CHC 8, LAD 4

This was a wild one that had baseball Twitter fuming over IBBs and poor ol' "Say It Ain't So" Joe Blan'on getting pwned by a pinch-hitter, and yeah, I guess Roberts made some "dumb" moves, or got the percentages flipped, or whatever you want to say. I wouldn't have played with that kind of fire given this offense, but it could have worked.

What it did do was bring some of the only sincere joy or wonderment I've heard from Buckwad during a baseball game in several years. Like, narrating that Montero mama, he actually sounded like he didn't hate being there/Jack Buck's kid. It was nice.

Too bad Smoltz made "up" for it with incomprehensible attempts to slam "stat guys." FFS, retired players: get over it. And we're not all guys. And shut up.

(Not you, Pete Rose. Your making it awkward by inviting yourself on A-Rod's plane is in my top three things that happened yesterday.)

ANYWAY. Points:

Baez 4
Bryant 4
Rizzo, continuing to goddamn kill us -3
Russell, don't help -4
Zobrist 1

Lester 8

***

Seager -2
Turner 1

Maeda 6 (yep, that includes his lone futile base)

Money/standings after the jump!


I predicted incorrectly...but the money has changed!

Simone 106.33
Williams 103.33
Stempel 100

MacEachern 96.34
Yuhan 2 95.34

Bingham 2 76

Ekard 72.33
Shotwell 70.67

Shee/Bell 64.33

Currie 57
Cameron 1 56.33

Johnson 1, Drake 54.33
Reid Love 53.67
Yuhan 1 53.33
Arbour 52.67

Johnson 2 49.66
Bauer 1 49.33
Bingham 1 47

Bunting 2 43.67
Broomfield 41
Reid Hate 40

Quinn 39.67
Cameron 2 39.33
Brady 36
Green 35.66
Bunting 35.33

Bauer 2 30

Winklepleck 29.33

Elodie:

It's a travel day for the AL, but some of the middlers in the rankings are looking for a solid Hendricks outing to let them storm the castle. Curtain goes up on that drama at 8 ET on FS1.