Sho Alli

In his career, Jeff Hoffman has hit 1.1% of hitters he's faced at the major league level.

So the statistical likelihood of him hitting two batters in a row based on his career average, about 1 in 10,000.

So it doesn't feel like a coincidence anymore.

You know what I mean?

Things like this happening to him feels like he is in a very rough spot, whether you want to call that mentally, whether you want to call that mechanically.

It's hard to put exactly a pin in what is going on with him, but it's more than just a garden variety funk at this point, and the team is probably going to start acting accordingly to some degree.

It seemed like he started to get active after Solaire got hit.

And the Trout one, I'm okay with that.

If you look at that pitch, it's on the inside corner.

Mike Trout is a fantastic hitter.

He's a Hall of Famer.

He's one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

I don't think it was a terrible pitch.

So all you'd seen from Hoffman at that point is he struck a guy out and a really good hitter just did his thing against him.

So at that point, it's not too concerning.

When he hits Joe Adele,

Okay, now you've got the middle of the lineup coming up and you've got potentially the hitter who is the tying run at the plate.

That's when you need to start thinking about Varland.

I think he was one hit or two late.

As you said, it didn't matter.