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mark vientos walked so kodai senga could RUN

LOOK AT HIM GO

Rogers, who has worked as the catcher for all of Skubal's starts, jogged to the mound at Globe Life Field to examine his batterymate. He investigated by poking just beneath Skubal's eye with his left index finger, and then, for no reason in particular, he slapped Skubal softly on the other side of his face with his right hand.

"I gave him a little love tap there," Rogers said.

Skubal couldn't help but smile.

"He's a beauty," Skubal said.

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"I think we have a better relationship off the field than we do on the field," said Skubal, who spent two weeks with Rogers at the alternate site before making his MLB debut in August 2020. "That's not to say we don't get along on the field. It's just, that's how close I am with that guy."

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Before every game, Skubal and Rogers complete the USA TODAY crossword puzzle as part of their individual pregame routines.

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Skubal has improved significantly at the USA TODAY crossword, thanks to lessons learned from Alexander and Rogers along the way, but he still asks Rogers for help.

"I'd say, every other day I need good help," Skubal said, "but some other days I can get it. Today, I got it by myself. Typically, if you can get going and get some clues, it helps you out. If you get stuck in one area, and then you get one word, it'll unlock like 15 words. He'll help me get the one. He's like, 'OK, this is the one that will unlock the puzzle.' And then I'll be able to do a lot of it."

Skubal and Rogers also exchange at least one text message every single day, whether the Tigers are in spring training, the regular season or the offseason.

It's because Skubal and Rogers play Wordle, a web-based game in which players have six attempts to guess a daily five-letter word that's the same for all players. They have texted each other their results every day for the past two years. There's usually lively banter between them, especially if someone doesn't get the word within the allotted six guesses.

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Skubal had talked about getting Rogers a gift at the end of last season for catching every pitch of his incredible campaign, much like Justin Verlander would buy a watch for his catcher after throwing a no-hitter. Before the follow-up season begins, Skubal delivered in his usual low-key fashion.

“He got a nice little gift on his wrist, a nice Rolex,” Skubal said Friday. “I just gave it to him the first day I saw him here.”

Actually, two watches.

As a left-handed pitcher with a 100+ mph fastball and a nasty changeup and slider, Skubal is arguably one of one. The watch he gave Rogers is one of two, with Skubal buying the other for himself.

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The gift is a reflection of that trust. Since then, Rogers has been trying to find occasions to wear the watch, which he joked might be the most expensive thing he owns.

“I’ve been [in] ragged shorts and a t-shirt wearing it,” he said. “I’m wearing it every day. I just got engaged and we got engagement pictures, so I got to wear it last night and show it off a little bit -- hopefully not taking away from her ring. …

“But again, it means a lot to me, so I’m going to try to wear it as much as I can.”

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kodai’s mets crocs oh my god 😭 🫶

kodai’s mets crocs oh my god 😭 🫶

fun fact: it only took 3 days of mets baseball for the entire roster to get run through a carburetor

doing the lords work

(for context: doodle breeding is really unethical and i can go into why if yall are interested)

PREACH

Spring training is awesome because it’s a full month and where you get to watch your favorite baseball team invent left-handed relief pitchers on the spot. Who is this guy? I don’t know. Will I ever see him again? Absolutely not. Where did he come from? The lab, probably.

i used to draw front facing fish a fair bit until SOMEONE (@hal8001) told me that i’m basically drawing vaginas on important papers

i love it when fish are like

like so

As someone very new to f1 I simply do not understand how the drivers resist giving yuki tsunoda a Lil pat on the head upon seeing him

As someone very new to f1 I simply do not understand how the drivers resist giving yuki tsunoda a Lil pat on the head upon seeing him

can someone do this to the

please and thank you

OSCAR BURGER

could not get this image out of my head 😭

bo bichette can zip my zipper any day

Bro we can’t even play like 4 innings of baseball before someone gets bonked

Not to be too much of a d*dgers hater but

This feels like a good omen

It worked gang i’m going to cooperstown

YES i would recommend this to EVERYONE it makes stuff feel even a bit more bearable when there’s something to look forward to!!

the secret to life is always having something to look forward to

live laugh love h money i’ll miss you forever

“when i think about the 2024 mets… i think about what a group of grown men playing a kids game chose to do with the time they had left together.” harrison bader to me you will always be famous

no bc this is so real

thank god football season is over. finally on to the next psychological torture called baseball

muahahahahaha

Hyperfixation so bad people think of me when they see it

Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they'd be like to skateboard on. I want "Please loiter" signs. I want people to be kind. I want...

testing my luck here

Oswaldo cabrera you sir are very deep in the closet and I will lure you out with a WS win and gentle words of praise if it helps you accept yourself

I wonder if mlb duos would have official ship names if they were less awful. barsh? bicherro? albuña? balvarez? terrible

Cannot even begin to explain what Pete Alonso means to me. First the fact that he’s the original piece of a rebuild (shoves nimmo to the side) but also something I just love about Pete is how uncool he is. Like he’s the most earnest, dorky, doofus who cares SO MUCH in a world where people will really resent you for giving a fuck and giving a fuck visibly and it deeply resonates with me. I also adore that he’s a weeb for New York

req’d by @smiles-daisies-and-love-oh-my

ah yes. baseball. 

@hal8001

really crazy how much one (1) friend hang out can do for your mental health. do people know about this?

fanfiction truly being the savior for everyones sanity

:3 feels happier than :) But not as genuine as :]

i was at a restaurant and nearly spit out my food trying to alert the people i was with that mets spring training highlights were on the tv

anyway how’s everyone’s spring training going