Autumn Dreamin

Winston Salem plays a DH today and Ziehl's last start was a week ago, so I imagine he's due for a debut.

5 walk off wins across the league tonight. That 17-16 Rockies walk-off was their second of the season. Giants, Red Sox tied for first with 9 walk-offs each. Every team has at least 2 now, including the Sox with 3. ...Except the O's who have somehow yet to get their first 110 games in (54 at home).

...Okay but have we considered a world in which they're actually cheating? No one is going to suspect a rebuilding team, and any opponent calling it out would just look like a sore loser. Start cheating before you're competitive, and then when you're still hitting 4 HR a game from the top of the division it looks like a natural development? Pretty perfect crime.

The 2025 Chicago White Sox match last year's 41 win total on August 1. At this time last year, they had 27 wins on the season, and were still in the midst of a 21-game loss streak. They broke the streak with a meager 4-10 stretch before kicking off another 14-game loss streak later in August. And somehow even that team managed to cobble together 14 wins from the start of August through the end of the season. Matching that production from here out, gruesome streaks included, would result in ~55 wins this year. Exceeding it even modestly, such as by going a conservative 5-9 instead of 0-14 in late August/early September gives them a solid shot at dodging 100 losses. If you’re the type to still feel compelled to chime in “no better than last year!” type comments after routine losses to more talented rosters, I suspect that you simply do not recall just how bad last year was. The Sox longest loss streak this year is 8 IIRC...last year had TWO 14 game loss streaks in addition to the 21L straddling the break. And acknowledging their improvement is not shilling for the FO or being in denial about how far there still is to go or whatever. The next ~15 wins are obviously much harder to get, and the ~15 after that harder still. It’s not until we’re matching this season’s eventual win total in early August that things start to get really exciting. But that reality doesn’t make the improvement less real or worth noting, especially given how much of it is driven by the players you hope are on that next team with ~57 wins in August.

The homers will continue until morale improves

Got it right back, excellent work boys

Could use a couple two tree runs here

Nice heads up play by the defense too

Yeah I don't think he touched home in time. Wow.

Leasure not living up to his name right now, absolutely all business tonight.

Nasty stuff from Leasure

Yanks have Slater riding the bench while they throw career IF Caballero in right field... 3 of their new arms combined to allow 9 runs in the last 3 innings.

Absolutely disastrous showing from the Yanks new BP additions.

Yep. He's not really replacing his Ks with walks, more working counts to get pitches he can hit whether in or out of the zone.

26 ABs without a K for Sosa, second longest active streak after Arraez I believe

Some wild games around the league tonight. Yanks up 12-10 in the 9th, AV and the Brew Crew won 16-9, and then out at Coors...

He got that nickname back in 2024 ST I believe. It's on his Baseball Reference page and everything

25 straight PAs without a K currently

The wide zone is actually hurting Smith somehow. He keeps nailing that "generous" outside corner to righties, but it hasn't been consistently generous and he won't get the benefit of the doubt with how wild he's been overall.

I was watching the Phils game earlier and Edmundo Sosa walks out to this, so there's really no reason for the Chicago Sosa not to.

The Sosa defensive miscue ➡️ RBI hit cycle repeats once again

Any thoughts on the lottery numbers?

Doubt he's available tonight

Braden goes 2-4 with a HR. Antonacci 3-4 with a BB and 4 RBI. Galanie 1-5 with a HR. Barons win 6-0, pitching their 4th shutout in 5 games.