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bullpen order tonight? you're lucky to get 4 from Burke at this point what a mess....

68 through 2 1/3 JR conspiracy to sell more concessions? Burke falling apart

With Dodgers...will double check

Doyle and then the unfortunate bounce...should be 3 or 4 to zero. Gore usually settles down and gives you 5-6 IP.

Murakami just not used to this length of season and most of the NPB games are played in climate controlled domes... But now JR has an excuse not to extend him, right? Vargas is the more important player because of his positional versatility...since he can also play second base and LF.

Did you know that Burke’s pitch count was elevated lol?

That approach worked for the 2014-15 Royals because of contact ability (outside of Mous Hosmer Gordon Cain), run manufacturing late innings with Dyson/Gore and that historic bullpen.

Or that Cleveland has been a bottom ten payroll for how many years now? What next, comparing football histories? They did have the LeBron Kyrie Draymond Green suspension title.

But 3 games in the loss column as Hawk Harrelson would always point out...

https://www.mlb.com/guardians/history/postseason-results Guardians/Indians 15 times in the post season since 1995. 15/31 years White Sox 1906/08/17/19 Black Sox/59/83/93 2000/05/08/20/21 12 times in 120 years or whatever Once per decade on average.

Yep just trying to survive games inning by inning...even last night with six and seven run leads, the game was never once comfortably in control where you could actually relax. Got so mad when Hicks was pitching that I went outside for a walk and followed on phone instead. Or when Hagen loaded the bases his second inning of work and had to be rescued by Taylor.

But if you're also pointing out the Sox were quite fortunate last night early...it goes against the very gods of Mount Getzius. That was all diligence and talent. Or maybe Kwan and Ramirez are simply playing much better and finally healthy?

Who was there to actually hate over the last three years? They should have been 3.5 back facing a 5-0 deficit in the face yesterday and less than 24 hours later on the verge of 1.5. That's baseball for you. White Sox have been around 4-7 games over .500 for months now. Just don't have enough pitching to get on any kind of streak.

Strike on pitch three was clearly inside...sigh. Now it's a real pennant race. But at least the WC odds are 50/50 from this position, too. See 2020.

Guardians smart enough to hold challenges until late. Sox lost the game Hicks had the final strikeout but couldn't do anything about it when the wrong call was made.

How is the top of CLE lineup always up at critical times and LAA has their bottom of the order now lol?

The White Sox were "lucky" scoring six against deGrom with four sub 80 ev balls put into play just as the Guardians are lucky right now during this winning streak. You make your own breaks, right?

They also have the advantage of a much better starting rotation that can go on a roll...versus a patched up with duct tape and baling wire game to game mess. And the Royals have been playing well...unfortunately CLE is much tougher at home traditionally when they face KC next.

Finally got smart enough to work around Ramirez...one run too late lol.

But they played a tough one in first half. It all evens out. White Sox and Twins also have 4th/5th easiest from here on out.

Well...that was predictable enough. Unless Angels rally in 9th. Probably see Smith again.

After blowing a 5-0 lead yesterday...will remain skeptical of the Angels. Just so many things going CLE's way...especially Kwan and Ramirez.

He never had a great season to come back to....and last year was relatively decent. Usually goes to guys coming off major injuries or under performance...like Raleigh hitting 50+ honors again next year.

You can't get Eaton value because of that lack of track record and minor league dominance. Pretty sure around a 770-780 career ops in the minors....which he's surprisingly outperforming in the bigs at the moment. There's always going to be those lingering doubts for guys who are never really top prospects coming up. Eaten was on every scout's list, otoh. Of course there were a few character concerns.

Bonemer doesn't have a true RF arm like Braden...but probably beats him out in sprint speed. The problem is you can lose a ton of balls in center with slower first 2-3 steps. And then there's instincts/routes. Bonemer looks a lot more compact athletically. For every Mike Trout, there's 8-10 long loping stride guys who just eat up ground in center making recoveries/adjustments.