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Now have to be really careful with the sliders...Cash with the strategy supported by eye popping numbers.

Aiyo...

Great Zunino next. Please avoid some heart attacks.

Runner might have been on third with Collins Zavala Grandal catching.

Wow that really hung up there forever...thought it might drop.

Go shadows go...

Slider so inconsistent in the early season...and still lacking a tick or two on the velocity meter. Why in God's name is Harrison throwing that ball?

Seems LaRussa considers defense in the late innings to be important every other day. Engel is in RF.

Here we go yet again..

Well sure, the long term prognosis on two TJ surgeries not all that great...

Pretty sure nobody expected Ruiz and Sousa to replicate the 2005 pen coming into today...Politte and Cotts.

Benetti still off more often than not anticipating homers...oh well, can't get everything right.

If Banks and Sousa can become a good (and healthy) replacement for Jace Fry and then Crochet as the second lefty...that would be a massive win for the 30th ranked farm system.

Feels like the 2012 pen...where we had something like 12 rookie pitchers come through most of that season. Along with Q most famously out of nowhere.

Well, that was fortunate it was crushed pretty much right at Jimenez...

How many teams go two deep with Top Ten caliber lefties? I suppose we could have attempted to entice Andrew Miller out of retirement...

Changes of scenery can often work wonders. Matt Thornton and Jenks immediately come to mind...kind of like a career reset.

He just needs a 625-650 OPS and that won't be hard if you look at the back of his baseball card.

Harrison and Anderson didn't help him out much in that first inning. Off speed stuff much more effective, more curves and his velocity increased to 97 touching 98 as the game went on. Didn't look to be under any duress...calm and poised as a cucumber with a man bun can possibly be.

Well, until former batting champ TA7...need another hit out of La Pantera.

His defense alone is worth 5X as much as Collins to this team. Vaughn with the double against the righty and wiped out by tough lefty. Nobody can hit this guy so far, though.

Of he could do that in the 6th and 7th with Sox holding 1-2 run leads he would be revered...

Did Ruiz always throw this hard...seems like he has picked up a tick or two. Now who gets the 8th? Guess another argument for not overspending on the pen in Ruiz...but still need that veteran savvy in Graveman and Kelly. At any rate, that's arguably the most impressive Ruiz has looked...

Bummer has been scary almost every time out this year...not even sure he's available today.

Harrison other than that throw has been really solid on def but still .143 was more like his offensive output from 2018-20. Should have pulled the trigger on Escobar. Oh well.