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Kasper says Bummer is warming

DJ noticed this too.

Defense!

Cease is only at 54 pitches through 4 so a solid inning here and he could go 6.

You can’t say that the edit was The wrong call.

Has Romy played yet? In Charlotte?

Game’s not over yet.

Yes but also a guy with a long history of injuries so not surprising.

Pollock likely hurt a hamstring rounding 1b after a single in game 2. Pulled immediately for Vaughn.

Pollock out with a hamstring injury

This would be a 3 run homer for Grandal last year.

This long of a reaction in a high level athlete would definitely be unusual, but Yoan’s drop in exit velocity also seems unusual and it started when his symptoms started, so that is one possible issue. If it is still an issue and he just can’t get the muscles going like he used to, they’re not going to tell us.

Well they clearly have a swing early game plan.

What percentile was it last year?

There is substantial literature demonstrating long term muscle issues (months and beyond) in some COVID patients. Here is a review paper from last month summarizing the current state of research: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.813924/full#h2

In loving memory of Ursula Snelius.

Lol I will go ask Pollock’s wife how long it will take.

This could literally be 1 missed start. Give him a couple extra days off, then do a throwing day in Chicago. If he can do a couple throwing days without pain then by pulling him out we avoided anything serious and you can try again.

Yeah if he’s unlikely to make his next start they obviously need the extra warm body to sacrifice out of the pen. A 10 day IL trip is basically one missed start.

This is the third time today I’ve thought someone was talking about Pierzynski at first look. We need a better nickname that one is taken:

Nah, this one wasn’t all that much on the manager. One moderately minor mistake, and almost incidental. If Eloy had misplayed something in LF, that’s one thing. If Pollock had hurt his throwing arm on the play or something like that, same difference. Those works be the direct consequence of him not making that move. We are almost talking about an incidental play - yeah Engel probably makes that, but it’s a little bit unlucky that Pollock didn’t.

The last out was Pollock, so it would have been Robert, Abreu, Grandal, with Pollock on 2b.

Gave up 2 doubles today too.