Elephant Rumblings: A’s AFL Roster Change, Five Off-Season Tasks, Recapping NL Wild Card
A’s News:
- Five off-season tasks for the A’s...
- Sam Bragg replaces Norge Ruiz on Athletics AFL roster...
- Former A’s prospect one of the heroes during Las Vegas shooting...
- A’s Matt Chapman follows path of Rockies’ Nolan Arenado...
- On November 11, the San Jose Sharks will be having an Athletics’ night at the Tank...
MLB News:
- Report: Derek Jeter reached out to recently-fired Marlins' foursome to discuss new roles...
- Yankees to start Sonny Gray in first game of ALDS...
- Giants' Bruce Bochy to have third heart procedure in three years...
Baseball Interest Stories:
- Keri: Which of the eight remaining teams in the MLB playoffs should you root for?
- A new classic in Sabermetrics literature...
- The Los Angeles Dodgers' strongest feature is their catchers...
- Indians go unconventional, again...
- Joe Girardi was wary of bullpen-ing the entire Wild Card game. Then he had to...
- Heyman: Real wild-card loser is pace of play...
- The Error in Baseball and the Moral Dimension to American Life...
- Fredi Gonzalez has been brushing up on analytics in order to make himself a more attractive managerial candidate...
Today in Baseball History:
- 1907 - The Philadelphia Athletics’ Rube Vickers pitches a five-inning 4-0 perfect game against the Washington Senators. Vickers also wins the 15-inning first game of the twin bill, 4-2, with a spectacular 12-inning relief effort. The two wins are the only ones for Vickers this season.
- 1921 - In the first one-city World Series since 1906, the Polo Grounds is the site for all nine games. Carl Mays needs 86 pitches to set the Giants down on five hits -- four of them by Frank Frisch. Babe Ruth drives in the first run of the Series in the opening inning of the 3-0 Yankees win.
Best of Twitter:
- D’Backs’ reliever Archie Bradley had a strange night...
Archie Bradley joins Dontrelle Willis, Tom Glavine, Dutch Ruether, Babe Ruth & Cy Young as pitchers with postseason triples.
— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) October 5, 2017
I believe Archie Bradley is the first "Archie" to hit a triple in a big league game since Archie Wilson for Washington on May 26, 1952.
— Joe Posnanski (@JPosnanski) October 5, 2017
Archie Bradley had faced 201 hitters since June 1 - & gave up a HR to one of them. He then gave up 2 to the 1st 2 hitters in the 8th! #ycpb
— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) October 5, 2017
No current #Rockies player had ever homered off #Dbacks Archie Bradley before this inning
— Thomas Harding (@harding_at_mlb) October 5, 2017
- It was the night of the triple apparently...
Ketel Marte is the 8th player ever and 1st since 1993 to lace TWO triples in a single #postseason game. https://t.co/yv5d7tZ6Zu pic.twitter.com/3yLC94WBYB
— MLB Stat of the Day (@MLBStatoftheDay) October 5, 2017
- Kind of incredible...
Madison Bumgarner threw more innings by himself in last year's NL wild card game (9) than all four wild-card starters did this year (7 1/3).
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 5, 2017