Frayed Knot

Are the Brewers planning on hitting a ball AT anyone before the night is over?

does the all lowercase lettering in the subject heading mean that both lineups today will be featuring a bunch of thirty somethings? 'Sorry Carson and A.J. we've got to sit you tonight, it's in the rules.'

Braves beat Dodgers 4 - 3 on a run in the 8th Nats lose, Marlins lose (to BoSox) so we gain a game on both [-6.5 to MIA, -1.0 to WAS] and Red Sox now just 1.5 behind NYY cuz .... Yanx lose to HOU (Astros take back 1st place for a day) Phils at Mariners 1 - 1 in the 3rd. So, y'know, good day all around. Unless you're Dolly Parton.

Looked like 3B was rushing the throw in an attempt to get a 5 - 2 -3 DP but that wasn't likely anyway and it cost them the game. Didn't have his feet set or a good grip on the ball from what I could see.

Not as good as our signature bases-loaded HBP walk-off ... but we'll take it.

The walk to Contreras isn't, by itself, tragic. But now you have a lefty power hitter up and the potential for a crooked number looming.

But y'see, that was a strategic move by Lindor. Now he gets to be the ghost runner in bottom 10th and in doing so automatically moves up 90 ft by being picked off. Brilliant!! Of course there's that minor detail about the brewers getting to bat in their half-inning first ... but I'm looking for the positives here.

Mine too, Dark and silent. Had to wait about ten seconds before knowing whether he caught it. Must be a (not quite) full moon.

If we can keep the Brewers under six here we'll have a chance in the bottom half. Problem is, I don't know if we can.

And now six outs on 20 pitches. Give him the 9th ... keep the lefty swinging Bowers, Yelich, etc. on the bench!

Lavender with a nine pitch 1 - 2 - 3 inning. Dilly Dilly!

Meet the Mets, where an inning with: HR + 2B + WP + 1B = 1 run

And, when the Mets have a runner on 3rd with no one out, no one can get the ball out of the infield.

So far this game is following form: the Brewers get a bunch of base hits (but also hit into a few GiDPs) including one with a RiSP, and the Mets hit solo homers.

Louie Bobby II, like the character in the Elvis Costello song, says; Don't bury me cuz I'm not dead yet'

Phils start the week in Seattle. In fact they started it last night and got thumped 9-2 to end their nine game win streak. Cal Raleigh hit three HRs on Monday bringing his season total to a (comparatively paltry) 17. Also still hitting just .167, that's a season's worth of one-for-sixes. Nats got started vs Rockies last night with a 13 - 3 win. which leaves us two games in back of them. The Braves, with a 3.5 G lead on PHI, host the Dodgers starting tonight. The Marlins are kind of too far ahead of us and too far out of the division race to really matter (y'know, to us, and that's all that matters, right?) but they are in the WC mix and they'll continue w/the Red Sox who won the opener on Monday. The second place (-3.5 G) Yanx host the currently second place Astros starting tonight (TEX +0.5 G at 66 - 66).

I don't think F. R. Amy does road games. And if she did there'd likely be some Mets fan already sitting in the seat she wants.

Brewers have the best record in MLB, are 4th in RS/G (4.96), 2nd in RA/G (3.73), have the best run differential (+161) and yet are dead last in HRs (120)

https://www.mlb.com/news/brandon-nimmo-robs-andrew-benintendi-s-home-run Or maybe we needed Nimmo to do it. He prevented more HRs at Rate Field than Ewing and Benge put together.

Of course. I should have known there was an ulterior (read: ESPN self-promotion) angle to it.

So not only were the Phils, winners of eight straight coming into the day, down 4 - 0 to StL entering the 9th, but two of the first three hitters made outs so it was runner on 2nd with two outs. 'Tying run on double deck' as we used to like to say on the school yard. - Realmuto singles, runners 1st & 3rd - Realmuto takes 2nd on D.I., Justin Crawford walks anyway so bases loaded - Edmundo Sosa doubles, all three runners score - Bryan De La Crus singles, Sosa scores, tie game - Schwarber HRs. Thanks for coming, please arrive home safely Nine straight. Shit! We have bases loaded, one out and two cracks at it and can't bring in a single runner. Braves play the Sunday Night game* vs Milwaukee having lost the first two games of the series while scoring just two runs combined [2 -1 and 4 - 1]. Atlanta's lead in the East is down to 2.5 games pending tonight after sitting at 9.5 just 12 days ago. * for some reason the SNB game tonight is on ESPN (I thought they quit doing baseball), NBC's game today was in the 3 PM slot (BOS 5 - SFG 4 in the 8th) so that they can run a WNBA game tonight. It's like Bizarro World.

They all count but, between the Benge face-plant HR plus the two walk-offs, those three HRs made it over the fence by a combined negative eight inches.

Yeah, that 3-0 hack by Lindor was both stupid and lame. He's slumping as much as Alvarez and Ewing lately (although probably not for as long). In addition to over-citing RiSP stats, our announcers are over-doing the 'Mets offense has been great lately' idea. It's been great compared to where it had been all season, but has been merely somewhat above average for the month of August [90 RS in 19 games (not including this one) for a 4.7 RS/G avg]. So good, though hardly en Fuego.

A rare less-than-perfect throw to 2nd by Torrens allows the inning to continue.

We now have TV ads for prescription meds with the designed purpose of combatting side effects from other prescription meds ... probably ones that are being advertised on the same programs.