Underachiever

50 wins! 7.5 game lead!

Apple TV guy: “Megill has re-established himself as the late-inning go-to guy” if only there was a baseball term for that role.

Dejected PCA is my favorite PCA

This audio is really bad. Can barely hear the announcers over the crowd noise and it’s glitching like a bad zoom call

Skenes gave up 4 runs in the second inning to the Reds. PGH has lost his last seven starts.

Yeli with a little suspense on that 4-3

That went a long way. All is forgiven, Jake

Myers must have been rushed to the big leagues

There has to be something tricky with the batter’s eye and the time of day. 58 strikeouts between the two teams out of 126 outs.

Six games

I think that is 5 backward Ks for Jake B in this series. Team has 27 strikeouts, 10 of them looking. Just awful

What did Ernie Grunfeld ever do to you?

Chris Carpenter can look his son in the eye today.

Murph was really managing to win those games, especially last night, with his bullpen usage. I fully expected Grant Anderson at some point the last two nights, but Murphy went with his A team of Ashby, Uribe, Megill. Any thought if Anderson is quietly hurt? Hasn't pitched since last Thursday, and he has been quite good this year.

This is the play in question. I mean, part of Bauers' heel obviously missed the bag...

This whole series is boring af. World Cup time.

Very Brewersy start to the inning

1, according to the box score

Series so far: 13 innings, 3 runs, 5 hits, 3 walks, combined WHIP of .31

Not a ton of college baseball players get full scholarships. It has changed some in the past few years, but it is not uncommon for college players to get partial rides and supplement it with financial aid of some sort. I am curious how NCAA baseball coaches feel about this. Were they surprised when the "no drafting high-school kids" made the news? I don't know what the NIL game is for college baseball, but cannot imagine that it is as lucrative as basketball or football. This is from an article I found online on baseball NIL. I have no idea how good the information is. Why the Top Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story Here’s the part the rankings miss. That Top 13 represents 13 players. College baseball rosters average roughly 42 players each — and programs split just 11.7 scholarships among all of them. Men’s basketball, by comparison, has 13 scholarships for rosters of about 16. Partial scholarships are the baseball norm. For most players, NIL income isn’t a windfall on top of a free ride — it’s how they close the gap on tuition, housing, and the cost of staying in school. As Royals pitcher Chris Stratton put it, NIL can genuinely help “the kids whose parents don’t have a lot.” And the real market reflects that. The headline valuations belong to a tiny group of draft-eligible stars. Below them are thousands of D1, D2 and D3 baseball players whose NIL reality looks nothing like the SportsGrid list. For them, a deal is more likely to be a few hundred dollars from a local business or a hometown fan than a national apparel partnership. Source: https://blog.rallyfuel.com/highest-paid-college-baseball-nil-deals-2026 My final point is that I think a lot of what we are seeing from owners is them getting ahead of the public relations battle before the real negotiations. Some of these changes being floated are probably not realistic, but can be used as a chip later to come off of it.

Good win

I was wrong.

Feels like a Grant Anderson day

Man, when they said Rowdy Tellez was pinch-hitting I thought it was some joke I didn’t understand. Then I see Rowdy in the batter’s box. Didn’t know he was still in MLB

Now 7.