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Maybe Diaz and Faedo both make the trip from Toledo to StL

Pretty fabulous play by Short and Torkelson - too bad it still wasn't enough.

Hinch playing double or nothing. Cisner will ether get a K or give up a dinger.

Terrible play. Don't know what Hinch is arguing - you *can* still block the plate if you already have the ball, and he did.

He and Dickerson are starting to develop a nice raport though - there is some potential for them to work into a good team.

TorX swinging at the 1st pitch. See ball - hit ball.

The problem with a pitcher as color is that pitching tends to be only thing they talk about. Petry tends to this side - plus it's disappointing he doesn't fix his verbal 'ya know' tic. It's not that hard to do if you are at all serious about doing the job well. Morris, for all his other faults did at least talk about position play a little. Catcher - a la Jim Price - is probably the best you can do if it's going to be an ex-player. Close to the pitching but still has a hitter's perspective.

this is not even the first phosphorus attack by RF of this conflict.

Channeling your inner Tim McCarver?

Wait. You mean Kansas City isn't in KANSAS? Whose dumb idea is that?

yup - In fact I'd say in general one of the reasons that so few guys throw the curve anymore is that so many umps don't give the pitcher the whole K zone on a good curve.

He looked like he actually laughing to himself as he turned back toward the plate after the ejection.

you've got to be kidding me. Team can't score 70% of the league average runs but they have two 4 game winning streaks in 31 games. go figure.

The ump is probably right on these calls. A curve is falling rapidly as it crosses the plate. That fact that the catcher catches it below the box doesn't mean it's not a strike.

got one back from the ump there.

one

Haase a little too anxious in the last couple of AB. Ump doesn't give Lange the 1st perfect pitch.

good AB by Torkelson - a hit would have been gooder though.

boys need to score a few and put this out of reach. yeah ...that'll be happening...

I have a bad feeling about this.....

Now Kadyrov has to get into the act.

Tonight the BP is going to be mortal.

True enough, but OTOH, if you look at relievers as year to year propositions anyway, I suppose age matters less than whether he's can still bring 97.

so how dumb was it that for all those years in the AL you could only have one IF on the mound in a conference?

Schoop at least earned his meal money for the night there.