TWiB Notes - July 29 thru Aug 4

[Frayed Knot]

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

[Benjamin Grimm]

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

[Edgy MD]

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.

[Frayed Knot]

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

[MFS62]

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

Later

[MFS62]

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

[Frayed Knot]

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

[Frayed Knot]

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%

[Frayed Knot]

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

[Frayed Knot]

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].

[Benjamin Grimm]

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.

[Bob Alpacadaca]

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!

[Benjamin Grimm]

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.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

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!

[Edgy MD]

If there are seats available!

[cal sharpie]

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.

[Frayed Knot]

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

[Edgy MD]

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

[Frayed Knot]

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.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

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.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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.

[Edgy MD]

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

[Edgy MD]

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

[Frayed Knot]

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.