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I really like Tommy and hope he can get back to the guy he was last year. He seems to keep the other guys loose in the pen.

Probably a little easier to do if he isn't getting lit up.

Only one curve ball tonight. High heat.

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Good to see Tommy pitching well. I'd like to see him get it together again. We're going to need him.

If he can get back anywhere near the level he performed at last year it would be a huge boost.

His FB looked to have a little arm side run today. I'll have to watch the replay, but his arm slot looked the same. I wonder if he changed his grip slightly and tinkered with velo to get the effect. I only noticed it on a couple pitches, not every FB. Anyone else notice?

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(vs. WHITES SOX, 6/24)

1 unearned run in one inning.

Caleb Joseph ...... an otherwise very good defensive catcher ...... made THREE bad plays in one inning.

The stolen base, where he had plenty of time to get the runner, but threw the ball way off target, to the right, and in the dirt.

The passed ball, of which was he officially charged with an error (which is why the run was unearned.)

And the failure to make the tag on the runner at the plate, after Schoop had gotten the ball to him in plenty of time.

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(vs. WHITES COX, 6/24)

1 unearned run in one inning.

Caleb Joseph ...... an otherwise very good defensive catcher ...... made THREE bad plays in one inning.

The stolen base, where he had plenty of time to get the runner, but threw the ball way off target, to the right, and in the dirt.

The passed ball, of which was he officially charged with an error (which is why the run was unearned.)

And the failure to make the tag on the runner at the plate, after Schoop had gotten the ball to him in plenty of time.

Tommy, OTOH has looked much improved.

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A SO of Konerko on a steady diet of CU? Who knew? Tommy took a lot of heat around here in his role as closer, deservedly so, but it's nice to see him contributing again.
He's pretty nasty when he's got command of the FB and CU going at the same time.

He has been important.

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He has been important.

Tommy has looked OK of late. He's allowed runs in 3 of his 7 outings in June, all losses where the runs he allowed came when the team was already down two runs and the deficit increased while he was in there. Two of the games where he did not allow runs came in games where we already were winning by 4-5 runs when he entered. His biggest contribution came on June 18 when he threw a scoreless 7th and 8th innings after entering with a 1-0 lead. Last night he got one important out in a tie game, stranding two runners and getting the win when the O's scored in the bottom of the 12th. He seems headed in the right direction now but I still have a watchful eye on him.

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Hunter, who used a one-out walk in the seventh to get Albert Pujols to ground into a double play, wasn't as fortunate the following frame. After Josh Hamilton singled, Erick Aybar doubled into left-center to tie the score at 2 and snap a career-high 12 consecutive scoreless appearances for Hunter.

After a pair of strikeouts of Howie Kendrick and David Freese -- with Aybar stealing third during Kendrick's at-bat -- Hunter issued an intentional walk to Efren Navarro, followed by an intentional free pass to No. 9 batter Chris Iannetta.

"It was a little tight, but I don't know. That's something you can't control," Hunter said when asked about home-plate umpire Hal Gibson's late-game strike zone. "[You] try to control the things you can and move on. He thought they were balls. I would see it a little differently. I'm a pitcher, and he's an umpire, so I can see the disagreement we would have probably had with each other if we talked about it. Other than that, it is what it is."

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2014_07_23_balmlb_anamlb_1&mode=wrap#gid=2014_07_23_balmlb_anamlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=bal

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Hunter, who used a one-out walk in the seventh to get Albert Pujols to ground into a double play, wasn't as fortunate the following frame. After Josh Hamilton singled, Erick Aybar doubled into left-center to tie the score at 2 and snap a career-high 12 consecutive scoreless appearances for Hunter.

After a pair of strikeouts of Howie Kendrick and David Freese -- with Aybar stealing third during Kendrick's at-bat -- Hunter issued an intentional walk to Efren Navarro, followed by an intentional free pass to No. 9 batter Chris Iannetta.

"It was a little tight, but I don't know. That's something you can't control," Hunter said when asked about home-plate umpire Hal Gibson's late-game strike zone. "[You] try to control the things you can and move on. He thought they were balls. I would see it a little differently. I'm a pitcher, and he's an umpire, so I can see the disagreement we would have probably had with each other if we talked about it. Other than that, it is what it is."

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2014_07_23_balmlb_anamlb_1&mode=wrap#gid=2014_07_23_balmlb_anamlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=bal

I didn't see the game, but was the walk to Ianetta really intentional? I read an account by a poster in another thread that suggested that Hunter walked Navarro to get to Ianetta, and that the second walk was not intentional. Either way, this wasn't a good outing for Hunter.

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I believe just the first walk was intentional, thus Tommy's quote about the strike zone being tight. The good thing is that Tommy was hitting 99 on the gun (not sure if he hit 100). I thought the problem was with Tommy going 2 innings with Matusz available to start the inning against Hamilton.

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