2015 World Series Game One Live Blog

7:33	Dave Cameron: Hey all, August Fagerstrom and I will be here to cover the first game of the 2015 World Series.

7:34	Dave Cameron: For those of you who haven’t been part of one of our live blogs before, we’ll mostly focus on game reaction stuff, so it’s less of a Q&A than our normal chats, but we do our best to make sure you guys are involved as well.

7:35	Dave Cameron: So come hang out with us as we watch the Mets and Royals, or maybe the grounds crew. Either way, it should be fun.

7:44	August Fagerstrom: hey, y’all! I’ve got a freshly-broken big toe and I’m ready to watch some World Series

7:46	August Fagerstrom: only you can decide whether that’s a euphemism

7:57	Dave Cameron: Well, this is terrible news. Source close to the Volquez family confirms to @Enrique_Rojas1 and @ESPNDeportes that Edinson Volquez’s father died today in the DR

7:58	August Fagerstrom: utterly tragic

7:58	August Fagerstrom: anything he gives the Royals tonight is nothing short of heroic, as far as I’m concerned

7:59	Dave Cameron: Volquez warming up, so seems like he’s going to pitch. Here’s to hoping he has the game of his life.

7:59	August Fagerstrom: agreed. I just became a Royals fan for a day

7:59	August Fagerstrom: Mets

8:00	August Fagerstrom: Mets

8:00	August Fagerstrom: Mets

8:00	Comment From Jonathan Aside from the well-document mets power pitching vs. royals general peskiness…what’s the second biggest story line of this series?

8:01	Dave Cameron: Probably the Royals starters. Volquez now has this tragedy, Cueto’s a question mark, Chris Young…

8:02	Comment From Brent As a Jays fan, should I feel sad forever? Or enjoy this series, because baseball.

8:02	Dave Cameron: The latter.

8:02	August Fagerstrom: and you still have a great team!

8:02	Comment From Harvey Dent How can Cueto, Price, and Kershaw command such high salaries with how ineffective they are in the playoffs?

8:02	Dave Cameron: Because postseason performance isn’t predictive of anything.

8:03	Comment From Roger Any idea why the TV broadcasts haven’t said anything about Volquez’s father?

8:04	Comment From Noah Batting Escobar leadoff and Gordon 8th is incomprehensibly stupid. Also pitching Volquez in the 1st game over Cueto. Surprised people aren’t talking about this.

8:04	Dave Cameron: You don’t report something like that without being 100% sure it’s confirmed, and right now, only ESPN reporters are reporting it, I believe. It may get mentioned later in the broadcast assuming Ken Rosenthal confirms it at some point.

8:05

August Fagerstrom: I don’t really see what difference flipping Cueto/Volquez makes, unless you’re a big believer in momentum. As for the lineup thing, on a per-game basis, it’s a pretty minimal effect, and the Royals love #EskyMagic. there’s some value to that. can’t say it hasn’t been working, as poor of reasoning as that may be

8:05	Comment From Norrin Radd Which team will be impacted more this offseason if they win the World Series?

8:05	Dave Cameron: The Mets, I’d imagine.

8:06	Dave Cameron: If they win it all, the pressure on the Wilpons to spend and keep this team together is going to be intense.

8:07	Comment From DennetOTM Thoughts on the Royals decision to put Raul Mondesi Jr. on the roster?

8:08	Dave Cameron: Basically irrelevant. He won’t play much or at all, and neither would have Gore. Yost doesn’t use his bench.

8:08	Comment From DeGroms hair Is there a certain inning Harvey’s vulnerable in?

8:08	August Fagerstrom: whatever inning he starts facing batters for the third time

8:09	Dave Cameron: Alright, let’s play baseball.

8:10	Dave Cameron: Vahe Gregorian on Twitter says Royals can’t confirm news of Volquez’s fathers passing, so don’t expect it to come up on the broadcast.

8:10	Comment From Phillies113 I think the Mets are going to win the World Series. Please don’t actually post this comment; the other Phillies fans will ostracize me.

8:10	August Fagerstrom: FWIW, a quick scan of his baseball-reference page shows that Harvey, in his career, has started to see a significant drop-off in the sixth, and it magnifies in the seventh

8:10	August Fagerstrom: AKA, third time through the order, as should be expected

8:10	Comment From Phillies113 Sigh

8:12	Comment From Schalke I’ve seen Daniel Murphy being the favourite for WS MVP with the bookies, is that reasonable at all?

8:12	Dave Cameron: No

8:12	Dave Cameron: That’s taking advantage of fans who are betting on the hot hand.

8:13	August Fagerstrom: if the Mets win and he has a decent WS, couldn’t you see him getting it even if he’s second or third most deserving, just because of the narrative/story leading up to the WS?

8:13	August Fagerstrom: would whoever decides WS MVP be able to strip themselves of that bias?

8:13	August Fagerstrom: who does decide WS MVP, anyway?

8:13	Dave Cameron: I don’t think I can ever remember anything like that ever happening before.

8:14	August Fagerstrom: am i supposed to be answering questions or asking them?

8:14	Dave Cameron: Now you’re asking them, so apparently door #3?

8:14	Comment From Designated Bitter Requesting ‘What’s Wrong with Daniel Murphy?’ article up on fangraphs frontpage NOW, please. Astounded he didn’t hit a home run.

8:14	Comment From Calum Surely Daniel Murphy is the last person to bet on!

8:14	Comment From DeGroms hair If Volquez dominates tonight and his father really has passed, this will instantly be the best storyline of the playoffs.

8:14	August Fagerstrom: for a long time

8:14	Comment From @RationalMLBfan This is baseball, so expect weird things to happen–whatever the World Series version is of Alcides Escobar inexplicably batting lead off and even more inexplicably winning the ALCS MVP.

8:16	Comment From DeGroms hair Baseless prediction: Harvey gets through a scoreless, 4-batter inning in the first and Moustakas takes him deep in the second.

8:16	Comment From Phillies113 Who is tonight’s home plate umpire?

8:16	Dave Cameron: Bill Welke. He’s got a bigger than average zone.

8:17	Dave Cameron: First pitch fastball.

8:17	Dave Cameron: Okay, baseball is crazy.

8:17	August Fagerstrom: Good lord.

8:18	August Fagerstrom: Yep, first pitch fastball to Escobar, crushed for an inside-the-park home run to lead off the World Series. Give the Royals the trophy

8:18	Comment From Sumner the craziest

8:18	Comment From Aaron Ummm what? Baseball? Weird.

8:19	Comment From The Big Dipper Should have been a fly out

8:19	Dave Cameron: Verducci nails it; Cespedes got a terrible jump.

8:20	Dave Cameron: And worth pointing out that the Mets chose to put Cespedes in CF in order to get Kelly Johnson’s bat in the lineup at DH.

8:20	Dave Cameron: The offense-defense trade-off is probably worth it in the NL, but with an extra line-up spot, Lagares should be starting.

8:21	Comment From Duncan Unrelated to the game kinda, but Google Fiber is out (cable and internet) for basically all KC subscribers

8:21	Dave Cameron: Well that sucks.

8:22	Comment From Roger Cespedes has to have completely lost the ball in the lights, right?

8:22	August Fagerstrom: got a really bad break on it, too.

8:22	Dave Cameron: Yeah, looked like a bad jump, bad communication, bad attempt to save it.

8:22	August Fagerstrom: his glove was strangely nowhere close to the ball, though. you may be right?

8:22	Comment From tz That had to be the most Royalsest thing that this Royals team has done yet.

8:22	Comment From Spencer00 #eskymagic

8:23	Comment From The Big Dipper “I’m a center-fielder” ~ Yoenis Cespedes

8:23	Dave Cameron: “LOL” — everyone else

8:24	Dave Cameron: “You never get a free strike against this free-swinging team.” Morales immediately takes next pitch while walking out of batters box as it arrives.

8:24	Comment From The Hamburglar Royal fans: How come everyone underestimates us, it’s totally a skill to have balls hit outfields bodies as theyre running to catch it

8:25	Comment From Jaack Its funny that the 2014 nearly ended on something fairly similar to how this one started.

8:25	Comment From Vico How about Cueto getting rattled by road fans. Isn’t this going to follow him everywhere from now on?

8:25	Comment From @RationalMLBfan Alcides Escobar has had a good ALCS + 1 at bat, but he’s not a great player. Would it be weird if he were the first ALCS MVP and WS MVP not to have his contract option picked up?

8:25	August Fagerstrom: it already has, if literally every TV broadcaster/analyst is any indication

8:25	Comment From TJH Has a player ever lead off the World Series with an inside the park HR before?

8:26	Dave Cameron: Uhh, his team option for next year is for $5.2 million. I will bet you every dime I have that it gets picked up.

8:26	August Fagerstrom: gonna guess no. @cantpredictball just tweeted it was the first WS inside the parker since ’29

8:26	Comment From Andy EskyMagic is alive and well

8:26	August Fagerstrom: what is McCullough doing in this chat

8:27	Comment From Minty No pressure as Cespedes is leading off the 2nd.

8:27	August Fagerstrom: you know that they say: “always seems the guy who gives up the leadoff inside the park home run in the World Series leads off the next inning”

8:28	August Fagerstrom: Yes Cespedes maybe try to just catch that one normally

8:28	Comment From Roger Is the official scoring on that actually going to stay an inside-the-parker? I was assuming it had to be at least a 2-base error

8:28	Dave Cameron: Another reason why the earned runs/unearned runs dichotomy is silly.

8:29	August Fagerstrom: i stand corrected! apparently a man called “Patsy” did what Escobar just did in the 1903 World Series!

8:29	Comment From Phillies113 Apparently, the Royals are saying Edison Volquez does not know about his father’s reported death (per Barry Svrluga’s twitter). Here’s hoping his reported death is mistaken.

8:30	Dave Cameron: Agreed, but Enrique Rojas is usually pretty good at stuff like this, and I can’t imagine he’d have run with it if it was wrong.

8:30	Dave Cameron: I wouldn’t be surprised if Royals were just saying that to keep it from getting on the broadcast.

8:30	Comment From Raul Mondesi Jr. Hey Dad, I finally get to be on a World Series roster!

8:30	August Fagerstrom: already accomplished more than his Dad and still has never played above AA, smh

8:30	August Fagerstrom: PLEASE throw a perfect game, Ed Volquez

8:31	Comment From DeGroms hair Fist time Mets have trailed since game 5 of the NLDS

8:33	Comment From free-range turducken Can you believe the NBA has the balls to start their regular season at the exact same time as Game 1?

8:34	August Fagerstrom: I was so mad when I realized this upon waking up this morning

8:34	August Fagerstrom: Cavs are the only sports thing I care about outside of baseball. DVR’ing it 🙁

8:35	Comment From Duncan AUGUST THIS IS A BASEBALL WEBSITE

8:35	August Fagerstrom: stick to baseball

8:35	Dave Cameron: Feels like Harvey is in the zone too much. They’re going to swing; let them swing at crap instead.

8:36	August Fagerstrom: how much would you guys pay your cable provider to somehow mute just Harold Reynolds’ voice during these games? you just get ballpark noise during the times that he speaks

8:36	Dave Cameron: So of course he falls behind 2-0

8:36	Comment From Minty Do you think that they extend Gordon, or does he come back on his option?

8:36	Dave Cameron: There’s no way he doesn’t opt out

8:37	Comment From Aaron Joe Buck underrated for how annoying his play by play is. Harold sucks, but he isn’t the whole problem.

8:37	August Fagerstrom: (I kind of like Joe Buck) hides

8:38	Comment From DarthNateR I may have missed this, but August, Dave, have you given your World Series predictions?

8:38	Dave Cameron: So the Royals so far have two walks and a home run (*) in their first eight batters faced.

8:38	August Fagerstrom: Royals, but my real answer is “really close, no idea”

8:38	Comment From DeGroms hair Joe Buck’s… ok, Verducci’s awesome, Reynols is garbage.

8:38	August Fagerstrom: this is probably the right answer

8:38	Comment From Miller Heyman just said Cespedes might be fastest player in baseball. Also included Trout, Dyson, Bourjous. No Gore, Hamilton, Gordon, etc… https://twitter.com/JonHeym…

8:39	August Fagerstrom: I don’t think he’s faster than Gore or Hamilton, but the Statcast data I’ve seen reveals that Cespedes is really, really fast

8:39	August Fagerstrom: imagine Heyman has seen the same numbers

8:40	Comment From DeGroms hair Heyman also thinks Gordon is the best LF in baseball soooooo

8:41	August Fagerstrom: not convinced that’s wrong

8:41	Dave Cameron: I’d bet it’s Billy Hamilton, but Cespedes is probably top 10

8:41	Comment From Schalke reynolds loves to talk about turf

8:42	Comment From Minty Who would DeGroms hair pick over Gordon?

8:43	Comment From DennetOTM Wouldn’t that mean Cespedes has the greatest distance between his MLB rank in SB’s and his rank for speed as measured by Statcast? Not that SB’s are the best measure of speed, but it’d be strange for one of the fastest guys in baseball to put up just 7 steals a year.

8:44	Comment From Dickeys UCL marte best lf

8:44	Dave Cameron: Part of that is probably the fact that he hits in the middle of the order. Managers less likely to send guys with 5-6 hitters coming up.

8:44	August Fagerstrom: Marte, Cespedes or Gordon. Not sure there’s a wrong answer

8:44	August Fagerstrom: Brantley and JUpton up there too

8:45	Comment From Ryan Which pitcher this year has the best chance to come close to a performance like Madison Bumgarner’s 2014 performance?

8:45	Dave Cameron: No one. That was something you won’t see again for a while.

8:45	August Fagerstrom: feels like a bad answer but Johnny Cueto? the Mets just have no need to use a deGrom, Syndergaard or Harvey like that

8:45	August Fagerstrom: AKA, I agree with Dave. Not gonna happen, but I think it’d have to be a Royals pitcher, and Cueto’s the only real option.

8:46	Dave Cameron: Gordon is good.

8:46	August Fagerstrom: nice catch by the Best Left Fielder in Baseball. fat, fat pitch by Volquez

8:46	Comment From Minty living here in Pittsburgh, Marte should be our CF over Cutch. He gets better reads off of the bat.

8:46	August Fagerstrom: McCutchen is not a good center fielder. Will be interesting to see how long that takes

8:47	Comment From Xol Heyman just said Gordon might be the best LF ever.

8:47	August Fagerstrom: well

8:48	Comment From The Hamburglar Eventually, something will go against the Royals, right? Seems like a month straight of this

8:48	August Fagerstrom: 2 years, right?

8:48	Dave Cameron: He means defensively.

8:48	August Fagerstrom: second bad curveball Volquez has thrown already.

8:50	Comment From DeGroms hair SportsCenter saying Volquez learned about his father’s death shortly before the game

8:50	Dave Cameron: ESPN is reporting one thing, Royals denying it. We don’t know for sure yet.

8:51	Comment From Roger What kind of reputation does Perez have as a game-caller? Will he stay away from the curve if Volquez is having trouble with it?

8:51	August Fagerstrom: you usually hear pretty good things from Royals people. Harry Pavlidis’ game-calling study for ESPN last year showed good things – http://espn.go.com/mlb/stor…

8:52	August Fagerstrom: this year! that was this year? feels like a long time ago

8:53	Comment From Miller “Volquez’s troubles started when he started allowing base runners” – Reynolds

8:53	August Fagerstrom: “Am I wrong? Am I wrong?!”

8:53	Comment From The Hamburglar When did Volquez start throwing this fast?

8:53	August Fagerstrom: Last start

8:53	Dave Cameron: Great pitch.

8:54	Comment From The Hamburglar Same pitch and spot as to Bautista, no? Maybe a little more of a strike, both great pitches though

8:54	August Fagerstrom: That was a nasty pitch

8:54	Dave Cameron: Definitely higher. That was middle-away, not low-away.

8:54	Comment From Vico Wasnt’ that last pitch a change up left right in the middle of the plate?

8:54	Dave Cameron: That looked like it was on the corner.

8:55	Comment From Pontoons Gameday has it middle outside.

8:55	Dave Cameron: Yeah, that’s what I saw.

8:55	Comment From Dickeys UCL mlb says it was definitely a strike

8:55	Dave Cameron: I don’t think there’s any question that it was a strike.

8:56	Comment From Dickeys UCL 85mph change off 95mph sinker…located…that’s pretty tough

8:57	Comment From Dickeys UCL

8:59	Comment From Grand Admiral Braun Is Harold Reynolds aware that Batman has a nickname?

8:59	August Fagerstrom: Harold Reynolds just isn’t aware

9:00	Dave Cameron: That was a hanger.

9:00	Dave Cameron: Hosmer missed one.

9:01	Comment From Jaack Harold Reynolds just isn’t.

9:02	August Fagerstrom: Hosmer dives into first on bang-bang play…

9:02	Dave Cameron: From Rosenthal: Fox Sports is aware of the news about the death of Edinson Volquez’s father but do not plan to report it on broadcast while he is in game.

9:03	Comment From Ryan Which manager would you rather have running your team in this series?

9:03	August Fagerstrom: Collins

9:03	Comment From Xol Harold Reynolds loves telling stories about how he doesn’t prepare for interviews. He earlier mentioned asking Hosmer if he grew up idolozing Mattingly. Hosmer was six when Mattingly retired.

9:04	Comment From Aaron Isn’t that Rosenthal tweet a little weird? Reads like they’ll talk about it as soon as the relief corps is out there.

9:04	Dave Cameron: Probably means they’re not willing to risk reporting it until they can ask him directly.

9:04	Dave Cameron: Rosenthal is in the dugout. He’s not going to bring that up while Volquez is pitching, but after he comes out of the game, maybe.

9:04	Comment From Mike D Has Usain Bolt ever dove toward the tape? Yet baseball players still dive for first base.

9:05	August Fagerstrom: littttttle different considering the surface onto which Bolt would be diving

9:05	August Fagerstrom: I think Sam Miller mentioned that in an Effective Wild episode

9:05	August Fagerstrom: Effectively*

9:06	August Fagerstrom: MurphVP

9:06	Comment From Ryan So the HR streak is obviously kind of fluky, but Murphy did set a career high in both ISO and in HR (despite playing slightly less than a full season). Do you think his increased is something that will persist?

9:07	Dave Cameron: I’d bet on him posting something like a .150 ISO next year. So sustaining his regular season power, not his postseason power.

9:08	Comment From The Hamburglar Why didn’t Murphy go 1st to home?

9:08	August Fagerstrom: Bad pitch by Volquez. Nice swing by Lucas.

9:09	Dave Cameron: He’s no Lorenzo Cain.

9:10	Dave Cameron: Was Moustakas playing too far in there?

9:10	Dave Cameron: No, looks like normal depth. Ignore me.

9:10	August Fagerstrom: The Royals didn’t make a play! wut?

9:10	Comment From The Hamburglar You think they would’ve turned two?

9:10	August Fagerstrom: no

9:11	Comment From Phil Good thing for Murphy that Moose couldn’t snag it. He is toast at home otherwise.

9:12	Comment From Grand Admiral Braun Conforto or Schwarber for next 5 years and they must be on an NL team:

9:12	Comment From Neifi Perez Greg Bird would have driven him in there.

9:12	Dave Cameron: I’ll take Conforto

9:12	August Fagerstrom: context neutral? Schwarber, so I could play him at first. given the teams they’re on, maybe Conforto, but I think I still take Schwarber

9:12	August Fagerstrom: OUCH SAL PEREZ

9:13	Comment From Siegmeyer of Catarina Isnt it a bit irresponsible on the part of the Royals to not rest p

9:13	August Fagerstrom: definitely

9:13	Comment From The Hamburglar I dont think Sal Perez actually has human bone in his hands? It’s some sort of metal/bone hybrid

9:13	Comment From Xol That was an inch from destroying Perez’s right hand.

9:14	Comment From Boo Urns We keep hearing about how Sal Perez gets hit more than anyone else. Is there anything to that?

9:14	August Fagerstrom: still might have gotten that index finger pretty good

9:14	Dave Cameron: He plays more than anyone, so it would be the most likely outcome if those foul tips are evenly distributed.

9:14	Comment From Noah he is a pretty big target

9:15	Comment From Jason Those hits to the face seemed brutal

9:16	Dave Cameron: From Rosenthal, again: Broadcast generally on in clubhouse. Conflicting reports on whether Volquez knows. We are not taking chance he would find out through us.

9:16	August Fagerstrom: https://twitter.com/Ken_Ros…

9:16	August Fagerstrom: beat me to it

9:17	Comment From Xol This is Perez’s 319th game (give or take a couple) since the beginning of last season. That’s insane?

9:17	Dave Cameron: Yes.

9:18	Comment From Park Chan hos Beard I always love listening to Salvador Perez’s post game interviews, but maybe because he reminds me of that character Brendon Small always used to do from Home Movies

9:18	August Fagerstrom: he’s hysterical

9:18	Comment From Minty If they win it this year, do they ride Perez less so that they don’t wreck him?

9:18	August Fagerstrom: they’ll need to have not-Drew Butera as their backup, but yeah, this seems like it should be a priority

9:18	Dave Cameron: My Fox feed just went out.

9:19	August Fagerstrom: aaaaaand cable went out

9:19	Comment From Phillies113 My Fox just got the blue screen of death

9:19	August Fagerstrom: OH MY WORD

9:19	August Fagerstrom: amazing

9:19	Dave Cameron: Well then.

9:19	August Fagerstrom: well, this was fun. bye, Dave!

9:19	Dave Cameron: The truck lost power. Yikes.

9:19	August Fagerstrom: FOX “lost power to the truck.” LOL

9:20	Comment From Neifi Perez Must be a Chevy

9:20	Comment From Vico What????? No generator?????

9:20	Comment From Xol Good thing there’s an NBA game on right now.

9:20	Comment From Evan Maybe they should do a play-by-play,,,

9:20	Dave Cameron: Yeah, if the game is still going on, and they’re not giving live updates even without video, this is nuts.

9:20	Comment From Neifi Perez They can’t see it either

9:21	Dave Cameron: Cell phones exist. Someone could be texting in the info.

9:21	August Fagerstrom: At least we Dontrelle Willis

9:21	Comment From DennetOTM How is it that the entire national broadcast depends on power to a single truck? I would have thought they had… I don’t know, a building, or a dedicated room or something.

9:21	Dave Cameron: Yeah, the idea that there isn’t a redundancy in place is insane.

9:21	August Fagerstrom: need to get ol’ Petey Rose on the broadcast

9:21	August Fagerstrom: that’ll make up for lack of World Series

9:22	August Fagerstrom: yeah, there being one truck is incredible.

9:23	Comment From Phillies113 Oh my god they delayed the game for TV. The power of TV, everyone!

9:23	August Fagerstrom: Broadcast is back!

9:23	August Fagerstrom: And they delayed the freaking game for it. Wow.

9:23	Comment From Miller Looks like they are piggybacking off of MLB NEtworks feed

9:23	Dave Cameron: Seemed like the obvious fix.

9:24	Comment From The Hamburglar FOX shouldnt get to delay the game. Them losing power in THEIR ONE truck is their own fault, not the team’s

9:24	August Fagerstrom: I’d wager it’s MLB that called that shot, not FOX. Don’t want something incredible to be missed

9:25	Comment From Z-Bo Can’t believe that this is happening. Ridiculous that this is happening on this stage

9:25	Comment From Jaack At least we don’t have Harold Reynolds anymore.

9:25	August Fagerstrom: holy hell what if this saved us from Harold!

9:25	Comment From Evan The whole Super Bowl lost power a couple years ago.

9:26	Comment From The Hamburglar That was the venue though, not the broadcast team who had weeks, even months to prepare and get contengencies together

9:27	August Fagerstrom: Apparently replay is down

9:27	August Fagerstrom: Rosenthal reports both teams have agreed to play without it for now. Insane.

9:27	Comment From Neifi Perez How is replay down if they have the MLBN feed?

9:27	Dave Cameron: Yeah, that’s odd.

9:29	August Fagerstrom: Wow, David Wright. Back looked pretty good there

9:29	Comment From Aaron “We’ll get you back to… Harold Reynolds… after the technical difficulties are resolved”

9:29	August Fagerstrom: NOOOOOOooooooooo

9:31	Comment From The Hamburglar Over/under 5: Number of low end FOX employees fired for this debacle

9:31	Dave Cameron: Under.

9:31	Dave Cameron: I’d go 2.

9:32	Comment From Stephen If the revenue from TV and advertising wasn’t needed, could you see the MLB reducing games so that the World Series would be played earlier in the year to avoid bad/cold weather?

9:32	Comment From The Dude August, you’re doing two chats today? Fangraphs World Series Blog MVP frontrunner.

9:32	August Fagerstrom: raise!

9:32	Dave Cameron: Yeah, Manfred has talked about liking 154 games, but it’s going to be tough to get owners to give up the revenues of those extra eight games.

9:33	August Fagerstrom: do you think Buck, Reynolds and Verducci are still calling the game as normal? gotta stay loose, right?

9:33	Comment From Siegmeyer of Catarina Why not just start the season earlier and

9:33	Dave Cameron: It rains a lot in March.

9:33	Comment From The Hamburglar I’m sure in an odd turn of events, Reynolds is just making unreal analysis left and right. Like a great hitter in BP

9:34	Comment From Neifi Perez it rains a lot in April too.

9:34	August Fagerstrom: actual lol

9:34	Dave Cameron: Less so.

9:34	Comment From Neifi Perez and what do May flowers bring?

9:34	Dave Cameron: Pilgrims.

9:34	Dave Cameron: Hey, neat, again.

9:34	August Fagerstrom: ooommmg

9:34	August Fagerstrom: THIS IS THE GREATEST

9:35	Comment From DennetOTM This is like an SNL skit

9:36	Dave Cameron: Curtis Granderson, quietly making all of us who doubted that contract look stupid.

9:36	Comment From Designated Bitter Thank god we didn’t miss that

9:36	August Fagerstrom: Crushed by Granderson

9:36	August Fagerstrom: Volquez has thrown some bad pitches

9:36	Comment From Neifi Perez THE GRANDY MAN CAN!!!! THE GRANDY MAN CANNNN!!!

9:37	Comment From regyptian First “technical difficulties” and we get a vastly upgraded commentary crew. If it keeps happening eventually we’ll end up with Vin Scully and Jon Miller

9:38	Comment From Miller Checks what time through the order it is for Volquez

9:38	Comment From DeGroms hair Replay back up via Twitter

9:39	August Fagerstrom: Yep, Rosenthal confirms

9:39	Dave Cameron: Mike Rowe looks like House.

9:39	Dave Cameron: At least in that commercial.

9:41	August Fagerstrom: they’re back 🙁

9:41	Comment From Jaack Oh god. No. No.

9:41	Comment From Peaches This has been the theme this post season. We in the LA region missed Murphy’s HR in game five of he NLDS because of a flash flood warning. As a Dodger fan, I couldn’t complain about the interruption there.

9:41	Comment From Peaches Where Perez wanted it; where it ended up

9:42	Comment From Jason Why in the world would they bring in the Fox team on MLBN

9:42	Dave Cameron: Yeah, this is weird.

9:43	Comment From Justin Nothing about this broadcast makes sense to me right now.

9:44	Comment From The Dude Escobar didn’t swing at the first pitch!

9:44	Comment From DeGroms hair Dang, Flores

9:44	August Fagerstrom: Wow. Two great plays by Wilmer Flores tonight.

9:44	Comment From Greg Wilmer Jeter

9:46	Comment From Dr. Met Seems like Mets will be able to go straight from Harvey to Familia given low pitch count. Complement to Flores’ improved defense that Mets didnt feel need to carry backup SS.

9:46	Dave Cameron: In a one run game, I doubt they’d push it. Clippard is a good setup guy.

9:47	Comment From ralph And that illustrates one of my biggest complaints about prospect coverage — people who say things like Wilmer Flores can’t be a SS on a championship team.

9:48	Dave Cameron: “The voice of Matt Vasgersian, and that’s something that hasn’t happened since the 1903 World Series…” How old is Matt Vasgersian?

9:48	August Fagerstrom: I mean, it’s still not ideal

9:48	Comment From Roger I have watched every Mets game this year and don’t think I’ve seen Wilmer make that play in the hole once before.

9:48	Comment From The Hamburglar Vasgersian is a known vampire, Dave

9:49	Comment From Phillies113 Is, um…is someone warming up in the KC pen?

9:49	August Fagerstrom: Wilmer Flores would have made that play

9:49	Comment From Greg Wilmer would’ve gotten that

9:49	Dave Cameron: Agree that it’s strange that Volquez is still in there with no one throwing behind him.

9:49	Dave Cameron: Middle of the order, third time through, this could get out of hand fast.

9:49	Comment From DeGroms hair Hochevar is warming

9:50	Dave Cameron: Just started after Cespedes single.

9:50	Comment From ralph Nope, it’s not ideal. But to act as if a very-below-average defender/hitter/pitcher/whatever is a bar to winning the World Series is very silly.

9:51	Comment From Phillies113 The Fox feed went down, the replay system went down, and Google Fiber in KC went down. That’s a bizarre series of coincidences in a short amount of time.

9:51	August Fagerstrom: Wow, just two whiffs in 69 pitches, per Passan

9:51	August Fagerstrom: For Volquez, that is

9:51	August Fagerstrom: Another fat pitch right over the middle. He probably shouldn’t be in this game anymore.

9:52	Comment From Phillies113 Someone would’ve gone first to third in a normal alignment on that play, guys.

9:52	Dave Cameron: Harold is just so agenda-driven.

9:52	Comment From Jason Pretty sure that the Royals have been using the shift all year too

9:53	Comment From Jon Shocking he is still in this game

9:53	Dave Cameron: Ned’s slow hook is a problem for KC.

9:55	Dave Cameron: Yeah, that was not a good 3-1 pitch.

9:55	Dave Cameron: Lucky that wasn’t crushed.

9:55	August Fagerstrom: They’ve all been up. Verducci just nailed it

9:55	Dave Cameron: Nice 3-2 pitch though.

9:55	August Fagerstrom: Damnit, you must be ahead of me Dave

9:55	August Fagerstrom: Wait 10 seconds!

9:56	Dave Cameron: Yo is really fast.

9:56	August Fagerstrom: Yeah, Cespedes is pretty freaking fast.

9:57	Comment From JJB Let’s wait for Harold to blame that run on the shift – 3, 2, … oh he already said it…

9:57	August Fagerstrom: Statcast says he topped out at 21 MPH there, FWIW

9:57	Dave Cameron: See what happens when you don’t shift? See!!!

9:58	August Fagerstrom: Moustakas made the play the second time

9:59	Dave Cameron: Lagares coming in for defense.

9:59	Comment From Aaron Usain Bolt tops out at 27.78 mph according to Wikipedia. House cats up to 30mph, same article.