Jake

Umps have been pretty tight with the challenge timing to the Tigers hitters in this series

well, on replay that one might have gone out either way. Close.

Sam gives them that free run back.

Yeah that one didn't mean a lot to me. Getting tips from the catcher is usually something you can tell as the defensive team anyway because somebody has to signal the batter.

Thanks for the free run I guess.

Exit velos that inning. Blank spaces were the walks. So the good news is they can't square him up. Bad news is he walked a couple guys and isn't making them miss.

Getting close to the line where you throw so many pitches in an inning that you don't have much hope of continuing

Steve is overstating the velo loss by an extra mph for whatever reason. I think 1.3mph down is enough to make the point

Well he's finding the ends of the bats consistently but he's going to run out of juice if he can't stop the madness soon.

Ump sounded like he was making excuses lol

The good news is that Detroit isn't hitting the ball well, so Sean may be able to stop this train. The bad news is they have 3 runs anyway.

with 5 games to go

How big of a lead in the division before Soxtalk calms down a little bit?

Eat s%*#

He really didn't have proper rest to be throwing the one inning IMO. Can't push him today

Throw a strike and you never know what might happen

89mph down the middle, whatcha gonna do with it

Welp, gotta win some close ones

Throw went high and Colson said okay I'm not playing catch with Mune anymore

Taylor's stuff is obviously diminished from yesterday. Hope he can pitch around it. Sox are really pushing him

Clark asks to challenge, umps say you don't have any, Clark says "f***!"

Graphic illustrating the rules they're testing

Well, first of all, nothing is obvious in the current rulebook. The current ruleset is merely did he "offer" at the pitch. But the system they're testing is based on how far the bat head gets out. And in that system, the bat has to go past parallel with the foul line which is like really close to a completed swing compared to what we're used to seeing umpires call.

BTW, in the check swing challenge system being tested in AAA, that final swing from Mune wouldn't be a swing

Will made a couple non-obvious moves this inning and it worked splendidly.