Stumbled upon the word Nuyorican while watching Ricardo Rossello resign as governor of Puerto Rico. Seems Nuyoricans are current or former New Yorkers who were either born in or are descendants of Puerto Rico. If you’re keeping score, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jennifer Lopez are Nuyoricans. Decisions by Mayor de Blasio and Stitches make us Nuyo’reek’ans.

The Pirates, losers of eight straight after a lost weekend in Flushing, head to Cincinnati. Chew on this. The Yankees, their starting pitching pounded daily, probably wish they still had Sonny Gray! Record reads 2-1, 1.62 ERA, 42 strikeouts over his past five starts. Pittsburgh’s Jordan Lyles has been roughed up for 30 earned runs over his past 27 innings while going 0-5 in that span. Good news for Lyles though is that we are backing the Reds for 10 units.

Bit on the snakes again and they bit us back—again. Fair to say no one wants Robbie Ray. Miguel Rojas and Brian Anderson hit homers off Ray, the D’backs were held to four hits and the Marlins won 5-1. Loss has us at -817 garagiolas.