MLB 2025: The A's are Playing Where Now?

Aragorn said:

Anthony Rizzo returning to the Cubs as an ambassador and will retire as a Cub in a ceremony Saturday after no one signed him to play this season.

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Ar-Pharazon said:

They should let him play one more game so it's official.

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Bottom of the 2nd, Cubs batter hits the first home run of his career, it goes right to Rizzo in the center field stands. He reaches up for it and it bounces off his hand and a fan digs it out of the bleachers. On TV you could see Rizzo saying to those next to him, "That's why I'm retired."

ThankQ said:

Bottom of the 2nd, Cubs batter hits the first home run of his career, it goes right to Rizzo in the center field stands. He reaches up for it and it bounces off his hand and a fan digs it out of the bleachers. On TV you could see Rizzo saying to those next to him, "That's why I'm retired."

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Nah, he had good hands. It was his range that wasn't always the best

Ar-Pharazon said:

Nah, he had good hands. It was his range that wasn't always the best

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I got that critique in a Dear John letter once.

Cal Raleigh hits his 54th home run, tying Mickey Mantle.

Justin Verlander's unimpressive season has suddenly turned around with four good starts in a row as the Giants are fighting to get into a wild card spot.

Aragorn said:

Justin Verlander's unimpressive season has suddenly turned around with four good starts in a row as the Giants are fighting to get into a wild card spot.

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I've been watching the SF/Arizona series. Today was a doozy.

Watching Mets/Padres now. The Padres and Dodgers division race could get interesting.

I follow a friend of a friend on social media who posts standings in April to boast about his favorite team being in first, then they miss the playoffs, then the next April he does the same thing and they miss the playoffs again. I don't understand this mentality.

Does anyone understand how the pitch challenge thing will work? I don't mean the mechanics, I mean does it include the whole strike zone or just the front-most plane? That rectangle they show on TV is nice as a guide, but it doesn't include the whole strike zone. The strike zone isn't a rectangle hovering at the front edge of the page, it's a 3D polyhedron that hovers over the plate. Pitches with curve or sink can cross the front of the plate outsize the rectangle but curve or sink into part of the back of the 3D strike zone.

I'm new to baseball but I got curious watching the challenge system in the preseason so I looked up what the strike zone is and what a strike is, and if any part of the ball touches or enters any part of that polyhedron it's a strike. it's not just the rectangle in front, but do the automatic systems get the whole zone?