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  1. FWIW, Rivas misread a catchable foul ball one pitch earlier and couldn't come up with it which could have ended the game.
  2. Bednar strikes out Contreras looking on a pitch way outside but the ump called it lol
  3. Brewers leadoff man got on. 2nd guy drilled one that the RF had to make a leaping play to thankfuly catch. Let's see Yellich get another GIDP in a big 9th inning situation.
  4. Most RBIs in the 2nd half of the season: 1. Bellinger - 56 2. J. Rodriguez - 44 (!!)
  5. To the 9th in Pittsburgh...Yelich due up 3rd
  6. Certainly makes the work day a bit nicer.
  7. 1 run allowed in 13 innings after giving up the leadoff HR in his debut.
  8. There has to be some effect on Dansby playing every game but I guess as long as it doesn't affect his defense too much you have to just live with the fact that he's old school like that.
  9. All true. As I've said I'm not that upset about his lack of role. But I'd love to see him get an AB at some point. Heck maybe even a medium leverage AB in a situation where the matchup favors him...sometimes young guys have immediate success in the MLB as an unknown entity before the league gets a book on them. Or he could come up there and swing at 3 terrible pitches and have anyone wondering why a most established player wasn't batting there. Just never know I guess.
  10. Brewers up 3-1 on the Pirates in the 6th. Need to keep pace!
  11. Haha if I recall correctly, Giants fans really wanted Seiya and expected him to sign there. They must have loved seeing that happen last night.
  12. Just looked up "Phantom Ballplayers". There have been 2 players this decade who were placed on a roster for a longer period of time than Canario without playing (and then getting sent back down) In 2021, pitcher Miguel Romero was called up by the A's on Sept 8. He was optioned down to the minors on Sept 21st without appearing in a game. Also in 2021, pitcher Steven Fuentes was called up by the Nationals on April 20 and sent back down on April 30 without playing. Seems like the longest a position player stayed on a roster without playing is 5 days.
  13. This was sort of discussed in yesterday's game thread. A day game after night game during a grueling part of the schedule (27 games in 27 days with the 1 off day and a doubleheader), makes sense to work in some of the bench guys I guess. I'm not a big fan of Wisdom being on the roster but if he's here he's occasionally gonna get starts. Amaya by virtue of being the only backup catcher now is naturally going to play on a day like today. Morel is still struggling but maybe that jack last night gets him going. Belli and Seiya are still in the lineup and hey Dansby is 5 for this last 13 so maybe he's snapping out of it a bit.
  14. RE: Alzolay Doesn't say whether he's available today, though the fact that he used the past tense "needed" suggests that he may be
  15. We'll always have that inning in Cincinnati Shane
  16. They've done an OK job of getting the 3 main guys rest over the last 2 weeks and change. Leiter - 6 appearances in the last 15 days, 4.2 total IP Alzolay - 6 appearances in the last 16 days, 5.2 total IP Merryweather - 6 appearances in the last 16 days, 6.2 total IP I think that's pretty solid? That said, prior to that period, they were used pretty heavily the prior month or so, which is probably still taking a toll on them.
  17. I lived at Byron and Ashland for 2 years post college and so many nights ended up at Diner Grill for a Slinger 🤤
  18. Rockies managed to hold onto that 3-2 lead for the rest of the game and beat the DBacks. So the Cubs playoff cushion is 3.5 games and their cushion over WC3 is 3 games (does suck a little that the Cubs have lost the tiebreaker with both of those teams). With the Phillies loss the Cubs also pull to within 1.5 games of WC1. the Reds result sucked especially considering the Reds easy schedule after this series. Brewers win sucked obviously. Marlins beating the Dodgers sucked but it ended up being an alright night. As for Arizona, would be nice to enter that series at least 4 games up. We won’t get swept but if they did somehow lose all 4 they can only tie us. Winning 3 of 4 only gets them to within 2 games.
  19. I have not looked at or thought about the matchups but just spitballing… C - Amaya 1B - Wisdom 2B - Morel SS - Swanson (doesn’t take days off) 3B - Madrigal LF - Canario CF - Tauchman RF - Suzuki DH - Bellinger
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