June 13, KershawCut: Grounders Aren't Going to Get the Job Done.

Past 18:00 central daylight on a Tuesday—

Bauer works to Bellinger in the HotCut.  Seager is on first, full count, two outs.  Fastball is a little up and a little out.  Grandal now, the switch-hitting catcher with six homers.  Sharply he is retired on a liner to first.  I've got WTAM radio overlaying the STO visual feed on MLB.TV.  Samsung commercial.  Cardinals mower, Papa Johns.  Papa's in the house.  IHOP.  Commercial break in progress but the radio ads still flow:  My Pillow.

A Spark, Doused

Kipnis, Lindor, Brantley to face ... The Shaw, Clayton Kershaw.  The Indians haven't seen Kershaw since 2008.  A lot has changed since then.  The count is 2-and-0.  A fastball at 92 is center cut and Kipnis turns it into his ninth double.  On the first pitch Lindor goes 6-3.  Tom Hamilton says Lindor "gets the job done."  Meh.  Don't play for one run.  It's hot, the Shaw is sweating fierce.  Lindor should look at some pitches.  A weak grounder on the first pitch merely moving Kipnis to third is getting the job done?  After went 2-and-0 to Kipnis and then grooved one?  Brantley goes pop up, 5.  Kershaw is about to settle in and he's got two outs.  Santana pops out to second.  I'm disgusted.  Samsung commercial.

There are two Daniel Robertsons

The one that plays for Cleveland just doubled, barely fair down the left-field line.  Lindor now.  He swings at a wide bendy pitch that bounced in the left-handed battters' box.  Tom Hamilton is off the field a lot tonight, talking about Ohio generally.  Lindor chops out 4-3.  Forsythe was playing in, he was right there to make the play.  Brantley, 1-and-0.  Down and in at 93, two balls no strikes.  Kershaw has a reverse split?  Brantley shoots a liner to right, did Puig catch it or trap it?  No challenge, it's a two-out single for Brantley.  Santana here.

The Phillips 66 commercial, over and over.

Andrew Miller gets ready in a hurry, comes on in the top of the sixth to face Puig.  Bases loaded.  The first pitch is way outside.  Then a strike.  A fastball at 97, outside but close enough and swung on.  1-and-2.  Slider, backfoot, at 84.