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I was pretty bummed about this game with LaVine hurt, but DeMar showed up again big time. Ayo was really good as well. Impressive win on the road against a really good Miami team.

All their deadline acquisitions were disappointments to some degree. It's like a thing with Preller trades.

Brad Hand over the Lead

Phillies bullpen finally falters.

This is what happens when your fanbase is full of bandwagoners.

All I see on the Padres subreddit is people calling Soto the 2nd coming of Eric Hosmer lmao.

Soto just cost the Padres 3 runs.

And here I thought his knee was good after the surgery...

They're not. They might get Benintendi and DJM back this series though so that might help them. Their LF situation is a total disaster. Their bullpen depth is also shot so I have a hard time seeing them winning multiple games in a row without off days in between.

Let him go 8 and use Dominguez instead of Eflin. Eflin is the shakiest guy in that pen.

So after ducking Cease vs. Civale twice this season, the Guardians decided to not duck Civale in their most important game of the year and it bites them in the ass. I know it's petty, but it just feels right.

You didn't want Shelley Duncan as your analytics guy? Well, how about Jim Thome as manager?

Their bullpen is 5-6 deep with guys Francona can trust. Instead he went with the guy who hadn't pitched for 2 weeks with a 5 ERA on the season. It was a bad decision.

It's crazy how many good relievers the Guardians have. They have 5 relievers who were worth at least 1 fWAR this year. The Sox had just 2.

That is on the replay crew as well, but as a manager you gotta be more alert there.

Is Francona trying to throw the game? First he starts Civale and now he won't challenge a clear safe call at first.

Cortez lost his rhythm with the injury. Ramirez had to come up with a hit there.

Well when you can just bloop hits and have them fall like that, who needs homers?

That's the third time the Yankees have fucked up on a ball hit like that.

The Guardians have been blooping hits all series. It somehow doesn't feel cheap at all. I'll just call it even.

I think Judge's is a homer in a lot of stadiums. But Stanton's is more likely to be a double. It had a .820 xBA.

Guardians just got porch'd twice in 2 innings hahaha

The rain tried to take them out of Civale starting but they still went with it.

You never want to lose a series with your best starter sitting in the dugout.

Starting Civale already backfired.