The joys of a balanced offense

Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, and new friend Darin Ruf provided all of the offense in this one, as the trio drove in two runs apiece in the 6-2 win.

Lindor provided his runs by way of a two run home run, his 20th of the season, smoking a 2-2 Mike Minor change up over the left field fence. Jeff McNeil decided the next two RBI were his, one coming by way of a solo home run (his first against a lefty this season, with Minor being the victim) in the fourth, and the other on a seeing eye single in the sixth, scoring Darin Ruf.

Ruf added the last two runs on an RBI single in the seventh, vindicating Buck Showalter’s decision to leave him in against right hander Joel Kuhnel, rather than pull him…