OT Mariners break up Verlander perfect game with bunt single
It's a game within reach, its annoying sure but its not a ridiculous proposition to bunt.
not a ridiculous proposition? being able to get on base a lot is the main reason the batter has a major league roster spot, for which he is paid hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars a year. not only is bunting not a ridiculous proposition, it's one of only a few reasonable things he can do while standing in the batter's box. especially if he's fast.
a team acquiesing to a perfect game in process by the opposing pitcher, now THAT is a ridiculous proposition.
where the pitcher had a perfect game into the ninth. The batter leaned into a inside pitch and put his elbow guard into the ball. That's chicken shit, especially since the game was out of reach.
It was Max Scherzer who lost the perfect game on a bush league move by Jose Tabata to drop his (heavily padded) elbow into an inside pitch. The link below does a nice side-by-side still of Tabata leaning away from an inside pitch earlier in the AB and then the fateful one where he intentionally leaned in. Max took the high road but it was total bullshit. Tabata is currently toiling in the minors cause he sucks at baseball.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2015/06/20/max-scherzer-jose-tabata-no-hitter-na…
Did it bother anyone else that Mario kept referring to it as a no-hitter getting broken up ? Yeah it was that also, but call it a perfect game.
On the bunt, if Verlander would've gotten that ball on the initial reach, I don't think he would've gotten the runner anyway like some say .
If anyone has been watching the Tigers at all this year (or sadly one could argue the last decade for the most part) , a 4 run lead in the 6th inning means the opposing team can much too easily get back and win the game still .
"... Verlander would be justified to go head hunting for the rest of his outing."
There might not be a more culturally idiotic sport than baseball. It's the same one that's in denial about years of "juicing." Look at its core audience and everything starts to make sense.
Does watching a sport that takes a break so two dudes can punch each other on ice skates seem normal?
Also, MMA is cockfighting between human beings.
And don't get me started on grown men chasing a little ball around a field.
A person not interested in sports can find something idiotic about every sport.
Please elaborate on this "core audience."
This thread is garbage
Anything remotely concerning the Tigers right now is garbage.
Agreed. I'm sitting here laughing at the ppl on twitter saying that bunt was bush league...even though the Tigers are now only up 4-3. Dude did his job, got on base and helped bring his team back.
And there goes the lead.
Need I remind you guys that the world is full of cunts? Yeah, males with no honor or sportsmanship being allowed to participate at the highest levels. That's the world we live in now days. The sad thing is, no one says anything and calls the candy asses out. Ohhh, it's not politically correct to do so. That's why the only sports I watch are Michigan football and basketball.
Just do a search for "bunt during no-hitter" and you'll get lots of results. JV is just echoing the same complaint other pitchers have made.
He's just pissed off because he let it take him off his game. Same thing happened back against the Angels a few years ago. That was in the 8th inning, so you know he was more pissed back then.
Pathetic the GM could not trade or sign a good FA to help. This has been going on for the last 3 years. Looks like my prediction of a sub .500 season will happen.
Closed in 2013 with the Doug Fister trade.
You and me both. Although I think they'll do slightly better than 500 but nowhere near a playoff team.
"slightly better than 500" is playoff-adjacent.
I was just watching a sports report where the announcer said he didn't think that was the best way to play the game.
So maybe this is bush league. But the comments about throwing at someone because of this were out of line.
I can't believe the Mariners broke up that perfect game with those 7 runs. Jerks!
You must have posted this before that bunt led to three runs IN THAT INNING.
In the sixth inning? WTF. Thats not a bid for a perfect game. And then the Mariners score three in theinning and Verlander is pulled? Worthless to post this.
not the "unwritten rules" that make baseball unwatchable. It's the 4+ hour game made that way because of 5 minutes between each pitch that make it unwatchable.
and that 20 seconds is 20 seconds regardless of whether the batter steps out of the batters box. Part of the problem is some batters step out of the batters box between every pitch to adjust their gloves, helmet, etc.
I love baseball and the pace of the game annoys me as well. A game where a picther works quickly is an amazing revelation. If you ever get the chance watch a game in which Chris Sale pitches. Dude just gets the rock and chucks it. So much better.
They should publish a book of the unwritten rules so everyone knows what they are. Nevermind, they then would be written.
Your neighbors would be justified to throw you into a dumpster for posting this garbage.
It's unfortunate when people don't understand baseball
As others noted, it was just the 6th inning. Bunting there makes total sense. Had Dyson done it in the first inning and then Verlander was perfect until the 6th, nobody would have freaked out. Had it been the 9th inning and the Mariners were down, I don't know, 8 runs, sure. It's a dick move. But the Tigers couldn't even win this game, and that was well within the course of the game.
What's this about ol' Skillet Hands?
I guess he did something mean to Verlander?
Bunting is a big part of his game. If JV and the Tigers weren't prepared for a bunt in this situation, it's on them.
A fast dude laid down a bunt in the 6th inning of a close game that his team went on to win. That is not breaking a rule, it is just baseball.
If he broke up a perfect game with a bunt in the 8th or 9th inning of a 8-0 game, then you have a point. But you actually seem to be implying that somehow the Mariners did something wrong here by coming back in a game starting with a bunt in the 6th. That is not a thing.
Sometimes it just better to admit you jumped the gun a bit, lick your wounds and live to fight on another thread.
1) Is that Seattle's fault? If JV is prone to meltdowns as you say, seems like you want to do whatever you can to get in his head if you're the opposition.
2) So because the Mariners are 12 games back in their division they shouldn't even bother trying to win games? Gotcha.
3) Seems like you might be the one new to baseball. Jarrod Dyson is as slap-hitty and bunty as they come. If you're not on your toes as a pitcher or infielder when he comes to the plate, that's on you.
4) So is " LOL sorry I made y'all triggered LMAO!!" the go-to now for people when they say something dumb and everyone calls them out on it?
Bunting in the 6th doesn't warrant chin music, especially for a guy like Dyson who bunts regularly, but it also shouldn't offend people to suggest that it might. If it's in the 8th or 9th and it's not a close game, it's an unwritten rule (in other words - expected) that sometime within the series that guy who bunted will get brushed back. Like it or don't, that's baseball. With how soft our society is getting it makes me wonder how boxing, MMA, or hell even football, still exist.
While baseball certainly has some cultural "quirks" and I'll never understand how juicing was largely just ignored for a few decades, comments like this below say more about poster than about the "core audience" of, ya know, America's Pastime. Get over yourself.
"There might not be a more culturally idiotic sport than baseball. It's the same one that's in denial about years of "juicing." Look at its core audience and everything starts to make sense."