It’s Braves vs. Red Sox, Game 1. Charlie Morton takes the stage against John Schreiber, who is acting as an opener for tonight’s game. The Braves are only in Boston today and tomorrow then will be granted another off day on Thursday before talking on the Brew Crew again at home.
Transactions a Day AA
As expected, Taylor Hearn, Yonny Chirinos, and Pierce Johnson join the team in Boston in hopes to solidify a spot for the long haul. Also, A.J. Minter starts a rehab, a rehab that I’m sure will be a short stint before rejoining the team.
Braves Lineup
Taking 2 seems like the thing to do. Get it, boys.
Sorry for the late game thread. Luckily the game was delayed!
I’m not near radio or TV. Is the weather expected to clear up?
Looks like it’s going to storm until 11:00, unfortunately.
Ryan, where are you seeing the Jesse Chavez news?
On Braves transactions page. 7/23
Braves transactions page just lists that he was moved to 60-day IL, which I’ve seen reported in places like MLBTR. In those other news stories they state that he’s eligible to come off the IL in mid-August, but you were saying he “will be shelved for the rest of the season”?
Game on…
It looks like were playing some industrial-league softball team tonight.
Nice start, guys…
Can someone explain what just happened?
This makes no sense. If the ball was caught, Ozuna is out and no one else, since Olson got back and advanced to third on the throw. If the ball wasn’t caught, then Murphy was out. I have no idea how anyone appeals on Olson.
[They’re saying it was caught. But Olson clearly tagged up, so I do not understand at all.]
They’re saying that Riley never tagged up from third on the “line-out,” I guess.
Still, I have no idea why that has anything to do with Olson… maybe the appeal was just that Riley left early.
Also, I’m not sure why we didn’t appeal that play to video — looked like the ball could’ve bounced.
Nope. “If a runner leaves a base too soon on a caught fly ball and returns in an attempt to retag, this is considered a time play and not a force out. If the appeal is the third out, all runs scored by runners in advance of the appealed runner, and scored ahead of the legal appeal, would count.” [Never mind… the run scorer was Riley. So I guess I now understand what they ruled. But I think they got it wrong.]
Morton…geez. Enough of the curveball you can’t throw for a strike right now.
MLB Gameday just says: “Marcell Ozuna lines into a double play, second baseman Christian Arroyo to pitcher John Schreiber to third baseman Rafael Devers. Austin Riley out at 3rd. 3 outs, ATL 1,BOS 0”
Did the 3rd out come on an actual appeal? Or did they somehow get a force out on Riley (who never returned to 3rd maybe) that negated his run?
FWIW, apparently that play was not reviewable for the Braves. And yeah, I think we got jobbed a run there, essentially due to a bad, unreviewable call by the ump.
EDIT: And now a reviewable call, thank goodness — these umps are off to a pretty lousy start tonight.
Has there ever been an 8-3-5 triple play before? In the history of baseball?
Radio crew just said it’s happened once. The Beaneaters in (I believe) 1885.
No. There have been 4 triple plays that started with a flyout to the center fielder.
The closest was https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI200005310.shtml which went 826. In both of the other outs the runners were doubled up.
There waś also an 843 triple play in this game https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/KCA/KCA198807040.shtml
Once again, both runners were doubled up.
There was an 864 triple play in this game https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLA/SLA195307170.shtml
In that game, both runners were erased on tagging up
Finally, we have https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WS1/WS1194310020.shtml
with the truly weird description: Triple Play: Flyball: CF; York out at 2B/CF-C-2B; Wakefield out at Hm/2B-C-3B
So that would be 82426
My answer, with links to every other Triple Play (since 1930) which started with a flyout to the center fielder is awaiting moderation because it has too many links. But there have only been four of those. If the Beaneaters did it in 1885, that is before my database begins. 826, 843, 864 and my favorite: 82426
Googling these codes will bring up the games:
ARI200005310
KCA198807040
SLA195307170
WS1194310020
Adam Duvall can frequently be counted on to have his head up his ass on the basepaths. What the runner from second’s excuse was, I have no idea.
I wasn’t watching when the other crazy play happened, though. I’m attempting to find a replay to see what happened there.
UPDATE: Following up, Austin definitely didn’t retouch third, so an appeal at third base would’ve put him out. Regarding JF’s comment, Riley can’t both score and be out. And the fact that he’s out takes precedent…you don’t get out of a potential appeal play just because you touched home plate. In a hypothetical world where somebody’s ahead of Riley on the basepaths and scores, that run would’ve indeed counted if it crossed the plate before the appeal on Riley. But the fact that Riley scored before they put him out is not relevant…if he’s out, he’s out. And he was out.
Long story short, I’m pretty sure they got it right. That being said, I’ve yet to see a replay showing whether or not the ball was actually caught.
[And now I’m seeing your follow-up note, JF. Sorry, don’t know why I didn’t see that before.]
Morton has zero command tonight. He doesn’t seem to have the feel on anything
Not much of an effort by Rosario on the fly ball by Devers.
5 walks from Charlie against 1 strikeout. Yikes
The obligatory “I don’t really give a crap” start from Charlie tonight. That was a horrible walk to the nine-hole hitter. Then doesn’t pay attention to either runner, and is now does not get out of the fourth. Really rough outing
Recap is up: