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Cleveland righty Zach Plesac was put on the 10-day injured list Tuesday, the result of breaking the thumb on his pitching hand while yanking off his undershirt after a rough outing. There was no initial word on how long the 26-year-old Plesac would be sidelined. According to manager Terry Francona, Plesac hurt himself while "rather aggressively taking off his undershirt" after Sunday's start against the Minnesota Twins at Progressive Field. Plesac started the game with three perfect innings, but the Twins scored five times in the fourth, including a three-run homer by Max Kepler. Plesac was removed from the game with two outs in the inning, starting the chain of events leading to the injury. "I think he caught it on a chair," Francona said before a game at Detroit. "It was pretty swollen yesterday, so we sent him for X-rays last night and got them back about the sixth inning." Startribune.com/sports

And Hamilton...making Leury or Mendick and Lamb the ones left out. Likely Lamb. And honestly hard to see TLR picking Mendick over Leury.

Ultimately, what do you want? A war? To force China, Russia, North Korea and Iran together? Will you join the military to fight, because you feel so strongly that China is an existential threat to the future of America? This kind of thinking is what led to World War Two...do you really think Germany wants to be forced to pick a side when they believe China is a stronger economic partner, simply due to the number of cars they export, or the 5G networks they want to build? Trump’s solution of going it alone was getting nowhere. There’s 10x as much pressure now on China than under Trump. Trump abandoned traditional US allies that didn’t want China to take over the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement. The EU is now mostly united against China...Trump only threatened and pissed off US allies, for what purpose? And, in the end, if India, China and the US can’t work together on climate change and protecting the planet, everyone eventually will suffer the grave consequences.

It hasn’t been proven in any conclusive way...even the lab or hospital reports from those three researchers who were supposedly hospitalized could be accurate or fabricated, and there’s no proof of that either, (just an allegation or accusation), it could have been the flu or strep throat or any of a million things since everyone goes to the hospital here for even a slight temperature, coughing or sore throat. Just like if 3 out of 200 employees at your company were sick at the same time, does that mean anything? People in research labs can’t have a regular cold instead of carrying or incubating a nefarious bioterrorism weapon? Playing this out, they were completely prescient enough to know that the Trump administration would completely screw up the response for well over a year, crippling the economy in the process? Then if it was in the lab, why wouldn’t they immediately have their own vaccine or antidote to save the rest of the world instead of coming in a terribly disappointing 4th or 5th to the US, UK, Germany and even Russia in the mRNA vaccine race? The Chinese mRNA vaccine will be at least a year late coming online, if its even granted EUA by the WHO.

“A natural hitter, Yermín had to learn to hustle” https://www.mlb.com/news/yermin-mercedes-long-journey-to-mlb-stardom

Make SoxTalk Great Again...Jesus, we're getting into the political weeds more and more with every TLR post, it seems the polarization exactly mirrors the "real world," at least at this current transitional moment in time.

Not quite a save situation because tying run's not up to bat? Or can he be "in the hole"?

96 to 97.7 was the velocity range on his fastballs....most were high 96/low 97.

They need to just send Crochet down for awhile and let him build up some innings...then recall him in September for the bullpen.

Then we should add one for Tatis since one of his was robbed by one of the best catches of the season by Rojas. Just kidding. Tonight, against OAK so far...2/3, RBI Now at 614/.182 (2 homers, 5 RBI's). At least he's outhitting Leury???

You forgot Ruiz. Strange, because arguably his most impressive outing was last time out against the Yankees.

Windy City Limousine dude? Yellow M&M's jacket? GEORGE JACOBS

Real-time RS/RA differentials SD +79 LAD +77 CHW +74 HOU +55 SFG +53 TB +49 BOS +45

Heuer's velocity down a little bit, or he's just taking it easy and going on cruise control to get through the final innings.

Madrigal running his OPS back to 731 with the 3/3 so far tonight. Only 1 XBH so far, strange game. Of course, Vaughn ALMOST/SHOULD have had that homer in the early innings.

https://www.milb.com/player/jason-bilous-663467 This guy might be our next bullpen solution...skip over AAA and try someone from BIRM. Zack Granite also getting some attention down there, because of his previous major league experience with the Twins.

Adam Engel just homered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Madrigal showing off 70-75 speed there, haha? Burger 2/4, 2B (6), RBI, .274/.980

Indians behind Cy Civale leading Tigers 4-0 late...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/former-mlb-star-admits-hes-never-seen-iconic-video-in-which-he-starred-141913232.html Absolutely SHOCKING news. Fred Crime Dog McGriff has never seen the Tom Emanski defensive fielding drills videos he co-starred in. Seems they were a basic staple of TBS/TNT in the 1990's, like the Mike Lindell "My Pillow" adverts in recent years.

Have to be satisfied with five there. Obviously, 7-0...well, that would have been the 2006 White Sox mowing down the Cardinals like a scythe through wheat at least the first two games of that series from back in the day.

Dialed it up to 98 to get Abreu in one of the biggest outs of the game so far. Still a game.

Flaherty is not long for this game. Too many pitches piling up for just 4 outs....already almost to 50.

Well, that was quite far from an ideal outcome from Eaton in that situation.

Just missed it. Hang wiff 'em.