chw42

Only encouraging thing so far is that we're hitting balls hard. They're just not finding grass enough.

Damn hard hit, but right at the third baseman.

If Tim tries to take those 2 fastballs to the right side, he'd probably have a hit.

Tim's gotta stop trying to pull everything. He's been in full pull mode for weeks.

Damn it Nick...

Cause when you drop a ball on purpose, you're not supposed to bobble it. Arraez fucked up.

He got lucky in the 2nd and 3rd. We hit the ball real hard off him to end both innings.

Of course that delay allows Duffey to warm up.

Adam!

No the official play is that Mendick lined into a force out.

That can't possibly be 2 outs there...

Meanwhile Rich Hill gets to throw pitches to straighten out his curve ball.

Bad approach that inning. Gotta hit his fastball, not his curve.

Hill has a ERA over 6 in 19 innings against the Sox in his career. Not sure how many of those innings were before he got good.

Yeah after seeing that Bummer probably won't pitch again this year, I'm kind of mad we didn't get any bullpen arms.

FWIW, he said that he thought the Sox would get Woodruff. Probably got it from WSD.

God damn it. And we didn't go out and get any bullpen help?

I hope this is the series we finally stop pitching to him. Minnesota's lineup used to be completely stacked, but due to injuries, he has much less talent surrounding him in the order right now. Hopefully that means we don't have to throw him anything good to hit. If I'm Gio, I don't throw Kepler or Cruz any fastballs in the zone.

Same, but given how much the Twins have been struggling, it'd be nice to kick 'em while they're down. Donaldson is still hurt, but he could be back later this week.

Guess that means Texas and Cleveland wanted Kopech in any deals for Lynn or Clevinger.

Maybe we can combine Reylo and Rodon so they never throw more than 50 pitches a game.

I don't know if he was ever first to any rumor. He was just really good at regurgitating stuff he hears.

Yeah there's the official end to the trade deadline

RIP Not Steve. It was fun while it lasted.

Minor could have gotten them way more last year when he was pitching well. They waited too long and gave him away for scraps. The same could happen for Lynn next year.