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The legend of Davis Schneider grows! Playing an able second base with a battered Mizuno glove he snagged from the lost-and-found where he coaches in the off-season—a glove mysteriously marked with the initials VUK (Whit Merrifield, who brought all of this to Hazel Mae's attention, assures us that is 100% what they are calling him now)—Davis Schneider pretty much had the best début series of any major league baseball player ever, collecting nine hits (joining fellow Buffalo Bison [seventy-five years previous] Coaker Triplett in so doing), two home runs among them (no one else, it seems, has ever done this) in his first three games. Even without any of that, this one would have been a merry romp. I took particular pleasure in the solo radio broadcast of Ben Wagner as I did what I think was an especially good job trimming the hedge on what can only be described as a classic August afternoon. So where do we stand after this three-game sweep of a divisional rival? Well, still seven-and-a-half back of the Orioles, so that's more or less that for the the AL East, probably, and four-and-a-half behind the Rays for the first Wild Card spot, which is also kind of a lot. However! The Astros are only game ahead of us for the second Wild Card! That's good! It is pleasing to the see both the Red Sox (now five games behind us) and Yankees (now four-and-a-half) fading, but I am lightly distressed to see the Mariners, winners of five straight, straight-up lurking (just two-and-a-half back). I would like to say four games in Cleveland against the sub-five-hundred Guardians should be just the ticket, but looking at the pitching probables, I am unthrilled with how the pitching lines up for the first three. But that's probably a question of disposition and temperament more than anything.
KS
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