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TA and Baez up the middle sounds good to me. His slumps are pretty rough, though - hopefully we catch a hot streak and ride it into the postseason. What does a competitive package look like for him?

Rodon just blew them away

Man is this team gonna be good in mid August

Hallion missed the same pitches for the Tigers, so I doubt it would’ve made a difference.

So Keuchel is being a douche because LaRussa doesn't argue balls and strikes?

Starters are averaging 5.1 innings per game. 4 innings is terrible no matter how you slice it.

It was the 5th inning with 1 out. You can't just take starters out whenever they struggle. He needs to be able to pitch over mistakes, otherwise he's a reliever. Still - if you want to criticize LaRussa for that, fine. Makes a lot more sense than not yelling at umpires.

These calls wouldn't matter if Keuchel wasn't absolutely awful against a mediocre team. 5 runs should be enough.

Hinch didn't get thrown out of the game for that call so now Hallion is gonna pick on the Tigers. Terrible manager.

"LaRussa is bad because he doesn't yell at umpires and that makes the umpiring worse against the Sox" is the best "I hate LaRussa and am going to make everything I can his fault" logic I've seen yet.

The umpiring hasn't been good all year for us, but this time was the absolute most blatant missed calls and overreaction from an umpire I've seen in a long time. Just brutal.

LOL none of this is on Burr.

Maybe a framing problem there, but WOW. That was a strike without a doubt.

Keuchel just awful today

Burger having trouble with Skubal today

LaRussa knows baby

I like Abreu hoarding RBIs like this.

Really bad play by Billy, but Keuchel has been flirting with trouble a lot today, and a lot of hard contact.

3 dink hits

Bad pitch but got a swing

Collins in for Yaz

Lynn having some control issues this inning

That mustache needs to go

I don't care if Hendriks looks shitty in low stress situations if it leads to him rediscovering the slider and being completely lights out again when we need him.

Sano suuuuuuuuucks