Dice-K's First Start....

by Brock20 on Mar 2, 2007 6:28 PM EST

I thought I would post this because someone would probably be interested.

Dice-K's first inning...

First batter: College kid lines a double down the first baseline on the first pitch. Straight fastball down the middle.

Second batter: First pitch: outside called strike. Second pitch, low strike, which the batter check swings into the dirt right in front of JV, out 2-3.

Third batter: First pitch, curve ball for a strike. Second pitch: fastball inside, called strike (questionable in my op.) Third pitch, a slight sinker, outside, fouled off. Fourth pitch: fastball clocked at 92 mph, outside, called third strike (another questionable call.)

Fourth batter: First pitch: FB outside. Second pitch: FB, fouled down 3Bline. Third pitch: low in the dirt. Fourth pitch: FB, inside. Called third strike.

Overall impressions: Very efficent arm movement. Dice-K gets a couple of questionable strike calls and learns not to say your first pitch will be a fastball.

He's supposed to throw a second inning. I'll report back on that.

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Second Inning.....

A little more variation on the pitches in this one.

Fifth batter: First pitch, big curve, swinging strike. Second pitch, big curve, swinging strike. Third pitch, big curve, in the dirt, ball. Fourth pitch, FB outside and low. Fifth pitch: FB outside and low (92 mph). Sixth pitch: FB into a 4-3 ground out.

Sixth batter: First pitch, FB, inside corner. Second pitch, FB slightly outside edge strike called. Third pitch, FB high. Fourth pitch, shoulder high FB, outside, CALLED THIRD STRIKE.

Seventh Batter: First pitch, big 12-6 curve, in the dirt swinging strike. Second pitch, FB fouled off to the right side. Third pitch, curve ball in the dirt. Fourth pitch, curveball knee high slightly inside, popped out to shallow right field, fielded by 4.

Overall: The curveball has a nice 12-6 drop to it, but it was slighly erratic. I don't want to judge too harshly since it is spring training and he's rusty and we don't know what he's supposed to be working on. He hit 92 on the gun a couple of different times. Remy says he threw the slider and the change up each once, but this untrained eye didn't see it. He threw 25 pitches, 19 for strikes. He struck out three, all three on questionable third strike calls.

Dice-K has arrived. The world still spins.

by Brock20 on Mar 2, 2007 6:37 PM EST reply actions

The world still spins

but not in two directions at the same time...

God rested one day out of 7, Felix rests 4 out of 5.

by CrimsonLiederhosen on Mar 2, 2007 6:40 PM EST up reply actions

ahhh

but is the world spinning with the Gyroball motion?

Dukes is Jurastically better than Bradley. After all Dukes has been playing baseball ever since T-ball.

by pedrophile on Mar 2, 2007 6:42 PM EST up reply actions

That

Was supposed to be the reference. One of the early rumors was that the gyro spun two directions.

God rested one day out of 7, Felix rests 4 out of 5.

by CrimsonLiederhosen on Mar 2, 2007 7:31 PM EST up reply actions

I thought you were meaning something like that

but the rumour was the ball had movement in both directions. Like a pitching being a slider then a screwball type of thing.

Dukes is Jurastically better than Bradley. After all Dukes has been playing baseball ever since T-ball.

by pedrophile on Mar 2, 2007 7:37 PM EST up reply actions

Actually...

it does. It's called the "precession." It's a slow "wobble" in the earth's motion, like a spinning top will do. This will actually make the north star become Vega instead of Polaris, which is what it is now.

God I know some stupid random shit.

I ate a Grand Slam @ Denny's yesterday... pooped out a 2 run double today.

by slurve on Mar 2, 2007 7:57 PM EST up reply actions

I think it's one

of the benefits of us not having a life, lol.

Dukes is Jurastically better than Bradley. After all Dukes has been playing baseball ever since T-ball.

by pedrophile on Mar 2, 2007 9:13 PM EST up reply actions

Haha

Just one of those stupid things that stuck with me from an earth science class about 15 years ago.

I ate a Grand Slam @ Denny's yesterday... pooped out a 2 run double today.

by slurve on Mar 2, 2007 9:44 PM EST up reply actions

Man...

I throw a subtle line at the end and you guys take it to another level.
Good stuff.

One of my favorite astro-physics geeky things is the Goldilocks Zone. There is a range of distance from a star in which the temp. is ideal for life to exist. Go to far from the star, its too cold. Too close, its too warm.

Hence the name based on the fairy tale.

by Brock20 on Mar 2, 2007 10:12 PM EST reply actions

hmmm

that only works because Goldilocks was one picky biatch!

Dukes is Jurastically better than Bradley. After all Dukes has been playing baseball ever since T-ball.

by pedrophile on Mar 2, 2007 10:16 PM EST up reply actions

Not to mention...

a common B&E con.

by Brock20 on Mar 2, 2007 10:25 PM EST reply actions

Pretty sure

Bears can't own property. She was a squatter, if she'd stayed long enough it would have belonged to her.

God rested one day out of 7, Felix rests 4 out of 5.

by CrimsonLiederhosen on Mar 2, 2007 10:52 PM EST up reply actions

analogy

I have it on good authority that the 3 bears was actually an analogy for Longoria -> too hot, Upton -> too cold, and Butler -> just right.

Goldilocks digs Butler, and who am I to argue that?

Dukes is Jurastically better than Bradley. After all Dukes has been playing baseball ever since T-ball.

by pedrophile on Mar 2, 2007 11:10 PM EST up reply actions

Only his first outing

Though he'll have to command his breaking pitch better than he did to get outs in the majors. It seemed like everytime he threw that slider/curve it was in the dirt, and he got a bunch of questionable fastball strikes on the outside corner (and topping out at just 92). i wanted some hot hot gyroball action :)

by PooNani on Mar 3, 2007 8:54 AM EST reply actions

His fastest pitch was 94

and he reached 93 a few times as well I believe, at least from what I saw on the replay

by andwoo on Mar 3, 2007 10:21 AM EST up reply actions

Remy said 92...

I was listening and writing immediately after the pitch, so I don't know about the gun, if they ever showed it.

His curve was medicore, and yes he got some VERY questionable calls.

by Brock20 on Mar 3, 2007 10:31 AM EST up reply actions

Calls

There were questionable calls all night, for both sides. Nobody argued it though, it's ST and it was a game against a college team.

God rested one day out of 7, Felix rests 4 out of 5.

by CrimsonLiederhosen on Mar 3, 2007 11:57 AM EST up reply actions

Calls....

NESN cut away after his innings to go to...college hockey! Bleh.

Yeah, it was ST against a college team, I'm just saying if someone looked at his line with those Ks, they were really, really questionable. Also, as you point out CL, it was against a college team.

The kid's lead off double was sweet though, you couldn't help but cheer for that kid for taking one off the most hyped thing in Boston since, well I don't know what.

by Brock20 on Mar 3, 2007 12:00 PM EST reply actions

I'm thinking...

You're a bit anti-Sox, no? Watching the replays on SC, those "outside" called strikes didn't look too egregious. One call looked a litte high to me, but I didn't see anything so outside as to be an unreasonable strike.

That said, I'm a die-hard Sox fan, and even I'm sick of the Matsu-hype.

"People think it must be fun to be a super genious, but they don't know how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world." - Calvin

by RVachon on Mar 3, 2007 2:04 PM EST up reply actions

Agreed, to an extent

The thing about hype... is you don't have to go to ESPN.com a dozen times an hour, or read the hype columns, or watch every edition of sportscenter. yeah, it's annoying as hell when a site or source you like goes overboard on a topic (though, frankly, that's pretty much all ESPN does so if you like ESPN, that's you're own damn fault and don't come crying about it), but it passes eventually. Heck, no one here has even commented yet about His Holiness feeling like he deserves a contract extension already.

God rested one day out of 7, Felix rests 4 out of 5.

by CrimsonLiederhosen on Mar 3, 2007 5:08 PM EST up reply actions

Nope not all...

Actually, I've liked the Red Sox since I was a little kid. Thanks to Rawga and Boggs and the fact that Fenway looked cool on TV during the Saturday game of the week.

The Dice-K hype is unbelieveable. The one person benefiting from all of his is JD Drew. He's going to get EATEN ALIVE in Boston.

by Brock20 on Mar 3, 2007 5:54 PM EST up reply actions

Check for yourself...

They were borderline, but I wouldn't say he was gifted his Ks.

But, check for yourself, I think they show two of the called strike threes on MLB's DiceK's highlights.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070302&content_id=1823731&vkey=spt2007news&fex t=.jsp

by beastball on Mar 3, 2007 6:08 PM EST up reply actions

I'm looking at the highlights....

and obviously I didn't see as much as you, but the only third strike call I see doesn't seem like a gift.

by SenorGato88 on Mar 3, 2007 12:20 PM EST reply actions

Upon further review....

The one might have cut at the end and JV did a nice job of framing it. So, I'll pull back my complaint on that one. The other one? I'm sticking to the gift tag.

Oh, and apparently bears can OWN property in fantasyland. They speak so therefore they can negoiate. The problem is that they don't have pockets to carry their house keys or their Phillip Hughes rookie cards.

by Brock20 on Mar 3, 2007 6:24 PM EST reply actions