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When a young pitcher who is trying to establish himself in the majors—a time when someone is most likely to push through owies so they can keep pitching—takes himself out of the game for shoulder pain, that is usually a bad sign.

From the story: About a month ago, Swanson took a trip to Detroit to pitch in front of the Tigers’ front office. It was the only team he had time to show his talents to, and immediately made an impression. “They’re excited to get me," he said. "They paid good money for me. I feel they got the steal of the draft.” Well, at least somebody thinks so, anyway!

Right, it’s more strategic deployment of the money you were going to spend anyway.

As long as the season is still playing out, Baez is going nowhere.

Nowadays when I wonder about how people like Nate Silver, or Lara Logan or Matt Taibbi, change from something we thought we knew to something we had no idea about, I wonder whether they had the RFK worms.

I think Harris will have a fairly better payroll next year, and then a much much better payroll in 2026.

Plus I don't think we will be entertaining anymore league-worst defenders at first base.

Because I think Harris won't deviate from his plan of building the system just for a puncher's chance. We will buy when we better establish our core and we need to fill just a few holes. Right now we still have more holes than not, despite our 11-4 run.

This is a good spot to get Shelby Miller back on the horse. Although that first out on the bullet shot was some lucky positioning.

OK, Maeda didn't blow the lead, but it's not a blowout lead anymore. So ... progress? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I won't hammer Vilade for that ill-advised dive in left, as long as he did it realizing it was a seven-run lead and that he could never do that close-and-late. Either way, though, it would probably have been a double.

Not even Kenta Maeda can blow this lead! 😜

Always nice to be on the right side of a bloodbath.

He is a nice kid.

I don't think we are buying at the deadline for any reason. We're not going to go off plan and empty the top of the farm system just to have a puncher's chance at a third wild card spot.

Wow, the way Malloy showed up the home plate umpire by lurching toward first on that 3-and-0 that clipped the corner, he's lucky he got the call on that 3-and-1 that clipped the top of the zone.

Wow, so I had to go at the pitching change to do my dirty sinful business and I come back to having missed a grand slam?! Blurgh!! At least I saw Ibanez single Javy home.

So you did it on a laptop and not on a phone? I haven't seen it happen on my laptop yet. But yeah it took me a couple times to get the idea.

Are you on iOS and you pressed Submit and you saw it didn't go through, then you pressed Submit again and saw it didn't go through again, then you pressed Submit a third time and it still didn't go through, so then you just refreshed the page?

Ibanez with a sharp eye ended up taking third on the double after he saw Varsho bobble the ball in the LF corner. It didn't get us an extra run, though. Varsho coming up second this inning will be motivated to redeem himself.

Rogers is definitely earning his keep behind the plate, despite his sub-.600 OPS.

I laughed.

Oh, Jesus, now Resse Olson is hurt? ****ing A!

I agree the last three are very valuable. I would simply argue these are not exclusively or even primarily Christian values, but broadly human values. Many religious people and atheists embrace these values, and many other religious people and atheists pay them only lip service or active ignore them. Probably similar percentages of each. The one about nurturing and taking care of your nation: it is good to have some people who are dedicated to that, but I don't believe God requires that of everybody, or even of anybody. I believe it's something you do if it happens to interest you, such as being a nurse practitioner or working in advertising or being a baseball researcher. My religious education left me with the idea that God doesn't care about nations, because they are temporal earthly constructs, not eternal divine constructs, and a data point in support of that is there are no longer any nations that were here when Jesus roamed the Earth that are still here today. Nations are almost the very definition of worldliness, which most Christian sects eschew.

Based on nothing more than gut, I have a feeling Hao-Yu will be a starter on playoff teams for us and will be hailed as one of Harris's savviest moves.