Statcast says 77% chance of a hit. Buxton's double had a hit probability of 8%.
He also hit it straight into the shift. The increase in shifting over the years has done little to change the batting average on ground balls. It's line drives that have dropped pretty dramatically in average.
Eventually, someone is going to actually bunt frequently against the shift.
I'm honestly surprised that no one has yet. You'd think that SOMEONE would be taking some free base hits, if only to force teams to stop swinging the third baseman all the way over to take away all of those line drive base hits.
Carlos Peña did. But no one learned from him.
Carlos Peña is one of those guys that I wish I'd been paying a little more attention to at the time. I love what he has to say when he's an analyst on MLB.
Buxton made it to third on a wild pitch. For his career, he is 0-1 on stealing third base. (0-0 stealing home)
Buxton advances on a ball in the dirt that landed in the batters box.
Geez, a frickin pop-up to the pitcher scores Buxton, guys. Those at-bats were lame.
Lead off double stranded. Gross.
Dazzle: "Rick-er-shay" *drink*
Those at-bats for the Twins with Buxton at third should be used in Situational Hitting 101 on how not to do it. Castro took strike 3 right down the middle and Adrianza and Dozier swung at pitches in the dirt that didn't even look like they were over the plate.
That was bad. McCullers is a good pitcher, but with a fast man on third and no outs, if one of the next two batters just makes contact the Twins score. Good pitching, but also bad batting.
Kyle GiBBBBBBBBson
Castro bunts here, right?
I guess not.
If you count flailing wildly at every offering, then yes.
Eight straight balls, obviously let's swing on the first pitch (it was a ball too).
McCullers throws three out of the zone but Castro swung at all of them.
Tie game!
On the board! yes!
Forgot to mention, that was Buxton's first walk of the season on the 37th PA of the season.
A lead!
It's probably a good sign that I'm stopping whatever I'm doing to watch every Joe Mauer at bat lately, right?
His plate appearances have a different feel since 2017 than they did in 2016.
Eddie!!!!!
Eddie!!!
Judging by the punctuation, the Padre cares more than you do.
Well, obviously
Wattsy cares less than any of us.
Well, obviously.
EDDIE!
We're due to put up a Greekhouse inning, right?
And there it is!
spooky
Let's keep those runs coming, boys!
A solid base hit for Morrision, that had to feel good for him considering his very slow start. I was starting to have flashbacks to The Insanity every time he came to the plate.
MAX EFFORT!
MAX!
GREEKHOUSED!
You know, it seems like this could completely be an actual baseball term. Just like an easy fly ball is a Can o' Corn, an 8 run-inning is a Greekhouse.
I will fetch that term into the lexicon.
It took me a little bit, but I just got it.
Honestly, the fact that it was Nibs that gave it a dollar helped me figure it out.
Did this inning just get a little GREEK?!
Geez, I step out for a few minutes and miss everything.
Old Gibson -- stake him a good lead, and he fritters it away
He's definitely southbound this inning.
Third time through the order vs. the Astros. I'll cut him some slack since he wasn't walking anyone.
Gibson gettin' all gibby wit it.
Gross
Keystonecops.gif
That Buxton even had a chance to catch the ball is incredible. That was a long run.
Whoa. I go into a 30 minute minute meeting and come out to this!?
Oh, so you're the one to blame! And to think, we'd been blaming Gibby
It was 1-1 when I left.
We've had the Big Train and Light Rail, maybe Gibson's nickname should be HO Gauge.
How about The Handcar?
Speaking as a representative from the rail transportation industry, does it have to be train-related?
Could probably contribute something for you...we have Grinders, Ditchers...oooo, how about a RailVac, they really suck!
No, I'm asking NOT to be associated with him.
"Oh Danny Boy, the walks, the walks are ca-a-lling..."
Zach Duke may not be the bullpen answer
not for the questions we want answered, in any case
I certainly don't mind the one that Reed gave, though.
Reed is a-ok with me.
This is one wide-ass strike zone.
Obligatory
That's an awful lot of obligatories.
I wish Rodney knew that only one baserunner is obligatory
Though it did look like he got squeezed on the 0-2 to Marwin.
And Dozier really shouldn't have been throwing to first.
Wasn’t watching ... shouldn’t have because no chance to get Springer?
No chance and Rodney is soooooo slow that he was nowhere near first base.
Dumb
Time to get Fernando a win
walk off home run please
You rang!?!
thank you.
Wheee!!!
MAX EFFORT!!
That’ll do nicely.
Baseball is easy
MAXIMUM KEPLERONI!!
Holy Crap! Now that deserves some puppies!
That was easy!
That fourth and fifth inning reminded me of Junior's high school game yesterday, except for the opposite order. His team led 7-2 in the sixth and gave up 4 runs and left 2 runners in scoring position, but they then scored 9 runs in the bottom of the 6th and the game was called due to the Mercy Rule.
Holy cows Rosario took a 4 pitch walk!
He still feels the spanking from last night.
Somehow, Rosario walked, on four pitches.
Morrison has zero luck.
He hit the ball 110 mph straight into the glove.
Statcast says 77% chance of a hit. Buxton's double had a hit probability of 8%.
He also hit it straight into the shift. The increase in shifting over the years has done little to change the batting average on ground balls. It's line drives that have dropped pretty dramatically in average.
Eventually, someone is going to actually bunt frequently against the shift.
I'm honestly surprised that no one has yet. You'd think that SOMEONE would be taking some free base hits, if only to force teams to stop swinging the third baseman all the way over to take away all of those line drive base hits.
Carlos Peña did. But no one learned from him.
Carlos Peña is one of those guys that I wish I'd been paying a little more attention to at the time. I love what he has to say when he's an analyst on MLB.
Buxton made it to third on a wild pitch. For his career, he is 0-1 on stealing third base. (0-0 stealing home)
Buxton advances on a ball in the dirt that landed in the batters box.
Geez, a frickin pop-up to the pitcher scores Buxton, guys. Those at-bats were lame.
Lead off double stranded. Gross.
Dazzle: "Rick-er-shay" *drink*
Those at-bats for the Twins with Buxton at third should be used in Situational Hitting 101 on how not to do it. Castro took strike 3 right down the middle and Adrianza and Dozier swung at pitches in the dirt that didn't even look like they were over the plate.
That was bad. McCullers is a good pitcher, but with a fast man on third and no outs, if one of the next two batters just makes contact the Twins score. Good pitching, but also bad batting.
Kyle GiBBBBBBBBson
Castro bunts here, right?
I guess not.
If you count flailing wildly at every offering, then yes.
Eight straight balls, obviously let's swing on the first pitch (it was a ball too).
McCullers throws three out of the zone but Castro swung at all of them.
Tie game!
On the board! yes!
Forgot to mention, that was Buxton's first walk of the season on the 37th PA of the season.
A lead!
It's probably a good sign that I'm stopping whatever I'm doing to watch every Joe Mauer at bat lately, right?
His plate appearances have a different feel since 2017 than they did in 2016.
Eddie!!!!!
Eddie!!!
Judging by the punctuation, the Padre cares more than you do.
Well, obviously
Wattsy cares less than any of us.
Well, obviously.
EDDIE!
We're due to put up a Greekhouse inning, right?
And there it is!
spooky
Let's keep those runs coming, boys!
A solid base hit for Morrision, that had to feel good for him considering his very slow start. I was starting to have flashbacks to The Insanity every time he came to the plate.
MAX EFFORT!
MAX!
GREEKHOUSED!
You know, it seems like this could completely be an actual baseball term. Just like an easy fly ball is a Can o' Corn, an 8 run-inning is a Greekhouse.
I will fetch that term into the lexicon.
It took me a little bit, but I just got it.
Honestly, the fact that it was Nibs that gave it a dollar helped me figure it out.
Did this inning just get a little GREEK?!
Geez, I step out for a few minutes and miss everything.
Old Gibson -- stake him a good lead, and he fritters it away
He's definitely southbound this inning.
Third time through the order vs. the Astros. I'll cut him some slack since he wasn't walking anyone.
Gibson gettin' all gibby wit it.
Gross
Keystonecops.gif
That Buxton even had a chance to catch the ball is incredible. That was a long run.
Whoa. I go into a 30 minute minute meeting and come out to this!?
Oh, so you're the one to blame! And to think, we'd been blaming Gibby
It was 1-1 when I left.
We've had the Big Train and Light Rail, maybe Gibson's nickname should be HO Gauge.
How about The Handcar?
Speaking as a representative from the rail transportation industry, does it have to be train-related?
Could probably contribute something for you...we have Grinders, Ditchers...oooo, how about a RailVac, they really suck!
No, I'm asking NOT to be associated with him.
"Oh Danny Boy, the walks, the walks are ca-a-lling..."
Zach Duke may not be the bullpen answer
not for the questions we want answered, in any case
I certainly don't mind the one that Reed gave, though.
Reed is a-ok with me.
This is one wide-ass strike zone.
Obligatory
That's an awful lot of obligatories.
I wish Rodney knew that only one baserunner is obligatory
We'd better hurry up with those Origins posts.
Blech.
I really don't like Rodney.
Though it did look like he got squeezed on the 0-2 to Marwin.
And Dozier really shouldn't have been throwing to first.
Wasn’t watching ... shouldn’t have because no chance to get Springer?
No chance and Rodney is soooooo slow that he was nowhere near first base.
Dumb
Time to get Fernando a win
walk off home run please
You rang!?!
thank you.
Wheee!!!
MAX EFFORT!!
That’ll do nicely.
Baseball is easy
MAXIMUM KEPLERONI!!
Holy Crap! Now that deserves some puppies!
That was easy!
That fourth and fifth inning reminded me of Junior's high school game yesterday, except for the opposite order. His team led 7-2 in the sixth and gave up 4 runs and left 2 runners in scoring position, but they then scored 9 runs in the bottom of the 6th and the game was called due to the Mercy Rule.
The guy who gets the HR ball is hilarious.
Puppies.
You know, that was a pretty good series.