St Louis Cardinal pitcher Miles Mikolas seems perplexed and questions why umpires threw him out of the Thu Jul 27, 2023 game against the Chicago Cubs at Busch Stadium in St Louis after beaning Chicago Cubs hitter Ian Happ in the hip. (USA Today photo)

MLB The Show podcast with Charlie O:

#1 Last Thursday St Louis Cardinal pitcher Miles Mikolas threw at Chicago Cubs hitter Ian Happ in the hip and was ejected for retaliation of Happ’s back swing that caught Cardinal catcher Wilson Contreras in the head causing him to get a cut and bled out and had to leave the game. The question is did Happ intentionally back swing to catch Contreras in the head? Mikolas seems to think so from his actions.

#2 More Cubs news their on a roll they won their seventh straight game on Saturday defeating the St Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium saving the day as Cubs centerfielder Mark Tauchman who robbed pinch hitter Alec Burleson of a walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Burleson’s belt looked like it was gone until Tauchman reached his glove above the fence to make the catch for the 3-2 win.

#3 Some say that the Los Angeles Angels are gambling away their fortunes keeping Shohei Ohtani when they could deal with a club that could load them up with multiple future draft picks. The Angels are driven they want to make the post season and they believe Ohtani is their ticket to make that happen.

#4 Former Oakland A’s and New York Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon will get the proper send off that he deserves as Big Sexy will get a huge retirement party at Citi Field in Flushing on Sep 17th. Colon who pitched 21 years in The Show with 11 different MLB teams and retired after the 2018 with the Texas Rangers. Colon pitched for the A’s from 2012-2013 and with the team that’s honoring him the Mets from 2014-16. Get your Big Sexy shirt on Sep 17th Charlie O.

#5 The Oakland A’s will submit their relocation application to MLB in November after the World Series for the voters to vote on. Some have said that the timing of having the MLB owners vote just before Thanksgiving is suspicious considering the season is over and no one is thinking baseball by then and the owners and Commissioner don’t have to deal with the pressure and criticism of the baseball fans over the A’s move at that time of the year.

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