It is 9:37 central daylight. I have no word yet on a HotCut but, folks, settle down—it's early. Early and beautiful outside, 70° in St Louis, continuing the unseasonably pleasant August temperature trend.
Donaldson pokes one to right, Polanco charges in, he can't get there, and now he is limping. Gregory Polanco is going to leave this game, is that a bum knee? Looked like it. What was it he missed time with earlier this year? It appears he returned from a hamstring injury on August 2nd. McCutchen is out with a balky knee, Clint Hurdle went to Don Baylor's funeral, and now Polanco leaves the game. This really is Trevor Williams and his Rag Tag Band.
It's 2-1 Jays, bottom 5, runners on first and second, one out, Williams deals to Steve Pearce. Missing with a slider away, Williams walks Pearce. Kendrys Morales is off the bench and will pinch-hit for Raffy Lopez, a catcher I have never heard of despite him logging brief stints for the Cubs in 2014 and the Reds in 2016. Morales rolls a grounder to short, Pearce is out at second but second baseman Adam FraZier throws low and poor to Josh Bell, the ball scoots by Bell, Donaldson will score the second run on the play, 4-1 Jays.
Mike Ohlman takes over at catcher for Toronto. He was up with Toronto briefly in May (five games, nine at-bats). These are a couple of threadbare rosters.
The 'Cut begins at 15:05 central daylight. It pits Drew PomeranZ and the Boston Red Sox against uis Severino and the New York Yankees. The Red Sox lead the Yankees in the AL East by three-and-a-half games.
Lindor scored from third on a wild pitch. Archer covered the plate where the two of them were involved in a collision that made me cringe. Lindor's shoulder took the worst of it. It's 2-0 Cleveland. Encarnacion singles up the middle. Archer gets Bruce to swing through a high fastball, the inning over.
Pittsburgh at Toronto, T.O.G.I.T.
Jaso, 9. Cervelli, 5-3. Marte, 6-3. This way Chris Rowley retired the side in order in the fifth. Rowley is making his major league debut right here against the Pirates. He's through five having allowed one run on four hits, no walks, three strikeouts. Based on the SportsNet camera work, I can say that Rowley might be nursing a blister or a fingernail problem. I have the sound off but now it's a shot of Marcus Stroman, so blisters is a reasonable guess.Donaldson pokes one to right, Polanco charges in, he can't get there, and now he is limping. Gregory Polanco is going to leave this game, is that a bum knee? Looked like it. What was it he missed time with earlier this year? It appears he returned from a hamstring injury on August 2nd. McCutchen is out with a balky knee, Clint Hurdle went to Don Baylor's funeral, and now Polanco leaves the game. This really is Trevor Williams and his Rag Tag Band.
It's 2-1 Jays, bottom 5, runners on first and second, one out, Williams deals to Steve Pearce. Missing with a slider away, Williams walks Pearce. Kendrys Morales is off the bench and will pinch-hit for Raffy Lopez, a catcher I have never heard of despite him logging brief stints for the Cubs in 2014 and the Reds in 2016. Morales rolls a grounder to short, Pearce is out at second but second baseman Adam FraZier throws low and poor to Josh Bell, the ball scoots by Bell, Donaldson will score the second run on the play, 4-1 Jays.
Mike Ohlman takes over at catcher for Toronto. He was up with Toronto briefly in May (five games, nine at-bats). These are a couple of threadbare rosters.
The HotCut Has Landed
At 13:03 B and I walked through the front door of our house and I heard a knock. No, not a knock on the door but a knock from my phone. It was you, Ray. The 'Cut had landed: BronX HotCut.The 'Cut begins at 15:05 central daylight. It pits Drew PomeranZ and the Boston Red Sox against uis Severino and the New York Yankees. The Red Sox lead the Yankees in the AL East by three-and-a-half games.
The Sánchino
Drew Pomeranz fans Aaron Judge backwards-looking K on a curve that barely caught the inside part of the zone, if at all. With the same curve, Pomeranz went backdoor for strike one and then strike two on Gary Sánchez. It struck me that Pomeranz got the benefit of the doubt inside to Judge and then got it twice on the outside part of the plate to Sánchez, who went into protect mode upon finding himself quickly in the hole at 0-and-2. Pomeranz fired 95 mph on the outer half of the plate, certainly a strike and close enough for Sánchez to take a swing at it, which he did, meeting it out at the front edge of the plate, smoking it down the right field line and just inside the right field foul pole at Yankee Stadium, in the BronX, in a little thing we like to call the HotCut. Yankees 2, Red Sox 0.Severino or Benintendi
He walked Christian Vázquez with one out, top of the third. Then he put Jackie Bradley Jr Jr in the hole. Bradley worked the count full. Severino missed with a change up and Bradley Jr was on. "A 3-2 change-up, I don't get it," said Dennis Eckersley in the NESN booth. "The guy's got 100." Nuñez sent a grounder to third where Todd FraZier muffed it. Now Mookie Betts singles to left. Vázquez scores easily and Bradley Jr beats the throw to score as well . A good Gardner throw could have had Bradley Jr but no. Tied. Benintendi, a fastball down and tailing out over the plate, hit hard, and gone! His 15th and it's a 5-2 Boston lead, suddenly. "He walks two batters, which is a crime, and they make him pay, five runs later," says Eckersley.Arrowhead Throwbacks
The Red Sox were nearing a comfortable win over the Yankees so we looked elsewhere on The Slate. Cleveland at Tampa looked good. The first thing we noticed were the very bright, seemingly new uniforms for both teams. They are apparently throwbacks, which I can understand in the case of the Indians but I'm not sure where Tampa is throwing back to. Apparently these will be the uniforms these teams will wear during the upcoming so-called Players' Weekend at the conclusion of this month. The Tampa uniform is very blue with an unusual font, something like a seventies-era NBA team might have worn. The Cleveland uniform is incredibly red, with "Indians" across the front of the uniform top, the "D" made to look what I imagine is an arrowhead.Lindor scored from third on a wild pitch. Archer covered the plate where the two of them were involved in a collision that made me cringe. Lindor's shoulder took the worst of it. It's 2-0 Cleveland. Encarnacion singles up the middle. Archer gets Bruce to swing through a high fastball, the inning over.
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