• Someone broke into the Nationals locker room and stole Josiah Gray's snocones. Gus Varland suspects it was the team astronaut, and although they had no luck finding it being sold on EBay, Ken Waldichuk did pick up a nice ceramic hook for just $75.


• Oh, the Rockies have questions, especially defensively: can Jake McCarthy play in the field every day in the big leagues, is Jordan Beck capable of handling his demanding new position of center field, and can Troy Johnston hit enough to keep his glove in the lineup?


• What is falling in place with Carlos Mendoza is a number of proficient confluences: the impact of Bryan Hudson, the arrival of Monster Ronny Mauricio, the return to health of Freddy Peralta (scratched pelvis) and Devin Williams (kidney) and the cow-like intensity of Juan Soto, which has allowed David Stearns to do the opposite of a garage sale where to get rid of all parts alongside a used mops.


• For those Phillies fans that marvel at what may be the best pitching staff in the game, but fear that pitchers like Taijuan Walker, Seth Johnson -- who is so focused on his job that he can never remember to work up the guts to tell Rob Thomson to go take a hike to Lima -- and Aaron Nola might get overused so much their arms turn into strings, Philadelphia had only eight games in the last six weeks in which they didn't use at least six pitchers. Simply heavens.

energy

Kevin Cash expects
      Ryan Vilade

to win a gold glove this year

but he could have competition for fielding glory from his own teammates
      Justyn-Henry Malloy

whose
greater vertical leap

and new
distinguished
energy should work wonders

and Dominic Keegan

 

 

 

 

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