Marc Newfield of Dreams

A lot of traffic allowed, but Wilson giving up only one over four innings is big. Kept the faint hopes alive and saves the pen for tomorrow.

That TOOTBLAN was enough for me tonight. What a miserable performance.

Yup. Can be hard to enjoy the story when you've seen the ending so many times.

Unreal.

Glad Yeli won the challenge but watching a fastball right down the middle on 3-1 is wild.

I agree with your other point about the lack of left handed options at the moment, but his usage is pretty independent of what side of the plate the hitters are on.

Murph is elite at motivating and creating a strong culture. No arguing that. But I think that aspect clouds his judgment too much. The leash is always too long when relievers are struggling. Ashby has been bad for a month now but he stands by his guys. Batting Yeli's corpse leadoff is indefensible. But he loves Yeli. He'll ignore numbers for gut feel in those instances, but then pinch hit Bauers in the ninth because of the numbers. It's so frustrating.

Totally uncompetitive at bats

Yep. His saunter down the first base line cost them a run.

Should be second and third with no outs if Contreras could unhitch the wagon

I need an ump to explain how that move to second wasn't a balk

I'm not having much fun watching this team lately.

He didn't pop the bunt up. It was a high bounce.

Pratt was a FC. Bauers thrown out trying to go back to third on the safety squeeze

Blew through the whole bench for that. Overmanaging like crazy.