Well I guess we know who the replay officials in New York favor.

Two BS HBP calls in the span of 3 batters, giving them a free run.

Bieber is gone.

Perez comes in bases loaded

They've used our BP for batting practice the last 2 games, no reason to think it will change today.

Tie game.

Woulda been nice to at least take one of these games. But I'm not gonna hold my breath.

DAYUM

Cimber comes in with bases loaded and two outs and strikes out the guy on 3 pitches.

Maybe I will hold my breath.

Well damn we won!

The allstars pulled through.

Bieber with a solid 6 innings, Santana with the go ahead HR. And Hand shut them down. Kudo's to Cimber as well.

Disaster averted. But catching the Twins is going to very tough.

TFIR mentioned earlier in General Discussion we gave up Castro for Leonys Martin. Just to be clear, the Castro we gave up was Willi Castro, a fave of mine before we dealt him who is doing very well in AAA Toledo this year. Not the Harold Castro who is playing 2nd base for Tigers now, and is having a darn fine year too.

Unfortunately Plutko is simply not a very good pitcher. 2 homers allowed today one at least to a guy with little power, In his career an amazing 32 homers in 144 innings. Kind of like Tomlin without the redeeming qualities.

As soon as the game started, first inning, I noticed Plutko was leaving his fastball over the middle of the plate. I figured it would be a long day. Now another homer, a real shot to the back of visitor bullpen. That will be it for Plutko.

I tell ya what, for a guy who rarely gets to play, Freeman is having himself a good day on both ends.

Naquin with a great job of hitting. Knocking it the other way down the 3rd base line for a 2 RBI double! Tie game now!

Bottom of the lineup doing damage!

Mercado makes it 6-5 after a short rest.

4 straight hits in the bottom of the 7th gives us a 8-5 lead.

Jose on 2nd with no outs.

Jose is looking good, last 15 games: 56-12-18-11 3 homers, only 1 walk but he's hitting: 345/355/759. Looks like the old days.

Plesac walks the first batter, then picks him off 1st base again!!!

For the year, counting minors and majors, he has 9 picks offs!!

Just finished watching Salazar's first inning. Gave up 2 singles and a walk but stranded bases loaded.

Topped out at 92 so far.

With 2 outs in the 2nd inning we score 5 runs!

Kipnis doubles
Bauer singles
Naquin singles
Lindor doubles
Mercado homers

5-0 good guys!

Wow, just saw Nolan Jones beat out an infield hit - that guy can fly. Got an RBI on it.

So far Salazar has given up a run in 2 innings, with 3 strikeouts.