Cam Schlittler had one pitch over 100 (100.1) so far this year, before his first six pitches tonight:

Starting at ~4:15, what a thing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_m...

we used to make fun of ESPN for somehow showing BOS/NYY every Sunday night, but this is pretty niche even for me:

Times reaching base by the Pirates' starters today: 2, 5, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 0 Henry Davis :(

The Red Sox trail, 4-0. They have not overcome a deficit of more than one run this year.

The Reds have thrown 150 pitches and are still dealing with the fourth inning

14 runners piled up at third, their third-base coach refusing to send them home

Phillies and Giants and Blue Jays all appear to have added it in the past 24 hours; I believe there are only eight teams still to go!

I recapped April, and all five items are accidentally about how we deal with our insecurity: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/april-strays

Always hard to separate the players' direct failures from the manager's more nebulous influence, but man, I've got a lot of questions about the shop Tony Vitello's running over there. This is really really good: www.nytimes.com/athletic/724...

Elite not getting out of the way, by Garrett Stubbs

It's true! All we had to do was ask!

Schwim Move

Not tracking challenges remaining in the scorebug is unforgivable at this point

Dave Flemming just said "Giants and Phillies discussed it," but I naturally heard it as "Giants and Phillies disgusted"

This is one of the funniest plate appearances in a while baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?dat...

For the rest of my life I won't forget this, the ninth consecutive sinker in the at-bat

@grantbrisbee.bsky.social putting this on your radar, you might want to walk around with this one for a while bsky.app/profile/ryan...

13 Points In 12 Seconds

did somebody unplug downtown Pittsburgh?

just noticed that in the dreadful Google Cloud AI ad about players hopping over the foul line, the hopping player's hang time was measured at 5.98 seconds

let's go, get Scott his combined no-hitter

So... do the Cubs have a cheeseburger without the bun festering on their dugout floor?

Tip for right fielders: If the runners on second and third are both tagging, split the difference

Some of you might know that I solved Jumps (pebblehunting.substack.com/p/how-you-ca...), and this is about as bad as I've ever seen

an all-timer for the blooper reels

Patrick Bailey holding his mitt in place, shaming the umpire for calling a ball that Patrick Bailey won't challenge.

What a strange graphic!

If anybody ever asks you "what's that dude's newsletter all about," this is a decent one to show them pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-nudge-...

Took a deep dive into the water: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-nudge-...

Took a deep dive into the water: pebblehunting.substack.com/p/the-nudge-...

Whoever is in charge of vibes for the Dodgers needs to take emergency action

when robots take over, they're not going to run like a toddler with a full diaper, they're going to be the size of grains of salt and crawl up our noses to access our neural network, this is all misdirection

It would be a big help this weekend if you can let me know any time (inning, batter) a broadcast shows the lengthwise in-the-dugout shot. Like this one basically:

It would be a big help this weekend if you can let me know any time (inning, batter) a broadcast shows the lengthwise in-the-dugout shot. Like this one basically:

We really need to rehabilitate the intentional walk. It's James Wood! A 2-0 count with first base open! The go-ahead run on second, two outs! A right-hander with a career .626 OPS on deck!

Today for @baseballprospectus.com I conducted some vital research, creating a taxonomy of TOOTBLANs. It's time for us to properly categorize the baserunning error, so we can both count them, and shame them, properly.

No big deal, something just like this happened in the first game I ever played

We've Got Foot Catcher's Interference! pebblehunting.substack.com/p/emergency-...

Love Vogt trying to decide how mad to be about a late timeout call:

We've Got Foot Catcher's Interference! pebblehunting.substack.com/p/emergency-...

Stick shift on the right side here

How to keep Ohtani from homering:

The Maddux/Bagwell thing never made sense to me. Why would Bagwell expect Maddux to keep throwing the pitch Bagwell had homered on? Wouldn't Maddux throw pitchers Bagwell hadn't hit hard? Doesn't this supposed trickery only work in reverse, with the hitter rope-a-doping?

Thirty minutes with no updates on the shirtless Coors section is terrifying

BRO STEPHEN VOGT PUT IT AWAY YOU CANNOT JUST HAVE THAT OUT ON THE FIELD

Will The 3-0 Autostrike Survive? pebblehunting.substack.com/p/will-the-3...

I think about this a lot.