Craig Albernaz on Ron Marinaccio hitting Gunnar Henderson with a pitch in the 9th inning:
“I’m not saying the ball to Gunnar was on purpose, but it was done the right way. And that’s why there was no gripes from us, and Gunnar was fine with it.“
Even after diving head first back towards the bag he is still a good 3 feet away. Clement is 6FT tall, that means he ran at least 9 feet towards right field. The second Gunnar starts moving towards him with the ball in his glove, it is a tag attempt. It is an egregiously bad call
Umpires postgame said Ernie Clement can move to avoid fielding. That becomes his lane.
Hunter Wendelstedt: "He was vacating an area to let the fielder field it, and then the fielder just tried to, you know, was hoping and praying, throwing up the Hail Mary to try and get two."
“Don’t you like the human element?”
Yeah I do. Baseball players playing baseball… that’s the human element. An E6, you can live with that. Players make mistakes.
The rules need to be enforced correctly. The right calls need to be made. When they’re not, it hurts the product.
Everyone on both sides of this one knew he was out of the base path. The only person in the whole stadium who didn’t think so was this umpire for some reason.
This was a rather dubious decision, to put it mildly. Ernie Clement left the base path to avoid Gunnar Henderson's tag. He should have been called out. Instead of an inning-ending double play, Clement was ruled to not have left the base path, and he scores on the next play.
I love Ben McDonald dearly but this is just more meaningless word salad.
“Do you make plays? Do you make pitches?” What does that even mean? Let’s quantify that! But the minute we put that into numbers OH GOD WE’RE DOING THE EVIL ANALYTICS NOT THE ANALYTICS
I’ve seen Baltimore experience four homicides in a day - even the span of a few hours - countless times. April just saw 4 homicides for the entire month, a single-month, all-time low for the records we have going back to 1970. @alex_mann10 reports https://t.co/UxzAYdVJn6
Six-time Pro-Bowl DE Calais Campbell, who played in Baltimore from 2020-2022, is returning to sign a one-year deal with the Ravens, per source. Campbell will 40 on Sept. 1 and this will be his 19th NFL season.
Minter will fix Ravens D and he already got Trey Hendrickson. Ravens offense gutted in free agency, no C, QB needs new deal, Henry is 32, wasted $ on Andrews and Declan Doyle might be a wash,(most Sean Payton guys failed as playcallers). Developmental edge over prime TE? Yikes