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Through the first five (and a third!) innings, it sure looked as though we were going to get Tyler Glasnowed every bit as much as we'd been Gerrit Coled the night before. But things took a real turn from there: George Springer singled and stole second, Bo singled, Vladdy walked, Kirk walked (and it was honestly a beauty of a walk), Biggio walked (heck of an eye as always), Matt Chapman was hit by a pitch about as willingly as one can be without the umpire waving the whole business off, and Varsho singled. Before you know it, that's a four-run inning! Throw in a Varsho homer in the ninth and a couple doubles (Merrifield, Espinal), and we're good to go. Daulton Varsho, let it be known, has been the most valuable fielder in baseball this season by Defensive Runs Saved, and this while playing mostly left field, relieving Kevin Keirmaier only sporadically (Varsho will probably be our everyday centre fielder next year, and could easily win a Gold Glove). When he's not hitting, Varsho still contributes significantly as a fielder and a baserunner; when he is hitting, he's among, like, the very most useful baseball players there can be. And he's still pretty new! He'll be around for years! Also around for years: Chris Bassitt, who struck out eight and walked nary a dude pitching into the seventh, and Jordan Romano, who picked up the save (Jordan Hicks, who struck out all three batters he faced, will probably go make an awful lot of money somewhere the second the season ends, and fair play to him). And if all this wasn't enough, the Home Hardware Out-of-Town Scoreboard (it will never be the St. Louis Bar and Grill Out-of-Town scoreboard to me; I was forged in the fires of the Fan590 in the slim radio era) was exceptionally kind to us. The Trop is probably still cursed but this was great!
KS
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