Thursday
No plays in MLB yesterday, but a fun day nonetheless. The White Sox and Mariners conspired to produce the best Miracle Cover of the season. After 13 innings of scoreless baseball, both team scored 5 in the 14th with the Sox ultimately winning 7-5 in 15. Both teams used their entire bullpen yesterday and it’s affecting today’s lines and not something my rudimentary system knows how to deal with. Seattla & Chicago are both showing as plays at the moment, but it’s unclear right now if I’ll be playing them or not.
As far as our leans yesterday, Boston & Texas went under but Milwaukee got smushed. The Brewers have just been awful with only 8 wins since May 1. It’s their starting pitching that has been the problem and easily the worst in the NL. Kyle Lohse has a 4.39 and everyone else is over 5.00. If they still had Fielder and a healthy Corey Hart, they could probably get away with being .500 or so, but instead they have been taking a zero at 1-2 positions a night and it’s just not working. I’m not sure if it’s feasible to bring back largely the same team next year so their GM will need to decide this summer whether to blow up part of the team and start over.
