HotCuts & Bridges

Pham doubles, Fowler doubles—it's tied at two on the North Side of Chicago.  Day baseball on a Friday at Wrigley!  Arrieta snaps off a curve to Gyorko, the count goes to 1-and-2.  Gyorko lines out to second. Zobrist kicks off the third by hooking a CarMart change into the left-field corner.  That's six hits for the Cubs.  RiZzo, FC 6-3, Zobrist moves up to third base.  Willson Contreras, who hit a two-run homer earlier lines out to second.  Here's Kyle Schwarber.  He knocks a squibbler, fair, to Carpenter, who takes it to the bag himself, 3-U. I went out to cut a handful or zinnia, which were quickly wilting with pain just a few minutes later.  It's 101°, pushing 102° here.  Arrieta sneaks a ball through Paul DeJong's legs.  It looks like it's about 86° at Wrigley.  A ball to DeJong goes 6-5 FC, Arrieta out at third.  Ron Coomer, on the CubCast, wonders why DeJong didn't go to second to begin a double play.  (Heyw...

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 runn...

Berríos can really make the ball bend and dive.  But he's thrown the last ball out of the zone.  Client FraZier has yielded his number 30 to the newly arriving—the returning—David Robertson?  I guess there was a trade.  I had been checking RotoWorld all morning, then went to lunch.  The Yanks now have two on, FraZier singling.  One out, top two, in Minnesota. Later.  Pedroia bats with the bases loaded, bottom two in Boston, two out, Aaron Sanchez at 43 pitches, Sox up 2-0.  He singles, two runs score.  César Valdéz warms, 4-0 Boston.  Pedroia has 48 RBI.  Moreland, 8. To Cincinnati.  Greinke deals high to Hamilton.  Another fastball and Hamilton singles to left, where new Diamondback J.D. Martinez bobbles the ball, briefly.  CoZart now.  Hamilton runs and is caught.  Mathis made an excellent throw.  Votto stomps around on deck.  CoZart loses one down the left field line, 2-1 Reds.  That wa...