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Aaron Judge even hits HRs off Zack Wheeler (38). So does Jazz Chisholm (playing 3B for now).
Yanx lead Phils 3-1 at the Bank

Braves will be in Milwaukee to start the week

Padres face the Dodgers starting tomorrow

Cardinals hosting Texas

White Sox are currently on pace to go 40-122.

I may be misremembering, but at the 1/3 point, it seemed like the three teams going nowhere were Miami, Denver, and Oakland.

So it's pretty surprising get to the 2/3 point, and see that the White Sox are having a far worse season than any of them.

OE: Looking back to May 31, yeah, Chicago was doing pretty terribly back then also. Heck, they were 6-24 on April 30. This is apparently who they were all along.

Gerritt Cole was scratched from tonight's start in Philly due to "general body fatigue", a medical condition which may be a euphemism
for 'getting his ass kicked by the Mets twice during a short span'. Either answer is acceptable; I'm leaning towards choice 'B' myself.

Will Warren makes his ML debut for the Yanx facing Aaron Nola. 1 - 1 after 1

4-1 Phills. 3 run homer by Austin Hayes. That name should belong to an MFY. It just does.

Later

Jizz has homered twice tonight (4 RBI) and the talking heads on radio are already calling him "The spark the MFYs needed".
I'ma' wanna' barf.
Phils losing 5-4.
Later

Somehow the Yanx/Phils game, which started a half hour prior to ours, is just now in the bottom of the 7th

Talk about closers having a bad night (this was from Monday in Arizona).

After the Nats had leads of 6-0 and 8-2, closer Kyle Finnegan came on in bottom 9th to close out a seemingly simple 8-4 lead
What followed instead was: TRIPLE - SINGLE - HR - Line-out (deep RF) - SINGLE - HR
The DBacks win pct went from under 2% to start the inning to 4%, 9%, 20%, 11%, 21%, 100%

And if you're not gaining ground then you're losing it. Tuesday's NYM win kept them from losing ground to:
ATL - who were 5-1 winners in Milwaukee
StL - 8-1 over Texas
ARZ - they dispensed with the late inning drama this time and knocked off the Nats 17-0
PIT - 6-2 for their second straight win over Houston
SDP - scored twice in the 9th then once more in the 10th for a walk-off vs LAD

Among NL WC contenders only the Giants lost.
Also the Phils dropped their second straight so the NL East tightened up a bit.
Mets now 8 games behind the Phils which sounds like a lot (and it is) but less so when you consider they were 17.5 out on June 11
So the Mets gained 9.5 on the Phils since 6/11, 7.0 on the Braves, and went from 2.5 behind WAS to 8.5 ahead

Pre-season #1 prospect Jackson Holliday recalled by the Orioles.
He hopes to improve on his two week stint earlier in the year.
He almost can't NOT improve [2-for-34 w/18 Ks].

The White Sox have lost a franchise-record 17 consecutive games.

Their record is now 27-84 .243. In last place (obviously), 40 games behind the Guardians.

They're now on pace to finish with a record of 39-123.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:04 pm The White Sox have lost a franchise-record 17 consecutive games.

Their record is now 27-84 .243. In last place (obviously), 40 games behind the Guardians.

They're now on pace to finish with a record of 39-123.

We need a four-game series with them!

Or a 17-game series!

The Mets will be going to visit the White Sox for a three-game series beginning August 30. By then, the Sox will probably be the hottest team in MLB.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:35 pm Or a 17-game series!

The Mets will be going to visit the White Sox for a three-game series beginning August 30. By then, the Sox will probably be the hottest team in MLB.

I can actually go and see one of those games! Awesome!

If there are seats available!

I was in Chicago about 5 or 6 years ago and took in a White Sox game (they lost to the Red Sox). Starting around May of this year I started getting regular emails from them letting me know there are seats available. So, I guess there are seats available.

Mike Trout shut down for the season.

Games played since 2021: 36, 119, 82, 29, or about 41% of Angels games.
The last time he played 150+ games was 2016

I guess Blake Snell can handle the third time through the lineup after all.

Gleyber Torres (once again) loafed to 1st, this time turning a shot off the wall into a single.
He then got thrown out at the plate to end the inning on a subsequent double.
The only difference this time is that Boone pulled him from the game.

Buster Olney said today that if the White Sox won every game for the rest of the season they'd still finish 10 games under.

I see their losing streak has reached twenty games. The White Sox are 27-87, .237, which projects to a final record of 38-124.

Buster's math is a little off (or outdated). The best the White Sox can do is go 75-87, which is twelve games under.

That seems unlikely to happen.

To avoid 120 losses, they'll need to win at least a third of their remaining 48 games. A 16-32 record the rest of the way would leave them at 43-119.

The White Sox have now lost 21 consecutive games.

This ties the season-opening streak that the Orioles suffered through in 1988.

In modern (since 1900) history, only one team has had a longer losing streak; the 1961 Phillies lost 23 in a row.

Houston is playing in Arlington and Framber Valdez has been perfect through five.

Perfecto is gone, but he has a no-hitter through eight.

We now have White Sox news, in-game comments, and out of town scores all in last week's TWiB Notes thread.
It's this kind of sloppy posting that is keeping us out of the WC position.