Frayed Knot

Heard far too often this year: 'And Alvarez is going to challenge' ... followed by, 'And the Mets are out of challenges'

Pirates score twice in the 10th then shut out the Yanx for a 5-3 win. Gregory Soto with the save. And the Sawx did win their 15th straight and will have a shot at 16 in tonight's second game.

Yanx & Pirates are going to the 10th tied at 3 in da Bronx Red Sox on the verge of a franchise record 15 game winning streak, lead 6-3 in the 9th vs Orioles.

Baty responsible for four of the five runs today. (Well, he had help)

Brewers being shut out this season to date = 4, and in four others they were held to just one run Mets = 9 shutouts + 13 times held to one

Even coming off a 1-2-3 inning, Scott is at 71 pitches thru 3

No it isn't. I have no idea why I said that ... except that I was just noting that both the Yanx and Red Sox have day/night DH's today due to rainouts on Tuesday and I brain-farted. So essentially Soto gets today and tomorrow off which might be good as he's looked a bit ragged at the plate lately.

Soto sitting in game one. Logan Henderson -- 24 y/o, R/R -- has made just 12 starts since his ML debut last year (5 in '25, 7 in '26) but is 6 - 1 in those 12 starts with a combined ERA of 2.45 and a 0.955 WHIP

Pirates with a split DH in the Bronx today as they got rained out last night. The game was called very early in the day so either the weather forecast was horrible or the Yanx didn't like the pitching matchup. The Mets, in addition to actually winning last night, also gained on the entire rest of the NL East. The best game might have been the Phils losing 2-1 to LAD. Last night G & K were talking about the need to get to a base and stay there during a run-down situation after the Mets caught a Brewer runner wandering. The Phils did the same last night only they ran into the final two outs of the game. Down 2-1 in bottom 9, the Phils got a one out single and double to put the tying and winning runs in scoring position: a grounder to 3rd found pinch runner Crawford in a pickle. He was tagged out between 3B and home but Realmuto, only a few feet from 3rd himself, inexplicably turned and started running back to 2nd where he was easily tagged out to end the game. - Braves lost 8-3 to Padres. Tatis Jr. said 'Hold my beer' to Robert Jr. with an MLB season-long 474 foot HR - Rox 8 - Nats 7 which, considering it involved the Nats and was at Cape Coors, was a low scoring game than you'd expect - HOU 5 - MIA 3 for the Marlins' 8th straight loss. Their season high of Ten G-over .500 is now back to just two

Nice win. But I also can't help but think that this one might have played out very differently had Soto been in LF tonight (all other things being equal of course).

Well, at least until he got shot.

What, just because it's from a novel older than me?

That play by Bichette was enough to send Lara off to seek help from Dr. Zhivago

Bruce Bochy en Francais

And Nimmo would never do tattoos.

A HIT WITH **TWO** RISP!!!!

Colombia: Dilson Herrera U.S. Virgin Islands: Joe Christopher

Germany = Ron Gardenhire

Good thing this Brewers team doesn't hit homers.

I can't imagine what Robert could do in the next two weeks that would make anyone want to trade for him. There simply isn't enough time and even if he catches fire it'll be seen as a small sample size too iffy to chase.

Good thing with got Les Mis outta there!

Well, the Yanx have scored 8 runs in 4 innings so far tonight. 8 - 5 in the 5th. Elsewhere, the Dodgers kick off the second leg of their northeast tour in Philly, coming off taking two of three vs those Yanquis in their Bronx - Philly - Queens road trip. Braves are hosting the slumping Padres to start the week The Marlins, who are suddenly on a six game losing streak (including losing twice to the Brewers by walk-off), are in Houston starting tonight And the Nats will be in Colorado for the next three days.

Duane Ward - 62 RH reliever who was a 1st round/9th overall draft pick by the Braves in 1982. He came up with Atlanta in '86 but traded to Toronto* before the year was out and spent the rest of his nine year career with them including on their two WS teams in '92 (against Atlanta) & '93 (Phils) where he allowed just one ER over 8 WS innings combined. No cause of death was announced. * for Doyle Alexander whom the Braves flipped a year later to Detroit for some guy named Smoltz. Smoltz did OK with ATL but the year Alexander was traded to Detroit he made 11 starts down the stretch going 9-0 with a 1.53 ERA as the Tigers won the AL East by just 2.0 games before losing the ALCS to Minnesota ... so maybe the deal worked out for all concerned. The Tigers made a great deadline pickup and made the playoffs; Ward closed for two WS winners,, and Smoltz went to the HoF

Sham Mets 2 - 1. First winning road series in six weeks. They still somehow managed to turn 14 hits (11 singles) + 7 walks into just six runs (3/14 w/RiSP) ... but we can't expect to solve all these problems in just one weekend.

In addition to the Mets 5 - 0 led, Luis Torrens has a 3 - 0 lead on HP ump Felix Neon: three challenges, three overturns. Luis is playing the bully by picking on the rookie.