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Nicky Two Strikes.... Of course, Lopez has the longest string in all of MLB for homerless games and at-bats. Almost a homer to break the streak.

Where was that poster in 2007/2009/2011, or 2013-2019?

The constant offense/Mackowiak vs. defense/Anderson debates. Dye at least could catch and throw the ball if it was hit directly at him. I don't think anybody would have bet Lynch would have 53 strikes thrown vs. 49 for Keuchel at the beginning of this one.

Two catches that Engel barely missed and then the bad misplay earlier in the game. Olivares yet another former Padres farmhand. And Lopez is back to his former self again.

Except that team was dying in the second half after starting out 26 games over .500 at the ASB and clearly getting passed by DET and MINN behind the likes of Verlander, Santana and Liriano. Jenks started to fall apart, and the workload on the pitchers from the previous year started to hit the rotation. But yeah, the offense feels similar...kind of dead in the water.

This team...

LOL. Of course, the ONE thing they couldn't afford. Jesus. Vaughn would have easily hit into a triple play there.

You've been pretty angry all game...guess there are points for consistency of position.

Are we actually going to score here? This feels like the most low-key 10 game playoff lead in the history of the franchise...2005 and 2008 were so tense. I guess 2000 is the closest comparison, although the pitching is much better and offense pretty much the opposite although we're still scoring a decent number of runs...at least until recently.

95 pitches and likely Staumont...

Not sure we prefer Staumont here...but let's hope we get a dinger first.

In a 7 inning game...sure.

Just don't hit into a DP, Zavala...lets try to get this line-up going the third time through.

Sure, the first time out it actually was his big league debut, he was visibly nervous and rattled, didn't have any idea what to do besides throwing as hard as he could (97-99) when he started to get hit around and couldn't locate his secondary pitches, either. He definitely made some progress in the the minors this past summer. Between the Tigers and the Royals and Indians...the pitching it going to continue to improve in the division, unless CLE trades Bieber/Plesac and does another rebuild. Betting money is they give it one more final go with Bieber and Ramirez next season.

Of course, we follow up an inning like that with the dreaded leadoff walk. How do we advance this runner to 2nd? Steal? WP? PB? Defensive indifference? Jared Kelenic would be our best hitter at this rate...

SIGH. Extends career high to 6 K's, lol. We can't even get out of our own way at this point. It's not like we mounted a rally by actually hitting the ball...well, except Engel's foul ball I guess.

Moncada needs a next-life futbook career, he could compete with Christiano Ronaldo anytime someone comes into his vicinity, he goes down writhing in pain.

Moncada seems to make every single injury look like he's been shot. It was a slider there, fwiw.

Already set his career high in strikeouts through 3 2/3 IP, lol...

Fans starting to get really frustrated, too.

I think you just jinxed Lopez...he can't be THIS bad for so long (even in AAA）and suddenly turn it around, can he?

We've been stuck in that range between 16-21 games over .500 for seemingly two months now...at least 6 weeks. Just feels like they are content with holding serve and playing the season out to get to October. Obviously the injection of Kimbrel was meant to change that narrative in the late innings, combining their three best relievers as needed (and hopefully Bummer rejoins to make it four.)

28995 Lansing Road, Dyersville, Iowa 52040 Well, it's technically a series of gravel roads in the middle of nowhere outside of Dubuque, is a better way to describe it. At least this game is moving pretty quickly. Of course, that guarantees innings 4-6 will take approximately 1 hr and 15 minutes.

Well, we're really good at lower opposing ERA's recently. Hernandez was in the 6's and Lynch started over 7, now at 6.57, yikes.

Royals if they won tonight would have a winning record at GRF of 5-4 and tied 8-8 on the season series...don't we have one of the top home winning percentages in baseball, along with the Giants? Not that we should expect to lose after the way we destroyed Lynch earlier in the season, but seems he's found a more comfortable range of 93-96 mph rather than trying to throw everything at max velocity. Jimenez, fwiw, now 2/20 with that one key homer against KC. First perfect inning of the game for Dallas. He gives you a couple like that somewhere in the game and you start to squint and imagine if just might be serviceable despite that contract then implodes again.