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[Howard Cosell voice] And down goes Canning!! DOWN GOES CANNING!!! [/Cosell]
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And the Killer Grass strikes again. Okay, technically, Canning got his cleat caught in the mound's dirt while turning to go back up 3B in case Eli White tried to sneak over there while Frankie was throwing out the runner at first, but still. No more than 20' from where Kodai got his season ruined last year.
Rotation!
Kodai Senga…out until August, at least
Sean Manaea…still not ready
Griffin Canning…on the shelf until??
Tylor Megill…unable to pitch. And he's hurt, too!
David Peterson…it was only one bad start, right?
Frankie Montas…whaddaya mean, it was only one start?
Clay Holmes…back on track?
Paul Blackburn…do we really have to?
Blade Tidwell…at least he's well. You can tell it by his name, right?
Lawd ha' mercy!
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Highlight of the Chopcast tonight is CJ Nitkowski completely
roasting young Wiley Ballard (the new Braves ballpark reporter; don't know where Paul Byrd has gone) for failing to take anywhere near proper advantage of NYC's dining options for his pregame lunch.
According to CJ, Ballard fails as a gourmand because…
a) in a city full of great restaurants, Wiley went to
Chipotle
b) Wiley ordered
a chicken salad to go, and
c) having ordered online, Wiley actually went to the
wrong Chipotle and had to rush to the other one before catching the team bus to the ballpark
Wiley tried to claim that he thought his dramatic sprint through the streets was kind of akin to
Rocky, but CJ was not having any of that. Sorry, kid.
(CJ, tiring of the press-box food, went and sank his teeth into a chicken-parmagiana sandwich from the LF restaurant, calories be damned. He had no regrets, he said.)
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Have to give credit to various bullpenners; they shut Atlanta down cold. Of course, the Noc-a-Homas' offense had been pretty dead before they met us in Atlanta…I believe they had a team OPS under .600, IIRC.
So part of that was their feasting on our dubious pitching, but the other part of the Tribal Revival was the return of their Acuņa, who has been on fire. Braves studio hosts Nick Green and Peter Moylan were whimsically hoping that Ronald Jr could be the man to challenge Ohtani for MVP honors, but then reluctantly admitted it was more likely to be…
…wait for it…
…Pete Crow-Armstrong. Oh, FFS.
("Best two months of [Javy's] career", right, Gar? Sigh.)
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To be fair, Mr. 765 probably isn't going down without a fight. He now has 10 HR and 20 BB in June, becoming only the second Met ever to achieve both those feats in the same month, Brandon Gaudin said.
(Darryl Eugene Strawberry, May, 1987 being the other one.)