Lineups provided by LoHud:
YANKEES
Derek Jeter SS
Johnny Damon LF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Jorge Posada C
Hideki Matsui DH
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Melky Cabrera CFPitching: LHP CC Sabathia (2-0, 1.23 ERA)
ANGELS
Chone Figgins 3B
Bobby Abreu RF
Torii Hunter CF
Vladimir Guerrero DH
Juan Rivera LF
Howie Kendrick 2B
Kendry Morales 1B
Mike Napoli C
Erick Aybar SSPitching: LHP Scott Kazmir (0-0, 7.50 ERA)
TIME/TV: 7:57 p.m., FOX
Here are Kazmir’s career numbers against the Yankees.
Here are Sabathia’s career numbers against the Angels (postseason not included).
Facing Kazmir could be what Mark Teixeira needs. He’s 7-for-11 against the young left-hander (.636/.667/1.000). Also, Jorge Posada, who has moved up in the lineup, is 11-for-25 against Kazmir with a .440/.464/.680 line. While I don’t necessarily believe in Melky Cabrera, he too has good numbers against Kazmir. He’s 8-for-20 (.400/.400/.500). The rest of the Yankee lineup hasn’t done much against him, though (Matsui’s .179 BA explains the Jorge flip).
CC is pitching on 3 days of rest. Let’s hope that he’s got enough in the tank to dominate.
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I posted this yesterday but just for those who missed it and wanted more Yankee numbers against Kazmir… Mind you a good deal of the numbers represent Kazmir against the Yankees in the Trop so hopefully in LAA it will be a different story.
Derek Jeter- 4-36… 1 HR, 4 RBI
Johnny Damon- 6-36.. 2B, 3B, 5 RBI, 6 BB
Mark Teixeira- 7-11… 3 RBI, 5 BB
Alex Rodriguez- 3-24… 0 HR, 0 2B, 0 3B, 0 RBI, 6 BB
Hideki Matsui- 5-28… 1 HR, 3 RBI
Jorge Posada- 11-25… 1 HR, 5 RBI
Nick Swisher- 5-27… 1 HR, 2 RBI
Robinson Cano- 4-26… 3 RBI
Melk Cabrera- 8-20… 2 2B, 2 RBI
This could be the most important game in this series, win and you go 3-1, lose and the series is tied going into a game where the Angels get there ace against the at time shaky AJ Burnett and the series could take a 3-2 turn in the wrong direction so I do think we need this one!
I think CC goes 7 strong and Alex will hit yet another HR and in doing so he will tie Lou Gehrig and Ryan Howard with most consecutive playoff games with an RBI…
Let’s go Yankees…! The other Chris H(Quote)
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Jeter is almost as hot as Arod right now, if it wasn’t for the fact that Alex is busting a playoff slump like no other Jeter would be the story of the playoffs right now…
Right there however the captain really messed up and his hit doesn’t count anymore… The other Chris H(Quote)
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Tex barely missed a HR right there and even though he did strike out looking he worked the count 3-2 and put some good wood on the ball so he is a lot closer to busting out than he was last night! The other Chris H(Quote)
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Gameday has CC’s fastball at 94-95 on every pitch since the first one at 93 so Sabathia looks like he is fine on 3 days rest there, his control isn’t great but he usually has the least control he has all night in the first and it gets better after that so we will have to wait and see what they does.
On his first pitch to Vlad CC is at 96 MPH so he is really throwing gas here early! The other Chris H(Quote)
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Teixeira got caught looking, but he had a few great swings. Looking forward to his next at bats. Rob A from BBD(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
He worked the count to 3-2 as well which is always a first sign of Tex about to break out… The other Chris H(Quote)
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I like switching Posada and Matsui in this, the hot hitter protecting Arod right now is the smart move.
Alex Rodriguez just caught every player on the Angels off guard with that steal of second base, the throw was to dirt and the guy covering the bag ended up just standing behind second. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Way 2 go Cano & Matsui! The other Chris H(Quote)
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I feel like Cano has changed what made him successful in the regular season… He is a guy who goes out and swings, he lays off the unhittable pitches but the first thing he sees in his range he swings at and thus far in the playoffs he has just been waiting and waiting and it hasn’t worked out at all!
At least Swisher has been doing what he did during the regular season it just hasn’t translated to a big hit yet… The other Chris H(Quote)
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38 pitches for Kazmir thus far and a very bad run to ball ratio but the Yankees once again can’t seem to hit Kaz even when he isn’t at his best. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Yankees looking like amateurs. Chris H.(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
The line up has all post season though so what’s changed? Without Alex and Jeter we would be no where!
Damn! What a close play! The other Chris H(Quote)
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What do you think of Sabathia through 2 Chris? The other Chris H(Quote)
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Melky Cabrera with an extremely Angels play with a perfect push bunt down the line for a lead off hit, very well done! Very heady! Very Derek Jeter almost… The other Chris H(Quote)
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Tex is real late on a 90 MPH fastball and that isn’t a good sign because it could take him a while to get his timing back being as back legged as he is. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Kazmir looks awful and Tex made him look like he is on top of his game and it is all due to the fact he has his timing off right now…
More frightening though is that no one is getting much off of Kazmir and he has yet to show me anything at all that is good really… I mean his first strike to Tex was a middle high change up that Mark just looked at. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Sabathia looks dominate through 3 innings! He has good velocity, his control has gotten better since the first and his breaking balls are getting across the zone and down in the zone for strikes.
I truly think it’s a mental thing with CC that makes him want to pitch on three games and makes him pitch better with 3 days… Guys like Peyton Manning want the ball on the last drive down by 3 and guys like CC want to carry there teams and do something other pitchers can’t! It’s just a gamer mentality that some people have and CC definitely has it! The other Chris H(Quote)
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Now their starting to hit Kazmir’s offerings a little harder and the Yankees have runners at 2nd and 3rd with Matsui up. The other Chris H(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Cano has to come through, to get Arod at 3rd with no outs and not score him is a sin in this game we can’t afford to commit. The other Chris H(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Good thing we don’t have to worry about it! Alex had a great slide to help get that run in… The other Chris H(Quote)
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That’s why you can’t sit Melky against a lefty for Gardner…. The Melk man delivers once again with a 2 run bases loaded single and the Yankees take a 3-0 lead early on with Kazmir’s pitch count around 80 in the 4th with one out. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Finally a hit with RISP. Swisher was definitely out on that pickoff throw though. Eric Schultz(Quote)
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Well now they know how the Yankees felt when Jeter was called out and he was safe on the other side of a DP. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Jon Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Nice make up call. Jon(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Swisher is a make up call for sure… The other Chris H(Quote)
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Up 3-0, let’s maintain the lead this time. Go Yanks! Andy(Quote)
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Bad call Umps! eerrrrr Andy(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
That is why for the most part bad calls in games usually get evened out and you can’t bitch to much because the other team probably has had bad calls as well. The other Chris H(Quote)
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WOW so the Angels get there lost call right back as Swisher was clearly still on the bag when the ball was caught!
This is the second time Swisher has been called out leaving a bag early to sac and it’s the second time the umps were wrong… The first I am sure you will all remember as the clinching game for the AL East against the Sox when Swisher tagged up at 2nd to advance to third and was called out on appeal and replays showed he was safe, now in the playoffs against the Angels it happens again but this time sacing to go home. When you consider he probably should have been out and wouldn’t be on third anyway it’s not a big deal, but what is it with Swisher and these bad calls sacing? it’s going to stop him from doing it at some point. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Chris H. Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Had to be some sort of makeup call. I hope they all ask that asshole about it after the game. Chris H.(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
He should have to say how badly he feels and how he sat in the umpires room feeling terrible after the game. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Does anyone believe that Sabathia on short rest has thrown 38 pitches through 4 innings? I actually thought this would be his best start stuff wise in these playoffs and so far it is, let’s hope he keeps it up because at this point the man is dominate! The other Chris H(Quote)
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Tex looks off in the exact same way that Vlad is currently, he gets a single there but he is really off timing wise… The other Chris H(Quote)
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Bulgers coming in, he has a nsaty breaking ball as we have all seen but this will be his 3rd or 4th call out of the pen so the Yankees should have seen him enough now to know a weakness somewhere in his game plan. The other Chris H(Quote)
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I’ll take my calling that HR DAP now……
He just tied both Lou and Ryan Howard for 8 consecutive games with an RBI and it’s his 3rd straight with a HR. The other Chris H(Quote)
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How are you going to let Jorge Posada steal a base on you? The other Chris H(Quote)
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Posada should have scored on that hit for sure! How are you going to steal a base and then not score on a double off the wall? The other Chris H(Quote)
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Terrible base running by Posada again and truthfully this has been a terribly umped game and both teams have paid for it! The other Chris H(Quote)
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Eric Schultz Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Wow, some awful baserunning in that inning. Eric Schultz(Quote)
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Posada is the worst BASE RUNNER of any position player in baseball and has been his entire career.That being said, Cano may be the dumbest man in baseball. leftylarry(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Lefty, seriously go away with that shit! No one wants to here some depressing Mofo who only wants to bring things down when you are winning a playoff game. If Jorge dropped a ball he would be the worse HOLDER in baseball history and he always would have been to you.It’s enough already, we know you don’t like Posada stu with it though! The other Chris H(Quote)
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Kendry hits a HR on a 97 MPH fastball according to Gameday and even so it’s still 5-1 with Napoli and Aybar up next. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Additionally, you’re now seeing why you don’t pitch a star with 3 days rest.We’d be taking out Gaudin, probably 5-3 AND CC RESTED PITCHES THE NEXT GAME.
Hope we pull it out but it was a bad decision even if we do. leftylarry(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
When you make statemnts like that is makes you so really dumb…
CC is and has been throwing 93-96 since the first pitch of the game, only made one real mistake in the whole game a HR to Morales who was due to break out and has had all his pitches working for him thus far! To top that off he has only thrown 63 pitches even with that 3 hit inning and he also has only walked one batter in the game… This is the most important game of the series if we win we go up 3-1 and AJ can close the game out and we don’t have to use CC in game 7, it makes to most sense to pitch CC here on three days rest, we need the game, he wants to do it and he has dominated the Angles completely except for one not located fastball. The other Chris H(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Oh and additionally you are the least respected poster on this site because of statements like that with no reflection of truth in them… the fact that you think it would be 5-3 with Gaudin is laughable… The other Chris H(Quote)
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Chris H. Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Please, let’s be adults and refrain from calling each other “dumb” (or insinuating that someone is dumb). If you want to prove someone wrong, just do it with your argument! It really is the most effective way! And for the record, I love both leftylarry and The Other Me, ha. Chris H.(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
…and to add to that I don’t think anyone here has ill will to anyone else here at any point… except maybe angeldude… but he doesn’t count! The other Chris H(Quote)
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CC gets out with only 1 run on the board and he is going into the 6th with still only 63 pitches on the night and a chance to go 7+.
With that said it would be nice for the offense to get a run or two up on the board in this inning to take some life out of the fans and team themselves. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Good pitch by Santana but I’m not sure if Alex could have even fouled that one off without a pretty big reach though… The other Chris H(Quote)
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I thought Hunter swung and that was just a little blooper off the change… The other Chris H(Quote)
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WHy risk it?
We’re the better team, the better hitting and fielding team and we’re ahead 2-1, why risk it?
CC is getting by so I’ll be proven wrong but why risk it?
Gaudin could have pitched 5, maybe 6 innings, that would have been enough. leftylarry(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Because Gaudin could have pitched 5 or 6 innings with 3 or 4 runs but would he? Kendrick is a beast and Morales has hit a HR… not to mention using Gaudin guarantees you have to use Chamberlain in the 7th and at this point the bullpen needs to be used as little as possible and Chamberlain especially!
We are the better team? Barley and we aren’t the team with better starting depth CC makes us the better team because he can pitch 3 times in this series and they can’t match him with anyone.
If you use Gaudin and lose then it’s a 2-2 series and Sabathia has to win the next game not to fall to 3-2 and Burnett and Pettitte have the responsibility and pressure to close the series and I don’t want them to have to be in that situation of having to win.
You can’t assume Gaudin would have done well, he hasn’t pitched in the post season and his last start was a week before the season ended, he could come out and only go 3 innings and we would be sunk for this game and the rest of the series with a tired bullpen.
There is almost no risk in pitching Sabathia on short rest the man is the second coming of Bob Gibson he can do it with no problem… This isn’t 170 pound Lincecum he is 6′7 and 290 with a great arm who knows his body, if he wants to pitch on shirt rest with as much rest as he got in the season to do just this you pitch him on short rest.
His genius is that in this start he used a lot less sliders and a lot more change ups and pitched to contact to keep his pitch count down so he could safely go deep in the game and now in the 7th inning he closing the stretch and shutting down the line up. CC is a beast and is perfectly capable of pitching ever start from here on out on 3 days if need be but you wouldn’t obviously. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Sabathia has 80 pitches as he walks out for the 7th inning and if he can get through this one he will have given 7 strong innings which is more than either Gaudin or Chamberlain could have done because neither is stretched out enough to do so… The plan to use CC Sabathia for game 4 was not only the smart move it was the only move and as you can see it turned out just fine through 6 so he matched or did better than anything Gaudin could have done and now we don’t have to use Chamberlain unless we go extras which is a huge advantage after what he showed yesterday. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Chris H. Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
At this pace, he could pitch a complete game. Chris H.(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I wonder if Joe would rather rest Mo/Hughes or Sabathia…? At this point that is what it will come down to, if he wants to rest CC he should go 8 and if he wants to rest the pen you could see a CG. Not sure how much Joe wants to do that on 3 days rest though, I doubt he has a pitch count but still no reason to stretch the big guy with a 4 run lead. The other Chris H(Quote)
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CC with only 92 pitches at the end of the 7th inning so he should go out and be batter by batter in the 8th inning. The other Chris H(Quote)
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CC is dominating. I have the biggest man crush on him. Chris H.(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
I called both the Alex Hr and the CC dominance… They are just to locked in right now for anyone to doubt either one at this point. The other Chris H(Quote)
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Man they have gotten Gardner twice now and has yet to get a postseason bag… Oh well he has to keep running no matter the results, he’s to fast not to get one. Melky has looked good tonight and really has started turning the line up over which is something we were missing before, if Tex can just get his timing down the offense could really start to click. The other Chris H(Quote)
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God I hate Erick Aybar! That play is just to hard to make you shouldn’t be allowed to have that kind of defense! The other Chris H(Quote)
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It’s a Johnny Rocket and the Yankees have a 6 run cushion so Sabathia might not even see the 8th. The other Chris H(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Well it looks like Sabs will at least start the 8th and Joe will probably take it one batter at a time but he has the top of the line up and it turns Chone around makes Abreu face a lefty to leave CC in so it’s a good call. The other Chris H(Quote)
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I think without question Sabathia is the best left handed starting pitcher in the game and he is showing exactly why that is true! When you really get down to it I think Sabathia is a top 3 pitcher in all of baseball as good as he is in the second half and his abiltity to go on short rest and his ability to CGs is right at the top of baseball with Roy Halladay.
EDIT: As Sabathis retires the second batter of the 8th with his 99th pitch…
EDIT: and on 3 days rest Sabathis matches his first game with 8 innings and only 1 run on get this 101 pitches… It took him 115 in game 1, he is actually improved on short rest… The man is a beast!
EDIT: what are the odds he sees the 9th inning with 101 pitches? I would say it’s a pretty decent chance he could go into the 9th and face at least the first batter with as easy as he is throwing but will Girardi do it? The other Chris H(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Nope looks like he is done and apparently Gaudin will pitch the 9th as Alex Rodriguez just hit a big double to lead off the inning. The other Chris H(Quote)
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sabathia is ________________ Andy(Quote)
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The other Chris H Reply:
October 20th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
“…not a dominate pitcher, he wasn’t top 10 in ERA or batting average against he is a work hose”
Arod sacs and scores on the wild throw by Abreu and the Yankees lead 8-1. The other Chris H(Quote)
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People with their own problems and bullshit aside GAME OVER!
The Yankees win 10-1 and Sabathia was dominate… Yankees hit fairly well and the Yankees are one win away from the world series! The other Chris H(Quote)
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To The Other Chris, in a moment or two, check your email. Chris H.(Quote)
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Alex for sure locked up ALCS MVP for the Yankees and is setting himself up and the team up for a great chance to a win a world series! The other Chris H(Quote)
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