Baseball

[smc]

Hey, baseball fans. Are you all aware of this pitcher in the Yankees farm system, Pat Venditte, who is ambidextrous? He'll be at Single A Tampa this season, but he pitched for the big-league club yesterday for 1-1/3 innings against the Braves.

He wears a 6-fingered glove and switches pitching arms depending on the batter. If I hadn't seen it for myself, I'd think it was a Sports Illustrated hoax for April Fool's Day!

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Originally Posted by smc

Hey, baseball fans. Are you all aware of this pitcher in the Yankees farm system, Pat Venditte, who is ambidextrous? He'll be at Single A Tampa this season, but he pitched for the big-league club yesterday for 1-1/3 innings against the Braves.

He wers a 6-fingered glove and switches pitching arms depending on the batter. If I hadn't seen it for myself, I'd think it was a Sports Illustrated hoax for April Fool's Day!

I read that article on espn.com. Pretty neat! As a poster there said, can you imagine if he could change the glove pitch by pitch(using the same glove, of course) to a different hand? That would throw off the rhythm of the hitters for sure!

[transjen]

Originally Posted by smc

Hey, baseball fans. Are you all aware of this pitcher in the Yankees farm system, Pat Venditte, who is ambidextrous? He'll be at Single A Tampa this season, but he pitched for the big-league club yesterday for 1-1/3 innings against the Braves.

He wers a 6-fingered glove and switches pitching arms depending on the batter. If I hadn't seen it for myself, I'd think it was a Sports Illustrated hoax for April Fool's Day!

First came the dreaded switch hitters now there's the dreaded switch pitchers

Philliefan Jen

[smc]

Red Sox Nation, where we know the proper way to raise a child, is getting ready for Sunday night's season opener against the Yankees.

[Talvenada]

Does anybody remember a pitcher from 10-20 years ago who was ambidextrous? He might have pitched in the 70's even.

He was right-handed but he did throw left-handed in MLB games. He played for The Phillies, and I think The Padres and Mets. He was told not to do it anymore by one of the teams he was on. He was a player on the bubble of the teams he played for, and he was okay at best. He only threw lefty to a few batters before being stopped. He wasn't clobbered when he did it, but it was only a few batters.

[smc]

There was a major league pitcher in the mid-1990s named Greg Harris who was ambidextruous. He threw one inning of shutout ball for the Expos in 1995, against the Reds, facing four hitters: two as a lefty (walking one), and two as a righty). Before that, Harris had been up and down between the minors and the majors for the Mets, Reds, Expos, and Padres, beginning with his 1981 MLB debut. In 1985-88, he pitched for the Rangers and Phillies, and was claimed off waivers by the Red Sox after Philadelphia let him go. He was nothing to write home about for the Sox, sometimes in the rotation and sometimes in the bullpen. The Sox released him mid-season 1994, he was with the Yankees for a bit, and then tried his luck with the Expos in 1995, retiring at the end of that year.

I remember that in Boston he was expressly forbidden to pitch with both hands. Lou Gorman, then the GM for the Sox, said it would be a "mockery" of baseball." It wasn't until his Expo stint that he got to "mock" major league baseball like that!

[Talvenada]

Thnx, SMC.


That's the guy I was thinking of. I didn't realize it was so recent, so to speak.



TAL

[dauls]

Originally Posted by smc

Red Sox Nation, where we know the proper way to raise a child, is getting ready for Sunday night's season opener against the Yankees.

smc, does Red Sox Nation have to claim everything for themselves?

This unlucky Dutch kid, a Feyenoord fan, now has to live down the humiliation of being associated with the Red Sox from such an early age.

[smc]

Originally Posted by dauls

smc, does Red Sox Nation have to claim everything for themselves?

This unlucky Dutch kid, a Feyenoord fan, now has to live down the humiliation of being associated with the Red Sox from such an early age.

Alas, I believe you are correct. The Red Sox picture appears to be the photoshopped one.

As for being Dutch, it seems to me that the young lad has a healthy career ahead of him plugging a dike with that finger.

[transjen]

Originally Posted by smc

Red Sox Nation, where we know the proper way to raise a child,.

So that means you're raising them up to be Phillie fans which is the only properway to raise a child
Philliefan Jen

[smc]

Originally Posted by transjen

So that means you're raising them up to be Phillie fans which is the only properway to raise a child
Philliefan Jen

Sorry, Jen, but around these points we don't teach our toddlers to shout obscenities at just any random strangers, only Yankees fans.

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Originally Posted by smc

Sorry, Jen, but around these points we don't teach our toddlers to shout obscenities at just any random strangers, only Yankees fans.

As it should be, my friend, as it should be.

[dauls]

It's gonna be a frustrating start to the season. ESPN-UK don't have any baseball scheduled during the next fortnight. I may have to wait for the NHL and NBA postseasons to finish before ESPN-UK start showing baseball.

[transjen]

Tommorow is the first day of the 2010 baseball season and that means
THE YANKEES WIN THE YANKEES WIN

Philliefan Jen

[ila]

Originally Posted by dauls

It's gonna be a frustrating start to the season. ESPN-UK don't have any baseball scheduled during the next fortnight. I may have to wait for the NHL and NBA postseasons to finish before ESPN-UK start showing baseball.

It looks like you'll be waiting until almost the end of June then. You're going to have to move over here, dauls. It's possible to get hockey, basketball, and football (soccer) right now. Baseball will be shown soon in addition to the previously mentioned sports. You wouldn't miss the Premier League by living over here either. One of the sports channels carries several Premier League games every week.

[ErosArtist]

Brave's fan here...and it's Bobby Cox's last season at the wheel.

I've mixed emotions on that one...Bobby's been, IMHO a good manager based on [I]averages[I], but there are things he habitually tends to do that hurt the team, such as leaving a struggling pitcher on the mound for too long. We'll see what the changes bring.

That said, it's only in my heart for the old man...

Anyway, the game's one of the reasons I love spring!

[transjen]

After watching todays Phillies Nats game all i can say is i want a refund on Roy Oswalt as it's apparent he's a defective pitcher
Philliefan Jen