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Nice payback for last night!

Make contact!

Sweet!! Much needed big hit there

Bull crap! I don’t think there was clear proof to overturn the call unless they had a different angle. If that is the case then Arraez should have been safe at home earlier in the game.

Bloop another to RF.

Very interesting - thanks for posting - my biggest . My biggest wow so far is Robby Grossman at the top of the leaderboard for Left-Fielders.

Who drilled the holes in our bats? We get one more chance to strike out some more. Let's come back and tie it so we can play some more.

Yes, we like to Wok Choi

Who is Sano bashing? I am for keeping to play him. I was explaining his stats THIS year and why some people might be frustrated with his performance in high-leverage situations. Hoping he does return to his previous career norms.

Still fun to watch Arraez bat

Good patience by Sano on 2 close pitches and very nice at bat by Arraez - way to place the ball

I agree, I want to give him more time this year to see if he can show improvement. Some of the Power may be leaving or declining next year. For those on the Sano side that are mentioning his high OPS - Baseball reference breaks out splits into High Leverage, Medium Leverage and Low Leverage situations. I pasted in their definition of Leverage at the bottom for reference below https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=sanomi01&year=2019&t=b For Sano the breakout is: High Leverage OPS: .583 Medium Leverage OPS: .824 Low Leverage OPS: 1.000 I went and pulled Nelson Cruz's stats to see how his would compare - his results are more even Cruz High Leverage OPS: .929 Medium Leverage OPS: .982 Low Leverage OPS: .887 I am hoping to see Sano's high leverage OPS improve over the remainder of this year hopefully with some coaching from staff and Cruz or watching Cruz or maybe just from a larger sample size. His performance in those higher leverage situations so far this year is what is concerning at least some folks. Leverage Index Within a game, there are plays that are more pivotal than others. We attempt to quantify these plays with a stat called leverage index (LI). LI looks at the possible changes in win probability in a given situation; situations where dramatic swings in win probability are possible (e.g. runner on second late in a tie game) have higher LIs than situations where there can be no large change in win probability (e.g. late innings of a 12-run blowout). The stat is normalized so that on average the leverage is 1.00. In tense situations, the leverage is higher than 1.00 (up to about 10) and in low-tension situations, the leverage is between 0 and 1.0.

Horrible swing by Cave

Nice article on Jake - at this point he is certainly worth calling up for a shot especially while he is on a hot streak.

Headlines tomorrow - Rogers re-injures back sitting on bullpen bench. He should be out there with his yoga mat - lol!

Buxton is worth a whole lot of $$$

Romero will be on the next flight back to Rochester - not sure we will see him again.

Glad we got the 4 pitches from Morin - don't see why we didn't leave him in for the 8th and bring Romero in for the 9th

Dudes hitting .194 throw a strike

Apparently not - I think we have seen this play out before with Romero pitching.

That is very true - that's how baseball go . Now we need about 10 more insurance runs

Good placement on that grounder. Got a bit lucky there but I'll take it. Good to see a runner driven in from 3rd.

WTF - can't tag up on that? Back to bad baserunning

Thank You for Joining us today for Battle of the Bad Bullpens

Safe - great lead and way to run on contact.