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all we need now is for Torkelson and Greene to hit in the same ballgames. In the last 7, Tork is at 320, Greene has gone ice cold to 138.

they won the 9th inning.

walking a guy down by 8 is just about as bad as walking a guy up by 8.

well, Lange can't throw strikes today, Wentz got hammered, Foley has a problem, Maeda to the DL. The pitching is going to be gone before the hitting ever comes around.

Interesting contrast - Verlander did give in to Torkelson with the middle-middle FB but Took couldn't get on top of it. EDIT: could get high enough on the line drive either......

LOL - Verlander gives Carpenter three breaking balls and has him losing his bat. actually not sure why you bring JV out for the 7th, but whatever.

Lose by 1, lose by 10 - If you don't score it doesn't matter much.

Verlander when the curve ball is on is no sin to have trouble against, but that's no excuse for all the other poor offensive days.

apparently

Verlander didn't give in and walked Greene. Lets see if that is a better decision.

I think we are at the point today where pitchers at too reluctant to walk guys when they should be willing to. Flaherty had pretty much llost that AB at 2-0, completely at 3-0, tip your hat and the give the batter 1st base and live to fight the next bat

LOL - "Verlander's not 1.1 to home" 10 seconds later Colt is out by 5 ft.

Kate is still waiting for the perfecto.

IDK if Keith is getting as fast a Schoop was on the pivot, but he's not doing to badly.

everything working for JV today. Just like old times, except for the uniform.

LOL - definitely a bad decision there - he was out by at least 6 ft.

LOL - this should be bookmarked as a future 'most likely outcome'. What I really love is the juxtaposition within a single season of suspending the National Championship program's coach for getting advanced scouting from one guy buying single tickets for friends with iPhones because advanced scouting is so expensive that we have to outlaw it or we can't maintain a level playing field, and --Oh, by the way - remember you need to raise an 8 figure sum to pay your players next year or we will probably re-organize our conference without you.

Inflammation of the ERA

We need to keep running down Tork. He's on his 1st 5 game hitting streak of the season.

NIL is a ridiculous system, the donors who are funding it are being had, and the Universities that are losing development funds to all their other priorities in the redirection of those donor dollars to Ephemeroptera like player salaries are ultimately acting against their own institutional interests..... and the Sun also rises in the East.

2019 was a quite the 1st round. 5 of the top 20 have already made an all-star team plus Riley, who has a good shot to.

I'm just going to file that he came out of this ST throwing harder than he ever had before.

good call - pretty clear here:

you don't have to tell me the options are bad, but there is still *always* a downside limit to what any team will carry bat futility wise. Just based on what will get a manager laughed at the golf outing - I think Javy is about there. Now maybe the org will persuade itself he's having better AB and they give him more rope - for a while, but I still think they do *something* even if Kreidler isn't ready if Javy's trajectory doesn't change in the next....say 50 AB - even if it's a waiver claim, or Valade or whatever. So - we'll see how it plays out....You may be more right - but I sort of hope not. I'd rather see them deal with it.