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Great job keeping this up to date

Tampa 's last 6 are on the road w 3 at Houston and 3 at NY. So Houston may have a shot

It may actually help Houston and Sox if Boston can take 3 or 4.

Boston and Tampa play 7 times in next 10 days. Interesting to see how Sale will do in possibly 2 starts against Rays.

HUH??? You think there is only pressure on winning teams? Many of the players on losing teams are playing to survive in the majors. A few bad performances and they could be back in AAA or cut loose. That is also pressure

But to be fair, we saw both teams last night have big innings. So maybe there was pressure

Harry: Don't speak too soon. Grandal made a huge splash in his return. But he usually breaks down late in the year. Dodgers aside, he has struggled in Postseason play his whole career. But this year his games played are down due to injury so lets hope he is solid postseason this year.

Get the tetanus shots first. By the way I hope it is not bad luck posting today's game thread before yesterday's was closed.

FWIW--I think an injury to Lynn or Gio might be worse. TA is certainly a key on both sides of the ball. Grandal has historically been a bust in postseason play. Maybe with his limited play this year he will reverse his late season problems

Kimbrel had 2 wild pitches last night. Not sure that is a sign of a guy not hyped up. More likely a guy too hyped up

Yankees and Tampa have had just as many injuries as White Sox and they are rolling along. Now maybe they have better role players but what we saw in NY series was not much better.

Why wouldn't Lynn have the same fear? He couldn't have been too scared since he did a great job shutting down their offense.

What does that mean?. Pedroia in his first year hit below .200. Madrigal may have a better career or worse than Pedroia. Time will tell. Making that statement after Madrigal's brief stint is ridiculous.

Yankees for example Gardner (.212), Odor (.222) and Higashioka ( .169. ) and they were w/o their closer. We lost 2 of 3 at home

I think Tampa has a more difficult schedule than Yankees finishing with 6 road games against Houston and NY and Yankees have 6 left w O's and Rays 3. AL East other than O's will beat up on each other for the next 6 weeks. Should be some great games with playoff implications.

Did you check out the Tampa lineup today? Every team is playing w guys out of the lineup. We had a huge hit losing Eloy and Robert at the same time which left us w a AAA OF. But we just saw the Yankees playing 5 subs in series against us last week. Archer looked overpowering in his brief stint , we get him out of the game early and their bullpen throttles us.

Not as good as us.

Tough to say. Was Lopez fixed by the Charlotte pitching coach? Was Keuchel broken by Katz since he has had his worst season since 2013? Did Coop fix Gio in 2019 only to have Katz break him in 2021?

That is why you have a pitching coach.

Way to far away to project that. Injuries will happen and some guys will die in September and others will rise from the dead. These decisions will come in very late September.

Piersall was not a fan of TLR or Leland. But more people hated Piersall than both of them combined.

No. Keuchel is claustrophobic which means he has a fear of the Trop.

Unfortunately players have good days and bad days but fans seem to think it does not apply to closers. We have seen Hendriks and Kimbrel have good and bad outings this week. Last night we saw Crochet, Hendriks, and Tepera excel and Bummer and Kimbrel did not. Even starters are up and down. Gio was excellent last night against TB and struggled last game against Yankees.

It does in Tampa. Close to USF

St Pete has a higher crime rate with about 100,000 less people. In fact the area south/west of stadium where the traffic is often funneled leaves a lot to be desired. Now on the positive side, Mazzaro's is a St Pete institution in a good section.