Thunder

Is the Yankee offense ever going to come around? They sure are running low on excuses

Won't stop pouring until 5 or 6 AM, and even then it will still be raining lightly. It's a matter of when they call it, not if.

No. It was set at 4:10 long before the Bruins even made the playoffs. It's due to Fox Saturday night baseball. They want to be the only games on at that time, so they push everyone back who normally starts at 7, like us.

Tomorrow's forecast actually looks ok. Would be better if it was a 7:00 game, instead of a 4:00 game

Good win guys! CB Bucknor deserves the Angel Hernandez treatment wherever he goes when he dies

I wasn't disagreeing with the statement; I just remarked at how tired I am of hearing him in particular trash Kike. I love how hard he plays, if nothing else

You've made that very clear recently

Clearly you are not a diehard sports fan. Who cares? It's playoff basketball at the Garden

Ok gang, Celtics time. See y'all tomorrow

That might have been out in better weather

Tied!

Now or never boys

2 more batters until our time to shine: the second time through the order

I see great defense runs in the Devers family

We have to be the league's worst offense the first time through the order. I expected this to happen against a rookie pitcher that has good stuff

Probably not, because the rain won't stop until Sunday night. Just a constant light rain the entire weekend. Not ideal

That was Rafi's cousin right there

Backup catcher hitting .200. Can't let that happen

Throw strikes Martin

Sandy Freakin' Leon replaces Duvall as the DH

Marlins best healthy hitter, Adam Duvall, scratched from the lineup. Their starting 9 tonight looks even less scary now

Hernandez CF Verdugo LF Martinez DH Bogaerts SS Devers 3B Santana 1B Vazquez C Gonzalez 2B Renfroe RF Going to be a cold, wet weekend. Tonight's game will start dry, but light rain will takeover at around 8 PM and linger around until Sunday night

At least that means they can't win tonight!

RHP Cody Poteet (2-0, 1.06) vs LHP Martin Perez (2-2, 3.55) Tonight's starter Poteet is making his 4th career start in the majors. His changeup has been filthy so far, with a 38% whiff rate. He shutout the Mets on Sunday over 7 innings, and threw 5 scoreless against the Phillies before that. In his first start, he allowed 2 runs over 5 innings against Arizona. None of those teams' lineups are as good as ours. It might take a trip through the order, but I think we can get to him. He only has 13 Ks in 17 IP, much in line with the rest of the Marlins pitching staff (see below). Miami Marlins Overview: Record: 24-26 (4th place, NL East, 3 GB) Last year: 31-29 (2nd place, NL East, 6th seed NL playoffs, beat Cubs in WC round, lost to Braves in NLDS) Manager: Don Mattingly (6th season) Runs Scored: 198 (20th, 1 place ahead of the Yankees) Strikeouts: 491 (6th highest in the league - Red Sox are 15th highest) Team BA: .231 (Tied 20th) Team OBP: .298 (26th) Team ERA: 3.34 (7th - Red Sox are 14th) HR allowed: 40 (4th fewest - Red Sox are 3rd) Strikeouts: 431 (18th) Opponent BA: .223 (11th) Marlins are also in the top 5 in the league in stolen bases. They strikeout a lot, struggle to score runs and get on base, but when they do, they will run, which is not exactly something we are good at preventing (I'm looking at you, Ottavino). As for pitching, they won't overpower you. Strikeout numbers are down, but they keep the ball in the ballpark. They have a bunch of pitchers that are good at getting groundballs and weak contact. Top 5 players in WAR: P Trevor Rogers (1.9) - Saturday's starting pitcher: 6-2, 1.75 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 70 K, 22 BB, 56.2 IP in 10 starts P Pablo Lopez (1.8) SS Miguel Rojas (1.7) - Dislocated a finger in yesterday's game. Probably headed to the IL, most likely won't play this weekend RF Adam Duvall (1.4) P Sandy Alcantara (1.2) - Sunday's starting pitcher: 2-4, 3.46 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 64 K, 20 BB, 65.0 IP in 11 starts Contrary to what you might think, the Marlins actually have the oldest 40-man roster in the league. Offensively, they are led by Jazz Chisholm, Jr., one of the more electric and fun players in the league to watch. He is currently banged up, but should return to the starting lineup this weekend. Jesus Aguilar is capable of going deep at any moment, or at least playing pepper with the Green Monster, but he has been mired in a slump that has persisted for the better part of a month, yet his average is still .261. Adam Duvall is the other primary power threat, but is more of a hit or miss guy, slashing .213/.425/.682. Like I said, we will miss Miguel Rojas this series, which is huge, because he is very much the leader of this team, at .275/.433/.787. Starling Marte should return from the IL this weekend. I'd be happy with 2 out of 3, but a sweep isn't out of the question if Nate and Eddie step things up in their starts this weekend.

My opponent is currently under 1, whereas I am at about 2.50. I've had better weeks from my own staff, but I've also won the ERA and WHIP categories in weeks were my opponent's pitching sucked. Year of the pitcher