#baseball-scores

[leadvalets]

The Best Baseball Bat For Kids

Players should do whatever they can to simulate a real swing so that they will know what bat they are most comfortable with. By doing so, you can instantly eliminate youth baseball bats that are not appropriate, like bats that are too long or too heavy for them to handle. Hands. Just as hockey players would not choose just any pair of skates, batters cannot pick up just any bat. It may seem so…

[otrtbs]

there's a thing in the summer evening, when the sun goes down and the moon is high and full in the sky, cooling everything off just slightly, where the surrounding neighborhood kids come out and play baseball in a makeshift baseball field and everyone gets really into it. like, really into it. they have to bring their own battery operated lights for the field, they have bets running on the different teams playing (a few dollars, baseball cards, packs of gum, coins, stickers, yo-yo's, single cigarettes (how'd those get in there?) sunglasses, watches, candy, you name it).

and no adults allowed. not that they encroach on the fun, but the first game starts at one in the morning so who's got the time?

and since sirius left to live with james, regulus is shut up in the house and has to hear about the great baseball extravaganza from barty in a "your brother is on the james potter all-star team i've got $50 in the pool, we have to go to the tournament" kinda way. and regulus is like "my mother would actually kill me and explicitly forbids it but i'll think about it."

but barty shows up just after midnight on game day and starts throwing rocks at regulus' window to get him to come out except he runs out of small rocks and moves to bigger ones and gets impatient and throws the big rocks harder and then oops, one went right through a window, except this house isn't regulus' house. regulus' house is two doors down, it's just hard to see in the dark. so barty moves two doors down and finds some smaller rocks and starts over again until regulus comes out. scowling, but he's out.

and they start the long walk to the makeshift baseball field and it's hot and the air is sticky and sweet with honeysuckles. and barty and regulus talk. and barty buys regulus boiled peanuts and crackerjack from a kid's makeshift concession stand and they sit in the makeshift bleachers side by side with their knees knocking together. and barty manages to make sly remarks that make regulus laugh. and regulus makes last minute bets and watches the game, and starts getting into it, and barty smiles at the way he's on the edge of his seat, brows furrowed in concentration. barty thinks he even sees regulus clap once, and it's fun watching regulus, more fun than watching the game, even.

so fun that barty says he'll get regulus the next night to watch the next two teams play. regulus agrees, and they make this a routine and barty thinks, finally.

but then it's james' team that's up next and james walks up to the plate and does a trick with his baseball bat with a grin so-wide and a wink, and regulus' eyes are as wide a saucers for a brief second before he catches himself but it doesn't matter. barty's seen it, and knows instantly he's made a mistake. he's signed himself up for a summer of looking at regulus look at james. and he's doomed.

[rmd-writes]

things I, person who knows nothing about baseball (just ask @three-drink-amy ), have learned this week:

- there is so much baseball?

- New York has two (2) baseball teams for some reason

- the World Series is not, in fact a “world” series

- baseball games are very long

- all the things I thought I learned about baseball from reading fic have evaporated from my brain

- nothing unites a fandom like trying to manifest a sportsball win for a team and game it appears none of us actually follow

- I fear for the state of my dash if the [checks notes] Dodgers lose to the [checks notes] Mets

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Red Sox catcher Sammy White looks balletic as he grabs a high throw from Dom DiMaggio while Mickey Mantle slides home, August 11, 1952. The Yankees won, 7-0.

Photo: Walter Kelleher for the NY Daily News via Getty Images

[rowrowronnie]

hiking time!!

[thisbuildinghasfeelings]

hey! quick question as a non american non baseball fan: what result do we have to hope for to get the episode next monday and how likely is said result?🫣 cause there is no way that i can wait any longer than 4 days for this episode.

So last night the Dodgers won the game. That means the most efficient solution for us is to now root for the Dodgers! They only need to win 2 more games now to end the series. There’s a game tonight and a game Friday. If the Dodgers win both, we’re good! There’s also a game Sunday to give us a little leeway, but quickest and best case scenario for us is that the Dodgers win the next two games.

Ultimately, we need either the Dodgers or the Mets to win 4 games by Sunday night. If we end Sunday night with them both having won 3 games, that is how we lose. That will mean a game 7 on Monday night and episode 5 on November 4.

[dinosaurwithablog]

Mookie Betts hits an RBI double making the score 8-4, Dodgers!! These guys are on fire 🔥 With only one more inning for the Mets to score a lot of runs, it's looking like the LA Dodgers are going to the World Series. Time will tell.

Happy happy joy joy!!!

[lunearobservatory]

baseball posting on main el oh el

rangers beat yankees 15-2 🤭 embarrassing (i hate the rangers too but ANYTHING to take down the yankees tbh, signed a giants fan)

speaking of the giants

giants and padres played in mexico city which was super rad ! out of country games woo !!! and that's all i have to say about that !

[barkovsasha]

cardinals @ astros - 6.5.24

[saltskinandasociopath]

i was so fooled by that i thought for sure the dodgers fans robbed him. profar you are insane

[miketownsends]

i’m going to Die actually

[manny-jacinto]

2 days into the baseball season and the drama is already off the fucking chart lmao i can't with this sport

[lesbiancarat]

I can't believe they made baseball from hit seventeen song home;run a real sport

[evilhorse]

Score '92 baseball cards ad from March 1992

[dinosaurwithablog]

Things are getting desperate so I've put on my judge's wig, and I'm getting my judge's robe, with a big 99 on the back, on the next commercial. I think that this will help Aaron Judge to hit a home run. It worked when they played in Seattle in the regular season. Anthony Volpe just stole 2nd. Austin Wellsjust hit a double. It's working!! Let's go Yankees!!!!!

Volpe just scored a run. I'm not taking these off!! My boys!!

[barkovsasha]

cardinals @ cubs - 8.2.24