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Irvin has weird splits. Lefties hit better off him, probably because his change is more effective vs. righties.

When you don't hit with the bases loaded and less than 2 outs twice, people remember that.

Irvin will need less pitches than Cease to get out tod the 4th. Cease had about a 20 pitch advantage in the 1st.

We've just missed about 3-4 fly balls today.

Cease somehow turned a game that looked like he can go 7 into a game that he would be lucky to go 6 in.

Classic Cease.

That non frame on the slider changed that whole AB.

That was right on the corner and Collins made it look like a ball half a foot low.

Don't give Murphy a first pitch fastball

Get better cleats...

Irvin hasn't. We let him off the hook in the 1st and we've been right under a few meatball pitches.

Feels like we've been just under a few of Irvin's pitches. I still can't believe the A's got this guy for cash considerations from Philly.

Irvin threw 30 pitches in the first and he's not even at 40 yet.

Marte just got out guessed.

Cease going back to his old self.

Yeah he can't play LF anymore.

You can't be fucking serious...Eloy come on man.

Fucking Sean Murphy.... Almost made Eloy try to rob that one again too.

They played Hernandez perfectly there. That ball is easily a double if they played straight up.

He's been so bad in August that hitting him 2nd or 3rd doesn't even make sense.

Bob already had us winning the division 2 weeks ago after the Cleveland walk-off. He's trying to screw us but it's not working.

Nah I think he just gets natural spin. It's just weird since he only throws 91. It's probably why we struggle against him too.

What did they do with the real Dylan Cease?

Yoan had been real good with RISP early in the year, but he's been all kinds of terrible recently.

Irvin is the most efficient pitcher in baseball and Cease the least efficient, yet Irvin threw almost 4 times the amount of pitches Cease threw in the first.