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The Bulls match up terribly against Toronto. Hopefully, play-in Pat Bev gives the Bulls a boost to possibly win this one. I know it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things since they'll get destroyed by Milwaukee if they make it out of the play-in, but a few good games in the play-in could be fun.

Kopech's a bit easy to fluster when he's on the mound, so I'm sure him giving up that many homers on what he thought was some good pitches was messing with his head. It's true that only one curve was actually hit for a homer, but when you can easily eliminate one pitch based on a tip, it helps a lot. He was also only throwing the change to lefties and I don't think Conforto got a single one so it was pretty easy to tell when he was gonna get a fastball. And like you said, he was hanging the slider a lot, so non-flared glove was either a heater or a bad slider. And a flared one was a curve. What's worse is that nobody on the staff apparently fixed the issue. They maybe just told him to stop throwing the curve since he only threw it once yesterday. But the tip is still obviously there. Curve: Non-Curve:

He only threw 1 curve yesterday, but it looks like he's still doing it. Curveball: Non-Curve It's so obvious too.

Another great breakdown from Jomboy about how Kopech was tipping his pitches against the Giants. Kind of explains how he rebounded well today.

Of course we finally get our pitching in order and we can't score... Through 10 games I don't see how this team is gonna be any better than .500.

Wow that was a terrible call

Really nice rebound start from Kopech

Good throw and that's a easy double play...

The Pirates absolutely pissing on the ball the past 2 days makes me believe that something is up with the balls they're using this year.

One of these is not like the others.

White Sox pitching: nope

The Rick Hahn special

Can they get him to throw harder? It really sucks that he no hit this team less than 3 years ago and now they're hanging a 7 spot on him.

1 year for 8 million sounds about right.

I can't believe Robert was waiting for a walk when he could just do that lol

Outside of Cease this 4 start stretch has been some of the worst pitching I've seen in years. It wasn't even close to this bad last year.

Our starting pitching is absolute trash. Good lord.

Giolito's fastball is BP

The good news: he sucked with Colorado last year and it's hard to gauge pitchers pitching at Coors. The bad news: he wasn't any better on the road than he was at home last year.

Remember when Jose Ruiz dominated in the WBC and struck out Trout?

And that is why you don't hit Alberto fifth...

Sheets basically got pitched around since Alberto is behind him...

Nice job by Vaughn to go with the pitch there. He's been trying to pull those this series.

Welp they brought a RHP in, we're fucked.

Threw him nothing but fastballs...amazing pitch selection.