yankees .)
Sandy Koufax looks good for a guy who is 86 years old. He was one of my favorite Dodger pitchers back in the mid 60’s. The Dodgers were my team back then and are my son’s favorite baseball tell as well now. His first baseball hat when he was little was a Dodger’s hat and I’m sure he’ll turn my little grandson into a Dodgers fan as well. Unfortunately, all my Sandy Koufax baseball cards ended up in the spokes of my Schwinn Stingray bike just so it would sound cool. I wish I still had that bike and those baseball cards, they’re both worth a lot of money now to aging baby boomers.
team not tell
John Kerry: it was a sinker before it was a riser.