It’s funny how annoyed you can be with a good ballplayer who is so consistently bad in the same way. That swing sent me into a little rueful eddy of meditation on the human condition. Fuckin’ Jose, man.
And then Bregman being such a tease! All these epic fouls! Christ!
“It will break your heart. It is designed to break your heart.”
Yuli doubles off the pen in right
Bigio slider away
Dunn is done.
Sadler coming in to face Carlos.
And that’s all between the ears.
Correa singles post short, Yuli scores.
5-3.
McCormick takes strike 3 for ball 2, fouls, takes a ball 3-2, Ks swinging
End 6
5-3 Coffee Swillers
Bielak still on the mound
4-3, then a single to Haggerty
F8, more cool dome footage
Seager 3U.
Mid 7
5-3 Seattle
Bielak has given up a run and 2 hits over 3 innings.
Someone grab pbp
Wear it Myles!
B7:
Straw hit by pitch
B7:
Maldonado…2-2 as Straw takes 2B…grounds out 6-3
B7:
Altuve lines out to CF, Straw tags and goes to 3B…squared it up, but at em.
And that’ll be all for Middleton
B7:
Montero in for the M’s
Brantley lines one hard in the 5.5 hole, Seager there in the shift for the 5-3
Two well struck balls with RISP, but no dice
5-3 Mariners
If Straw was still on 2B, that ball by Brantley is through and Straw scores. Taking 3B actually cost a run there.
T8:
Smith in
Lewis strikes out swinging