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Nice play by Yoan

Shitty way to lose a no hitter.

lol Twins

That ball is nowhere near gone in Wrigley if it gets into that deep corner. I think RF at Target Field is actually shorter than GRF, it's just very tall.

Perfect fastball there by Gio at 96

I definitely thought it was gone.

Lucas actually throwing that curveball for a strike in the zone?

Did he really throw 3 change ups in a row and expect Kepler not to hit it hard?

2020 Abreu would have 30+ homers by now.

Cincy would probably be even closer if they had any semblance of a stable closer.

It's crazy how he's gone from throwing 1/3 change ups to maybe 1/5 change ups.

I haven't been watching, how's Gio looking? I saw he had a few lineouts the first time through.

Poor Burrows man. First we made him puke on the mound then we put up 7 on him in 1.1 innings.

Mount Eloy errupts again!

I wouldn't have as much of an issue with it if Vaughn didn't also just get a day off on Saturday.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-adjustment-that-stopped-andrew-vaughns-whiffs/ I vividly remembered how Vaughn's hands looked very different pre-swing in early July. Turns out I wasn't the only one who noticed. I also remember posters like fathom saying his swing was loopy earlier in the year. If you drop your hands like he did pre-adjustment, I can definitely see how you end up with a loopier and more upper-cut swing. While he may be giving up some power by having less motion in his load, he's getting much better contact. He was already hitting the ball hard as-is, he can afford a little bit less exit velocity for better quality contact. The article says that Vaughn's pitch recognition hasn't necessarily gotten better, he's still swinging at breaking pitches out of the zone. But I think if you've been watching him for the past month he's done a much better job of taking off-speed pitches opposite field and not trying to pull everything.

The last time Burrows threw against us, he barfed on the mound. We also miss Maeda and Pineda this series. Let's get a series win before the real tough stretch starts.

It was so great to see us absolutely destroy the opposing starter. We've been letting bad starters throw 6 innings of 2 run ball for way too long. Hopefully this gets us going for a very rough 3 weeks coming up on the schedule.

I don't think so. Color guy will probably be Perez. Ravich might be PBP.

Did we really strike out 15 batters a game? Goddamn.

He probably thought Shingo Takatsu closed out the WS.

That's actually hard to believe. He did look real good against the Astros and Twins at home before falling off a cliff against KC.

Yoan crushed that one.

I was really hoping Vaughn would get an AB against Ryan.