The Mack Report 2 - 3 Runs? Don’t Do Me Like That, Nate Fisher, First TV Game, One Day, Two Games, Two Dugouts

3 Runs? Don’t Do Me Like That! 

You put up only three hits for your ace, Jake deGrom? At home? Against the Rockies??? 

What ya talkin’ bout, Willis? 

Vegas had this game at the largest guaranteed win since they started taking bets. Man, they must have lost tons on the over. 

You gotta do better than that, Boys of Stevie. Next week is September. September. The Phillies won again. The Braves forgot how to lose. 

Come on, bats…

 

Nate Fisher 

The Mets got lucky yesterday. 

Earlier this month, they designated LHRP Nate Fisher, which was a move many fans questioned, He really won the first game he came up to the Mets and we all know how desperate the team is in finding a lefty for the pen. 

Well, thank gawd he cleared waivers, and is reporting back to Syracuse to await for the phone to ring again. 

 

First TV Game 

The Cincinnati Reds visited the Brooklyn Dodgers and split a double-header at Ebbets Field as Major League Baseball was broadcast on television for the first time on this day in history, August 26, 1939. 

"No monitor, only two cameras at Ebbets Field," said Dodgers radio announcer Red Barber, who called the game for TV, according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. 

"I had to watch to see which one’s red light was on, then guess its direction." 

The rest:  https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-august-26-baseball-broadcast-tv-first-time 

 

One day, two games, two dugouts 

One Hundred years ago, the Cardinals and the Cubs swapped outfielders in between games of a Memorial Day double-header. 

The morning of May 30, 1922, Max Flack was playing right field for the Cubs at Wrigley Field, then called Cubs Park. Cliff Heathcote was the starting center fielder for the visiting club, which had debuted its iconic bird-on-bat logo two months earlier. In Chicago’s 4–1 win, Flack went 0-for-4 and Heathcote went 0-for-3, but their general managers must have seen something they liked in the opposing outfield. At the conclusion of the game, they announced a 1-for-1 trade of the two players. 

Both players started the afternoon game in right field for their new clubs. Heathcote went 2-for-4. Flack was immediately placed at the top of St. Louis’s order for the second game, going 1-for-4 and notching an outfield assist at home plate. But it wasn’t quite enough, because the Cubs took the second game too, 3–1. Though the Cubs swept the Cardinals that day, both Heathcote and Flack went home with a win apiece. 

The between-game trade seemed to work out for both players. Flack finished his career in St. Louis, retiring as a Cardinal in ’25, and Heathcote spent the next eight years with the Cubs.