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We'll continue to ask him about the bullpen because once again, last night, I don't think it qualifies as a blown save, but it's a tie game after seven.

And in the eighth inning, they give up a home run and they lose the game.

It's just what happens to this team.

They get their eighth inning era.

We had a discussion yesterday with Barry's Valuca.

And Barry's Vuluga had written an article, I think it was kind of a more global thing, but he,

I remember there was, uh, the statistics, and I think this was pre-All-Star game, but he had

their eighth inning ERA and their ninth inning

ERA, and both were roughly seven.

Yeah.

That's how bad they are in the late innings.

Tough to close games when you have seven ERAs in the late innings.

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