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Sheets hitting against a lefty is better than Engel hitting against anybody.

Good question.

Cairo raised the white flag when he brought VV in the 9 th and left Vaughn in LF . That Miranda double would have been caught by Engel.

Super Joe not sending Heseley home has come back to haunt us. Also Engel should have pinched run instead of Haseley. Too many mental errors in this inning which we can’t afford in a close game late.

I would have pinched hit Engel who is a more experienced base runner rather than Hasely.

Too bad Helseley did not score on the double with Leury coming to bat next. If the bunt would have been a suicide squeeze he would have scored.

Need to hit and run whenever possible with Abreu at the plate with less than 2 outs. Abreu leads the majors in DPs hit.

Wish they would have hit and run with Abreu at the plate. Another DP.

Jimmy Cy Lambert!!! Twins looked like the old Sox failing to score from 3 rd with no outs..

No surprise. Vaughn got exposed again as an incompetent LF with the Sox depending a lot on luck of not having many balls hit Vaughn’s and Sheets way.

Very bad idea. Lead off walk to the 9 th hitter cost us an unnecessary run. Lucas is looking like our weakest SP link.

.???? Glad you were wrong.

Dreaded lead off walk does not help.

It would have helped to DFA Keuchel earlier. DK just got DFA again by the Rangers after a 12 ERA in 2 starts.

It would help if we stop swinging at balls 6 inches off the plate like Vaughn just did.

AJP in the Fox broadcast was also saying that Cease should not throw a strike to Arreaz and let Arreaz get himself out of the zone or walk him. Don’t let Arreaz spoil his no hitter. Arreaz is a big contact hitter.

Still you don’t need to throw a strike to possibly the league’s best hitter. An asterisk would have been an intentional walk, but burying four in the dirt or way off the plate would have been wiser. Regardless, great game, and Cease moving closer to the Cy Young.

Our guys should just swing away and get this 8 th inning over as quickly as possible, to get Cease out there for the no hitter.

Baldelli is a bad manager. Raised the white flag early in the game. Fox commentators called him out on pulling out Correa and Kepler early.

Baldelli being called out by AJP for taking out Correa and Kepler so early in the game. Sox and Cease are happy with this move though.

Like that Cairo is using the hit and run, which TLR was not. With TLR, we were seeing one DP after another.

Keeping TLR in Arizona is key to an awesome month.

Along with Earl Weaver spirit. We certainly welcome the good ole 3 run homer.

Common denominator in this winning streak is no TLR in the dugout.

Andrus is probably our best base runner.