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Here comes Buxton to tie the game.

Didn't Andrus boot Walner's grounder that led him to get on base?

Yankees were willing to give him 4 years and $60 million, fwiw.

All of them led to runs too.

Here comes the parade of injuries.

Burger wasn't really from a tank year since the team was mediocre in 16 and still trying to win.

Really nice inning from Lambert

They tried to be the anti-KW in terms of drafting and it bit them in the ass.

TA out of the game, probably banged up.

Feels like he's gotten substantially slower the last 2 years. He was 38 percentile in sprint speed in 2021. Now he's just 15 percentile.

Remember when Pedro said the starters would play more? Well that was a fucking lie...

Sheets has always been bad at 1B.

Why the f*** did Sheets cut that throw?

3 runs that should have never scored.

It'd be a 4-0 game if they just made the plays they're supposed to.

Benintendi didn't look this bad last year. I thought the hamate injury he got had a chance of possibly affecting him as a hitter and that honestly seems like the case right now.

Hanser is basically just Leury but right handed.

And it costs us a run...

Just throw the damn ball to 2nd...he acted like he could have gotten a triple play.

And Tim just fucked up his knee...

1 week in and we've already got 2 guys on the IL. This is 2022 all over again.

The Bulls match up terribly against Toronto. Hopefully, play-in Pat Bev gives the Bulls a boost to possibly win this one. I know it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things since they'll get destroyed by Milwaukee if they make it out of the play-in, but a few good games in the play-in could be fun.

Kopech's a bit easy to fluster when he's on the mound, so I'm sure him giving up that many homers on what he thought was some good pitches was messing with his head. It's true that only one curve was actually hit for a homer, but when you can easily eliminate one pitch based on a tip, it helps a lot. He was also only throwing the change to lefties and I don't think Conforto got a single one so it was pretty easy to tell when he was gonna get a fastball. And like you said, he was hanging the slider a lot, so non-flared glove was either a heater or a bad slider. And a flared one was a curve. What's worse is that nobody on the staff apparently fixed the issue. They maybe just told him to stop throwing the curve since he only threw it once yesterday. But the tip is still obviously there. Curve: Non-Curve:

He only threw 1 curve yesterday, but it looks like he's still doing it. Curveball: Non-Curve It's so obvious too.

Another great breakdown from Jomboy about how Kopech was tipping his pitches against the Giants. Kind of explains how he rebounded well today.