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TFIR, not sure who they would send down but I would say your guess of Allen is a good one. Let him play every day. And Naquin can play CF in a pinch if needed. But I was talking more of who will start in LF once CarGo comes up. Which should be soon I would guess.

If CarGo came up tomorrow I start Naquin in LF. But for some reason I think this will be one of those times Tito pisses me off. He is a fantastic manager but man, some times he drives me crazy. He has guys he loves and guys he don't.

They may leave Jose in the 2 hole. I'm telling you, analytics says to do it with your best hitter, and more & more teams are. I see where the Reds are batting Votto in the 2 hole now.

Bieber strikes his 5th guy out to work another easy inning.

3-0 good guys after 4.

TFIR ... personally, I would set the order at Martin-Lindor-Jose-Santana 1-2-3-4 ... but I think Lindor likes leading off so probably won't go that way.

Yes, Martin hitting 2nd is a great idea.
Yes, Allen going back down for awhile is a good idea, too. He needs to get his stroke back.
My guess for why Bauers hits 3rd and Naquin 6th is the K/bb numbers put up Bauers 4/3 Naquin 10/0.

Bauers with a weak fly out to start the 5th. Tito will probably bat him lead off tomorrow.

Carlos Santana has the pitchers scared. Walks him. 1 on with 1 away.

Hanley up

Hanley flies out.

Brings up Naquin. Who works a 3-1 count but wastes it by popping out in foul ground.

Still 3-0 good guys, btm 5

Why not Luplow down......because RH?

Yeah, Lou. He will be platooning in LF with either Bauers or Naquin. He is this years Guyer. Tito loves that lefty-righty thing ya know.

Uh oh, Bieber allows back to back singles with 1 away in 5th.

Next guy pops up behind catcher. Nice.

Hey, hot shot to 3rd but a great pick by Jose to get Bieber out of the pickle!

Onto 6th, 3-0 good guys

Indians go down quickly in the 6th, 1-2-3. Shocking since the bottom of our order was up.

To the btm of 6th

By the by ... Miller laid down a nice bunt but Candelario made a great play to nail him at 1st.

Other than the Ramirezes [and of course Stamets] the other guys are having a good day at the plate, 8-17. Would be nice to have more than 3 runs.

Bieber at 78 pitches now ... 50 for strikes ... he was always great about getting through his outings with not many pitches in the minors. Hasn't been quite as good in majors, but you know, the opponents are a tad better.

Strikes first guy out, painting the corner with a fastball. This dudes control is special.

Stamets with a nice play for out #2.

Miller boots a weak grounder for what would have been out #3.

Can we please start bringing some of our major leaguers up now? Columbus has the hockey team to root for. They don't need our major leaguers too.

Weak tapper back to Bieber to get him out of the inning. Onto the 7th, holding at 3-0

By the way, the playoff hockey game was nuts last night. Blue Jackets are playing Tampa, who had best team in regular season. Very good team. Tampa jumped out to 3-0 lead in 1st period and depression was setting in for me. But Columbus came back and won 4-3. Was aweomse. I was screaming my head off. Dogs thought I lost my damn mind.