GDT: Blue Jays @ Yankees Game 2 of 3 7:05 Est

[KevinGregg]

What the f***? I thought that was a balk.

 

Why isn't it just a ball?

[Terminator]

How is that not a ball?

[Orgfiller]

Ballk?

 

Buck has a point in that technically the ball did leave Betances' hand and he didn't make any weird motions, but I have seen this happen before and it's usually called a balk.

[Spanky99]

One in the gap makes this a 1 run game... c'mon Kendrys! A bomb would go well.

[Terminator]

Take him deep and tie this up

[John_Havok]

Ballk?

 

I think the balk is the correct call. The ball came out of his hand at the tail end of his wind up and he went through the rest of the motion and the ball didn't get "thrown" towards the plate.

 

Edit.

 

Rule was clarified on the broadcast, was the right call.

[Orgfiller]

Morales doesn't look very good. He's outmatched here.

[Terminator]

Geezus Morales

[Spanky99]

It's a ball guys... F U Morales!

[King]

It's utterly ridiculous to take a massive HR cut like that with two strikes and a runner on third, down by five runs. A base hit gets us a chance with one swing of the bat.

This is highly flawed logic.

[Maahfaace]

It's a ball guys... F U Morales!

 

has to cross the foul lines for it to be a pitch no?

[Terminator]

Morales is hitting like s***

[EdwinsParrot]

Of course when others heat up morales is bad

[gruber92]

Morales needs to be dropped to the 5 or 6 spot until he finds himself. He's basically the only hitter not having good AB's.

[Pendleton]

Might have been a tad outside but close enough to be ripping on.

 

Did Morales get crossed up after being tipped off that the catcher was set up low?

[Spanky99]

This is highly flawed logic.

 

Yup, no one complained when Smoak hit a 440 shot on a 1-2 count the other day. Runs are runs.

[King]

With all the data we have on exit velocities, I find it hilarious that people still get mad at players for trying to hit the ball as hard as they can. Because why would you take a home run cut when you can hit a soft ground ball up the middle?

[Spanky99]

has to cross the foul lines for it to be a pitch no?

 

Not sure, but they scored it a ball.

[Orgfiller]

Might have been a tad outside but close enough to be ripping on.

 

Did Morales get crossed up after being tipped off that the catcher was set up low?

 

He's just way off right now. Clearly looking for a fastball to tie it on the first pitch and swung at an awful curve, then overcompensated waiting for the breaking ball and was completely blown away by the heat, then he was a dead duck after that.

[Latos Losses]

Thank you Morales. Way to screw over Latos.

[Maahfaace]

Not sure, but they scored it a ball.

 

It was scored a Balk bro

[gruber92]

Is Gibby seriously using Grilli here? You know he can't pitch back to back days.

[Spanky99]

You hangy, they bangy!

[Orgfiller]

Is Gibby seriously using Grilli here? You know he can't pitch back to back days.

 

Meh, might as well let him try to get his s*** together in a game which we've mostly given up on.

 

That's not exactly what you wanted to see on the first pitch.

[burlingtonbandit]

He's just way off right now. Clearly looking for a fastball to tie it on the first pitch and swung at an awful curve, then overcompensated waiting for the breaking ball and was completely blown away by the heat, then he was a dead duck after that.

 

He guesses a lot. Seen him swing at some bad breaking balls.

[Spanky99]

It was scored a Balk bro

 

I'm just listening to Shulman, he said it was a ball... my bad.

[Pendleton]

He's just way off right now. Clearly looking for a fastball to tie it on the first pitch and swung at an awful curve, then overcompensated waiting for the breaking ball and was completely blown away by the heat, then he was a dead duck after that.

 

Oh yeah I'm not arguing that Morales hasn't put the greatest AB's together. But on this particular pitch, I was sure the catcher was setting up for the breaking ball down, and with a runner happening to be on second, I wouldn't be shocked if Morales was tipped off and then crossed up. Could be wrong of course.

[Orgfiller]

He guesses a lot. Seen him swing at some bad breaking balls.

 

Yup. When you're hot it seems like you're guessing correctly all the time but right now it's the complete opposite. He's been a swing and miss machine on changeups and breaking balls for a bunch of games now.

[Orgfiller]

Jesus ump

[Daniel Labude]

Ballk?

 

Had that happen to me way to many times while playing baseball...throws everybody off first lol