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Phillies(35-34) @ A's(19-52) Preview Starting Lineups:
Phillies
Schwarber LF
Castellanos RF
Harper DH
Turner SS
Realmuto C
Bohm 1B
Harrison 2B
Sosa 3B
Pache CF

A's
Ruiz CF
Laureano RF
Noda 1B
Rooker LF
Bride 3B
Perez C
Diaz SS
Peterson 2B
Langeliers DH

Starting Pitchers:
A's - Sears
Phillies - Walker

Umpires:
Home Plate - Jordan Baker
First Base - Tripp Gibson
Second Base - Mark Carlson
Third Base - Brennan Miller

Ohhh, F these 3.40am games.

Are you kidding me.

Thankfully, it's only one of this set.

This one will end right before my bedtime, when I'm usually exhausted and cranky.

Christopher wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:05 pm This one will end right before my bedtime, when I'm usually exhausted and cranky.

I used to be nervous and jerky..Now,I’m not nervous anymore

These two starters have pitched the exact same number of innings but Sears has 5 fewer decisions, all losses. Otherwise his stats are better in every category. A's just don't win.

Btw, the "Athletics" may be the best franchise name professional sports.

Last night I learned there's an AHL team called the Coachella Valley Firebirds

I'm not saying it's a good name, just something I never knew existed.

Still trying to decide whether I like Seattle Kraken. Leaning toward no.

I think the best vanished nickname is the Cleveland Spiders.

Firebirds good - Kraken? Yuck.

Christopher wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 4:17 pm Last night I learned there's an AHL team called the Coachella Valley Firebirds

I'm not saying it's a good name, just something I never knew existed.

Still trying to decide whether I like Seattle Kraken. Leaning toward no.

I think the best vanished nickname is the Cleveland Spiders.

I’m sure you know the all-time best professional team nickname
In the now defunct minor hockey Southern league,The Macon Whoopies

Christopher wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 4:17 pm Last night I learned there's an AHL team called the Coachella Valley Firebirds

I'm not saying it's a good name, just something I never knew existed.

Still trying to decide whether I like Seattle Kraken. Leaning toward no.

I think the best vanished nickname is the Cleveland Spiders.

There was briefly a Philadelphia Firebirds minor league hockey team in the 70s,

Spiders went 20-134 in 1899

The Phillies recalled OF Cristian Pache from his rehab assignment with Lehigh Valley (AAA) and reinstated him from the 10-day IL (right knee meniscus tear). To make room on the 26-man roster, OF Dalton Guthrie was optioned to Lehigh Valley following yesterday’s game.

Pache didn't hit at all in his short minor-league rehab. MIght have been better to give him a little more time.

But now he's starting as part of the magical Harrison-Sosa-Pache bottom third of the order.