gehringer_2

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.

I get why he they don't want to give up on him - it's a big arm and he has a pretty good slider to go with the FB, but it's like the light just doesn't come on all the time.

Miguel Diaz is pitching well in relief at Toledo but he hasn't been able to translate that in his previous MLB auditions.

Cisnero was probably seeing his career passing before his eyes after the second batter reached. He should have been.

do we dare hope for GB?

OK. you gave him his shot. ENOUGH ALREADY!

Cisnero?! I guess it had to happen - and he brings the tying run to the plate on one pitch. Hope his leash is really short.

TorX!!! (finally!)

exactly - 26 pitches is getting to be a lot for a max effort guy like Hicks

Guys always trying to get too clever. Morris always talked about not wanting to speed up or slow down the bat of a guy that is already either behind of ahead.

Riley just got a pitch center cut but didn't get around on it. But he HIT the next one!!!!

Jake's been one of their better hitters, and that AB certainly makes the choice look worse.

there were a bunch of really stupid scores in the open week or so of the season and I'm willing to wager the league 'suggested' to the umps that they should put an end to that and thus we've definitely had an oversized zone - but it seems it's been every crew and every park so that's why I don't think it's any kind of accident. You always have the outlier ump worse than the rest, but right now I think that is superimposed over an already enlarged zone. The league sees the video and statcast data every day just like everyone else. The zone can only be consistently biased in any direction if the league is validating what the umps are doing on an ongoing basis. also keep in mind that the Fox/Bally graphic may or may not be that accurate. I haven't spent anytime comparing it to gamday recently - which is probably more accurate.