With an advance of a point in the 9th, walking the leading striker in front of Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto and Pete Alonso, is like having to jump the Grand Canyon with a transport of your choice, then to ask for it with blades to rollerblad.
But Porter Hodge is a Bad Man-Lovin ‘-lovin’ Bad Man. A double game of Lindor and a Soto development later, and the game ended with Alonso standing there to watch.
A big thank you to Miguel Amaya for what ended up being a simple two -point in the 8th, and to Big Ups in Inby Swanson on another strong offensive match. It is extremely hot right now.
The move of Brad Keller’s opening worked on the lease, while he was sailing in the first, and installed things afterwards. The cubs were right. Good call.
I think you should feel damn well in the beginnings of Cade Horton, all the circumstances considered. Tips looked like Big League caliber, without a doubt. Confidence was clearly there. And he launches on the road in New York, against a very good programming. I liked what I saw.
As for the line, well, he launched a very, very bad pitch in Brett Baty (a cursor from top to bottom on the third party, exactly where a left striker likes to pull the ball), and paid it with a three -point circuit. It was not exactly crushed (98.9 MPH of the bat and just a BA expected .380), but not a place where you can make this kind of error, especially for a striker who otherwise may not be able to injure yourself. An learning experience, and also a kind of thing that will happen.
Of course, perhaps I am unfair to Baty, a former best hope that had trouble, but who also struck a two-point circuit (on a fast belt ball) by Julian Merryweather (and also dominated last night). I can be magnanimous and say that he obtains the honors of the player of the law on the Ankin law, although I am very bored about it.
Most importantly, however: the cubs obtain the “W.”
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