Chris Sale

McCann literally tagged him with the glove before he touched home. They freeze-framed it on the broadcast.

Fire Ricky right now. What does a manager even get paid to do? A challenge saves a run and changes the inning dramatically. It was an easy and obvious call, even live I saw the tag. So frustrating.

Wow a successfully executed hit and run. Old school. Love to see it. SF despite Mazara turning back to look twice lol. Nice to see a small ball run.

Well hit, damn it. Would have broken the game open but what can you do

We scored 11 runs so if that’s regression I’ll take it

Dylan Cease is somehow 5-2 with a 3.18 ERA. In another era, people would look at those numbers and consider him for the All-Star Game. What’s the most a pitcher’s ERA has ever outperformed their FIP? Can’t complain about the results though!

Flores’ fist pump on his second pitch was endearing. I feel bad for him bc Tim should have had that first hit. Hopefully he gets out of this with just two allowed

Cease in the playoffs is a fairly terrifying thought. Like he’s better than Lopez and the lesser Gio, obviously, and I see shades of the early Q in his ability to work his way out of jams / calmness under fire. But he has gotten a bit too lucky and has a lot of development left if he’s going to be a legit rotation starter on a playoff team. But at least I’m cautiously optimistic about that happening

Call upheld! I’ll take it, when you have an inexplicably poorly constructed lineup and awful SP, you’ll need every break you can get against the Twins

Damn I thought that one was gonna make it into the outfield

I guess Renteria thought Cordero deserved formal blame for the loss, and so figured he had to leave him in until he was responsible for the go ahead run. Good thinking Ricky, gotta hold guys accountable

Ugh Cordero doing Cordero things

Nah he would have been out

Chill we’re still up 2-0

Madrigal is just a hit machine. He seems like such a throwback player profile who’s able to stay ahead of the curb by integrating all of the advanced analytics regarding swing path, launch trajectory etc into his swing

At least he’s made a habit of getting out of it

Scary inning, glad we got through it and the toughest part of the order. Does Donaldson come back tomorrow?

Ricky’s lineups never seem to make much sense

Nice to see Robert taking a couple of balls to start that AB, lines a slider but right at somebody (too bad bc that was the 3rd run). His approach and pitch recognition seems to make rapid marginal improvements by the day, it’s unreal for a rookie lol

This aged well

That worked out really well, you love to see good strategy for once

Silly on their part - they dug in their heels and I think they’ll come to regret it

Agree with this - Marte would have been nice and we could have beaten that package

So glad we had a guy with a 6 ERA in the guts of the game