In a tribute to the late Gilbert Gottfried, AJ Smith-Shawver is from the land of the three-named pitchers.
And Sean Reid-Foley was there, and Van Lingle Mungo ...
Forecast for Corona, Queens (not Corona, CA, Gary)
1:00 - Mostly cloudy, 76. Showers possible (40 - 50%) starting around 3 PM
7:00 - Possible T-Storms, then partly to mostly cloudy, mid-70s
Leftover news from Monday night:
Max Scherzer came off the IL to pitch against the Nats in Washington. Got a big hand in a game the Blue Jays eventually won 3 - 2 although Max was gone by that point [2.2 IP, 1 R, 4 H] and didn't figure in the decision.
Curtis Mead, the RH bat Boston acquired from the Nats, got hit by a pitch just one day and two ABs into the Red Sox career and is now on the IL with a broken wrist.
From tonight: Marlins 1 - Phillies 0 is your phinal.
Mead was hit by a pitch in his second AB for the Red Sox and the result was a broken wrist.
Something here about the best laid plans of hominids and rodents, etc.
Why does it have to be identified as a Black squirrel, as if plenty of white, gray, and orange squirrels haven't interrupted games also?
Let's keep race out of this, mmm-Kay?
You can't stop Tyrone Taylor you can only hope to contain him. And you can't even contain him.
At this point, if T.T. doesn't bring back some team's top seventeen best prospects in a trade then we should hold onto him.
Wheeler got smacked around to the tune of 5 earned in the first two innings vs the Marlins, but later got off the hook as it's now 7 - 5 Phils in the 8th
ML average for OPS this season is 721 at the moment so, even if 712 is more or less where he ends up, to get that from a first year player is something we shouldn't be treating as disappointing at all. Don't fall into the trap where prospects are either become superstars or they're busts.
Phillies are in Miami starting tonight in a match of two stumbling NL East teams competing for WC (and/or division) playoff slots.
Nationals host the Blue Jays
And the Yanx will spend the entire week in Chicago: Monday thru Thursday will be spent on the south side, and then Friday thru Sunday visiting the north-siders. And they'll do it without Cody Bellinger who is out 'four to six weeks' with a hamstring. That's a lot of punch missing without Judge, Stanton, and now Bellinger.