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Brailin Rodriguez works a three up three down fifth inning to keep things tied at one in Carolina heading to the bottom half.

Blake Holub went strikeout, single, walk, RBI single, 5-4-3 double play to close out the 6 to 4 Sounds win.

& Luis Castillo goes deep for the 15th time this year to tie things up at one each in Carolina bottom four.

Josh Timmerman with four hitless innings (2 K) but a pair of walks, a wild pitch and a double steal got Charleston a run top of three. Juan Baez, Miguel Briceno and Satchell Norman have each singled through the first three frames.

Bryan Hudson with a scoreless eighth inning (1 BB | 1 K). Four seamer was 88.6 to 92.1 MPH per GameDay.

A trio of singles from Patrick Dorrian, Francisco Mejia and Isaac Collins, plus a throwing error by the Stripers RF, equals two more Nashville runs. Now up 6 to 3 bottom eight.

Spoke a little too soon. Herget came out for a second frame, gave up a lead off single, then was pulled for Tyler Jay with the inherited runner coming around to score via throwing error by Mejia on an attempted steal of third.

Luis Lara walked. Felix Valerio singled and Eduardo Garcia homered to pull the TRats within 5 to 4 bottom three. But alas, Cornielle is back out top of four and has already given one run back.

Chris Roller single, Tyler Black walk and a Brewer Hicklen single has the Sounds up 4 to 2 top of seven.

Herget puts up his ninth zero in a row, now at 10.2 IP | 0 ER | 3 H | 5 BB | 16 K since June 30th.

Bummer. Looks like he stayed in to run the bases at least, so hopefully it’s just precautionary and nothing too serious.

A Patrick Dorrian sac fly gets Nashville back in the lead 3 to 2 top of six. Carlos Rodriguez put in 5 IP of 2 ER | 4 H | 3 BB | 6 K work with Kevin Herget taking the mound bottom of six.

Alexander Cornielle surrendered a two run homer top of one but the TRats got one back in the bottom half with a Cooper Pratt HBP, Jadher Areinamo ground rule double and Tayden Hall sac fly.

Mudcats picked up for runs bottom of six via Luis Castillo walk, Daniel Guilarte single, Reece Walling walk, David Garcia fielder’s choice, Yhoswar Garcia sac fly and Yophery Rodriguez single. Then added two more bottom of eight with a David Garcia walk, Yophery Rodriguez single, Josh Adamczewski walk and Juan Baez double. Dikember Sanchez pitched a one two three ninth (1 K) to close out the 10 to 5 Carolina win.

A Patrick Dorrian single and Francisco Mejia bomb has Nashville first on the board with a pair of runs top of two.

Will be interesting to see how much run they give him, their OF has been pretty bad… 1.5 WAR (24th) | 88 wRC+ (22nd) | -12 DRS (25th) Spencer Steer is their only OF that clears either of a 100 wRC+ or 0.5 WAR so far and he only spends about half his time on the grass.

Fry has been a nice story for sure, but he’s come back to earth big time after his scorching start… thru 0601 (140 PA) 355/493/636 (212 wRC+) 17.1 BB% | 18.6 K% since 0601 (150 PA) 228/289/309 (71 wRC+) 7.3 BB% | 24,7 K%

The annual pre-ASB swoon shrunk the Brewers division lead to 3.5 games over STL on July 13th. The last time a team was closer to them in first place was when the Cubs were 2.5 back on May 24th, They’ve had a five plus game lead for most of the last two months now. A big part of that is for the season as a whole they have lost two games in a row twelve times. In the third game following those dozen instances they are 5 W - 7 L. In the fourth game after their seven three game losing streaks they are 7 W - 0 L. They say basketball is a game of runs, but baseball is a 162 game season of streaks. (5) two-game and (7) three-game losing streaks (31 total losses) all year versus (8) two-game, (4) three-game, (3) four-game and (2) five-game winning streaks (50 total wins) on the season. They’ve been a lot better at stacking wins than losses. Outside of an 11 W - 12 L stretch when Yelich went down the first time and their 3 W - 7 L swoon into the break they have gone 48 W - 28 L over the remaining 70% of their schedule up until now.

White Sox are going to put up one of the worst seasons of all time, but won’t draft higher than 10th next year with the new MLB Draft Lottery set up.

Junis was hurt most of the year and behind all of Williams, Megill, Hudson, Koenig, Peguero, Payamps. Milner & Wilson on the depth chart and that was before they acquired Mears. Even guys like Paredes, Rob Z, Bukauskas and Herget who could be back with the team at some point put up more impressive lines and flashed better stuff than Junis in their brief looks. DL Hall will probably be back in the pen at some point, Misio and Yoho are long shot possibilities for September. The team is pretty flush with relievers (+8.81 WPA, 2nd) rotation options are a little slimmer pickings (7.1 rWAR, 16th). Wiemer has a 70 wRC+ with a 28.5 K% over 437 PAs in MLB. He is essentially the Aaron Ashby of outfielders at this point, has most of the tools needed to be a successful player but is a long shot to put it all together because his swing is so messed up. Yelich, Chourio, Frelick, Perkins and Mitchell are ahead of him in MLB with Brewer Hicklen and Isaac Collins outperforming him considerably at AAA to boot. OF could still end up being Tyler Black’s best position too. If they could have traded him to a non-divisional rival, for a better SP, they probably would have. That no one made a better offer kind of speaks to his value around the league. Brewers brass apparently believes his flaws are so fatal that trading him to a division rival won’t come back to haunt them for years to come. Will they be right? Stay tuned, I guess. However it all turns out, I’m glad they moved Wiemer for Montas instead of dealing something like Black+ for Fedde or Pratt+ for Flaherty or Gasser+ for Kikuchi.

Nashville getting clobbered, but Vinny Capra went three for three with a double, a home run, and an HBP. He also made an error to remind us that he is in fact human, after all.

For Montas I’d say 5 IP | 2 ER or even a good old fashioned “quality start” of 6 IP | 3 ER is about the best we can hope for so that would qualify as good. 5 IP | 3 ER is about his median so I’d say that’s fine. Any fewer innings or more runs than that gets into bad territory. Also, CHOURIO!!

Yhoswar intentionally walked to load the bases for Reece Walling.

A Filippo Di Turi walk and Daniel Guilarte single has runners on the corners two down with Yhoswar Garcia trying for the walk off.

Carolina rallies for three runs bottom of nine on a pair of doubles from Blayberg Diaz and Josh Adamczewski followed by Bitonti’s second bomb of the night to the things up at five each.