7-3, Chart

Trying not to feel too bad about this game. I mean, if you’re going to lose a game, this is the one to lose, with your emergency #6 starter on the mount and the 1-2 punch coming tomorrow and Saturday.

But still it’s annoying that Jaku pitched so well and we lost, and he got tagged with the loss on that weird fielder’s-choice-means-you-get-charged-with-the-run scoring rule. Not that pitcher W/L really means anything…and yeah, bullpen regression and all that. But Corco was pretty much playing his game, keeping the ball on the ground, and they just found holes.

A couple of notes, from where I was sitting (just 3rd base side of HP), Yuni looked pretty bad on at least 2 of the hits up the middle when Corco was on the mound. I didn’t have great perspective, but I’m wondering if anyone else thought he could have made more of an effort. To the same point that Sec 108 was making about yesterday’s game (don’t remember who was arguing the other way), it seems like he just doesn’t care on balls that he might have a chance at. I don’t expect him to dive at everything, but a few of those seemed like he should have had a shot. Lopez’s great play toward the end of the game was on a ball that looked pretty similarly hit, and he snagged it. Too bad it didn’t matter.

Second point just for fun, I was sitting next to a couple from Australia and they didn’t even know who RR-S was. I asked “I bet you were hoping to see Ryan pitch tonight, huh?” and they were like “who?”

I didn’t see what happened, but it looked like he fell or something, though I don’t see how you could fall from where he was.

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