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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is a National League Central Showdown, between St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers.
Cardinals have a 3-game lead on the 2nd NL Wild Card. They have Brewers and Cubs left on their schedule for home-and-homes. While the Brewers are in the Postseason, but their magic number of wrapping up the NL Central is 3 games. So, that means the Brewers need to split this 4-game series if they want to clinch the division against the 2nd Place Cardinals. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are a pair of right-handers. Jake Woodford will start for the Cardinals. While Freddy Peralta will take the ball for the Brewers. Woodford has a strikeout/walk ratio of 1.90, a pitches/plate appearance of 3.97, and groundout/airout of 0.96. Meanwhile, Peralta comes in with a K/BB ratio of 3.35, 4.09 P/PA, and 0.53 GO/AO. Correction: Jon Lester is the starter, for the St. Louis Cardinals. Lester's numbers are 1.67 K/BB, 3.80 P/PA, and 1.15 GO/AO in 2021. It is St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: St. Louis Cardinals:
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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is an American League battle for a wild card spot, between Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners.
Coming into Tonight’s Game, the Red Sox are tied with the Toronto Blue Jays for the two wild card spots. Both are 0.5 games in front of Yankees and 3 games in front of Oakland Athletics and tonight’s opponent for the Red Sox, the Seattle Mariners. This is the first game of a crucial 3-game series, for both teams. After this series, Red Sox only have 3 at home with the Yankees in their final 11 games. While the Mariners have 7 games with Oakland Athletics, as part of their final 16 games. So, the Mariners have 5 games on hand. Tonight’s starting pitchers are left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez for the Red Sox. And Logan Gilbert for the Mariners. Rodriguez comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 4.08, a pitches/plate appearance of 4.00, and 0.97 groundout/airout. While Gilbert comes in with a K/BB ratio of 5.05, 4.23 P/PA, and 0.57 GO/AO. It is Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Boston Red Sox:
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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is a California Twilight MLB game, between Los Angeles Angels and San Diego Padres.
Angels are hoping to finish strong. Their Postseason chances are dim. The same could be said about the possibility of Mike Trout returning for this season. As for the Padres, they are trying to find a hot streak to pull away for the 2nd NL Wild Card. Currently the Padres and Reds are tied for the final NL Wild Card. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are a pair of right-handers. Mike Mayers will go for the Angels, while Yu Darvish will start for the Padres. Mayers comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 3.80, 0.76 groundout/airout ratio, and 3.89 pitches/plate appearance. As for Darvish, he comes in with K/BB of 5.22, 0.76 GO/AO, and a 4.02 P/PA. It is Los Angeles Angels and San Diego Padres, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Los Angeles Angels:
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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is Game 2 of a doubleheader, between St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds.
Both NL Central teams are fighting with Padres and Phillies for the final National League Wild Card. Going into this game, Reds are a 0.5 game behind San Diego. And with the Cardinals Game 1 victory over Cincinnati, they are 1.5 games behind the Reds. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are left-hander J.A. Happ for the Cardinals and Sonny Gray for the Reds. Happ comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 2.50, 3.99 pitches/plate appearance, and 1.19 groundout/airout ratio. For Gray, he has a K/BB ratio of 3.02, 3.90 P/PA, and 1.43 GO/AO. It is Game 2 of a doubleheader, between St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds Game 2 will be coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: St. Louis Cardinals: 1. Tommy Edman, 2B 2. Paul Goldschmidt, 1B 3. Tyler O’Neill, LF 4. Nolan Arenado, 3B 5. Dylan Carlson, RF 6. Yadier Molina, C 7. Paul DeJong, SS 8. Harrison Bader, CF 9. J.A. Happ, P Cincinnati Reds: 1. Jonathon India, 2B 2. Tyler Stephenson, C 3. Nick Castellanos, RF 4. Joey Votto, 1B 5. Eduardo Suarez, 3B 6. Kyle Farmer, SS 7. Aristides Aquino, LF 8. Delino DeShields, CF 9. Sonny Gray, P  Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is an American League West Showdown, also a battle for AL Wild Card contention as Seattle Mariners take on Oakland Athletics.
Mariners have played well this season. They are 3.5 GB of Boston Red Sox for the 2nd AL Wild Card. In between Seattle and Boston are the Oakland A’s. The A’s had their moments this year, but they are in a fight with Tonight’s Opponent Mariners and Red Sox and Blue Jays. Athletics would like to get back into the Postseason and possibly avenge their loss to the AL West Leader Houston Astros, from last season’s American League Division Series. After this 2-game series, the Mariners will head home to play Kansas City Royals for a 4-game series. While the A's have a 4-game home series against the AL 1st Wild Card New York Yankees. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are left-hander Marco Gonzales for the Mariners and right-hander Paul Blackburn for the Athletics. Gonzales comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 2.57 and pitches/plate appearance of 3.96. While Blackburn comes in with a K/BB ratio of 1.00 and 3.13 P/PA. It is Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics, coming up shortly. Seattle Mariners:
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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is a National League Showdown, between New York Mets and San Francisco Giants.
Mets have been wheeling since the departure of Jacob deGrom to the IL. They have lost the lead to National League East and is currently at 3rd Place. For the Giants, they are having a big lead in the National League West. And has become the surprise team of 2021. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers left-hander Rich Hill for the Mets and Kevin Gausman for the Giants. Hill comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 2.40 and pitches/plate appearance of 3.73. While Gausman comes in with a K/BB ratio of 3.77 and a P/PA of 3.90. It is New York Mets and San Francisco Giants, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: New York Mets:
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 Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Women’s Soccer’. Tonight, it is interleague play in the Buckeye State. As Cincinnati Reds take on Cleveland Indians. This is a makeup game from Mother’s Day.
Reds are surging. As mentioned in the PowerPoint image, they are on a 5-game winning streak. They are relying on the bats of Joey Votto and Nick Castellanos. And they are currently 5 GB of Brewers in NL Central and 2.5 GB of San Diego Padres for the 2nd NL Wild Card. For the Indians, they are struggling without their two aces Shane Bieber and Aaron Civale. And their postseason hopes are getting dimmer as the regular season is ending. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are right-hander Luis Castillo for the Reds. And left-hander Sam Hentges for the Indians. Castillo comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 2.37 and a pitches/plate appearance of 3.96. As for Hentges, he comes in with a K/BB ratio of 1.73 and a P/PA of 3.98. It is Cincinnati Reds taking on Cleveland Indians, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Cincinnati Reds: 1. Jonathon India, 2B 2. Jesse Winker, LF 3. Nick Castellanos, RF 4. Joey Votto, DH 5. Tyler Stephenson, 1B 6. Kyle Farmer, SS 7. Eugenio Suarez, 3B 8. Aristides Aquino, CF 9. Tucker Barnhart, C Cleveland Indians: 1. Myles Straw, CF 2. Amed Rosario, SS 3. Jose Ramirez, 3B 4. Franmil Reyes, DH 5. Harold Ramirez, LF 6. Bradley Zimmer, RF 7. Wilson Ramos, C 8. Owen Miller, 1B 9. Andres Gimenez, 2B  Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is an American League battle, between Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees.
Both teams are in the hunt for the 2nd American League Wild Card. Yankees are 1.5 games behind Oakland Athletics. While the Seattle Mariners While the Seattle Mariners are 3.5 games behind their AL West Rival, for the 2nd AL Wild Card Spot. The Yankees made headlines with the acquisitions of Anthony Rizzo and Joey Gallo. For the Mariners, they were quiet before Last Friday’s Trading Deadline. They picked up pitchers Tyler Anderson and Diego Castillo, along with picking up Abraham Toro. Tonight’s Starting Lineups are a pair of left-handers. Marco Gonzales will start for the Mariners and Wandy Peralta will start for the Yankees. Gonzales comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 2.31 and pitches/plate appearance of 3.92. As for Peralta, he comes in with a K/BB ratio of 1.80 and P/PA of 3.68. It is Seattle Mariners taking on New York Yankees, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Seattle Mariners: 1. JP Crawford, SS 2. Mitch Hangier, RF 3. Kyle Seager, 3B 4. Ty France, 1B 5. Abraham Toro, 2B 6. Jake Fraley, LF 7. Luis Torrens, DH 8. Jarred Kelenic, CF 9. Cal Raleigh, C New York Yankees: 1. DJ LeMahieu, 2B 2. Anthony Rizzo, 1B 3. Aaron Judge, RF 4. Giancarlo Stanton, DH 5. Joey Gallo, LF 6. Gleyber Torres, SS 7. Rougned Odor, 3B 8. Kyle Higoshioka, C 9. Jonathon Davis, CF  Hello, and welcome to another edition of ‘Live-Blogging Shish on Baseball’. Tonight, it is an American League West Battle, between Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels.
The A’s are looking to clinch a wild card spot and maybe get past Houston Astros, with the addition of Former Marlins Outfielder Starlin Marte. For the Angels, they are a mash unit. They are without Mike Trout, Jared Walsh, Hector Rendon, and tonight’s original starter Alex Cobb. But they are 5 games behind the Oakland A's for the 2nd AL Wild Card. Tonight’s Starting Pitchers are a pair of right-handers. Frankie Montas will start for the Athletics, while Dylan Bundy will start for the Angels. Montas comes in with a strikeout/walk ratio of 4.07 and pitches/plate appearance of 3.88. For Dylan Bundy, he comes in with a K/BB ratio of 2.96 and a P/PA of 3.87. It is Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels, coming up shortly. Starting Lineups: Oakland Athletics:
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