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They gave him the same pitch twice on back to back pitches. He's way too good of a hitter to try to sneak back to back 75 MPH change ups by.

Give the Dodgers 5 outs and this is what happens.

That lead didn't last long...

None of these runs are earned.

Burger showing that he's not a good defensive 3B once again. He waited back on that when Turner is extremely fast.

Burger is not good defensively at 3B. I can't imagine just how bad he'd be at 2B.

As good as that change is for a pitch he barely throws, he needs to mix that in, not give guys looks at it on back to back pitches. Just some stupid pitch calling.

Why would you throw him back to back change ups?

Very nice pitches to Betts.

It all started with an excuse me swing single from Bellinger.

Inning should be over...ugh.

If we win today, then yeah, we would survive this rough 9 game stretch. I think I said a 1.5 weeks ago that if we're still within 6 games of the Twins after this, we'll win the division. We still have a stretch against the Jays and Astros coming up after the Rangers and Detroit.

That ball went back towards Bellinger. Unfortunate.

Grandal is at 3rd right now, so it's gonna take a real deep fly ball to score him.

About the best I could have hoped for there.

The Twins could have had both Graterol and Duran. They're really good at developing failed starters into dominant power relievers.

That'll work!

Nope. Can't replace Engel's defense in the OF if you bring in Sheets for him.

Roberts ain't messing around. We're awful with the bases loaded and Graterol is gonna face 3 righties who aren't good at hitting high velocity.

Damn Graterol is coming in.

Better get these 2 guys home off Anderson, cause Graterol is warming up.

Pollock killed that ball. I thought it was a liner right to Betts and it just kept going.

You can tell Anderson's little hesitation leg kick is screwing with our hitter's timing. He had a decent outing against us last year with the Pirates.

I'm pretty sure Anderson had a near 30 inning scoreless streak before that last run we scored.

Holy shit this umpire is trash. This isn't even a framing problem, he's missing obvious strikes.