Balta1701

17 batters up, 4 outs so far. Whoa.

Just to say it..."Dizziness/mental confusion" is one early symptom of COVID for a lot of people.

Eloy pulling for injury

I'm more worried about the excited yelling in each others faces during the high-5 than I am the physical contact, but both could matter.

No that was when he was first called up in 2018. Last year he had a really bad opening day with a big dip in velocity. Not injury related, just low velocity coming out of the gates.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monumental-acknowledgment-cdc-reports-long-term-covid-19-patients-n1234814?fbclid=IwAR3IlBipXofeiTdHbEYiISkMxM6Q8YQW9ybKoJw97vnTXrl4yfsWQ07TiFE 1/3 of individuals who show symptoms total, not just hospitalized individuals, show ongoing symptoms at least 3 weeks after infection.

Eduardo Rodriguez (Boston) had COVID in early July and is still out due to some heart issues. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2901534-report-red-soxs-eduardo-rodriguez-dealing-with-heart-issue-related-to-covid-19

I don't know if anyone else remembers this but we had exactly the same conversation in 2019 after Lopez's first start because his fastball in that game was down in the low 90s/upper 80s as well. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/reynaldo-lopez/16400/graphs?pitchgraphs=true&statArr=&legend=1&split=base&time=daily&start=2017&end=2019&rtype=mult&gt1=15&dStatArray=FA&ymin=&ymax=

There are way too many high fives and people in each others' faces in the dugout right now, White Sox included.

No one could figure out why Hamilton wasn’t on the Schaumburg roster a couple days ago.

He hit that ball so hard they just couldn't field it.

There was so little emotion in some of those folks...

welp.

Rosario

Love that ground coverage and jump by Robert

109 mph they said.

Abreu's at bat really didn't help that inning either. The pitcher was in trouble, willing to trade a run for an out because it would benefit the pitcher, and Abreu just tried to hit the ball on the ground to take the run rather than going for the big inning. It was an RBI but it helped the pitcher more than the White Sox.

I winced.

Nope I’ve been casually asserting that here for 15 years. Every time he was out there, 2 or 3 plays weren’t made, and every time it was key to a big inning, and that drove up the pitch count and the pitcher was throwing high stress pitches and wore out and there was the difference in the pitchers, zero help all year.

Do you remember how in 2006 we had an excellent CF in Anderson and we played a 3b, Mackowiak in CF for some reason, and to this day I say that cost us a playoff birth because every game that gave away like 3 outs Anderson would have caught? Exactly that. A good defensive 2b and this is a 5-5 game somewhere late. Both pitch count and runs. At least one ply Madrigal makes easily, 2 others maybe he makes if he’s as good as promised.

Didn’t they add that rule? Last I saw they did. My bad ty.

Give that kid that ball.

Then we should play for the big inning in the back of our mind. 2 men on? No ground balls, fly out because you’re trying to hit the ball hard. Don’t trade an out for an RBI when you’re down 4 runs in the first.

Him being better than I expected would be a guy you give an intentional walk to when the bases are loaded.

That was beautiful. Wow.