We talked on the phone this morning. I called you yesterday, we spoke for only a few minutes. You called me back today at 8:48 central daylight as you were driving into work (easy everyone, I'm pretty sure he was using a hands-free setup). You promised a HotCut delivery 'later on'. At 10:02 central daylight, I got the delivery. Seattle HotCut. It is Drew Pomeranz for Boston visiting King Felix Hernandez and the Mariners tonight from the Pacific Northwest. This is Felix's first HotCut of the year; it is the fourth for DrewPom.
Long before that it will be the Cubs and the White Sox from Wrigley Field. I hope to bring you some of that action. Yoan Moncada now, ya hear!
Willson Contreras has homered off of Carlos Rodón and the Cubs lead the White Sox 3-0 after one inning in the Crosstown Series. Contreras now has 16 homers (half are against St. Louis) and he is becoming a real force for the Cubs, per Pat Hughes on the CubCast.
In the top of the second Rodón got himself back into the game by drilling his first major league hit, a double, to right center for two runs. After an inning and a half, Cubs 3-2 Sox.
Top 2, Rodón is all over the place with his fastball. He's at 57 pitches with two down, working to RiZzo. The count runs full on a slider down and away that RiZzo laid off. But he looks at strike three. The good news is that Rodón has struck out the side in each of the first two innings. The bad news is that he's thrown 59 pitches and given up four runs. At this rate he will need 148 pitches to make it through five innings.
The Sox didn't manage a baserunner in the top half of the third. Here in the bottom of the inning the Cubs have two on and no-one out. Rodón is at 70 pitches; brutal. Almora, 9. Rodón missed all of April, May, and June. Certainly he has some rust to work off. But this is inordinately difficult for him. Can he be healthy? Rodón rally: he gets Báez swinging for the second out; he gets Russell looking to escape the third (76 pitches).
Bryant tossed—the first ejection of his career, says Pat H.
Later. I have Rockies at Cardinals now, on Rockies radio. I was watching Reds at Yankees. Luis Castillo had stuff that seemed untouchable but he had given up seven hits and stood to lose the decision. He will be good, an Archer type, or Lance McCullers, if his arm holds together. Greg Garcia singles. Jon Gray is on the mound for Colorado. In the Yankees game, Judge had singled, Holliday had HolliSingled, Didi Gregorius was tagged out while hung up between second and third, the final out of a triple play that began when T Frazier smashed one to short, force at second, PeraZa throws to first for the out there, Votto throws back across the diamond to get Gregorius who had been on second when the ball was hit and initially had started back to second—but the ball was there—so he turned and went to third but ran out of time to get there. Incredibly, the bases had been loaded and a run did score before Gregorius was retired but it goes in the books as a run-scoring triple play. How rare is that? To the third, Cardinals 2-0 Rockies.
The Cubs won that Crosstown game, 6-2. Contreras had four RBI.
Lance Lynn works for St. Louis....
Later. HotCut in the night. Lazarus here. Kimbrel "works up a lather but he gets out of it." He put a couple of runners on but he struck out the side and we've got a Draw Bridge in the 'Cut. I'm sitting at my desk listening to this game from Seattle on my MLB audio app. I have a fan going, set on medium speed, and it feels like caffeine for my skin, busting up the humidity scam my clammy skin has going on. It is 1:00 central daylight, 82° at Lambert International. Pazon walks Bogaerts. Jackie Bradley Jr Jr, who had reached on a Canó error, heads to second. This is a 4-4 game. Sandy Leon vs James Pazos an 11-pitch at-bat thus far. Leon, 6-4 FC. But no double play. Two on, two out for the youngest player in the game, 20-year-old Rafael Devers. He's 0-for-2 tonight with two walks. PaZos is ahead 0-and-2. Strikeout.
There are two outs as Segura steps in the face Doug Fister. To the 12th.
Tony Zych on. He's a high score in Scrabble for only four tiles. Betts goes diving after a slider, K. The longest game in Mariners history went 20 innings at Fenway in 1981. That game was apparently suspended in the top of the 20th. After a Benintendi 9, Pedroia goes 6-3. The inning is over. (Danny Espinosa is at first for Seattle?)
Espinosa, 8. Canó, 8. Cruz, K. To the 13th.
Zych...whew...I just had a brain cramp trying to write an upper-case cursive zed. Zych is still pitching. Hanley singles, Bradley fans. Bogaerts, 0-for-4 tonight, swings and pops a foul back into the crowd. Bogaerts, backwards-looking K. Deven Marrero walks. Leon in the hole at 0-and-2. He hits a soft, broken-bat liner to left and Hanley scores. I'm flagging. Marrero just took third. Devers again, runners first and third. He hits one hard but foul, 0-and-2. Devers, 8.
Long before that it will be the Cubs and the White Sox from Wrigley Field. I hope to bring you some of that action. Yoan Moncada now, ya hear!
Willson Contreras has homered off of Carlos Rodón and the Cubs lead the White Sox 3-0 after one inning in the Crosstown Series. Contreras now has 16 homers (half are against St. Louis) and he is becoming a real force for the Cubs, per Pat Hughes on the CubCast.
In the top of the second Rodón got himself back into the game by drilling his first major league hit, a double, to right center for two runs. After an inning and a half, Cubs 3-2 Sox.
Top 2, Rodón is all over the place with his fastball. He's at 57 pitches with two down, working to RiZzo. The count runs full on a slider down and away that RiZzo laid off. But he looks at strike three. The good news is that Rodón has struck out the side in each of the first two innings. The bad news is that he's thrown 59 pitches and given up four runs. At this rate he will need 148 pitches to make it through five innings.
The Sox didn't manage a baserunner in the top half of the third. Here in the bottom of the inning the Cubs have two on and no-one out. Rodón is at 70 pitches; brutal. Almora, 9. Rodón missed all of April, May, and June. Certainly he has some rust to work off. But this is inordinately difficult for him. Can he be healthy? Rodón rally: he gets Báez swinging for the second out; he gets Russell looking to escape the third (76 pitches).
Bryant tossed—the first ejection of his career, says Pat H.
Later. I have Rockies at Cardinals now, on Rockies radio. I was watching Reds at Yankees. Luis Castillo had stuff that seemed untouchable but he had given up seven hits and stood to lose the decision. He will be good, an Archer type, or Lance McCullers, if his arm holds together. Greg Garcia singles. Jon Gray is on the mound for Colorado. In the Yankees game, Judge had singled, Holliday had HolliSingled, Didi Gregorius was tagged out while hung up between second and third, the final out of a triple play that began when T Frazier smashed one to short, force at second, PeraZa throws to first for the out there, Votto throws back across the diamond to get Gregorius who had been on second when the ball was hit and initially had started back to second—but the ball was there—so he turned and went to third but ran out of time to get there. Incredibly, the bases had been loaded and a run did score before Gregorius was retired but it goes in the books as a run-scoring triple play. How rare is that? To the third, Cardinals 2-0 Rockies.
The Cubs won that Crosstown game, 6-2. Contreras had four RBI.
Lance Lynn works for St. Louis....
Later. HotCut in the night. Lazarus here. Kimbrel "works up a lather but he gets out of it." He put a couple of runners on but he struck out the side and we've got a Draw Bridge in the 'Cut. I'm sitting at my desk listening to this game from Seattle on my MLB audio app. I have a fan going, set on medium speed, and it feels like caffeine for my skin, busting up the humidity scam my clammy skin has going on. It is 1:00 central daylight, 82° at Lambert International. Pazon walks Bogaerts. Jackie Bradley Jr Jr, who had reached on a Canó error, heads to second. This is a 4-4 game. Sandy Leon vs James Pazos an 11-pitch at-bat thus far. Leon, 6-4 FC. But no double play. Two on, two out for the youngest player in the game, 20-year-old Rafael Devers. He's 0-for-2 tonight with two walks. PaZos is ahead 0-and-2. Strikeout.
There are two outs as Segura steps in the face Doug Fister. To the 12th.
Tony Zych on. He's a high score in Scrabble for only four tiles. Betts goes diving after a slider, K. The longest game in Mariners history went 20 innings at Fenway in 1981. That game was apparently suspended in the top of the 20th. After a Benintendi 9, Pedroia goes 6-3. The inning is over. (Danny Espinosa is at first for Seattle?)
Espinosa, 8. Canó, 8. Cruz, K. To the 13th.
Zych...whew...I just had a brain cramp trying to write an upper-case cursive zed. Zych is still pitching. Hanley singles, Bradley fans. Bogaerts, 0-for-4 tonight, swings and pops a foul back into the crowd. Bogaerts, backwards-looking K. Deven Marrero walks. Leon in the hole at 0-and-2. He hits a soft, broken-bat liner to left and Hanley scores. I'm flagging. Marrero just took third. Devers again, runners first and third. He hits one hard but foul, 0-and-2. Devers, 8.
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