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September 22, The Shark vs The Blister:

Schwarber would've been out trying to steal second but the throw from Vogt, while accurate, was a bouncer that Sogard never did snare in the face of all of Schwarber sliding into him at second.  Thus, Schwarber has his first bag of the year.

Heyward got out somehow.  Counsell walked Báez.  Lackey sans gloves now bats.  Lackey fans.  Mid 4, it's 3-2 Crew.

Andrew Jones

Tucker Barnhart singles off of Addison Reed.  I've been watching ball all the while, myriad outs and a few hits sprinkled in have filled the gap in my account of th' evening so far.  I am preoccupied with what my fantasy team is doing (not doing).  It enervates me.  It gives me bags under these mine eyes.  I talk about it only to talk about it.  I need to get it off my chest.  I have feared it tainting, overwhelming, overrunning this season's-long account so I have steered clear.  But I am going to let it in this weekend, for better or for worse. Winker fans.  That's the end of eight in the Queen City.

Richards v. Verlander

The story of the night so far is this pitchers' duel in Houston.  Garrett Richards for Anaheim, Justin Verlander for the Astros.  There is no score with one out, bottom five.  I will say that the HPU is calling strikes across a pretty wide zone.  That's not why Trout struck out in the first, though.  He looked at two early, fat sliders to put himself in the hole before working the count full only to swing at a slider that was over but low.  Then at least one of two outside fastballs to Bregman should have been only a strike in Garrett Richards' wildest dreams.  Gattis swings over a nifty tight slider in, end 5.

Hill Nails Panik

Here's Buster, 12 home runs, 63 RBI, hitting somewhere in the low .300s.  It looked like he got into a pitch pretty good but 7, not really all that deep.  That's Ethier out there in right for the Dodgers.  This is Pence.

Hunter's pence, Buster's posey, Joe's panic.

Brandon's belt!

Hill is out of the inning, just the HBP of Panik going against him.  The MLB app is all messed up.  The games are streaming fine, which is the most important thing.  But the wonky or nonexistent box score data problem is not limited to the phone—the General Console is also sporting bad information.  Prognosis negative.  I've seen this happen before but it's been awhile since it's affected multiple box scores over the course of a couple of hours, probably hasn't happened on this scale all year.

The Shark is back out there, he's working to Utley.  Chutney, the Silver Fox.  Seager looks like Utley looks like Bellinger.  Utley sends one the opposite way down the line ... that's a 7.  Forsythe now.  This year has been a sad chapter in the Forsythe saga.  He hits out of the eight hole tonight.  A base hit for Forsythe, that's gonna be two.  Hill follows by putting a lefty swing on one, opposite way, pretty, a double of his own.  Forsythe will score and Hill has tied it himself at one.  That's his fourth career double and the first since 2007.

Seager at .297.  The first time up he popped out to first.  He did not play yesterday.  He walks.

Cody Bellinger, 3-run shot!

Utley's Chase

Chris's taylor, Curtis's grander son, Denard's span, Andre's ether, Logan's forsythia?  Pablo's sand oval.

Forsythe sends a shot up the box.  Shark manages to duck it.  Hill bats again.  It's 4-1 Dodgers after four innings.  Hill went 1-3.

Adding up all the magic numbers remaining across all of the divisional races, the total is 19.  That is probably a low total for a September 22nd.

Chris Taylor bats.  He sends a ball down the right field foul line, Bermuda Triangle style, the ball falls on foul ground, Pence seems magnetically pulled into the low right field wall, appearing to hit it hard but he walks away apparently unfazed.  The count runneth full.  Taylor fouls off 94, outer half.  Taylor, 9, as Pence makes a sliding, skidding catch, a nice play.  One out in the bottom of the fifth, it's still 4-1 LAD.

The Shark vs. The Blister

Seager singles, brings in Bellinger.  A couple inside.  One away, 3-and-0.  Now a ball high, that's a walk.  Bochy is on, the Shark is out of the water and out of this game.  He does not last five in tonight's Special Feature, The Shark vs. The Blister.  The Dodgers might or might not win but I'm calling this 'Cut for The Blister.

Now, goodnight everybody.


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