Autumn Dreamin

All these young pitchers keeping their cool just for a vet to get the yips on the potential last pitch of the game is really annoying.

Sox vibes are downright middle of the pack in the division right now compared to the decimated Twins and collapsing Tigers...

Barons get one back, 6-2.

4 perfect innings for McDougal to bring his total playoff line to 7IP, 1H, 0ER, 0BB, 11K. 6 in a row retired, a single to left, 15 in a row retired across his 2 starts. His 40 man spot awaits. Lead is down to 5-2 as Schweitzer allows a pair in his first inning.

There he is

8K ties a career high for Smith

Such an annoying team

The slowest fastball Smith has thrown tonight (95.8mph) is still harder than his season average (95.6). Sitting 97 and topping at 100. He's a starter until proven otherwise, but it makes you wonder what he could pull off in relief.

Smith has thrown like 10 of the fastest pitches of his career tonight, and that has been worth witnessing for me.

Early 3-0 lead through 1 for the Barons off of 3 singles, an error, and a WP. 3u/3d for McDougal.

If I remember correctly, a year or two ago the minors updated to a system that uses a rolling average of the batters height/stance over the past 50 ABs to draw the zone rather than height alone. So if two guys have the same measured height but one has a consistently lower stance, the zone adjusts for that: "Hawk-Eye is now taking a snapshot of the hitter’s body position at the moment the baseball is midway across the plate (the same location used when evaluating umpire performance) and is then utilizing a rolling average of those snapshots across the hitter’s 50 most recent plate appearances to determine the hitter’s zone. The zone is not dictated or impacted by a batter’s stance prior to the pitch being delivered, so hitters can’t artificially shrink their zone with a wider stance that compresses the gap between their knees and belt, nor are players who use a more upright stance punished with a larger zone for doing so."

Alek Manoah just got DFA'd, working his way back from TJ. Still a couple arb years left. Worth a flyer instead of (or in addition to?) the Perez option?

EQ after going 8/8 on challenges:

Juggling Jacob Young can play a few years for the Bananas after he's done with MLB lol

Detroit loses, but Cleveland finally does too.

Shouldn't be relying on bases loaded walks to score runs, but I'm still annoyed that Quero wasn't rewarded for working one.

Despite frequent calls for his head, he's been nails for a while now.

Ump casually robbing a run, alrighty then

Mead making that play at 3B made me notice that Vargas is in LF now. Another reason to have just let Brooks take that AB.

Blue didn't even give Teel a chance there

Cleveland up early, Detroit down 3-0 in the 5th...

If I could be like Mike...

It's always been my position that Quero is better behind the plate, even with his framing needing work.