“The last of us” always has the juice. The maneuver made with this week’s episode was just a little artistic talent and confidence.
- The nature that was walking from a loss like last night makes you focus on the last moments, but there are always other songs in a game in a turn that could have gone otherwise. The foot of the foot of bullets on his slide, which made a board race and gave the Marlins a key. The 7th round of the deep fly of Nico Hoerner who would have left 19 other balls of the ball, but not this one. The safety safe near Jesus Sanchez in the 5th and the stolen base in complete safety and safe, which has turned into a marlins race. If one of these things changes a few centimeters in the right place, the game may have finished differently.
- Heck, even if you focus on the last moment, the triple winner of the game missed Michael Busch’s tense glove at least one foot. The game could have turned the opposite right right with just a fraction of a fraction of a different rebound.
- I will have much more to say on the start of Ben Brown and the injury to wear Hodge soon. On the pitching side, I will rather discuss here the release of Daniel Palencia, who was in a field to be a perfect backup. First of all, Craig Counsell, who used Palencia there because Hodge was not available:
Craig advises on the release of Daniel Palencia. pic.twitter.com/dk72bsv8at
– Marquee Sports Network (@watchmarquee) May 20, 2025
- A 0-2 suspended cursor which turned into a double, a mainly non-competitive walk to the number new number, then a rocket tower in the first base line for a walk. He went from fantastic to nightmare in the blink of an eye. It may be a Flukey thing, and you don’t want to hypotheses what a guy can or cannot manage. But when it is the 9th round, we know that the pressure of this situation strikes some guys differently from the others, and I do not like to see what looked a bit like an immediate overview after a bad ground suspended.
- I am still a supporter of Palencia, at least with regard to the current group of readers, and he has a 2.30 MPM this season even after last night. It is very solid. But I’m not sure he will get the next closer filling shot (who, with Porter Hodge now, will go see someone soon). Good in Palencia to get up and discuss the release after the match:
“I worked hard, I feel good. It’s just, it’s baseball, you know? It happens. “
Daniel Palencia when it was released. pic.twitter.com/d8rqxf0cr8– Marquee Sports Network (@watchmarquee) May 20, 2025
“You have to run your locations, it didn’t happen tonight.” – Daniel Palencia pic.twitter.com/3jibichp6s– Marquee Sports Network (@watchmarquee) May 20, 2025
- You can’t read too much in a single swing, but guy, the double Matt Shaw last night was exactly what we wanted to see when he returns in the big leagues:
Matt Shaw? Matt Shaw. pic.twitter.com/zfjesapx1w
– Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) May 20, 2025
- Shaw has put a real beating on this one, and although most of its circulation power will probably have to come from the traction side, its natural approach lends itself to a lot of hard contact in the other direction.
Matt Shaw talks about the swing adjustments he made in Iowa. pic.twitter.com/si7mi5xpxj
– Marquee Sports Network (@watchmarquee) May 19, 2025
- After another big night, Miguel Amaya is up to .287 / .323 / .529 / 134 WRC + in the season. The cubs catching the tandem of Amaya and Carson Kelly strikes collectively .290 / .368 / .568 / 158 WRC +, the second best offensive line from baseball to the position. Their war from 2.2 to position is the third plus. What difference a year is, huh? At that time last year, the Cubs sensors struck. 181 / .216 / .288 / 40 WRC +.
- In a well timed room in Fangraphs, Leo Morgenstern notes that the catchers as a whole strike damn well this year (101 WRC +, when historically, we consider them about 90 WRC +). As a positional group, the catchors are in fact second basic players, cars, third basic players and central championships this year. It is the most productive two -month section the most offensive by the catchers at least the last 24 years. It’s wild, and Amaya / Kelly helped this boost.
- Oh, and to return to my initial point on how a game can turn around easily, it is probably fair to emphasize that the Marlins and Kyle Stowers were combined four inch to take five points + races:
Miguel Amaya made an enemy of Kyle Stowers. 5 rbi in these two photos 🤏 pic.twitter.com/ax74riy8wl
– Zoe Grossman (@zoe__grossman) May 20, 2025
- A very funny moment for a large card collector like Justin Steele, but be careful with this celebration:
Of course. Hot hands 🔥 🙌🏼 https://t.co/zwdiwaeywp
– Justin Steele (@ j_steele21) May 20, 2025
- Interesting theory on Miguel Vargas’ dust this weekend. I certainly hope that he was not really placed just for having done a bit of fairly standard game:
With the help of Len Kasper and Darrin Jackson, @Mattspiegs Explains the source of tension between Miguel Vargas and the Cubs on Sunday.
The end was that Vargas demanded to be hit by a late pitch, but it was a smaller detail that was important earlier. pic.twitter.com/spbheztnwa– 670 the score (@ 670thescore) May 19, 2025
- Kyle Gibson struggled badly after being a late signature by the Orioles, and they now let him go. Given the depth questions of the cubs in the rotation of Iowa, you are wondering if they will make a phone call. If they add Kenta Maeda to a minor league agreement, then there are few reasons to think that they would not think about the same thing for someone like Gibson, in whom there was a reported interest in the offseason, and was a eater slightly lower than the average in MLB in recent years (that is to say the type of veteran that you do not hate at the end of the emergency).
- There is a margin of error baked in the ABS challenge system for bullets and strikes, which (1) Duh, and (2) seems good enough to something less than half a thumb (and for which the median error is only 0.17 inches). I promise you that the margin of error in human eyes is much more than a half-puck, and we are not even talking about a complex. Just a challenge system. To anyone strengthening a margin of error in the ABS system: be real and overcome it. It is a total non-professional.
- Two consecutive days, the chatter concerned Juan Soto who is not jostling and is not satisfied with the dishes, which, just or not, is certainly not what the dishes wanted the conversation to be with the guy they have just signed for 15 years:
“I think I’m quite hard”
Juan Soto challenged the criticism of the bustle despite the fact that Carlos Mendoza said that he would tell Soto not to get the box out of a Ball of the Green Monster tonight this evening pic.twitter.com/droqm6brfj– New York Post Sports (@NypostSports) May 20, 2025
Michael Kay on Juan Soto being “ glum ” with the food this season 😬 pic.twitter.com/e20c2zqggx– Yahoo Sports (@yahoosports) May 20, 2025
- Juan Soto is one of the most talented baseball strikers, and also had a bad luck on the plate. This is a first place team. I don’t really think there will be a problem here. But we know how it goes with mega contracts, and the way fans can be very quick to light a guy if it’s not the whole sun and roses in the first months.
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