Pablo López
vs
Sean Burke
A frustrating start to yesterday's game but a great finish. Now for when this game will happen, who knows except "today".
I too believe that is likely
— James Fegan (@jrfegan.soxmachine.com) 2025-04-02T16:31:30.684Z
It's not like they are geographically close or play each other multiple times. Got to get it in today.
Something something. This one ends a day before the green day celebration so I get two weeks to think of jokes for that.
SIMPLY HAVING A WORDLEFUL CHRISTMASTIME AND NEW YEAR'S!
Overall interest may have waned but it's still the World Series and it's the final few games of the 2024 MLB season.
Full slate of games today!
Cleveland at Detroit, 2:08 p.m. TBS
Philadelphia at New York, 4:08 p.m. FS1
New York at Kansas City, 6:08 p.m. TBS
Los Angeles at San Diego, 8:08 p.m. FS1
Detroit at Houston, 1:32 p.m.
Kansas City at Baltimore, 3:38 p.m.
New York at Milwaukee, 6:38 p.m.
Atlanta at San Diego, 7:38 p.m.
Road teams went 3-1 yesterday so there may be a few upsets today.
ALWC1: DET at HOU
ALWC2: KC at BAL
NLWC1: NYM at MIL
NLWC2: ATL at SD
ALDS1: ALWC2 at NYY
ALDS2: ALWC1 at CLE
NLDS1: NLWC2 at LAD
NLDS2: NLWC1 at PHI
ALCS:
NLCS:
World Series:
Valente Bellozo
vs
David Festa
Festa first two games: 10.80 ERA and 7.06 FIP.
Festa in 11 games since: 3.60 ERA and 3.28 FIP.
At least something has gone right over the past month.
Because this has not:
Bailey Ober
vs
Tanner Bibee
Twins should be up 2-0 this series but at least they have not fully collapsed and are at 1-1.
In non-pitching news, Buxton played his 94th game yesterday, the highest total since 2017's 140 (!!?) games. In his 94 games, he's accumulated 3.4 fWAR. Getting to 120 games next year could put him at a 4+ fWAR season.
Jack Kochanowicz
vs
Zebby Matthews
One game isn't enough to cleanse the ineptitude of the prior week but it's certainly nice to see.
This is Kochanowicz's rookie season and he has an interesting pitching line so far. He's pitched 38 ⅔ innings and struck out merely 12. To be fair to him, he spent the first four months of the season in AA. He hasn't been terrible, but duplicating Nick Blackburn's line in 2024 is a tough thing to do.
