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Pirates are up 11-1. I think it's in our best interest to stop leaving guys on base and win this one.

2 left again. At least Vaughn hit that one well.

Lamb says fuck the shift and gets a hit through it.

Carlos is going to price himself out of our price range. If he stays healthy and pitches like this the rest of the way, there's no way he's getting less than $100 million. I can see Lynn taking a Peavy-esque deal with us at $20 million a year.

Usually if you hit and run, you want to make sure the guy on 1st has some speed so that in case there's no contact made he's not dead to rights. Collins has to be one of the slowest players on the team. I think I have more of an issue with that than choosing Mendick to hit in that situation.

I got no problem with a hit and run, but Mendick and Collins combo for that is not ideal. Mendick isn't exactly known for making a ton of contact.

If only we didn't hit and run...

Why are we hitting and running with Collins and Mendick?

If Danny learns how to either lay off or hit a high fastball, he'll be a starter at 2B.

Collins hitting the ball pretty well recently.

Yeah that's not a strike.

Michael Brantley would look so good in the 2 spot in our lineup. It's a shame we couldn't pony up an extra $20 million for him. Would you guys have been ok with getting Brantley, but not getting Hendriks? We'd probably end up bringing Colome back in that instance.

What a pick by Jose

Where the hell did Chaz McCormick come from? Dude is slugging over .500 with 8 homers.

lol I wish Beckham turned into Michael Young. Maybe we make the playoffs in 2010 and 2012 if he did.

Yaz got 3 hittable fastballs. He is what he is.

That looked like a hit off the bat, but then I saw Altuve standing in right center field lol.

Shift gets Lamb. We got 2 pretty lucky hits, would have liked 2 there.

Grandal behind the fastball.

Way to poke that through Pito

Not a great read by Goodwin.

Goodwin loves that right field line.

I watched Garcia pitch against Minnesota last Saturday and I wasn't all that impressed. He had been really good the previous 5 starts and Minnesota hit him really hard. He was leaving the cutter over the plate a lot.

Man, just when you thought Yoan was over it, it's still there. Sucks for him.

I had no idea Carlos' exit velocity was that bad. He's just missing bats this year, but when they hit it, it's been hard contact.