It’s summer and the Dodgers are 9 games up in the NLWest.
Life is good.
the Dodgers have the best record in the NL and the giants are in the toilet like they’re supposed to be life is very good 
I cannot believe how terrible the Blue Jays are. I expected them to be bad, but they’re way past that. The Vegas over/under on their wins this year was 77 and I should have bet my house on it. 57 looks likely.
The Jays are hitting .219 AS A TEAM. That is the team batting average. Only three players on the team have an OPS+ above 100, and two - Eric Sogard and Vladdy Jr. - haven’t played the whole season, and Sogard is 7-for-39 in his last ten games so he was likely a fluke.
The scary thing is they’re now talking about trading away Marcus Stroman and Aaron Sanchez. The team has literally no one to replace them with; no starting pitcher in Buffalo appears remotely capable of pitching in the major leagues. The team has some really good hitting prospects but no hurler has panned out at all.
It’s absolutely the worst Blue Jays team since I started watching baseball, and with no pitching prospects anywhere near the majors, the medium term future isn’t looking great.
After getting smoked by Tampa Bay last Thursday, the Twins finished May and started June by taking 3 in a row in their 4 game set with the Rays. I’m just gonna keep enjoying the ride as far as it goes with this Twins team as right now they are just really fun to watch. Most of the press goes to all the runs they’re scoring, but the starting pitching is really having a heck of a year too!
The Twins should go get Kimbrel.
If my Dodgers run everyone else in the division to double-digit games behind leader I’m going to start running out of things to talk about. Recently, they brought up a kid catcher for a taste of the Bigs, and all he did the other night was hit the walk-off homer. We may be auditioning some youth to trade for some relief, but I hope he’s not part of a package.
Yanks are still winning at a great rate with a ducktape and bailing wire roster but are now seeing those on the IL start coming back. Betances & Judge are getting close.
Yanks just drafted a local kid , Anthony Volpe from Morristown, NJ in the first round. He’s a SS.
It looks like they might sign Dallas Keuchel, if they do I think it means they’re worried about Severino.
Didi will be next, and maybe Stanton too, before Judge and Betances. I can’t wait to see Kendrys Morales released. They should get Kuechel regardless of what happens with Sevy. This the year to go for it.
Don’t look now, but the Nats are creeping back into the NL East race. They’ve won 8 out of 10 and are just 6 games back of the Phillies. The bullpen seems to have recouped a modicum of competence and the bats are waking up.
Yankees lose to the Jays. Giants win.
Life is good.
The sexfecta is Yankees, Cubs and Braves lose; Mets, Red Sox and Indians win.
Not that common these days.
In other heavily consequential news, Pirates announcers have moved ahead in the race for dumbest on-air comments, mostly in the genre of these-young-players-nowadays.
This doesn’t include the priceless back-and-forth during a game the other night against the Brewers. Milwaukee had a 5-2 lead when I tuned in the radio broadcast, and the Pirates play-by-play and color guy were having a great time ridiculing an alleged Brewer baserunning mistake that they speculated could cost the Brewers more runs and ultimately the game (one went so far as to express confidence that the Pirates would now come back and win).
Final score: Brewers 11, Pirates 5.
There’s lots of competition for broadcast dickheads, but these guys are trying to set the standard.
Kimbrel to the Cubs.
And sorely needed, too. And it’s reported to be a multi-year deal.
Andrew McCutchen is out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL.
Really?Disappointed by this,i still have hope for him.
The Yankees looked like they’d never lose again, the Blue Jays looked like they’d never win again, and so of course, the Yankees go to Toronto to pick up some easy wins and promptly lose the first two. Baseball is weird.
Well, 5 out of 6 last night (Cubs spoiled the sexfecta by winning) isn’t bad.
Another Immaculate Inning for Sale. This is the third time in MLB history that one pitcher has pitched the two most recent ones. The other two were Sandy Koufax and Lefty Grove.
Will the Red Sox have any kind of appreciation day for Mike Yastrzemski when the Giants play on Sept. 17?
Or will he just have a really long standing ovation for his first time at bat?
Carl could throw out the first ball to Mike. That would be cool.
Nifty little aside from that game: Guerrero’s eighth-inning homer was the first time Zack Britton was taken yard on a below-the-strike-zone sinker.
That’s after 2,475 below-k-zone sinkers.