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Not sure what this has to do with the pope but it's fairly entertaining. a time capsule for sure, makes me feel a bit young which is always good.

He seems to be enjoying playing again and of course that's easier when you're making winning plays. That ball down the 3B line he could fumble and you never know suddenly with two on what could go wrong. Baldwin with the big crack late -- liked that even tho we couldn't pay it off. If you're going to be a bad defender most nights as a utility guy at least be able to crack one once and awhile. On the next good Sox team we'll need a guy like Baldwin and never really mind having them around even if sometimes it's maddening on a bad team when they play too much.

He'll tick up to .3 fWAR after tonight. Raised his wRC+ to 88 from 78. It's nice to see him take a step forward as part of the youngish IF. Nobody seems to have star potential out of them but at least they are young players that are competing and holding their own.

He's certainly had a sustained solid month of play on both sides. He's looking closer to the guy the Dodgers thought was worth calling up at 22 then the one that they traded away. I give him a lot of credit because everybody talks about having a transformative off season few if any guys ever do it. He did, he's a different player. He still has a long way to go to be considered even an average regular but just looking like a below average one is fine for now.

The AL central becoming the best division in the AL since the balanced schedule went into play is one of the more "wtf" moments in recent team sports imo. Nobody in a million years saw that coming.

Nice game from Martin, we hit for some power and had some good ABs. A bad Reds team but whatever, we're playing some decent baseball the last week. We keep this up we might f*** around and win 58 games as @flavum noted in the game thread. Extend Getz?

suicide would work here.

Quite the AB.

good rip but man late on 89 against a LHP?

jesus bad luck.

of course.

I mean come on he went back what 10 feet? He was positioned perfectly MLB LF should make that play 9/10 right?

We need to end the Baldwin can play most positions thing. He can't.

That was A+ baseball from the oppo hitting to the play off the carom on the wall to the tag to the slide. Nice to enjoy watching them again.

SOSA

Vaughn's hot streaks consist of 1/4 with an RBI and an XBH. Not enough.

Robert swinging well he's really on balance finally. Not way out over his lead hip.

I'd rather see a reliever go down to a HR off a 97mph fastball then to come in, get down in the count 3-1 and nibble at worst a minor setback into a potential big inning. If they are going to hit a 2 run HR off 97mph tip the hat and move on. Dont load the bases or some s%*# throwing balls.

Nice, way to throw strikes. Let's finish this one off with a few more runs.

Good job by Quero, come on dude, just one out.

Seems like we're overusing Leasure. Hope he has something in the tank here.

Phew, off the end of the bat.

He should be hitting the showers with a pat on the back but instead our bullpen is so awful he's asked to go back out.