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| Is he shooshing the chants of M.V.P.? I ask because those have really picked up. |
"All-Star Game M.V.P. Vladimir Guerrero Jr." was quite a thing to see, wasn't it? And the way Bo Bichette, Teoscar Hernandez, and Marcus Semien delighted in it all with him was no less lovely to behold than the ludicrous arc traced by the 468-foot home run that secured that pretty neat award for our Vladdy (itself quite lovely). I say "our" Vladdy, but truly he has been embraced as the large adult son of all of all baseball, hasn't he? Like, there is just no question anymore. My only regret regarding anything to do with any of this is that I sent my daughter off to bed probably fifteen minutes before Vladdy's home run, and even though I showed her a clip of it as soon as she got up the next morning, and she too delighted in it, I still felt "rather the heel." But the All-Star Game starts pretty late! It's a tough call!
Friday night, having seen how much everybody likes it when he smokes great big home runs, Vladdy elected to hit two more to open the second half, this time against the Rangers rather than the NL All-Stars. Robbie Ray allowed just four hits and pitched well into the seventh, and you know who is kind of on a tear lately? Bo Bichette! It sounds weird to say about All-Star Bo Bichette, second only to Xander Boegarts among AL shortstops, but he hasn't really gone a hot streak yet this year, by his standards -- or he hadn't until the last little bit, because it's happening now, and it's great.
KS
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