Got? Toronto

Want? Texas. After Cole Hamels, their rotation is awful.

How short of a leash will Cueto be on? Probably not too short, because Ned.
Depending on how they are hitting him, and it's not soft BS dropping in, I'd make it real short. Like if a couple guys get on base, get someone stretching in the bullpen. Can't afford him giving up multiple HRs or runs in each of the first 3 innings or any of that shit. It would be nice to have a lead if they are going to bring Keuchel in as relief.

I think Ned will have him on a very short leash. Medlen and Young will be ready at the first sign of trouble.

Toronto's lineup still seems great and our pitching seems to waver from unreliable to shitty. Texas seems like the safer opponent.

I imagine Ned is going to manage this one like game 7 of the World Series. He said he told Herrera, Madson and Davis to be ready for 2 innings each in game 4. Can't imagine it'd be any different tonight.

Thank you Alnorth. I have faith in your thread starting abilities.

That still leaves 3 innings. And its the 1st three where Cueto seems to suck the most.

Joe Maddon turned game 4 into a total bullpen game because he knew only Lester/Arrieta would be needed in game 5

I'd imagine Ned treats this the same way ... Cueto hopefully gets us 4 or 5 of scoreless to 1 run pitching ... And then we turn it over to the horses. Cueto for 5, Herrera/Madson/Duffy/Hoch in some capacity get us to the 8th ... And Davis gets us the last 6. You save Young/Medlen for extras in case something happens

I mean it's so hard to see us losing this game. We have home field, momentum, pitching. God damn, all we have to do is hit the ball, it appeared some switch got flipped the other night and our guys quit swinging for the fences and started swinging for contact again. Going back home I can't see that staying that way, something about short fences makes everyone think they can drop bombs every at bat. It happens at the baseball/softball level so it makes sense that big leaguers do it too.
We stick to our game we got this.

Lets put this bitch away.

Sure hope that late inning rally Monday carries over into todays game like last years wildcard miracle did.

We're definitely favored, but lets not get carried away. I can easily see us losing this game, I'd put us at about a 60%-65% favorite.

In. I'll be at work so hoping for a calm evening on my side of town.

I'll be listening on the radio. Hoping I get to have a lunch break, which I'll take around 730ish. Watch some of the game.

In for the muthafukin win!!!

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