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Que sera,sera.

Great job by Kopech ! Lopez, Graveman, Hendriks finish off the 2-0 Shutout !

Mieses with his 11th HR.

Sprinkle 0-5, 2 K's leading off. Burke 2-3, 2 singles.

Nice hustle there Engel almost beat it !

The Chicago Divas.

Ok just throw the WP now give up 1 hit in 9 innings and lose 1-0

But for the wrong reason. Taking Kopech out was not anything close to terrible.

To risk his health ? Nah . Grand scheme of things you want to keep him healthy.

Season is over , no sense letting him go deeper.

I broke my hand once playing 3rd base. High throw from LF ,threw my glove down fast and hard on the tag. Next inning got a hit batting basically one handed.

Jammed his wrist /handwith the base blocked.

That article is from 2017 though . That was 5 years ago. Unless you know of any specifics between the 2022 MLB and minor league ball where you can show the MiLB balls carry less can you really say for certain that it wouldn't have carried as far with the MLB ball ? I know humidors are also involved in MLB.

But Colas has a really good arm , Eloy doesn't, plus Colas was playing CF for a while. I don't think Eloy ever did.

Is there a difference in the ball between the minors and MLB ?

I already did. 1st I said sept 15 but I changed my mind.

The media mostly is white and don't speak Spanish so the white guys get the dumb questions about the Spanish speaking guys.

Yep , like I said the hitter should know very keenly where his hot spots are. By that I mean pitches that he drives well not pitches where you might have a .333 batting average comprised of 90% singles. Singles are great with runners in scoring position but so are 3 run HR's.

LOL I know what you mean . You didn't like Roberts approach so how did that translate to you not liking Judge or Freeman ? Their approaches are fine and they get results. They don't look to hit to RF, they hit the ball where it's pitched. They probably look fastball like Hawk always used to talk about and then adjust to the pitch and they take the pitcher's approach to them into consideration. They look to drive the ball on any pitch and rarely approach 1 AB with anything specific in mind except for looking for their pitch. You should know where your happy spots are and look for something like that every time up and spit on pitches early in the count that aren't in those zones. Pitch recognition is key to a good approach if you have trouble being able to tell the different between a slider and FB you're in trouble anyway so just take more pitches to increase your odds of getting something in your sweet spots. At least you'll be taking more walks and not swinging at so many pitches out of the zone. I see way too many swings on balls off the plate outside and inside. It's like some of these guys have no idea how to recognize pitches or are looking outside so much they can't drive a pitch in the middle of the plate. They get caught leaning.

Yes he can lose it. The rule is if you are behind when you are taken out and your team never catches up no matter how many runs are scored by either team you get the lose. Only if the Sox tie or get the lead will he get a no decision.

Is that Chris Sale ?

So you were in the room when those things happened . You were privy to conversations between TLR and JR ? Otherwise it's total speculation. GM is his title that's where the buck stops .

According to FG this year Judge goes oppo 20% of the time 34% center and 46% pull.

Plenty of blame to go around. Hahn didnt have to renew KImbrel's option or resign Leury for 3 years or pay for an injured relief pitcher who then couldn't pitch back to back games until July 1st. Or get another RH player for Kimbrel. He couldn't get a minor leaguer from the Dodgers like Outman ? Hahn sucks and shouldn't ever be defended in any way.

1st time all year Greineke has got an out in the 7th inning