Jake

I'm confused about why we're playing a day game the day we arrive here

You won't see two cheaper runs than the ones the Tigers have so far

BTW I'm happy to just roll my eyes about them hitting Anderson. Somehow them hitting Anderson for doing something that's not against the rules got Anderson tossed from the game. That's what makes me pissed off

I hate them already. I will hate them no matter what they do

No, I want everyone to go crazy when they hit bombs. I will appropriately channel my anger to our pitchers as I always do

My problem with Swihart is that he was once considered perhaps the top catching prospect and just needed to show the bat more, but then he jumped too fast through the minors, never hit, and the limited data on his catcher defense in MLB suggests he's been bad. If his outfield defense is okay and the Sox really like him, they could always stick him in RF for the time being.

I like Palka but he obviously deserved this. Hope he figures something out, but I'll be very surprised if we see him again so long as both Abreu and Alonso are here.

No excuse to keep Palka on the team now. This isn't good for him or anybody else

One of his outings after giving up a homer he started spinning that slider pretty well. But then a day like today it's just all fastballs

Nate hadn't been terrible this year but it's clear this is all a very delicate balance and maybe back-to-back days isn't doable. Not sure how long we can let that be the case

With Tim in the game, Rondon replaces Yoan

Sure but they got to keep all their crappy players who are mostly shitting the bed

Sucks that Joe West threw out our hottest hitter for getting hit by a pitch

Well that was a terrible at bat

He's the only person I could think of and I wasn't sure whether that was a Coop thing or not.

Seems like it's been a while since we've had a guy start using a cutter. For a while most of our young guys were converting curveballs to sliders instead

I believe that's a Coop innovation. New this year

Let's just go ahead and win this

This is clearly a jinx but Herrera has looked great

I was under the impression he did have an option left although I can't recall where I can check that

I'm not sure why I said what I said since striking out would have been one of the better ways he could get out besides a sac fly

Woo!

With Leury's swing and miss issues I'm not in love with this situation

Yay bunting!

Still don't find it encouraging that Yoan felt sick. It's not like there are other reasons for feeling sick after getting hit in the head.