PitchatRisktoZisk

There will be zero heat on Getz as long as JR owns this team. The day Ishbia buys the team, the heat index goes from 0 degrees to inferno. Getz will be toast on day 1 of the new ownership.

Maybe not the right place for this, but I'm missing something? Smith had to tuck and roll to not get clocked by the throw home. Even if he sprinted straight to the bag, I don't think there's a chance for the DP. How many "3-2-1" double plays have we ever seen?

It's amazing how good a manager looks when the players execute.

I'm glad he challenged it. You get two in the post season and you can always ask the crew chief for one late in the game. Challenging Altuve was classic gamesmanship. He ALWAYS cheats on the grass to get a better angle as he's slowed down over the years. The final view showed his heel was on the grass as the pitcher started his motion. NY just botched the call. That said, now the cheater of all cheaters knows he's being watched and maybe doesn't get a good angle on a ball tomorrow that impacts the game.

We lost 324 games over the 3 years prior to this season. We are the only team in history to make the playoffs after back to back 100 loss seasons (let alone three 100 loss seasons). That's the definition of playing with house money. Let's go in free and loose and kick the crap out of the trash can bangers in their Mickey Mouse ballpark!

I don't mind Chase (and others) swinging from their heels up in the count and trying to do damage. I DO mind the lack of baseball awareness he shows sometimes. Up 3-1 with the basses loaded, the pitcher is in trouble there, not you. Look for a pitch in a zone you can drive and launch it. If it's not in that small location window, take it! It's then 3-2 and the pitcher is still in trouble. If Chase was "zone hitting", he would have never swung at ball 4.

Me too. Houston seems way low to me. After tomorrow, they have 2 @ Sea and 4 @ Oak. That is 5 wins almost guaranteed. Since they have the tiebreaker v. the Sox, we can't afford any slippage. Texas has 3 v. Mets and 3 @ Minny. Not a tough road either. We need 6 more wins and a little help before I'll breathe easier.

Fire this incompetent, clueless faux GM into the sun. There are 100,000 people in Chicago and virtually everyone on this board that would do a better job than Getz. We all knew we needed SP at the deadline. He got a hasbeen in Castillo and absolutely no help. I don't care what constraints JR put on him, he crushed any chance of this being a playoff season. I'm out.

You hire a minimum wage manager with no skills or experience, this is what you get. Too cute by half using a useless opener today cost us 3 runs. Then "the book" says go with all righty/lefty matchups in the early or middle innings. Let's not have the gold glove outfielder in the game so you can move Peters to left in the 9th. Utter managerial malpractice. We should have been up 6-2 in the 9th and win going away. When we lose tomorrow (and believe me, we will), we leave town with ZERO margin for error, instead of up 3 games. I'm done!

Ummmmm, yes it is.

So he only faces the lineup twice

For a team that leads the league in runs scored, our offense looks pathetic on nights we don't score 10 runs. Yeesh.

Just get out of the inning holding them right here, we still win this game. That said, he should NEVER have come out for 5th. It was painfully obvious he had nothing after the 3rd.

We have to WIN this division. Cleveland plays a Hostess Cupcake schedule the rest of the way, and is fully capable to go 16-6 or better. Detroit quit and is handing them a 4 game sweep. We have to take care of our own business and not expect help. Help would be a bonus.

Boys and girls..... we are really beyond tight right now. Uncharted waters and we are in a leaky boat. Pitching is spent and hitters trying to hit 7 run homers. Not looking good.