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Eh, a walk/bloop and a blast and we're back on top. Also, just as an aside it's hard to overstate just how consistently excellent the offense has been throughout the year. They have been 26% more effective than the avg. offense. Next closest team is Cleveland (3% better than avg.)

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I feel like something has to be wrong with that stat

This is atrocious. 17 straight hitters without a hit against a patchwork staff...

Not even a single hard hit ball either since McCann's bomb in the 3rd

Knowing that the indians already won, how can they come out this flat?

Not arguing with you in terms of the entire season, but I'd be shocked if we were in the top 10 of offenses in baseball since the All Star break.

They've been pretty bad as a team for a while now with a handful of some nice games

Time for a damn rally

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AgDoc03 said:

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This is why I question how deep we can go in the playoffs. The offense is too inconsistent. Our ace guts out a quality start and we can only get a single run when their starter exits in the 1st inning.

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We are by far the best offensive team in baseball. Do you think the other teams that are inferior than us are more consistent? How many Dodgers or Indians games have you watched this year?

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We may still be the best statistically, but like someone else said above, this hasn't been a good offense the last couple of months. Springer/Altuve/Correa have all dropped off (and look awful again tonight), we consistently put a senior citizen that couldn't star in soft pitch softball right now at the DH position, and we're batting one of our hottest hitters in the 8 hole.

I will say there's been signs of life the last couple of weeks, but nights like tonight are discouraging

Why did we pinch hit for McCann? He's literally the only hitter with a pulse tonight.

19 straight batters without a hit.

And springer and Altuve have such terrible approaches at the plate it's ridiculous. They hack out of their mind at meaty fastballs that they don't even have a chance to make contact

Well this is about to go down as one of the most disappointing losses of the season.

So dramatic.

Nuke LaLoosh said:

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Well this is about to go down as one of the most disappointing losses of the season.

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Not even close.

Sucks to lose a game against the White Sox but I can easily off the top of my head think of 3 more disappointing than this.

He said "ONE of the"... and he's absolutely right

With the way the Indians are playing every game is becoming a must win if they want the #1 seed. What an abismal effort.

Ag_07 said:

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Nuke LaLoosh said:

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Well this is about to go down as one of the most disappointing losses of the season.

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Not even close.

Sucks to lose a game against the White Sox but I can easily off the top of my head think of 3 more disappointing than this.

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I stand by it.

1) trying to clinch the 1 seed
2) opposing pitcher goes out in the first inning
3) Keuchel pitches a damn good game
4) score 1 run through 8


That's incredibly disappointing.

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TO THE CLIFFS!!

God, some of you are ridiculous.

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Posts like this are what is ridiculous. Nobody at all is cliff jumping. Chill.

Keuchel vs a minor league call-up brought in relief in the first and we lose.

Nuke LaLoosh said:

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Ag_07 said:

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Nuke LaLoosh said:

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Well this is about to go down as one of the most disappointing losses of the season.

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Not even close.

Sucks to lose a game against the White Sox but I can easily off the top of my head think of 3 more disappointing than this.

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I stand by it.

1) trying to clinch the 1 seed
2) opposing pitcher goes out in the first inning
3) Keuchel pitches a damn good game
4) score 1 run through 8


That's incredibly disappointing.

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And its like some people forget...that's baseball

For some odd reason this White Sox team is not a good matchup for us.

The only reason I can think of is they're so young we don't have the stats on them (pitchers and hitters) to use to our advantage.

It's very weird

Solid outing from Clippard

Need an altuve single then correra double then marwin single

Nuke LaLoosh said:

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Buck Compton said:

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TO THE CLIFFS!!

God, some of you are ridiculous.

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Posts like this are what is ridiculous. Nobody at all is cliff jumping. Chill.

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This is why I question how deep we can go in the playoffs. The offense is too inconsistent. Our ace guts out a quality start and we can only get a single run when their starter exits in the 1st inning.

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Well this is about to go down as one of the most disappointing losses of the season.

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This thread is one of the most bipolar ones I've seen. It's "TOFA, we're going to win it all!" Or "This team is trash." No baseball discussion anymore. Just knee-jerk reactions.

I get it, the loss sucked. But let's not project too much.

Neither of those posts qualify as "cliff jumping"

My goodness, these swings in the dirt. Ugh.

This is the AB we signed Beltran for

bullard21k said:

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Zero chance Bergman Beltran ties it with a homer hit. Less than zero

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bullard21k said:

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Zero chance Bergman ties it with a homer. Less than zero

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Zero percent chance Beltran wins it with a homer.

This is not meant as a reverse jinx. There's actually a zero percent chance.

Beltran has a negative 200% chance of hitting a walkoff. Shouldn't even walk up to the plate

Just get on so Yuli can bat

Beltran sucks donkey balls. Snowballs chance in hell he does something.

I don't know how big league hitters can just turn from a pitch like that. I'd be a wreck after something like that.