Fan Runs Onto Field, Backflips in Wacky Scene During Reds-Guardians Game

June 12, 2024 Jimm Sallivan

A fan who stormed Great American Ball Park on Tuesday night was tasered before being ushered off the field during a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Guardians.

Entering the bottom of the ninth, the fan, who was wearing a Johnny Bench jersey, jogged into the outfield and stood next to Guardians outfielder Tyler Freeman. He ran away and pulled off a back flip before getting tasered by security on the field.

STREAKER AT GABP #Reds pic.twitter.com/06muxVMDVe

— Chatterbox Sports (@CBoxSports) June 12, 2024

Performance of the night, taser action is crazy work #reds #guardians pic.twitter.com/NHhLJMR5fb

— Chase Younts (@YountsChase32) June 12, 2024

Most exciting thing to happen tonight pic.twitter.com/Lr5uyVLas5

— Caleb (@513Caleb) June 12, 2024

The Guardians won the game 5–3 to improve to 43–22 and stretch their lead in the AL Central to five games. Cincinnati fell to 32–35 and sits tied for third place in the NL Central, seven games behind the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers.

The Reds and Guardians will wrap up the series at 7:10 p.m. ET Wednesday at Great American Ball Park.

5 Jun 24 Jimm Sallivan

Daily Dinger: Best MLB Home Run Picks Today (Gunnar Henderson’s Prime to Go Yard)

With baseball all day, we all want to know who is going to crack one deep.

Lucky for you, I've canvassed the board for some advantageous matchups for hitters across Major League Baseball, including MVP candidate Gunnar Henderson of the Baltimore Orioles.

In addition to Henderson, I'm eyeing two other hitters that are in line ofr home runs, find out who below!

Odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook

Gunnar Henderson

Henderson is seeking his 20th home run of the season, and I love it to come on Wednesday.

Ranking in the 95th percentile or better in xSLG, average exit velocity and hard-hit percentage, per MLBStatcast. Henderson is rightfully inside of +400 to go deep against Jose Berrios, who has allowed hard contact on more than 44% of balls put in play, which is in the 18th percentile.

15 of his 19 homers have come against righties, and Berrios' looming regression due to hard contact makes Henderson a prime candidate to go deep on Wednesday.

Jeimer Candelario

Candelario is swinging a sweet bat at the moment, hitting .368 over his last 19 at bats with a home run while slugging .579. He draws a favorable matchup against Dakota Hudson of the Rockies at the hitter friendly Coors Field.

Hudson is struggling this season, posting a 5.02 ERA that balloons at home to a 7.43 ERA in five starts while allowing two home runs.

Candelario is slugging .444 against righties, far higher than his .397 mark against lefties while mashing six of his seven homers against righties, I'll back him in a good spot on Wednesday afternoon in Colorado.

Jake Cronenworth

A lefty batter, Cronenworth is a dangerous hitter against right handed pitching, mashing all of his eight home runs against that side while slugging .528. He is a disciplined hitter who is barreling up nearly nine percent of balls in play, which is in the 63rd percentile.

With the wind blowing out at Angel Stadium at about eight miles per hour, and a soft-tossing Jose Soriano set to start for the Halos, I like Cronenworth to crack his ninth dinger of the year.

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6 May 24 Jimm Sallivan

Orioles Announcers Possess Varying Degrees of Expertise on Kendrick Lamar-Drake Beef

Kevin Brown and Ben McDonald called Sunday's Baltimore Orioles-Cincinnati Reds game on MASN. The away team crushed the home Reds, 11-1, leaving plenty of opportunity for Kevin Brown to really explore the space. By the time Adley Rutschman singled in the seventh inning, Brown was referencing the Kendrick Lamar-Drake beef.

"Gets a piece! Flares it over De La Cruz, which is basically like hitting a ball over a skyscraper! And Ramon scores on the RBI single. He's got more hits this week than Kendrick Lamar."

"He's got more hits this week than Kendrick Lamar" -Orioles broadcaster Kevin Brown pic.twitter.com/wTb4cUPclu
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 5, 2024

This reference was met with complete silence before McDonald said, "I know there's a joke in there somewhere." Without missing a beat Brown shot back that the reference, "went over your head just like it went over De La Cruz's."

Brown surely cannot be surprised that McDonald didn't get it. Just last season he had to explain to McDdonald who blink-182 was. Expecting a guy who apparently missed out on mainstream music culture over the last two decades to know who is involved in the latest rap beef seems unlikely. The man isn't even stay up to date on ice cream flavors.

Along those same lines, Brown did the audience a disservice by not asking McDonald if he has ever heard of Drake. In fact, he should probably make it a point of emphasis to see how many times he can make a popular culture reference that McDonald doesn't get. The Orioles currently have one of the best records in baseball and own the best run differential in the American League. There should be plenty of low stakes late game situations to really get creative.

30 Apr 24 Jimm Sallivan

Elly De La Cruz Uncorked the Fastest Throw in MLB History

Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz is absolutely electric. He's on pace for a historic season at the plate and added a leadoff home run during the Cincinnati Reds' 5-2 win over the San Diego Padres on Monday. He also may have thrown a baseball harder than anyone has ever thrown a baseball in a Major League Baseball game.

As noted by Reds announcer John Sadak, Statcast clocked a ninth inning De La Cruz throw at 106.9 miles per hour. Here's video of that throw, which was literally too hot to handle as first baseman Jeimer Candelario couldn't even get his glove up in time to catch the ball. It was even noted on the broadcast that he might have been trying to see how hard he could throw the ball and that's what caused the error.

Statcast says this throw by Elly De La Cruz was 106.9 mph. If true that would be the fastest throw in MLB history. #Reds #ATOBTTR pic.twitter.com/A8pGPLRqnp
— Kahn’s Big Red Smokeys Enthusiast (@ShutUpCraig) April 30, 2024

Sure, the throw resulted in an error and kept the Padres' hopes alive, but it was undeniably awesome. The previous record belonged to Colorado Rockies outfielder Brenton Doyle. Last fall he was clocked at 105.7 miles per hour on a throw home.

The stat has only been tracked since 2015, which means there is a little more than a century's worth of data unaccounted for. On the other hand we've got about a decade of tracking the biggest and strongest athletes to ever play the game and no one has ever done that before, so it's still pretty impressive.

To continue with the mythologizing of one of MLB's youngest stars, De La Cruz's April is officially in "Tungsten Arm' O'Doyle" territory as he's the first player since 1901 to have at least eight home runs and 17 stolen bases in the month of April.

Elly De La Cruz now has 8 HR and 17 SB in April
he’s the 1st player with at least that many HR & SB in a calendar month (since at least 1901) https://t.co/gMPSvgeBd7
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) April 30, 2024

The numbers continue to tell the story of a player with limitless potential. And the eye test confirms that he's fun as hell to watch no matter what he's doing.

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