Foul ball off his right knee. Frelick always has a locked front leg like this when he swings hard..
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Re: Yelich.. unless he feels like he is going to play in the next 48 hours.. just IL him and get him right for October. We will hold onto the 1 seed without him ... but we are not winning it all without him. Call up Hoskins so he can get 60 at bats as a DH and be ready to smash it in the post season as well.
If we go .500 the rest of the way (10-10) ... that gets us to 97 wins and the Cubs would need to go 16-5 to overtake us.
It would be great to go 12-8 or 13-7 (100 wins!) or something and not make it interesting for anyone... but just win every other at a minimum and it will take a Herculean effort from Counsell and Co to do it.
Firmly in the driver's seat... just don't panic, play good baseball and for goodness sake stay healthy.
This is a really big inning. Winning clinches the season series against our biggest threat to the one seed.. and the alternative would be a psychological nightmare.
Just get three outs.
If you had told me before the season started Turang would be top 3 on our squad in home runs when it was all said and done I would have assumed so many injuries and predicted disaster and 68-70 wins. What a life.
As others have said, if we can get through the Toronto series while the Cubs play the SkySox and ONLY give up a game in the standings that would be a win. Great first step tonight.
Take this for what it's worth ... but for the last week+ or so every game I have thought "yeah we got this one" we have lost and every game where I haven't felt great we have pulled out with about a 90% accuracy...
.. and I don't have a good feeling about this one. Bet accordingly.
.. and we are off! Quick work in the 1st for JQ. Taking 3 of 4 would be a great series. Let's make it happen...
Turang hitting clean up at any point this season was not on my 2025 bingo card...
New strategy.
Top of the order: Lockridge, Perkins, Collins.
Pitcher will be at a minimum of 30 pitches after the 1st and somewhere around 90 after the 4th.
We might not score for 4 innings but we will be into every team's bullpen by the 5th.