re: Sunday Lineup

Today’s lineup really underscores a pretty big weakness of this team—right-handed hitting, especially off the bench. A few unfortunate events that contributed to it:

1. Dugas is hurt. He was having a down year, but still, missing his bat hurts.

2. Bianco’s been hurt. Also having a down year, but hasn’t been healthy enough to even have the chance to get going.

3. Milazzo’s hurt. We’re not missing his bat, but it makes it hard/dangerous to use McManus and Travinsky in the same game, much less the same lineup like we are today. And they would both be far and away our best RH pinch hitters if Milazzo was catching.

4. We just plain ol’ whiffed on Merrifield. A lot of y’all have probably already forgotten he’s even on the team. I did. When’s the last time he played?


So a team that was already pretty left-handed heavy at the plate ran into some back luck with some righties and made it even worse. We really need Dugas and Milazzo to come back before the postseason if possible. Be nice is Bianco could get on a heater. I think Merrifield’s a lost cause at this point.


Jesus Christ, Dylan Crews fricking destroyed that ball.