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Frank Maraschino's avatar

Siani promoted to AA

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Robert Kasperski's avatar

Mitchie the Kid took care of business. Hope he gets on a roll!

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Mel Schuster - emjayinTN's avatar

Pitching and Defense. Anyone take a look at the number of Ground Balls? 15 - that has to be getting close to a record, especially since two of them went for double plays. We've seen both ends of the pitching spectrum in two wins - Jones with a big number of Strikeouts, and Keller with throwing 15 ground balls, and errorless defensive support from the infield.

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Robert Kasperski's avatar

Whoop whoop!!!! 17 down and 126 to go! A new streak is born!!!

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Green Weenie's avatar

Brault does a nice job in postgame.

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HeyFred's avatar

Dude's a natural. I'd call him up and DFA Neil Walker.

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bmcferren's avatar

Brault wants the play-by-play job

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bucsws2024's avatar

Five tool player. Can talk pitching, can talk hitting, has the looks, has humor, and can even sing.

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StatsCbl's avatar

I might be the only guy who likes Neil Walker.

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TNBucs's avatar

I also really like Walker. Walk would be my second favorite but I'm also fine with all of our analysts. Maybe I'm just a homer and can't not like them after rooting for them as players. I think they tend to be better than what I hear from other teams, with the exception of Darling who is the best.

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brooklyn pirate's avatar

I'm fine w/ Walker. He's a bit of a chatterbox, but he knows what he's talking about, and I really don't mind the enthusiasm, especially compared to sourpusses like Wehner and Walk. Young, on the other hand....It's astonishing to me they let that guy on the air. Could they find a deader sounding voice?

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Robert Kasperski's avatar

I like Walker and Young both for their knowledge but Walker is hard to listen to for 9 innings and Young reminds me of those 3 hour evening class lectures that I had 40 years ago. They always spoke in a low monotone…..Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Frank Maraschino's avatar

A lot of people don’t like Kevin Young but his snoozy soporific drone really keeps my blood pressure down when the Pirates are shitting the bed.

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bmcferren's avatar

yes - in my opinion that is the point of listening to the game

I also like Young because he is roving hitting instructor on his days off and knows about guys since early in their minor league days

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Green Weenie's avatar

🤣

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StatsCbl's avatar

I was a big Steve Blass fan. Now I would be fine if they rotated announcers.

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1979andCounting's avatar

Two bright spots: Mitch with a CG 5-hitter. And we are getting a timely hit by different guys in the past 3: Cruz, Jack, and Olivares. Sometimes that gets contagious.

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Jim's avatar

Crisply played game. Might have been under 2 hours.

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Scott Kliesen's avatar

1:55 to be exact.

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Robert Kasperski's avatar

Even got out of work early and still missed the final out. Lol!

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Green Weenie's avatar

Mitchell Thomas Wentworth Dansforth Keller Jr. with one hell of an outing. Great job Mitch!!!

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SufferinBuccotash's avatar

Sounds like a robber baron from the early 20th century...

"BELVIDERE! Come here boy!"

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HeyFred's avatar

Pride of Cedar Rapids, IA

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Tom's avatar

I can’t even tell if that is half truth or what with the name

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theobserver's avatar

No. His real name is Mitchard with no middle name.

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Scott Kliesen's avatar

Vintage Mitch tonight.

#RaiseIt

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Jim's avatar

Mitch getting the 8th? Pitch count says yes.

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WTM's avatar

Assuming he doesn't get into trouble in the 8th, the big question is the 9th.

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Aurorus Borealus's avatar

I think he does better with all of his pitchers when it gets warmer. He seems to struggle in cooler weather. Game time temp said about 71 degrees tonight... so we starting to move into Keller season? Maybe?

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Scott Kliesen's avatar

But not many whiffs. Is he good enough to draw weak contact consistently?

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MWT's avatar

I don’t know how much of it is mental, but Oneil sure does get frequent visits from the training staff..

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StatsCbl's avatar

His facial expressions make it look like he is hurt most of the time.

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Green Weenie's avatar

Love how our coaches baby these guys. Good grief.

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Scott Kliesen's avatar

I hope Cruz isn’t one of those fragile players.

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AdministrativeSky236's avatar

Didnt look like a bad pitch on gameday…

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Scott Kliesen's avatar

Keller caught too much of the plate.

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WTM's avatar

Moniak, Tucker, Calhoun -- LAA is like the island of lost prospects.

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Aurorus Borealus's avatar

They inflicted a Nutting on themselves with the Rendon deal. Now they can't cover all their positions with MLB-caliber players, and it has a cascading effect... calling guys up too soon... ruining prospects.. and so forth. Familiar story.

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Scott Kliesen's avatar

The signing that everyone knew would be bad the day it was consummated. Needed pitching, not him.

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NMR's avatar

it'll take a hell of a lot more than Anthony Rendon's salary to fix that club, brother.

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Aurorus Borealus's avatar

Yeah. They are a trainwreck.

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MWT's avatar

Michael A. Taylor hasn’t had much luck thus far and is striking out too much, but just about every game I’ve seen him play recently he either hits one to the warning track or rips one that has the distance but goes foul. Feels like he’s getting close.

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StatsCbl's avatar

I wonder how many of those were homers for him in Minnesota last year.

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