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Why do pitchers fear being the one to give up milestone homers?
Posted on 9/27/22 at 8:49 pm
Posted on 9/27/22 at 8:49 pm
Aaron Judge has walked 4 times tonight in Toronto. Not intentionally, Jays are just dancing around him when they get to two strikes. Can’t speak to their game plan but it’s…curious with the record in play.
Postseason pitching gaffes are understandably infamous, but I don’t get the hesitancy around pitching to a guy approaching a milestone. If this is a real fear these guys have, I can’t understand the stigma. Pitchers give up bombs all the time, but it seems like pitching to a batter on the brink of a milestone is like a game of pitching musical chairs. Can anyone really remember the name of the pitcher who gave up Maris’ 61st? Bonds’ 71st? Especially for the bigger names, I can’t see a way in which their failure to deliver would be considered anything other than an unread footnote in someone else’s history.
Postseason pitching gaffes are understandably infamous, but I don’t get the hesitancy around pitching to a guy approaching a milestone. If this is a real fear these guys have, I can’t understand the stigma. Pitchers give up bombs all the time, but it seems like pitching to a batter on the brink of a milestone is like a game of pitching musical chairs. Can anyone really remember the name of the pitcher who gave up Maris’ 61st? Bonds’ 71st? Especially for the bigger names, I can’t see a way in which their failure to deliver would be considered anything other than an unread footnote in someone else’s history.
This post was edited on 9/27/22 at 8:53 pm
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Posted on 9/27/22 at 8:56 pm to MrWalkingMan
Pop threw him like 7 sliders and 3 sinkers. Like wtf. Not a single fastball to hit.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 8:56 pm to MrWalkingMan
Competitiveness
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/thread
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:00 pm to MrWalkingMan
This question can’t be serious… who wants the be on that side of history???
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:01 pm to MrWalkingMan
No one gives a shite about judge trying to hit as many home runs as someone else who doesn’t have the most.
He’s not about to hit a milestone, he’s the fricking footnote.
He’s not about to hit a milestone, he’s the fricking footnote.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:49 pm to ProjectP2294
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He’s not about to hit a milestone, he’s the fricking footnote.
This isn't true at all to anyone outside the south.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:52 pm to MrWalkingMan
I mean, don’t they want to be interviewed in 20 years when the documentary is made!
Posted on 9/27/22 at 10:19 pm to MrWalkingMan
Because the Blue Jays pitchers know the Yankees suspect hitters behind him have struggled much of the year. It's hard to fathom Stanton hitting .209.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 10:21 pm to MrWalkingMan
The Red Sox were throwing it right by him on Saturday and Sunday. Do you just pick one game and make an entire assumption about pitchers?!
He literally struck out twice and popped out on Saturday
He literally struck out twice and popped out on Saturday
This post was edited on 9/27/22 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 9/27/22 at 10:27 pm to MrWalkingMan
They are trying to win 
nobody should give him a single thing to hit for the rest of the season. Take him out of the equation and force the rest of the team to pick up the slack
nobody should give him a single thing to hit for the rest of the season. Take him out of the equation and force the rest of the team to pick up the slack
Posted on 9/27/22 at 11:43 pm to MrWalkingMan
Everyone knows Tracy Stallard gave up Maris’ 61st… Carl Pavano McGwire’s 70th, and Dennis Springer Bonds’ 73rd
Posted on 9/28/22 at 4:19 am to tzimme4
He is over .500 obp his last 7 games which included 4 with Boston. He is taking what they give him. Unselfish to stand there and maybe see one hittable pitch per ab.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 5:41 am to Simplemaaan
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Aaron Judge has walked 4 times tonight in Toronto.
He had a full count in every at-bat last night.
This post was edited on 9/28/22 at 5:56 am
Posted on 9/28/22 at 5:51 am to MrWalkingMan
It has been nearly 25 years, and I still know that Steve Trachsel was pitching when Mark McGwire hit #62.
This post was edited on 9/28/22 at 5:52 am
Posted on 9/28/22 at 6:53 am to ProjectP2294
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No one gives a shite about judge trying to hit as many home runs as someone else who doesn’t have the most. He’s not about to hit a milestone, he’s the fricking footnote.
^^^^^ That’s a stupid fricking thing to say.
Dude is about to tie the AL home run season record and Yankee team record for home runs in a season.
This post was edited on 9/28/22 at 6:56 am
Posted on 9/28/22 at 6:57 am to nola tiger lsu
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This isn't true at all to anyone outside the south.
WTF does this have to do with anything? There are as many bandwagon Yankees fans in the south as anywhere.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 7:25 am to Tshiz
quote:Avoiding a guy and walking him out of fear is the opposite of competitiveness
Competitiveness /thread
You think Nolan Ryan and Clemens would have been walking Judge terrified to throw him a fastball?
Posted on 9/28/22 at 7:26 am to MrWalkingMan
yankees need to pay some stiff to give up the next two
Posted on 9/28/22 at 7:27 am to chalmetteowl
quote:mark me down as not everyone
Everyone knows Tracy Stallard gave up Maris’ 61st… Carl Pavano McGwire’s 70th, and Dennis Springer Bonds’ 73rd
Posted on 9/28/22 at 7:44 am to Rize
quote:do single season conference/team records usually get wall to wall coverage?
Dude is about to tie the AL home run season record and Yankee team record for home runs in a season.
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