Indians winning by 2 again. We could easily be on the outside looking in as early as tomorrow

Guardians took the lead 4-2 over Twins in the 8th

Guardians are winning. That's basically the one thing we have to worry about now.

EEEEEE

So damn pitiful.

Pathetic

Can't even take advantage of free base runners

I'd like to thank the little brothers in Arlington for suckering us into thinking this wasn't the same garbage team we've watched for 2.5 months.

Hey Mathguy - you still breathing over there?

Jake singles

Jake with the first clean hit since Correa. Maybe the last shot with 2 outs here

Get on. Immediately erased. Seems familiar

Interesting...there sure are a lot of empty seats behind HP for a game being played for 1st place.

Correa-Paredes-Altuve in the ninth.

Power outage in Houston continues

For all of you holding out hold that this team will hit a gear if they make the playoffs… lol.

Nick Hernandez pitching in a playoff game

linkdude said:

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Nick Hernandez pitching in a playoff game

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Joe knows this one's over

Mariners have outhit the Astros 9 to 2

Is it close to a guarantee that Joe is retained next year if we make the wildcard? I'm trying to see if there may be a bright spot in not making the playoffs.

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Walker is going to end up having a worse year 1 than Jose Abreu

is it still the oblique injury from spring training?

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It was so depressing watching Abreu flail at pitches. First season Walker has 42 more strikeouts (172) than first season Jose thus far.

But it's Walker's glove (-1.3 dWAR) that's putting him ahead of Abreu (-.9 dWAR) in the end. First season Walker has been marginally less hapless at the plate, if still far below league average (92 OPS+ before the 0-3 with 3 Ks tonight).

He could still finish even with Abreu's -.1 bWAR if he plays as terribly as he has most of the season. It's bleakly funny we're paying $40 million for first base this year, when we've barely crested the $160 million mark ever for a player. The going salary is $300-500 million for a superstar.

Rolling the dice on FAs who can only get short term deals with AAVs far less than the best has unsurprisingly produced results that justified why they were purchased with coupons.

Joe should've gotten tossed on that terrible strike 3 call on Paredes regardless

Astros pitcher of the game right there. No HR's allowed

This many games into the year and I still cant figure out how we have such a hard time scoring runs

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This many games into the year and I still cant figure out how we have such a hard time scoring runs

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No power. It takes 3, sometimes 4, hits to plate 1 run.

Don't feel bad. Joe doesn't know either.

Paredes singles

Speed on the base paths

lol this is idiotic. Why is he still out there?

JOE WTF R U DOIN

Joe, you effing idiot.

could pinch-run for Paredes here in the 9th

On the other hand, it's not like Paredes will do anything but stand there for two quick outs.

up to the minute in the loss column:

68 - Yankees
69 - Mariners, Tigers
70 - Astros, Red Sox
71 - Guardians

5 of the 6 will make it

the tiebreakers are stacked against the 'stros

Time for our 33rd team meeting after tonight's game?