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Memorial Day, May 29: Guardians come to town


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6 minutes ago, SteveA said:

if Wells had been knocked out early , it would have been Akin.   But we are already tot he point that Wells probably won't be knocked out early.   So yeah, I would guess Baumann, unless it comes at a point where some lefties are due and then we might see Perez first.

But I still hope we can get 6 out of Wells.

That quick inning just now by Tyler Wells was huge. Might get 5 or 6 after all.  

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1 minute ago, allquixotic said:

Frazier took on a bad sweeper, then got fooled and swung and missed on a better sweeper.

I may be wrong, but I think few if any of those sweepers to lefties have been strikes. Mullins has figured out not to swing at them. Frazier hasn't, slightly surprising to me.

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7 minutes ago, justD said:

I've been watching while speeding through any downtime to catch up to live - damn, this game is moving fast, can't catch up!

The games go by quick as a wink now. Especially with the early starts, they're done so much earlier than I expect.

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4 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

I may be wrong, but I think few if any of those sweepers to lefties have been strikes. Mullins has figured out not to swing at them. Frazier hasn't, slightly surprising to me.

I've been saying since last season that the Sweeper looks like it doesn't have a huge amount of staying power as a pitch.

In a couple of years won't be hardly anyone throwing one.

It was just a good metagame choice last season.

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