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He didn't follow through with his top hand. I've never seen that before.

What kind of swing was that?

With how hard it is for this team to cash runners in from third, you gotta try to score from 2nd any chance you get.

Romy has to know where the infielders are

Elvis isn't good anymore but it seems like he's a fairly smart player. We don't have a lot of those on the Sox.

Romy wearing #12 is giving me Cesar Hernandez flashbacks and I don't appreciate it.

Mateo is a very White Sox type player. He really showed us that past inning.

Burger would have played that into a bases clearing double.

Holy shit Yoan

Oh great we're getting Kendall Walkman today.

Umpire is squeezing Giolito. Baker got a cutter call off the plate. Giolito not getting the same kind of leeway.

Yoan hit 2 singles and thought he was hot shit again.

Yeah the struggles with guys on 3rd and less than 2 outs aren't new. It's been a theme since the ASB last year. Before the ASB they were very good at cashing those runs in. Afterwards, they got them in like 20% of the time. Grandal and Robert killing the ball in the 2nd half hid a lot of those issues. But now that nobody in the lineup is really carrying the team, the struggles with guys on 3rd and less than 2 outs are becoming way more evident.

It's all mental at this point. They'll hit fine until they get a guy to third and then all of a sudden they just forget what plate discipline and working the count is.

lol that's what Giolito starts have reminded me of recently. Even when he has starts where he's good, he'll usually have one really bad inning in there.

It's all in their heads at this point.

Are they gonna move Henderson to third?

I doubt Mateo is in the O's longterm plans. He's not gonna be their starting SS when they're actually trying to win.

Yoan missed a real hittable pitch there. He and Jose have fouled back 2 absolute meatball pitches to crush.

Mateo thought he was Derek Jeter

What's weird is that he was super patient against Bautista yesterday. He got his best pitch to hit on the first one and couldn't do anything with it.

Jose chokes again with RISP. Abreu is the worst clutch player on the team this year by FanGraphs' clutch measure. Which means he performs way better in average leverage situations compared to high leverage situations. Harrison and Anderson are slightly better than him. If you've watched the team this year, those numbers make a lot of sense.

There's 1 out.

That pitch was asking to be hit 450 feet.

Seems like it's impossible for this team to score from 2nd.