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Oh Danny boy...Santana hits a pair of homers off of Berrios yesterday. He’s slashing 313/331/680 over his past 30 games.

Not only that, but Duffey got his second win of the day yesterday, too. He had to work a lot harder this time around, facing twice as many batter yesterday for the win.

That was harder than it should have been, but a win is a win. 2.5 game lead. Chance for a four-game road sweep tomorrow against former Twin Lynn. Win!

Would like to see Arraez come through here.

Who else is left in the bullpen now?

That was a fair ball.

How about one more home run?

Why didn’t Rosario just catch that ball?

Cave looked like he was reaaaaaal nervous on that can o corn.

Was that really a foul tip? Looked like he missed it by six inches.

The pitch actually hit the corner.

Texas on pitcher #3, Berrios seems to have increased velocity and doing better, with a three run lead. Seems like the Twins have better odds of winning, even though it’s closer than I’d like....

It was fantastic. I want to see it again. One of my sons is jealous that my wife and I saw it, but we haven’t shelled out the $ for him to see it...yet. Last week went to see “Come From Away”, which was excellent. Story of 9/11 small town in Newfoundland that wound up getting dozens of planes diverted there and then thousands of people stranded there for days.

Dick Bremer and Roy Smalley and Kevin Gorg did a nice tribute to Hamilton. However, they didn’t really mention why he had such a short career, a pretty notable part of the story.

Good grief, he’s 88!

And by worse in his past seven, I mean over 7 ERA, over 1.6 WHIP, under 5IP/game, 24:14 K/BB in 33IP with 41 hits. Love this matchup.

Jurado has a pretty mediocre track record, and has been worse in his past 15 games, and even worse in his past 7 games. Golden opportunity tonight to put a little distance on the Indians. Let’s go, Jose, pitch well.

Hell, a pitcher could “pitch” a perfect game without throwing a pitch!

Do we care about wins now?

Hold on a second, did you say that Willians WALKED? How about Brusdar heading to Texas?

Nats scored 10 runs in the fifth, knocking Bauer out after 4.1 innings. His ERA went from 3.74 to 4.12 after getting hit for 9 runs. On the bright side, as he left the field, he didn’t throw any balls into the bleachers.

Is this still the game thread?

They are too busy for the likes of us, so I don’t think that will materialarraez.

On an unrelated note, I’ll be at Nats Park this afternoon to see Strasburg and the Nats take on Trevor Bauer and the Reds. I’m thinking I should have bought tickets in center field if I wanted to catch a ball.

Looking over Gio’s career, I was surprised at how consistently good he’s been. Having lived in DC and being spoiled with Strasburg and Scherzer, it’s easy to forget how solid he was. I had felt he really fell off in the past few years, and while that is partially true, he still has been quite good for at least half of the past several years. That said, he’s a slow-throwing lefty, I think the Twins should be able to put up some good swings and some crooked numbers against him today. He’s also given up an unusually low number of homers this year...time for some quick regression?