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September 1, 2020
The M's put together a very good August, winning 15 games, though dropping five of the last six left the team a game behind in the Wild Card standings. The club's record is currently 69-63, looking up at both the Twins and the Red Sox. The last game of the month was a real gut-punch, a 7-6 loss to the Dodgers on a three-run walk-off home run, but the M's won some good ones in August too, including a six-game winning streak against the division-leading Yankees and Angels, and a 16-3 rout that capped off a four-game sweep of the Rangers. In one of those games, Cionel Perez carried a perfect game into the eighth inning before it was broken up!
Daniel Vogelbach (.317/6/18) and C.J. Cron (.326/7/26) continued to be wrecking balls in the middle of the lineup. Buster Posey (.333, .457 OBP) has immediately made an impact as well. Kyle Seager (.169, 0 HR) has continued to be outrageously terrible, but at last, the cavalry is on its way- Anthony Rendon has started his rehab assignment in Tacoma and should join us in a few days.
Perez was quite good on the mound, striking out 35 against just three walks. Craig Kimbrel provided 15 1/3 innings of shutout relief.
The September schedule is fairly forgiving, with nine more games against the last-place Rangers. I think the club has the talent to make it into the postseason, where anything can happen...
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