June 17: Jasson Dominguez challenges a pitch that is clearly up and out of the zone. Home plate umpire Emil Jiménez simply opts not to honor the challenge. The strike stands. Huh. I wasn't aware they could do that. www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

Lol MLB is running pro-salary cap ads on their network

What a clutch hit by Yoshida. What a play by Bellinger. What a slide Baseball is so fun

Caleb Durbin just wrecked my lifelong goal of seeing the ever-elusive double-no-hitter. THANKS A LOT CALEB

Also can't stop thinking about how Matt Vasgersian pronounces Jose Caballero's last name "Cabble-yerro" This is what happens when you try to force a compromise between correct and incorrect (just a different kind of incorrect).

Can't stop thinking about this pitch:

The rules are that you literally can’t challenge with a position player on the mound. Jimenez is having a “mods are asleep, call strikes” inning

I get it that it’s an 8-0 no-hitter, but Emil Jimenez is stretching that position-player strike zone by … a lot. Like… c’mon

On the same night the Mets made 6 errors: - Blue Jays lose 3-1, final two Houston runs scored on errors - Orioles lose to Angels w/ 2 outs in 9th on an error and a 15-foot swinging bunt - Red Sox led 6-3 in 7th, make two errors, lose 8-6 to Rockies Messy baseball everywhere!

OK let me try this again: Dansby Swanson's 15 RBIs over the last 3 games v Mets: - Most in any three-game span since Sammy Sosa (16, 2002) - First in 3-game span vs. same team since Reggie Jackson (1969) - One short of record for RBIs in 3-game span: Sosa, Tony Lazzeri (1936), Lou Gehrig (1930)

I sent this post from the future sorry for the confusion

It is July 24 and I literally JUST NOW realized the Marlins were only sponsored by a home security company, not ADT *AND* e-cigarette company

I specifically opened BlueSky looking for the wheeeee! post for this game. Sarah is as reliable as they come.

Who else is up watching baseball, trying not to throw up because they saw Zack Gelof's hand get stepped on

[Billy Joel voice] Ah, but workin' too hard can give you a heart att—

i can't be the first person who has done this but i'm not gonna go searching around like it's 2018 twitter. it's not AI and I think that's where the bar is these days. i had an idea and so i stole these photos off the internet all on my own.

It took me way too long but I finally figured out who Mackenzie Gore reminds me of: Johnny Dogs from Peaky Blinders

There is a specific horror in hearing a song you don’t hate on a commercial on MLB.tv, knowing that by the 7th inning you will have heard it 48 times. By next week, you will loathe the song. It will haunt your dreams, twisting you into a character reminiscent of the works of Edgar Allan Poe

Never let it be said that I’m not willing to waste two days to satiate my own curiosity on something that does not matter, even a little. The impetus: “Hey I wonder what’s the most commonly-assigned number in MLB history?” www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

So the Rangers and (Dallas) Cowboys in Arlington, the (Dallas) Stars in Plano, and the (Dallas) Mavericks in … technically still Dallas (but essentially Addison.) I’m sure there’s a lesson to be taken from this. In lieu of knowing it, I’ll stick with my default presumption until proven otherwise.

Thank you @threetwoeephus.bsky.social for your spot-on critique of those stupid Google AI campaigns during baseball games! It’s infuriating they call things “insights” when it’s really just a cherry-picked data point from a completely hidden source!

I logged on to say something about Joey Votto (here's that, it's great, he's such an intelligent and curious dude: www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...) but upon logging on, I quickly realized that the internet belongs to the Knicks right now, go Knicks

First time to ever block a PR email from my work account, and it’s only because I would probably get in trouble if I replied with the verbiage I wanted to. Get blocked into the absolute deepest of hellspace with this garbage.

A skill that doesn't get talked about enough: hitting a deep enough fly ball to score the runner from third. Like, it's not even one of those "Seems simple until you try it" things. It seems really hard to do it consistently. And yet, big-leaguers do it. Regularly! It's remarkable to me.

As a former Rangers beat writer, it's a little jarring to be watching a Marlins game and see Tyler Phillips come on in relief of Pete Fairbanks

…all new information to me! (2/2)

I’m learning so much about the term “beaned up” tonight… (1/2)

It was a Team Italy thing during the WBC: it was actually Vinnie Pasquantino that coined the phrase, but Caglianone was on the team, so I think it still counts

Jac Caglianone appears to be beaned up

Cleaning out some old closets and lol

John Kruk in the booth just said he hadn't ever watched Saturday Night Live. Jason Benetti asked "weren't you in a skit at some point?" Kruk said he didn't think so. Not as far as he knew. Imagine Chris Farley played you in an SNL skit and you never even knew it!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kC9...

This solved it. Phone/iPad defaults to home broadcast, but was watching Padres broadcast on my TV

Image one: a screen grab from my phone, a faded Hyundai ad on the mound. Image two, same pitch: a photo of my TV where it appears the mound has been given a skin graft. No idea why

It’s not how I would have gone about it but I guess good on MLB for using Jackie Robinson Day to show us just how stupid the “I don’t see color” argument is.

Aaron Judge! Mike Trout!! This is the 4th game in which 2 multi-time MVPs (at the time of the game) hit multiple home runs each, joining:   June 21, 1956 Roy Campanella and Stan Musial July 3, 1962 Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle July 6, 1962 Maris and Mantle h/t @EliasSports

This Angels/Yankees game has been … I mean "good" is objectively the wrong word for a 10-10 slugfest, but also … home runs from Mike Trout and Aaron Judge, multiple comebacks, a game-tying homer in the ninth inning. It's good

Garrett Crochet has allowed 10 runs (so far) in under two innings. I don't know if he's tippin—  HR Garrett Crochet has allowed 11 runs (so far) in under two innings.. Holy moly

When nominative determinism comes up short.

I know nobody cares about position players pitching anymore but it’s Austin Hedges just so you’re aware

I stand by my initial statement that I like the new Royals City Connect jerseys, but I think these helmets look like a rodeo clown barrel.

As pointed out by more than one of you, there is exactly one man who could and would successfully pull this off repeatedly and it’s Zack Greinke.

Nobody is gonna do it but I do wonder if you could practice throwing an eephus pitch so high that it essentially landed on home plate from above, right where ABS is measured so you could challenge it and get a strike Also what would that ABS screen look like? Just a weird vertical stripe?

I need to know who is responsible for the thoroughly perplexing low-fi Iron Man ads during games on MLB.tv As is the case with ALL adds on the app, it's on extremely heavy rotation, but it's just like ... bad-gif-quality clips of scenes from the Marvel films??? And I can't tell what the point is???

This was my tone every time I had to drive across Nebraska to get from Omaha to Denver

lol konnor griffin

We’re back or whatever

Today’s Windup does not have any April Fool’s “jokes” in it, unless I made a factual error, in which case … [jazz hands]