Frayed Knot

It's just another sleepy, dusty, delta day.

It's a Dick Stuart inning!

The Guardians draw first blood in the meeting of ALE/ALC leaders by thumping the Yanx and Cam Schlittler 9-4. It was Schlittler's shortest outing of his career as he allowed 5 earned in 4-1/3 IP. You might even say his game went into the .... nah!! too easy.

It's not so much that this is a bridge too far as much as it is a bridge unnecessary. Trying to monitor subjective calls with objective methods is a fool's errand and likely not going to be an improvement on what we already have. Leave it alone, no one was asking for this.

Gary: Patrick Wisdom is the "Solomonic pinch-hitter"

Nice to see M C Hammer still able to milk his lone moment in the sun all these years later.

5 full innings in 1:10

That showed some impressive power. Mark Vientos starting to smell like a DH vs LHPs again.

Muffy

Yup, although just 4 points behind the 29th place Padres and 19 in back of the surprisingly bad 28th place Phillies who have Harper, Schwarber and Marsh with OPS+'s of 137, 154 & 125, AND who have all played virtually every game this season [59, 56, 54]*. Contrast that with Soto/Lindor who have combined to play a mere 66 including just nine games in which both appeared. * But, man, the rest of that lineup is putrid. Get a load of Realmuto [OPS+ = 65], Stott [76], Trea Turner [71], and Alex Bohm [67] Y'know, jus' sayin'

Back after a week off (because no one took this up whilst I was away) we'll have some results and developments to follow as we complete our final week of late night starts as well as kick off the third month of the season. - the best record in MLB Braves are kicking back at home until Tuesday when they'll welcome the Blue Jays and then the Pirates for three game series. - the 2nd place NLE Nationals -- currently 4.5 G ahead of NYM -- will try to dominate the visiting Marlins as much as we just did this past weekend, before they head west later in the week. - the 3rd place Phils (30-29) will give our next opponent a test drive (T-W-Th) before the Padres fly back to Sandy Eggo on Friday to host us. Be a shame if that Thursday (day) game went 16 innings and/or their flight was delayed. Elsewhere ... - the 2nd place (1.5 G behind TBR) Yanx, coming off a 13-8 drubbing of ATH on Sunday in which they scored all 13 runs in the 2nd inning!!, have CLE - BOS - @CLE on their immediate agenda. The odd part about that gauntlet is that the Sawx series looks like it'll serve as a weekend breather for the pin-stripers sandwiched by six games against the 1st place (34 - 27) Guardians - Pete's rookie HR record looks safe for another year as White Sox (32 - 27 !!) slugger Munetaka Murakami was put on the IL with a hamstring injury. Murakami had slugged 20 HRs in his first 57 ML games prior to the injury, a pace which projected to right around 57 dingers for the season so he'll need to be a quick healer if he wants to go Alonso hunting in September.

Closest release to the plate I surmise, aka: extension from the rubber.

Yes, the RS/G figure took the biggest jump, even enough to counteract that pathetic three games/two runs combined series in Miami. And some of the other raw numbers are up a shade too even if only enough to where they're now closer to jumping a rank or two if improvement continues. Until then, baby steps.

Actual question: where are those charts from and those numbers in the middle there, are those percentile rankings?

Since both cities have Socialist Mayors will the teams be required to share all the runs scored? After all, one team having more than the other just simply wouldn't be fair.

Welcome to the big leagues, kid. ... and they're leaving him out there to finish the inning (or at least try). ... and now they finally pull him after yet another walk.

They were even a non-horrible 4-for-20 with bases-loaded/2-outs prior to the Torrens hit, so now 5/21

Is that our first bases-loaded hit of the year? Asking for a friend.

Maybe he went out and got trashed last night.

I hadn't noticed that the software auto-"corrected" my Lionel to Cionel. I should have anticipated that.

Nah, it was already too far up CF's ass.

Met hitters are having a pleasant day at the Lake.

1,310 - Lionel Perez who has played parts of nine seasons in MLB yet I'm sure this is the first time I've ever heard of him.

'bout time we got one of those cheapie doubles ... the Fish had several of them last night.

Ewing saves Scott's bacon.