We Got The Whole 9

Eloy with another swinging K USA pitching has shut this lineup down completely

That is quite an excellent game

World domination by the US of A

Eloy looked helpless against Honeywell's change-up

Not sure where to talk about the Futures game but man Honeywell just dropped a gorgeous screwball on Rosario

Just hilarious (not really)

Everyone in the stadium should just get up and leave Especially the Flubs

Cubs have dropped nearly 4% off their line drive rate. When you constantly try to launch the ball no matter the pitch location and pretty much refuse to go with the pitch (3rd from last in oppo%) then you get a lot of rollovers, as I said. Just because they don't get the desired result of getting the ball in the air, doesn't mean they're not constantly trying.

Mallee + Hinske

The team needs to revamp their offensive approach. The walk rate is fun and we can all have a laugh when the pitcher doesn't make it through 5 because he's thrown 100 pitches already, but these guys can't hit. We are 90 games in, i think its safe to say unless this offense does a 180 and gets back to simple, fundamental hitting, they're gonna struggle hard to score runs and compensate for the inadequate pitching. I don't understand what happened over the winter but these guys have said horsefeathers hard, line drive contact, and seem to want to put everything in the air, and of course to the pull side. They don't hit the ball consistently hard enough to get away with it. They force this approach on almost every swing and get tons of rollovers and pop flies. You guys can kill me all you want but Manske's gotta go. They obviously are not getting through to the team. We just keep banging our heads against the wall wondering why the hits aren't falling. It's pretty clear to me why. I get that firing the hitting coach(es) does not always produce the immediate turnaround you seek, but I think the guys need some new voices and somebody who can help break these horrible habits that are forming. And if nothing else, it can't hurt - because they horsefeathering suck. They do not prepare their hitters to the fullest. And if Joe is still using his 'less is more' approach in terms of limiting the information they're fed, and limiting batting practice and all that junk - then he deserves a good share of the blame as well. There's no excuse, with all the information that is available today to every single player, for them to be so woefully overmatched time and time again.

Unless you live within 5 miles of the coast, LA summers and falls are actually garbage. Yeah its about 20 degrees hotter here

Just played softball in 110 degree heat. It is horsefeathering awful in L.A. this weekend.

Aaron Judge is a win and a half ahead of the league This is entirely insane

Gets promoted and goes from Javy Baez to Aaron Judge

Duke, can't you just start writing some articles about the excellence of the Brewers and send them into their inevitable tailspin?

Gausman blew a 6 run lead Pounce, Theo

Haha that was awesome

Alright KB, get the double now.

Caragunis continues the 0-fer

He went 2 months without knocking in a run in consecutive games until today

Good work with 2 outs guys

At least we have our Ace on the mound

Where have all the line drives gone? This feels like the one glaring issue when comparing the batted ball rates between this offense and last year's. This year we are dead last at 18% and last year we were 8th with 21% To me this is what most explains the 20 point BABIP drop. Hard% is about the same, so is our pull rates and directional hitting, even the flyball% is the same which really surprised me. But the guys have stopped hitting line drives and the results have been disastrous.

Crappy night for Cease

It does. However this team is comprised of 27 and under guys who have really small samples still. This isn't like a vet-laden team we can reasonably expect to bounce back next year. We only truly know that we can expect Bryzzo to be excellent. The rest of the guys still have a ton of work to do to earn that. Bottom line is we need a [expletive] to go right if we're counting on an offense with 2 above average hitters.