Autumn Dreamin

6 IP/3 ER quality start for Sandlin in Charlotte, though he did get tagged twice by the International League HR leader

Anyway, could be a good thing for these guys to experience a game like this right now if they can learn from it. Today sucked, but the next 9 games before the ASB are still a big opportunity if they take advantage.

June had them playing 4 of the top 7 teams in baseball without their team leader in OPS, there's not really a comparable stretch remaining in the year. The common take at the start of the month was that being within a couple games of .500 by July was a fine target.

Tough one. Guards didn't really earn it, just gave them way too many free runners.

From Merk: Sounds like maybe he'll be in Charlotte during the homestand

One of the unluckiest players in baseball comparing his expected vs. actual results. Which makes it even crazier how good his actual results still are

Didn't see a definitive angle, but that doesn't seem to matter much against the Sox

Cool, let's get that run back

He's not scary enough to put the go ahead run on base for free IMO Also Newcomb isn't a big splits guy

2 of the Guards 3 runs are from guys getting walked into scoring position In addition to hopefully adding on, let's stop doing that

I've heard neutral announcers talk up the Sox unprompted in games they aren't even in

Boston Smith making his Barons debut starting in LF

Espino has nasty stuff but not fully settled into the bigs yet

Meidroth says how's that for RISP production?

Been a few long innings with multiple baserunners but no score

Good inning, nice for Murphy and the bats to pick up Martin.

Guards were supposedly signaling to their batters from the bases last series, but it was unclear (even to their own broadcast) if it was "real" signals or just mind games

Feels like everyone is pressing now, whole team needs to take a deep breath

Got a big break and squandered it

Oof, rough intro to LF for Ingle this week

Nice

Best of luck to him

Sounds like Boston could be down Contreras when they visit next week, pending any appeals