There were definitely moments this week where I thought that I'd posted my last game log of the year. It might be this one instead.
It's been a lot of fun having baseball back, particularly because Newbish has gotten obsessed with baseball over the past month or so. He seems to have acquired the taste in roughly the same way I did... Baseball cards. That 2019 pack of Topps Heritage I got for him has become his prized possession. He pores over them on the way to school; he imitates the poses he sees on the fronts of the cards (action poses are great and all, but there is something awesome about those cheesy, almost yearbook looking poses on old baseball cards); he's enjoyed watching the games (Kepler and Cruz are his heroes, mostly because he's seen them both Homer). Most importantly, he's gained a ton of interest in hitting an playing catch. It's great.
All of this is to say is that baseball needst stop trying to ruin baseball. Players, stay home. MLB, have a plan beyond "20-something dudebros not behaving like 20-something dudebros". Figure this out.
Kenta Maeda gets the start tonight. He was pretty solid in his first appearance, and the Spiders don't have anywhere near the lineup that Chicago does. I'm expecting that we might actually see our first six inning start tonight.
Weekly family Zoom is done, so I can pay a little attention to the game now.
A good old fashioned Mow 'em Down Inning.
SANOOOOOOOO!
That works
Sano storm in August.
Eddie baby!
Rosy scenario.
eddie bomba!
Few things better than playing catch with your kids. Great write up. Thank you.
A rare solid challenge even if not overturned.
no hitter gets broke up on a 80 foot chopper. ouch
Beaut!
SANOOOOOO!!!! SANOOOOOO!!!!
SANOOOOOOOO
I think that ball never went above 15 feet off the ground
He's back on track for now, Citizens
Sano ball.
SANO-NO!!
Sano found his Bauer.
Dazzle: Maeda best fielding pitcher in Nippon 5 times. TIme for that Sobakawa pillow, fella.
I love keep glancing at Gameday and seeing "Kenta" and "3 outs"
GarveSauce needs a hit
Carrasco lost his special sauce.
He did walk Rosario on four pitches.
Too bad Luis can't get a good strike zone from blue
He seems to get a lot of bad strike calls.
2 team shutouts in 4 days is pretty good!
Suck on it, non-Bieber-started Indians!