Interesting how different people looking at the same thing, come away from it, with polar opposite impressions. Someone feels that it was a playff atmosphere, another wonders why Dodger Stadium was so dead and silent...lol. Doesn't matter, ultimately...just that we won, and getting that safe call was ( I prefer to think) a good omen for us, so different than the way things usually turn out.
Articles in Chicago speculated that they got a wake up call from playing us in that we are a serious threat so that bodes real well for the Gnats series they have coming up AND Arrieta is pitching. The Gnats also have to face Greinke Tuesday although I don't trust the Bags to help us out while we are in the loony bin.
Good points @Doughty8 and I, like most of us, agree that beating both tream 2 of 3 was a good sign that we're not too distant from being competitive with anyone. I like the crop of young pitchers and even while I carp on the insipid relief staff, they too have done fairly well in August when it mattered. Now if we could locate a potent RHB bat to offset all of the lefties it would be better. Oh there's one in OKC you say? Hitting .385 mashing lefties. Well lets place him on waivers so that we can try to locate someone else with his skill set. I like grinding Puig to show him his place in the food chain, but biting off one's nose to spite one's face was never a good strategy.
I've been a supporter of Yasiel but I never wrote he was mashing lefties, I mean if we are going to be afraid of lefties and trade for a guy who hits them why keep a guy in OKC who bats righthanded and has at least s fair chance to be successful against them. We are winning now despite his absence so I'm not gung ho to see up now but all this talk about not even calling up at all or in September is just FUCKING STUPID given Reddicks absence so far.
