Laika

okay but somebody give IKF the memo because I believe he has struck out looking in important spots twice now lol

Hoffman the scapegoat but the offense was the bigger issue. They should have been expected to put up 6+ runs last night. Springer not putting the ball in play with the go ahead run on 3rd and 1 out was gross. Vlad doing nothing against the pitchers he faced, shameful. John Schneider benching his own son Davis and using three other RHB replacements before him was a sackable offense

So in the playoffs the thing other teams should do against Toronto is just surprise them and throw their SP5 for game 1. They'll have no idea what to do with 90 poo. Jason Alexander is 33% changeups and 40% 90mph sinkers I understand that the changeup is good and maybe his command was on but realllllly all they had to do was sit on one pitch or the other the entire AB and swing for the fences Javier should at least be a more standard PA with his average velo fastball so hopefully Vlad doesn't let 12 horrendous swings loose like last night

She's 49. I dunno what the aging curve is for umpires but it's not like her eyes and reaction times are going to get better at 50+ All downhill from here. Hopefully she develops a huge edge and just becomes a sideshow, for entertainment reasons. When the challenge system comes into play the umps will matter less anyway. The system will erase all of the big mistakes.

It's completely asinine and I am not happy about it. I would rather see Davis Schneider up there in these spots, going for a big result. He should be above France and IKF and be the #1 RHB pinch hitter. First up in a big spot. Last night was insane. It was Steven Okert. They pinch hit IKF for Barger, then France for Loperfido, then let Gimenez hit... all in the 8th inning... while their best RHB pinch hitter sat and watched...

Feel bad for Varland He looked great and threw strike 3 to Walker but ump blew it

Weird tries against Alexander Not sure what they are getting fooled by

Don't wanna jinx him but Berrios' fastball has some action to it tonight. Stuff looks good.

As win!

Kremer, Sugano, Morton, Gibson, Povich, Young, broken Eflin Hilarious!!!! This collection of AAA or NPB or should-be-retired quality SP makes Jose Berrios look like Curt Schilling!!!!

A lot to prove for 2026. Chip on shoulder team.

Yeah the home-road reality tilts things even more. The Jays have more home games, where they are great and the Yankees have a bad road trip left. That matters. Boston has a lot of home games left though, so that kind of sucks.

Good point. 37-38 on the road, they are a different team away from Sacramento. Sox also lost Roman Anthony of course.

In light of the above I feel like we should want Boston to take 2 of 3 from New York this weekend. Take the series, hang two Ls on the Yankees, but don't sweep and come out of it with extreme confidence. Yes, Boston and Toronto still play and if BOS inches closer and sweeps Toronto it could be problematic, but aside from that, Boston has less games remaining to pile up wins if they get hot and they have the harder schedule remaining so they are generally more likely to lose against these stray remaining opponents, compared to New York.

Jays +3 games on BOS and NYY with 18 games remaining for TOR and NYY and 16 for BOS Tie breaker makes that a +4 lead and BOS/NYY need to pass Toronto. .500 from here has TOR with 92 wins so NYY needs to go 13-5 to flip, BOS needs to go 12-4.... very unlikely to flip 10-8 has TOR with 93 wins. NYY and BOS need to go 14-4 or 13-3... almost insurmountable And BOS and NYY have a 3 game series between each other starting Friday so there are three guaranteed losses being allocated to them. Fangraphs now projects 93 wins for Toronto. The 74.4% and 73.8% odds for winning the division and clinching a bye seem a bit light to me. They have become, essentially, the same question because NYY and BOS are more likely to be the 2nd best division winner than Houston or some other AL West team. Toronto just needs to *not collapse* and the division and bye are theirs. Boston remaining games: ATH x4 (cake) NYY x3 (battle) TBR x3 (not cake) TOR x3 (battle) DET x3 (not cake, DET might rest guys, but still might face Skubal) Yankees remaining games: DET x2 (battle) BOS x3 (battle) MIN x3 (cake... but could get shut down my Zebby or Taj Bradley I guess) BAL x3 (not cake... they could have to face Rogers and Bradish) CHW x3 (cake) BAL x3 (not cake) Can definitely see NYY going 12-6 and BOS going 11-5 or something but hard to see either team doing better than that or running the table.

Caleb Joseph was all over Altuve on the post game. Said he watched the replays on the Vlad throw and Altuve wasn't even running for his first 10 steps. Completely dogging it! Unforgivable!!! And then on the Vlad hustle grounder, Altuve cut off Pena and was late on the throw. Maybe trying to make up for his baserunning blunder. Should have let the shortstop take it. Unforgivable!!!!!!!

Astros are apparently 23-32 in their last 55 games so Toronto is getting them at a good time. A real swoon. I had no real idea until I went to an Astros message board as midnight for fap material and saw that factoid. Gotta win this series and just keep winning series. Sweeps are fun but not required. Just do business from here on.

Funny that is was Vlad vs. Altuve on both of those plays Youth vs. Geezer Altuve looked tired and washed up in both instances

Their bullpen is GASSED. Six RP used last night and three of them (Abreu, King, Blubaugh) are not going to be available. Maybe King I guess if they are desperate. ASTROS BULLPEN 09-10-2025 Steven Okert - crafty lefty closer who threw 17 P last night Craig Kimbrel - Mr. should have retired could throw back to back and for the 5th time in 7 games because f*** it he's old Enyel De Los Santos - DFAd by the Braves this year and sucked last night but could throw again, back to back and for the 4th time in 7 games Jayden Murray - 28 year old with 2 MLB innings (to be honest, might be their setup man tonight) Lance McCullers - is he a long man? What is he? JP France - same question. He was getting nuked in AAA. If the Jays can get Alexander out early, he and his 5.05 FIP, then they are probably just feasting on France/McCullers. Tasty.

The Astros' lineup is pretty meh. You need to get around Yordan but there is nothing else too scary in there. Altuve and Correa are not who they once were. Pena is overperforming. The other players are just league average kind of hitters. Berrios can definitely get through this with an ugly quality start.

Paid his dues in Pittsburgh and was even lucky enough to not get stabbed by Tommy Pham My man Isaiah

Jomboy has been saying the same thing for months

Not sports cards But, found a tin of 30 year old magic cards in my parents' attic and some of these things are worth $100 each lol. For lightly played cards. Crazy.

Yeah huge night for the pen. Maybe the pen has turned a corner. Although Little did miss the zone a lot and Walker bailed him out on that strikeout swing lol

Dude has cancer he's decided to just speak facts from now on