saskjayfan

Stripling is clearly going to go 6 scoreless today..lol. It's like the baseball gods are looking down laughing at us.

we have no chance against Cy Yarbrough. We can never hit him.

tough inning for Thornton....couldn't get the borderline call, an error and a homerun to right field barely get's over the wall to the smallest part of the park. Terrible luck.

one vote for traditional umps vs robo umps. Got it lol. I have no problem with the strike zone as long as it's consistent.

pitchtrax would argue with you, but it barely clipped the zone. Clearly a pitch that could go either way.

If you read my post, I said we're probably unfairly piling on to what seem like mistakes in hindsight when good decisions go unnoticed. There seems to a couple situational points that Montoyo continually does the same thing and we haven't seen positive results. I know. We're not allowed to complain about managers. They don't matter. You should probably just lock this thread.

On the bunt both Pat and Buck said put the runners in motion. Choi was crashing in. He was on the grass and as the pitching was winding up he started coming in. There was no way to stop Semien from getting to third. In a game earlier in the season when tampa had the bunt on, they pulled it after the first pitch because Biggio was playing in on the grass. Then once Margot hit a 108 mph ball right between Biggio's legs Montoyo threw Biggio under the bus saying he has to come up with that play. 108 on a line when you're 75 feet away. Biggio had no chance. It was obvious Margot wasn't going to bunt in that situation by the 4th or 5th pitch when he hit the rocket. If charlie had read the situation any reasonably hard contact to the left side would have had a very high chance of getting through. If he had sent Semien on the 2nd or 3rd pitch Semien would have easily taken third and we would have had runners on the corners with none out and Espinal could have hit away. When Charlie intentionally walked the guy in extra's and he immediately took second to put 2 runners in scoring position with one out, I was yelling at my TV. Then another free pass to load the bases. It's one thing to play match ups when you don't have an at bat and the next run wins. We had an at bat. We lost the game by 2 runs because of the 2 free passes Montoyo gave the other team. Putting Bergen in instead of Romano seemed baffling. You don't play lefty righty match ups when the game is on the line. You put out your best arm, who's used to the situation. Bergen has a career walk rate of 5.5 per 9 and he's never been in high leverage situations. It's like pinch hitting McGuire for Vlad because a tough righty is on the mound. You'd never do it. There was no reason to bring in Bergen over Romano who thrives in those situations. Managers, players, GMs. They all make mistakes. I need to see Montoyo learn from these mistakes and adjust similar situations arise as the season continues. He's not going anywhere, so hopefully there's some self reflection and we do some things different in the future. To be fair, there's been games this season, he's pulled all the right strings and we've won games and those decisions go unnoticed. You don't get credit for the good, you just get killed for the bad that is far more obvious. It's just been a tough stretch. The problem is you go through a tough stretch like this and some questionable decisions and the players start to question the manager. Hopefully it ends today and we can get a W!

and Vlad was never going to be great just 10 months ago. People throwing the towel in on Pearson make me laugh.

that's garbage. Chatwood didn't have it today. If he had brought in Romano we'd have had the victory. The gap is mostly our s***** manager.

f*** charlie. Don't put a player who's not used to this situation in there when we are on a 4 game losing streak. Why the f*** is he pitching to a 4th batter. This is beyond ridiculous. What is jordan romano doing today?

They picked up his option for next year before they had to. None of the decisions in today's game made any sense in regards to modern game day theory. It's not worth getting worked up about though. He's not going anywhere. He does what he's told.

f*** off charlie

Ok....can we please drive in this run and win this one here in the 10th.

It seems odd that whoever makes the lineup didn't find a way to get Rowdy in the lineup against Boston. A team he had good vibes against and a team he absolutely torched last year and now he starts against Glasnow. It's almost as if they want him to fail. Rowdy put up a really good AB against Barnes last night. I hope he get's a knock against Glasnow.

definitely new age Grichuk. He was looking to shoot that to right. He barely swung. He never would have done that 2 years ago.

Davis with a base hit.....good thing I'm not managing..lol

one thing Jano does is run well for a catcher.

I would have pinch hit Rowdy here.

It's really not that funny.

He split time as a starter and a reliever. It's easier to have a lower xFIP as a reliever when you're not facing an order 3 times in a night. He's also had some injuries. He's only pitched 457 innings for his career. That's just over 2 season's for a starter. It's entirely possible the league has made adjustments to what he was doing and what made him successful in his early years. His xFIP is well over 4 the last 2 years. Of course, not having a pitcher to strike out doesn't help things either. I'll give him a couple more starts, but he might just not be as good as I had hoped for. Hopefully he can turn it around.

we can't find any holes today.

At a boy Semien! Come on 3 more!

It's OK gruber. I'm drinking too. This game is pissing me off!

f***...randall hits it hard right at the 1st baseman and Gurriel hits it 390 to dead center. Could Richards be any luckier than he's been tonight.

Richards has 3 strikeouts. He's walked 4, given up 3 doubles and 2 singles and somehow he's only given up 1 run. Talk about a fluky outing. Maybe it's just not our night.