Wed. 7/5: Night Owls

[Joseph Zarr]

Bennett has yet to record an out. He just gave up a two-run single into CF. Four runs already. 14-11. He is not ready for this moment whatsoever. Hard to watch, honestly.  He's essentially fodder for the sharks given his jitters, lack of accuracy, and no ability to attack the zone. If a change has to be made the Sounds staff will be forced to go to position players again.

[Joseph Zarr]

Bennett calms the nerves and manages to get out of the frame without further damage stranding men on 2nd and 3rd. Kudos for avoiding further damage. Those moments are not easy. It was a situation where he dug that hole with his shoddy defensive work. He was credited with one error - it should have been two errors. Toss in the HB...just an inning he's going to want to quickly forget.

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh my word, I don't even know at this point. Sounds have the bases juiced now with nobody out. OF Tyrone Taylor to the dish against a lefty. He's already homered in back-to-back games and he has 3 hits tonight. Phew. AND, he's now in a 2-0 count. Lawwwwwwwds. Baseball. What a game.

[Joseph Zarr]

14-12. Taylor walks on a 3-2 count. We have the winning run at first. Bases still juiced for Josh Van Meter. Nobody down. Lefty versus lefty. 

[Joseph Zarr]

Fourth consecutive walk. My baseball gahhhhhds it's a Nashville Miracle? 14-13. Labaut saw five batters. Gave up an infield hit and walked four. He exits with the bases juiced. Nobody down for the Sounds. 

Let's grab victory from the jaws of defeat after we gave victory away...twice. 😅

[Joseph Zarr]

14-14. Urias to the dish with an opportunity to walk it off. 6th walk of the inning scored the tying run. LOL.

[Joseph Zarr]

Oh. MY. GODS. THAT was the PERFECT walk-off. An infield pop up about 9' (?) in front of home base falls to the dirt between four charging Clippers. The catcher, ultimately, failed to corral it in a lunging attempt. Oh man. That was the sauce. Bahahahahahahah. 15-14 Sounds. 

Was that a T-Ball outing after the 7th? Hard to tell. Will report back.

No, really:

 

[Joseph Zarr]

OH, C/LF/1B Alex Hall had 2-HR, 2 2B and 9 RBI tonight. No big deal. LOL. A Timber Rattlers record. No big deal.

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Not to be lost in the Hall performance is 1B Ernesto Martinez Jr. staying red hot with his 3rd consecutive multi-hit game. He extends his hitting streak to 11 games. He was hitting 0.400 in July with an OPS North of 1.000 before his 3-for-4, 1 BB, 1 2B, 2 RBI, 3 R evening. 

Put it in my veins!

 

[Joseph Zarr]

I'll close tonight's viewing and work with this: 

Alex Hall now has three mutli-HR games in 2023 where he has hit homers from both the right and left side of the dish. He also came to the plate with the bases juiced in the 9th. He struck out looking. But, man, it was almost a gargantuan evening. Still record setting. 

[Playing Catch]

Tyrone Taylor's IL stint has to be coming to a close soon. I wonder if the Crew activate him before the break, and send down Wiemer (who is 1 for his last 28), taking advantage of the extended break to count as time not on MLB roster.

edit:  I see Damuelle thinking the same thing in the ML forum.