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Does ANY team want to win the second NL Wild Card spot?
The Brewers, Pirates and Braves aren’t acting like teams that want to.
Plus Daniel Hudson and Erik Cordier give us the feel good moments of the week.
It is a glass half full and glass half empty episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
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He’s good.
I mean he is VERY good. As in “Probably going to the Hall of Fame” good.
King Felix Hernandez seems to be in the top 3 in just about every single category there can be for a pitcher. And today, with the Mariners needing a win on the road and facing another damn good pitcher in Jon Lester, he went 8 innings, allowing a run on a solo homer, letting up just 3 hits and lowering his ERA to 2.18.
A big game pitcher came up big and heaven help any team facing him in a one game playoff.
Heaven hasn’t been helping the A’s who dropped the final two to the Mariners by 1 run and are running out of time to get their act together.
This team can not be a one and done team… or can they?
I guess I should update the Dodged Bullet/Teeth Grinder tally.
An explanation of what this is all about can be found HERE.
GIANTS DODGED BULLET – TEETH GRINDER Tally
Buster Posey gave the Giants a 2-1 lead in the 5th, but then the roof caved in. The Rockies bombarded Vogelsong and scored 4 in the 5th and 4 in the 6th to win the finale, 9-2. TEETH GRINDER
52 Dodged Bullets 48 Teeth Grinders
TOTAL: +4
A’S DODGED BULLET – TEETH GRINDER Tally
Jon Lester pitched 8 strong innings, but he let up 2 solo homers compared to Felix Hernandez letting up 1 solo homer. In the end, that was the difference as the A’s lost to Seattle, 2-1. TEETH GRINDER
49 Dodged Bullets 47 Teeth Grinders
TOTAL: +2
RED SOX DODGED BULLET – TEETH GRINDER Tally
Dodged Bullets 59 Teeth Grinders 71
TOTAL: -12
Giants have passed the A’s in Dodged Bullet/Teeth Grinder. Who would have thought that?
There is no Bay Area Baseball tomorrow… maybe that is for the best.
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