Autumn Dreamin

Papal first pitch when?

Cease took a no hitter into the 7th, lost it on a Bellinger HR, and then left the game with a trainer indicating apparent pain in his right forearm. Hope it's nothing serious.

lmao yeah, he's Birmingham bound before summer's out.

Good start from Cannon

Walkoff HR for Fletcher after going 0-5 with 4K in his previous ABs

Manufacturing an insurance run in a late game situation with 2 outs. Beautiful.

Nothing concrete yet

Awkwardly placed ball, no-win situation for Vargas on the bases

Finally a hard hit ball drops for AV

When's the last time this team had 7 straight ABs of seeing 5+ pitches?

Yordan to the IL for Houston. Injury to insult. Meanwhile the A's are quietly 1 game back and tied in the win column for the AL West lead...👀

TEX fire their offensive coordinator Donnie Ecker. Top 4 team ERA in the AL, but a losing record thanks to scoring fewer runs than everyone but the Rockies (yes, including the Sox). Very Sox-like 82 team WRC+ coming into today despite the talent on the roster.

Hagen is done after a season-best start of 6 scoreless. 4H, 2BB, 6K on 82 pitches. ERA down to 2.28.

Wolkow 2-4 on a pair of IF singles including a well executed bunt. Leaning into his speed lately. Mogollon 3-4 with a 2B and SB. OPS up to .940. Kanny unfortunately lost their SP and the game though.

Mogollon being something would be fun. Kanny won 11-2. Solid 5IP/1ER start for Reyes. McAtee is probably due for a promotion soon, 24yo UDFA RHP with 1ER ( a solo HR) and 16K in 14.IP across 8 appearances. Good stuff. Wolkow 1-2 with a BB, RBI, SB, and *0* Ks. Perfect 11/11 SB for the season. Nathan Archer was a HR short of the cycle. LMG looks good too, kinda wish they'd let him pitch in one of these blowouts.

Taylor doing Taylor things. 3IP, 0ER, 2H, 0BB, 2K. Second "hit" was a swinging bunt that just died on the 3B line.

Plenty of bobbles, but only 1000 cigarette add ons.

Truly baffled by this exchange. Seems clear to me that "moving towards Chicago" is shorthand, as it generally is in baseball discussions. for making necessary progress to reach the majors. A swing-happy prospect getting their K% down is movement towards Chicago. A rehabbing pitcher hitting their targets for getting stretched out is moving towards Chicago. Colson heating up in AAA after potential swing fixes would be moving towards Chicago. No one said anything about him coming straight from AZ (or being traded??) and honestly it feels like you have to work hard to try and interpret it that way.

What a game from Meyers