and they're going to try to win a series for the first time since the Philly series.

It's been a while.

They are five and seven in their last 12 games.

So it's been a mediocre stretch since the Philly Suite.

And I found myself, Tiki, criticizing Carlos Mendoza more over the last couple days,

and I think I have all of last year.

Is it because of lineups? It's a myriad of things, Teke. It's a myriad of

things. But let's start with the lineup since you brought

it up. Yes. I don't have an issue

with playing Starling Marte, giving him

a chance to play every day and maybe take

hold of this DH role with

Jesse Winker out. He cannot be the cleanup.

And last night... Why is he the cleanup hitter? I don't understand it.

I guess the argument would be who else should be the cleanup hitter.

Well, to me, it would be anybody but Starling Marte.

He said he been pretty good at the cleanup?

Brandon Nemo, Mark Vientos.

Honestly, take your pick.

And his app at batty had last night after the bases loaded walk was arguably one of the worst

stat bats I've seen since my Little League days when I used to do the exact same thing.

We just take three pitches in a row.

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