hankchifan

If you can’t hit the curve don’t swing at them. They all end below the zone. Everybody wants to be a hero. No plate discipline. Miss a contact hitter like Madrigal. BTW, Vaughn should not be hitting second against the tough righty. Moncada is the ideal second hitter nowadays, another TLR unforced error.

Our catching corps is awful. Was Reese better?

Hedges is out of the game. That is pure concrete in there.

The Cleveland Predators.

The official scorer wanted to beef up Naylor batting average.

Time to try Romy at second . Harrison has to sit.

Are you referring to Andrus? At least he got the ball up in the air twice. The second one could have been a sacrifice fly. Menechino has not gotten to him yet.

He needs to be pinched hit for with Sheets if he comes up with men on base again. He is our Lenyn Sosa tonight an automatic out.

Grandal DP was the rally killer. He should not have been in the lineup as DH tonight in the first place. Or at least not hitting 6 th.

We have been wasting many good starts this season.

Thank you TLR for another inexplicable lineup construction tonight. Another unforced error IMO.

We would have had more runs if we had Sheets as DH instead of Grandal.

And we leave our hottest hitter Sheets grabbing some bench instead. That is TLR ball for you.

The chance of Grandal hitting into a double play is higher IMO. At any rate, Sheets should have been the DH instead of Grandal against the righty pitcher. He has been our best hitter lately. TLR roster construction continues to be bad.

Absolutely right. Sheets has been our best hitter lately. He needs to be in the lineup. DH instead of Grandal or at worst in for Vaughn.

Swung at the first pitch. At least he got it up in the air.

We need to hit and run withMoncada at first and Grandal at the plate. TLR has discarded the running game and we are hitting into more double plays.

I hope we circulated the memo on not letting Jose Ramirez beat us.

Don’t like Vaughn hitting second,he has not been hitting and is too slow. Moncada should be hitting second. Would actually would have liked to see Sheets in the lineup, he has been hot, could be DH instead of Grandal.

Lynn looks like 100lbs heavier than McKenzie.

He wanted to impress the chick with the Altuve top.

Gavin has earned a spot in the lineup even against lefties. He has been one of our better, more dangerous hitters lately. He is getting the ball up in the air consistently.

Regardless, the wild card is also in play if we don’t catch Cleveland. Staying pat at the deadline was a blunder. Aren’t we supposed to be a major market team?

Giolito did affect but every 5 games, the 2 nd base and RF holes affected every game as position players. We also had Keuchel sucking at the beginning of the season.there were a myriad of bad factors.

Right on. We wasted a lot of good pitching with bad offense and defense