Jake

Need to give up a run so Mune has a chance to extend his series-opener-home-run streak

Hill won't be going anywhere

Y'all just got Venabled

Got Bobbied

Moral victory with Quero hitting a ball in the air to the pull side

Right and I'm guessing that perhaps his arm wasn't feeling up to it for whatever reason even though it seems like he should feel okay.

One of the challenges for the Sox is that the other team is better than them. This isn't always an insurmountable obstacle though, so we'll see how it goes.

Yeah so I'm going to speculate that one or more of the guys you think should have pitched earlier are in fact not available

Not sure that there are very good options to cover the next inning

Wouldn't be a Grant inning without a soft hit

My guess is if anything, they'll overrate the left-handed aspect. But I think Getz really likes using minor league options to avoid making hard roster decisions, so that probably prevails.

Peters has minor league options so I think he is pretty likely to go down to Charlotte if everybody gets healthy soon.

Opener is the worst use case for a pitcher that you believe is good

Doubt Grant can pitch for very long tonight because his last outing was pretty extended.

By the way, where has Jordan Hicks been? Has only made one short appearance since 5/1. Not that I'm pining to see him pitch, but there have been some low-leverage innings for him to appear in since then.

One batter too many there. Use Grant to get out of the jam. We'll need to use another untrusted reliever at some other point in this game, most likely.

Romo not challenging the first pitch of that AB was a headscratcher to me. Was a whole ball into the strike zone.

Jac hits into terrible luck against the Sox. Not that I'm mad.

Chase loves hitting home runs more than just about anybody

South Side Stand Up!!

Glad to see someone pointing out that neither team thought Tatis was the main part of the deal coming from the Sox

I'll continue to hope on the youth and results, but aesthetically I really don't like how Bonemer looks at the plate. Very stiff-looking. Just from seeing his home run swings, I would guess that he's a player who whiffs a lot because the swing looks oddly unathletic (although again, I surely don't deny the great results). There are plenty of counterexamples of guys who look a little bit odd up there and make it work just fine, so I hope he's one of them.

Wolkow drops below .600 OPS. He's approaching "cooked" at this point.

South Side Staaaayyyyeeeeaaanndd Up!

You guys worry too much.