Jake

In case you're wondering, with the new automated check swing system they're testing in the minors, that Bregman swing wouldn't be close to being called a swing. Will be a meaningful boost to hitters if MLB adopts it

Edgar with questionable use of the final challenge

Fun thing about the wind is it doesn't hurt you that much when you hit the ball low into the crosswind

Kills the ball and Seiya's groin!

Wish we could hit for Peters here (make me look bad, buddy)

Yeah I don't want to go too hard on it because that's kind of the Cubs style of play but they have certainly had some good fortune. I think game 1 easily could have gone differently and you would not have had Hicks enter the game and implode the way he did. Meanwhile, Quero swinging a Cubs bat!

Regardless of how this one turns out, pretty solid game by the Sox. Cubs made it rain bloopers in the first and that's the only reason they're in a tie game.

Wish Meidroth could run well enough to beat those out

Well, I think he saw strikes. They just didn't throw any to him

Colson finally discovering what lefty-lefty advantage looks like lol

Yeah it's definitely the size and the angles he creates, but I'd be lying if I said I knew exactly why it worked so well for him and not most of the 100s of other big lefties with funny deliveries and sketchy velocity

Repeat after me: I won't get mad at Acuna for the way he catches it until he actually drops one

I don't really try to analyze Hudson. He just throws these slow, straight fastballs down the middle and for some reason it usually works out well

Will expertly put Peters in LF where he knew a ball would be hit

Hoerner is really not the guy you want to be pitching to in this situation but I wouldn't dare walk him either. Just hope you trade an out for a run

We just keep drilling their worst hitter lol

BTW, note the other pitch locations in that AB. Perfect pitching

The thing about Milner's sinker is that it drops about 7 inches more than you would expect for one thrown at that speed. So it's going to be lower than you think.

Final pitch was indeed a strike

Milner ironically has reverse splits this season

Good time to run on 0-2

Not sure if I'd want to risk making an out on the bases with Mune up. Maybe steal 2B with Vargas up if Mune goes down here.

Today's Jacob Gonzalez homer wasn't a full-on Charlotte special, FWIW. Probably not out of every MLB ballpark but struck well. Last night he killed the first one, but hit way too low to get out of any real ballpark. And the other one was only 90mph off the bat and would be an out in a non-Mickey Mouse ballpark

Driveline would likely say that Quero going there once right before spring training is a symptom rather than cause

Webb's changeup is gnarly