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I swore that was a GIDP off the bat. Good thing they were playing the infield in.

Being .500 basically means you're in the wild card race these days. This team right now is a decent bullpen away from having 65 wins (probably a 75 win team over 162). A reliable closer with a few reliable 7th/8th inning arms, a good starter, and a few decent vets and this team is knocking on the door of .500.

6 in a row

Colson Montgomery vs. sliders/cutters/sweepers from right handers: .300/.333/.825 for a .477 wOBA with an ISO of .525. He's also 11th in home runs despite only playing for about 2 months. That is the 8th highest ISO among all hitters with at least 100 of those types of pitches seen. Kyle Teel actually has a higher wOBA than Colson for those pitches, but not anywhere near as much power.

Why did Chase not slide?

You absolutely cannot throw sliders/cutters against Colson in the zone as a righty. He crushes them.

Colson!

Not sure I believe most of what's in there. The Bears gave Williams a ton of responsibility to start the year. If he had no idea what he was doing, they wouldn't have let him call audibles or change the protections. A lot of the stuff just reads as revisionist history. Who in the pre-draft process had Caleb Williams as the worst of the 6 QBs taken in the first round? The only one I saw was some guy who said Spencer Rattler was the best QB in the draft. Is there a chance that Caleb didn't respect the coaching staff last year? Yeah, and it wasn't a Caleb-only issue. Guys like Keenan Allen and DJ Moore were a part of that too. And honestly, the coaching staff deserved no respect after what happened in the Commanders game. Eberflus was a bad head coach who commanded no respect and definitely didn't deserve any at the end of his tenure.

I still hate the Twins for what they did to us in the 2000s.

Hard to believe we've never had a 4 game sweep against the Twins on the road.

He looked like Ken Griffey Jr after the HR swing.

Yeah, which kinda makes their bullpen woes look worse cause they have more leads to blow.

The catchers are having a hell of a game.

Taj Bradley finally went over his scouting reports in his last start. Maybe he won't suck so much now.

We actually have a shot at 60 wins.

Their bullpen is worse than ours. I think Topa has given up the lead twice in 3 days.

Seriously. He had all day to throw that and he decided to throw the weakest 1 hopper to Sosa. Good thing he picked it.

First win this year when trailing after 8

Leasure is having one of those outings

Terrible job on the replay

Is it just me or did that look foul on the replay?

That's 4 wins in a row against the Twins.

Why not play him at 2nd or left field?

His blow ups have been bad, but it's not like he's getting crushed. His peripherals and stuff are good. I think they need to stop trying to use him for multiple innings.

How do we always blow games to the Royals?