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Yermin ain't catching unless he really has to.

This must mean something. At Bat has us winning this game already.

Outside of a few bad bullpen outings and Keuchel generally sucking his first few starts, the pitching has been brilliant.

HoF manager right there.

It probably didn't get bad enough to affect him until the Cleveland start.

I'm guessing they can skip him with the off-days coming up. That's why they skipped Giolito today. Cease can go Thursday, Keuchel on Friday, then back to Gio and Rodon over the weekend. Then they have another off day on Monday and can skip Lynn again.

Also explains him constantly fidgeting his neck in his first few starts. I'm guessing it's been bothering him for a while.

What the fuck?

Eww Leury 6th.

I'm guessing Grandal won't catch game 2. I know Yaz had an RBI double in game 1, but TLR really sucks at making lineups for good matchups. Collins will end up starting vs. the lefty starter and Grandal, who hits lefties better than righties, will sit vs. the lefty. This isn't the first time it's happened this year either. Meanwhile, TLR went out of his way to play Jake Lamb against Bieber instead of Yermin.

I'm guessing the plan is for him to go 2 or 3 innings or whenever he hits 40ish pitches. Then Stiever comes in?

Disappointing, given how well Tim hits lefties.

Dalbec knew it was coming and couldn't hit it.

Hendriks has no control on the slider or curve right now.

Especially when Devers is due up in the 7th.

Here we go again... TLR should know by now you don't let Keuchel face a lineup the 3rd time through.

Eaton can't figure this Josh Taylor guy out.

Only guy I can really think of is Eduardo Rodriguez. But he's now back and pitching fine.

The only thing we're doing better than the Twins so far is not having a super spreader on the team.

Twins' game at Anaheim just got postponed because of COVID protocols. They have some possible cases on their team. When I saw it got postponed, the first thing I checked for was the weather in Anaheim. Because I don't remember the last time it rained in SoCal.

Get a slim lead early, waste early run scoring opportunities, let other team hang around and chip away at lead, bullpen blows lead, offense doesn't score after blowing early chances, lose game.

Winning close games is a sign of good managing and a good team. It appears we don't have either of those thus far.

Should have scored off Pivetta while they could have the first few innings. We did get unlucky this game with Moncada basically hitting a grand slam that ended up being an out. But they looked like crap against the bullpen.

Harper fits this team way better. I would have loved to sign Machado back in 2019, but Harper just makes more sense for the Sox. We need outfielders and guys who can hit righties. Harper fits that mold perfectly.

He was basically limping and got 2 bases to help get the tying run in.