When your third home run of the night is a walk-off grand slam, you can celebrate however you damn well please. With the nearby Golden State Warriors in the conference finals, Khris Davis opted to pay homage to Steph Curry with the pull-up on the third base line.
That ended a three-game hitless streak for Davis and pushed his wRC+ back above 100 (102). He’s hitting just .228 but has 11 home runs and 28 RBI though 37 games.
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This morning’s Roto Riteup wishes we could all just get along and not have to throw sweet haymakers into the faces of unsuspecting Canadians.
On the agenda:
1. Fun with arbitrary endpoints
2. Various News and Notes
3. Streaming Pitcher Options
Today’s Roto Riteup officially advocates for the use excessive force against insects.
On the agenda:
1. Various News and Notes
2. Streaming Pitcher Options
Today’s Roto Riteup is on the fence about shorts. They’re not pants, but they also are.
On the agenda:
1. Say goodnight to Luis Severino
2. Various News and Notes
3. Streaming Pitcher Options
Clayton Kershaw threw a complete-game shutout. Somehow, he managed to keep Bartolo Colon from going yard. No other Mets pitchers homered, either. That’s how you know Kershaw was in a zone. The 13 strikeouts hint at it, too.
Still, pitchers hitting is all the rage, and because Kershaw didn’t bat flip at any point, Zack Greinke wins the day.
#PitchersWhoRakeAndBatFlip pic.twitter.com/8TsLBjiwqn
— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) May 13, 2016
The new Modern Baseball album is out and it is terrific. I mention this because the band’s name is what it is, and because, to get cheeky, Noah Syndergaard was playing the exact opposite kind of ball on Wednesday. He saw Bartolo Colon’s home run and raised it one more, becoming the first pitcher to homer twice in a game since 2007.
What can’t he do?
#HRDerby with @Mets pitchers … who you got?https://t.co/Kmv2E5YmvR #PitchersWhoRakehttps://t.co/WKEQErjbOu
— MLB (@MLB) May 12, 2016
Oh, and I guess that elbow he quietly had examined two weeks ago is just fine for hitting.
Some days, you’ve just got it like that.
Ender won’t save them, but he’ll make them a little more watchable.
While Stephen Strasburg is stacking paper to the ceiling, the rest of us are left to feel like this.
The Roto Riteup advocates for the day after Mother’s Day to be a national holiday, as millions of children around the world are nursing hangovers after being forced to spend time with family. Not this gentleman, of course, because my mother is a delight and this is published in a public forum.
On the agenda:
1. Fun with arbitrary endpoints
2. Various News and Notes
3. Streaming Pitcher Options