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With Renteria, not even a 7 run lead is safe.

Eloy almost fell down on his homer. Reminds me of the one Robert hit off Rodon in the intrasquad and fell down on the seat of his pants while the ball was exiting the park to LCF.

8/14/08 vs. ROYALS

Let's not get greedy.

Big Unit gives up 3 straight homers in loss - Deseret News www.deseret.com › 2005 › big-unit-gives-up-... 翻译此页 2005年8月22日 - Randy Johnson allowed home runs to three straight batters for the first time in his major league career and four in all during the fourth inning, and the Chicago White Sox beat the ... By Associated Press Aug 22, 2005, 12:00am MDT ... Dye and Juan Uribe, then allowed a three-run homer to Chris Widger.

Abreu's was hit "well" but barely squeaked out down the line. Would have been a double in quite a few big league ballparks.

Heck the whole team is on E right now.

Indians taking it to the Tigers this weekend. 9-5 likely to have been the DET high water mark this season. WHAT THE HELL? Four in a row? Didn't we last do this in 2005? Chris Widger was one of them in that sequence, that I remember clearly.

Any reliever throwing Carson Fulmer-esque 91-93 MPH fastballs/cutters and mid 80's sliders is doomed in MLB these days.

LULL THEM TO SLEEP ATTACK.

I deleted Grandal post comparing him to Mark Johnson/Ron Karkovice Squad. That pitch was right down the middle of the plate...couldn't have put it better on a tee. Moncada 417, Grandal 425. Abreu's 335, haha.

Sure, but he SHOULD BE great by this point in his career. Still too inconsistent, but 2019 was a HUGE step forwards.

NOGOWSKI. Gee, quite a different name there, lol. I couldn't even see the R/N, what are the odds of two almost identical names as that (Polish?) at 1B?

You're being too kind, lol.

Or Anderson missed the hit and run sign, because he looked like he was taking all the way. In fact, he almost deliberately got out of the way to make it an easier throw for the catcher.

PLEASE JUST FIRE RR. This is the best hitter in baseball at bat, if not one of the Top 10. Why take the bat out of his hands when Mendick has below average speed?

WHAT THE HELL? Ex White Sox Casey Rogowski is now at 1st base? There's a rule that every former IB prospect, like Olmedo Saenz, Mario Valdez, Jose Martinez....plays for StL afterwards. And I'm forgetting one or two names.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE drive at least one run in here and don't somehow hit into a DP or strike 'em out, throw 'em out situation.

Mendick's damn bat is bigger than him. Like Julio Franco's famous huge bat....but Mendick is lacking the massive, Popeye-esque forearms.

Pulling a ball to the right side of the INF works occasionally, but you should be driving those pitches to the opposite field for doubles or even homers because he has the power to carry the wall quite easily.

That'sssa not so good...

RIGHT ON THAT ONE, LUIS. That was a double to the RCF gap. Or a triple.

What kind of a point is that? The point should be that if you have a great infield defense behind you, it's perfectly acceptable to keep the ball on the ground and limit pitch counts by not being a high strikeout pitcher in the post-season.

REAL White Sox crowds in 2021-22 looking exactly like the scenes across MLB in the stands today...MAYBE.

The point is, there's a belief that teams that enjoy success in a long regular season but don't have dominant TOR shutdown starters (see 2015 Mets, who lost, btw) can't win in the playoffs or World Series. Keuchel has nothing to do with this. On the 2014-15 Royals, arguably he would have been the #1 starter. And they still would have almost won 2 World Series titles with him in that spot. Example #2, the Dodgers over the last decade, at least since 2013...great pitching, aces, no titles.