Greg Giannotti (Gio)

No grass.

Of course.

Grass clumps.

rocks in the infield yeah yeah that's what i played on right so uh he gets picked off soto ends up homering and added bats i would have put him up to nothing instead they end up losing two to one as mason wins bloop single off tobias myers won the rubber game for st louis in the 11th here was lindor after the game taking accountability specifically for that first inning blunder francis won that play in the first inning what happened there

He ended up going five and a third, one run on three hits, a couple of walks struck out seven.

We mentioned the runners in scoring position struggles, 0 for 11 in that category yesterday and 1 for 29 in the series.

Here's Carlos Mendoza assessing the early issues for his lineup offensively.

Ultra aggressive at times, expanding at times as well with some of the guys.

We just got to get back to what we do well, which is controlling the strike zone, getting good pitches to hit, and doing damage.

Kind of hard to know what you do well early in the season when you've got so many new players, though, yeah?

Right, and you ended last year, and you were horrendous, and the guys that were here didn't do much.

So Carlos Mendoza's got to be, like, after a couple of really bad losses, and he's saying this stuff again, like, oh, my God, here we go.

It was like three full months of him trying to explain away all those losses last year.

So he's, like, probably having a little bit of PTSD early on in this season.

Oh, yeah.

Kai Correa, the bench coach who I predicted would be the manager at some point during the season.

Yeah.

Yeah, probably.

He's probably the devil on his shoulder.

Shiv spot.