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Most exciting overall night for the AL Central this entire season...

7-6 heading into the top of the 9th, CLE hitting...Rosario, Jose Ramirez, Naylor, Gonzalez, Gimenez, heart of the order.

Only 1 down with Gordon a shot to tie it or go ahead with a homer.

Karinchak accused of cheating with sticky stuff... no evidence. Baldelli is going to get it back from Francona soon enough.

Minnie Minoso?

7-4 Guardians now...

Trayce Thompson 9 homers now...

He had another similar go ahead or walk off this year...

Twice?

but noodly arm...makes Pollock Jimenez and Vaughn look like Larry Walker or Bob Clemente

shelf life of last night's offensive explosion pretty limited lol

If we bid on Dylan Bundy this offseason, let's try to not let him pitch against the Guardians like ever, lol... Like the Joe Kelly not pitching back to back days provision.

Twins laying a 0-7 egg at home after a lengthy rain delay in Minneapolis is leading to lots of boos...unusual there.

The funniest thing is that Connor McKnight said this replacement pitcher would be out of the game in the first 2-3 innings, lol.

4-0 Guardians over the Twins in the first. Gonzalez if he figures out how to hit 18-24 homers per season looks a lot like the next Michael Brantley. OFC, White Sox never score like this off Dylan Bundy.

Fine, a dreaded list. Hideki Matsui Kaz Matsui Seiya Suzuki Kenji Johjima Kosuke Fukudome Shogo Akiyama Nori Aoki So Taguchi Akinori Iwamura Granted, the majority of studs have been pitchers. https://www.mlb.com/news/best-japanese-baseball-players-of-all-time-c262514038

Otoh, Ichiro and Shohei Ohtani…

One of the most famous authors from Japan shares that same name as well…

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/checking-in-on-roki-sasaki-and-munetaka-murakami-npbs-brightest-young-stars/

Royals final six consecutive games against the Royals dictates cheering for the Twins. Then, of course, the White Sox need to take care of the Twins. Padres might still need to beat the White Sox the final week, whereas the Rays (the other final three games for the Guardians outside KC) might have already locked up their Wild Card spot...in fact, they'd have an incentive to lose, because that would mean facing #3CLE/CHW/MIN instead of #4/5 Toronto OR Seattle.

MLB Playoff Odds | FanGraphs Baseball White Sox now in 2nd place behind Guardians but ahead of the Twins Also, now 22nd or 23 in MLB homers, depending if you go by actual numbers of home runs or pace of homers per game (behind Rays). Guardians are currently dead last.

Paging Graveman and Miguel Ascensio...

Minnesota 28 games remaining, Cleveland 27 and White Sox just 25...