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Hays wasn't having great results but he was having pretty good at-bats and seemed a lot less overmatched than Mullins usually does.

So about that pretty good lineup... The injuries to Hays and Iglesias is really exposing the lack of depth. Slumps by Nunez and Ruiz and all of a sudden most of the lineup is a black hole.

I don't really get why Eshelman is in the eighth inning of a close game. He's a soft-tossing spot starter, like gee what a shocker he couldn't pick up the K with a guy on third and one out.

Do we need "rave reviews" when we're currently alternating between Smith's horrible glove and Valaika's horrible bat?

Sometimes when people discuss Mountcastle it feels like he's a feral child who had never seen a baseball glove until this year. He played 221 innings in left field last year! Maybe he wasn't Alex Gordon out there, but I don't get the idea that he has to be kept in Area 51 like a top secret research project when the Orioles are getting horrible LF defense at the major league level.

LOL, so what is he, a pinch runner?

Game 1 Lineup. Pretty thin after the first four hitters. According to Roch the Orioles are considering putting Iglesias on the IL. Is Bryan Holaday really better than Sisco or Smith vs. a lefty?

I'm not an expert in player development or anything, but wouldn't it be good for his growth as a player to play in an actual baseball game this calendar year? As others besides me have pointed out, does Mountcastle really profile as a guy who you're going to be worried about being able to retain as a FA when he's 31? Mookie Betts he is not. I don't know, it seems like the interests of the "rah rah playoffs 2020 baybee" crowd and the "be patient and trust the process" crowd are kind of aligned on this issue.

Hyun Jin Ryu starts tonight, coming off of two very good, if not deep, starts against Atlanta and Miami. In those starts: 11 IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 5 BB, 15 K

Nunez was due up first in the bottom of the eighth, I think you want his bat in there in a tie game.

Iggy's quad must have been pretty bad today to not get a PH appearance in the last inning.

I really hope this isn't because of sign stealing!

I was going to post this! I haven't been able to watch live tonight but Gameday suggests a LOT of iffy calls tonight both ways.

Yankee fans of a certain age are still pissy about Bill Mazeroski ("we outscored them by so much that series!"), and Red Sox are more neurotic than they are, so I would assume so.

He hit one in the eighth off Castro. It missed being a home run by a few feet.

It's funny that the official scorer who was so generous with Hays gave Chris Davis an error on Jay Bruce's hard grounder. If Bruce had been given credit for a double, he would have hit for the cycle.

Very trivial point, but do the statistics from this game count yet, or not until the game is completed on Friday? When Hanser Alberto steps to the plate in Philadelphia, will the scoreboard show his batting average to be what it was before the start of the suspended game, or what his average is after going 2-3 today?

The silver lining is that this allows a healthy Iglesias to bat with two on and one out rather than Valaika. If the Orioles bring up another catcher they can then have Severino hit instead of Holaday.

Like many of Manfred's innovations, it's having a pretty negligible effect and is a distraction from more pressing structural issues. Plus it's eliminating the possibility of cool memories like the Chris Davis game, the Stevie Wilkerson game, etc.

So when are we going to see Mountcastle? The Blue Jays played the service time game with Pearson and he's already up.

Because COVID is only transmissible in the 8th or 9th, that's just science!

Suddenly having to play the Yankees a week early is like realizing you have an exam later today you forgot to study for.

Seven outs, because of the Iglesias error!