 Top of the sixth inning tied up at two runs of peace. Alec Minoa is having himself a pretty good start. He got into the habit of having pretty bad starts. Now he's having a pretty good start. This breakdown is brought to you by Fume. They help you break your bad habits. So first pitch here, there's one out. It's the sixth inning. The 1-0 pitch here to the lefty, a little running fastball into the sweet spot, smoked into right field for a single. So they got one out. They got the go-ahead run on first and the pitching coach is gonna walk out and say, it's all right, double plays in order, you know, just one ground ball. You're out of the sitting, but we do have the lefty warming up in the bullpen to help out. Make some good pitches. Get him to hit the ball on the ground maybe. I don't know what he's saying, but it's strategic. They're talking. You're only allowed to do that once an inning. The manager looks on. He says, great mound visit. Let's head into the sixth inning. First pitch, woo-hoo-hoo. Mount Castle's gonna want that one back. That was a little hanger. Next pitch, he jams him in. O2 was aiming outside, went up and in, hit him. Manoa led the league last two seasons in hitting batters. So he does that quite a lot. I think it's his fifth this year. So he hits everyone every two games. Now, here comes Adam Frazier, who's got good memories so far. This game, he hit a triple in his first at bat, in his second at bat. He hit a single, so he's having a good time off of Manoa so far and he's looking to drive in some more runs, give his team the lead. First pitch from Manoa's gonna be a 86 mile per hour little runner to the outside, ball one. Now he's gonna play off that opposite movement, comes in with the slider. That pitch is one that Frazier wants back, should have smoked that. Elevates, go up in the zone to set up low in the zone. Nice pitching there, gets the check swing. Did he go? Yes. What do you think? Did he go? It's actually really close. I think we're gonna get a lot of split decisions here, but he thinks he didn't go. He sees he gets rung and he goes, oh, that's not a swing, man. Oh, god damn. And then he sees that Manoa's staring at him. Fuck you. And then Manoa says, you go that way. Fuck you. You go that way. Frazier walks back to the dugout. He's like, why are you yelling at me, man? I'm just mad about the check swing call. I already got two hits off you. Now the manager, Schneider, comes out. Now the manager, Schneider, comes out. This is two batters after the last mound visit and usually the manager comes out it's to take the pitcher out. So Manoa's looking around like, are you taking me out? What's going on? No, Schneider just wants to talk strategy. You want to finish the inning and Manoa's like, yeah, I think I want to finish the inning. Is that what happening? Are you gonna let me finish the inning? Okay, yeah, I'll get that guy. Meanwhile, the umpire is hovering because he's like, dude, this is your second mound visit. You got to take him out. All this can happen in the clubhouse afterwards and they turn and the ump's like, Schneider, you got to take this guy out and Schneider goes, oh, fuck, fuck, fuck. Bullpen, yeah. All right, sorry, Alec, you got to go. Oh man, he's defeated. He's like, what are you doing? Gives him the ball, walks off the mound. He's like, why is he coming? Fuck! That's frustrating. Frazier looking on in the dugout, kind of smiling without smiling, kind of enjoying it without showing he's enjoying it. And Manoa's gonna say to himself, he's shaking his head. He's gonna say, gotta be the stupidest move I've ever seen. He is not happy about it. He didn't have that high of a pitch count. Felt like he was finally having a good game after a bunch of bad games. He's gonna get high fives because of said good game and now he's just gotta hope the reliever comes in and can bail him out. Manager meanwhile comes up and says, my bad, man. I fucked that up, my bad. And Manoa's like, yeah, yeah, then. You're bad for sure. You're bad for sure. Didn't enjoy that. Oh boy. All right, trying to regroup, gather. Cheers teammates on. It's all good though, because the left he comes in, two outs. He's got a one-one count. He's facing the righty and breaking ball in the zone, hammered to right center field, but Kiermeier's gonna run and jump and grab it right in front of the Tim Horton sign and they get out of it. It's okay. It's all good. No hurt feelings. Manoa, he's like, woof. All right, whatever. He played it off pretty good in the post game. Meanwhile, Schneider said, I screwed up. I'm guessing he said I fucked up. I forgot Pete went out there because we were talking about a lot of different stuff. So that's all. We were just talking about so much stuff that I completely forgot. Manoa said, there was just some silence. I had known Pete came out. When he started asking me if I wanted to stay in the game, I was like, well, maybe Pete didn't come out here and I'm going crazy. I wasn't sure. I told him I wanted to stay and pleaded my case. As he walked away, the umpire was like, hey, that was your second visit. And that was that. And one time, that's okay. You just can't make this mistake again because if you do make this mistake again, it becomes a bad habit. And you don't want bad habits. If you got bad habits, you can try Fume, an innovative award-nominated flavored air device that helps you shake your bad habits. Head to tryfume.com. Use code JOHNBOY to save 10% off when you get the journey pack today. That's tryfume.com. Use code JOHNBOY to save additional 10% off your order today.