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Friday, July 7: Orioles at Twins, televised exclusively by AppleTV+


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Meanwhile, I turned down the sound on TV and am listening on the radio, but I let Apple keep spinning its wheels and it finally started back up, though it freezes every few seconds.   In this timeline, Felix has just walked a guy in the bottom of the 9th, so I'm about to get to see McCann's throw.

Hicks pinch hitting for Mateo, come on Aaron!

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2 minutes ago, LA2 said:

Amusing that Bautista pulling the string is a 99-mph FB.

Not amusing that the Twins have a speedster on base now and Bautista is easy to run on. BUT

Great throw by McCann, quick straight-down slap tag by Mateo has us out of the inning.

Doubt they bring Felix in for the 10th considering how stressful that inning was.

Who else though? Hyde has already emptied the clip with Baumann/Cano/Coulombe/Bautista.

Edit: Baker I guess?

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8 minutes ago, Malike said:

Big James is due.

He did his job. Threw out the base stealer, bunted over Urías so that he cd score on Hicks' fly. Love the announcer's comment that if Hicks were still a Yankee he wd have tried to hit a homer and grounded out.

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