Jake

Jordan come on

Sandlin looking in some respects like a right-handed Hagen

Hicks will have to wear it to save the pen. The cost of not having depth is you have to roll the dice on these types when you're losing

The cheap runs will continue until morale improves

Just keep it close and give yourself a puncher's chance

Sox have basically played them even. If it's a 6-4 game in the end I'll be able to live with it

Cubs lucky hit offense kind of night

Not sure that you're getting an out there regardless. Real cheap run.

I really don't enjoy watching Peters hit at all

Rolison threw sweeper and then slider. It's an interesting mix. Mune thinks he's getting the same pitch he just got the previous pitch but it's actually a different shape, dropping a lot more. And he just barely hits the top of it.

Cabrera's not a bad pitcher. Good job to get him out of the game in the 5th with 3 runs already on the board.

FWIW, Richards has a super rise-y fastball so it's not shocking that Laz was fooled by it. But you want your catcher to know that may happen and use the challenge.

Drew needs to use that challenge

Cubs keep sticking the bat out and getting results. Sean didn't have his command today at all.

Late inning Colson, don't disrespect him!!

There goes that man again

High breaking pitches are far more successful in practice than the conventional wisdom would have you believe (largely due to what you just saw: batters give up on them thinking they will miss high)

Even at his best, Hicks's fastball isn't a bat-misser. Very few sinkers are. Will earn his keep with grounders and slide pieces

The thing about Hicks being on the team is that he will have to pitch sometimes. And if your team is getting the lead a lot, some of the time he will have to defend a lead

As I recall, JRam would go on to say that he was really just upset that TA had talked trash at some other occasion to another player and that there was nothing that actually went wrong on the play in question

Yes, that's right. It was that JRam thought the tag was too hard or something.

Yes, TA put up his dukes first, but that was of course after JRam went chest to chest with him saying who knows what because he thought TA had done a dirty slide into second (which he hadn't). I think part of the reason JRam never seemed to embrace the positive reputation he got from the fight is because he knew he caused it to happen and shouldn't have

Catching up on this, but she is very much fireable. She's not a MLB ump and doesn't have the robust union protections. She only gets these opportunities based on her minor league performance and she can only keep getting them if she grades out as better than the alternatives.

My unpopular take on the TA/JRam fight is that JRam clearly picked the fight for no reason and landed a lucky swing in the melee. Picking a fight that wasn't instigated and then winning it just makes you an asshole.

Bought it earlier today LMAO