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Very nice pitch by Jackson. Could have been about a foot lower but I’m not going to complain.

Giants take the lead.

7 in the 9th and the Nats walk it off. It’s just not going to break our way this year. 1) The wildcard is for losers 2) The Mets collapsing in spectacular fashion is ALWAYS a good thing. And if you want the Cubs to make the playoffs, you should probably root for the one team ahead of us in the wild card to beat a team that is within striking distance of us, since that team in front of us is in another division.

I feel the same, just be within 1-2 games heading in to the Wrigley series. It’s still against us at this point with so few games left but there’s a chance. Also I know it’s a trip out there but San Diego is pretty bad themselves if the Rockies are a “shell of themselves.” 19-27 in the second half, Tatis done for the year, Franmil traded, Paddock could be shut down soonish, Greene is likely getting bounced at years end too. Yeah, the formula for us to win the division is to manage to stay close through mid next week (say, 6-3, and hope the Cards don't just crush SF/Pit/Col), then either go 4-3 against St. Louis and destroy Pittsburgh (while the Cards are so-so against Mil/Wash/Ari) or go 5-2 against the Cards and then just be better than them in the other games. Through 137 games last year, the Brewers were 5 games back of us with 6 H2H games remaining. They went 4-2 in those games. I know the Brewers got super hot (19-6 to end the year) but they also had to make up 2 more games than we do this year. So it's tough to do, and the Cubs will have to play well to do it, but it wouldn't be the craziest thing for it to happen. We're somewhere between 1 in 3 and 1 in 5 to win the division. Which seems long until you remember that the Brewers were somewhere between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 last year at this time. That being said, I certainly wouldn't bet on this team winning the division because they haven't shown the ability to play the kind of good baseball this year that it will likely take to win the division. But it wouldn't be the craziest thing if it happened.

Did Bryant go right away? Seemed like he was still running when Rizzo was, he just got to the base quicker because Rizzo is slow as horsefeathers.

So that’s called a run?

Can’t wait to see how they squander this opportunity.

Rebuild didn’t fail come on Yeah, we can argue about how successful it was or wasn’t, but we won a title, made 3 straight NLCS, 4 straight playoff appearances, 4 straight 90+ wins (including 3 of 95+).

Because the alternatives are Taylor Davis and Daniel Descalso. I assume Zobrist isn’t available since he would have batted earlier.

Is it bad to swing at two pitches out of the zone in one at bat?

Can’t wait to see who hits into the DP.

Could have used a little wind there.

Now a Russell GIDP to end the inning.

Solid work.

To be fair to Vic, he should have walked. Strike 1 wasn’t close.

Reds are useless.

Good lord strike 3 to Grandal was even worse than strike 3 to Schwarber.

Ump with BS calls against KB and Schwarber this inning.

Just tuned in. Len said after the Heyward lineout that they’ve had a few of those today. Just getting unlucky?

Reds get two in the top of the first only for Bauer to give up four (and counting) in the bottom half. horsefeathers Trevor Bauer.

It’s a long shot but Washington is only 5.5 back and they have 7 left against Atlanta. We blew a similar lead last year.

Surprised they didn’t move it to the Monday both have off in a week and a half. Travel wouldn’t have been bad for either team.

Cards-Reds postponed. Only mutual off day is Sept 9. Reds play a home day game against Arizona the day before and play in Seattle on Tuesday. Cards play in Pittsburgh the day before and in Colorado the day after. So I suppose making it up that day, as long as it's a day game, wouldn't be a killer on travel for either team. It's either that or back to back DH's. But Cincy has to fly home to play Philly on Monday at 2 p.m. local time so not sure how that would work out. St Louis is at home on Monday so there's no travel issue there.

Definitely bad form to do magic numbers when you aren’t in first.

Russell gets to a 2-0 count with a runner on third and one out then swings and misses 3 straight times. Useless sack of horsefeathers.