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Gonna be a painful couple of weeks.

Stroman and Smyly both pitching in relief today.

Morel has moved from DH to center field, putting the pitcher's spot back in the batting order, so if Smyly can keep the game going, either he'll bat, or the last man on the bench, Canario, will be pinch hitting and looking for his first-ever major league hit.

Wesneski relieves Smyly with the tying run on third.  If he can hold it, it will be a well-deserved save.  And Smyly pitched great no matter how the game goes; most of his baserunners weren't real.

Kinda should have gotten a run when Morel was on 3rd with no outs, with you middle-of-order guys up.  But Bellinger had the funky HBP-grounder to pitcher, and Swanson couldn't get it past the pitcher either.  Thought Swanson maybe had a play on the line drive that bounced off Wesneski's shoulder? I think he maybe rushed a little and fumbled it?  Tough play though, all in the moment.  Suzuki's play on the game-winning hit also didn't seem that good.  Seemed a little slow in getting the throw off.  But yeah, he's obviously not in there for his defense.  AZ made an error at one point too, but they made a LOT of really excellent plays.  Very good-fielding team.  seemed like there were a whole lot of eyelash plays, all of which went Arizona's way. 

Why did Wisdom not run on that grounder to 1B that was ruled fair?  If he'd just taken off they'd never have gotten a double play.

Also, Ross opted to give up his DH rather than put Canario in the outfield.  WTF is up with that?

It's all going so wrong at the moment.  Season in the balance.

Canario getting a start tonight at DH