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July 20, Pittsburgh HotCut.

Hamels works to Machado, Cole to Manny, in Baltimore.  It's 1-0 Texas, bottom one.  Beltre sliced a long fly down the right field line, landing on the dirt triangle somewhere between the warning track and the foul line.  Machado, 9.

Miley to Odor, top 2, 1 out.  Odor lines a ball over Miley's head into left center.  Here's Lucroy, 1-for-7 this series with a double and an RBI.  He's out 5-3, Odor advances to second.  Carlos Gómez up now, Miley the lefty, has two outs, the count goes to 1-and-1.  A check swing, a strike.  This is the only game in town.  Taillon and the Pirates bested Nelson and the Brewers in day action earlier.  I heard some of it; watched some of it.  I saw Josh Harrison single in Chris Stewart to put Pittsburgh up 3-2.  I saw McCutchen single softly over the second baseman on the next play to make the score 4-2.  McCutchen then stole second but Josh Bell went 3-U and that was all I saw.

Odor running, Gómez fouling.  Now a grounder to Chris Davis's left, he gloves it, fights to stay on his feet, stumbles past first, gathers himself into a circle-back motion, dives at the bag with his gloved hand, the ball in the glove, the runner out, 3-U.

Chaw Boy vs. The Shift, episode 927.  Davis grounds the ball weakly to Hamels, who makes a terrible throw to first, not an airmail but a dinker way short, soft and bizarre.  Still, Napoli was able to take the throw on a hop, 1-3.  Trumbo had already gone 8 in the inning.  Now Mancini pops out to second.

Later...same game, though.  Miguel Castro, mound dipper.  Lucroy, 4-3.  Gómez, 1-5-3 as the ball ricochets off of Castro to Machado, who fielded the carom and threw to first.  We went to Detroit at Kansas City, bottom one, the Royals somehow up 4-0 already on Michael Fulmer.  As the inning ended, a replay package led me to believe that at least some of those runs were unearned.


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