One weird game thread that reeks with dislike, distrust, dismay, and disdain for the Sox, who are actually leading the Pirates 8-0 after 8 innings.
Go figure.
Sox should play all their games on the road. About to be 8-2 on the road.
Missed most of this game--dinner guests--but it did seem to me that both teams' hitters were more than happy to take strike three if the pitch wasn't near the middle of the zone.
No way, no how would I have predicted an 8-0 win (which hasn't happened yet). 12 hits, 4 freaking dingers. Go figure.
In 5 starts Bello has gone 5, 5, 5.1, 5.1, and 6 innings and given up 2, 4, 1, 2, and 0 ER's. Tonight he needed a lot of pitches to get through the first 3 innings, but sure finished strong.
Good for Bello, 6 inning , 1 hit shutout start, , hitters showed up with power. Booser makes his debut as the oldest player since 1947 to make an MLB debut at 31 years or older, except for some aliens . Very good to be over .500 in April as the starting pitching is extending its dominance and extending its depth into the 6th and beyond
Yes, but that will lead to miniscule game threads. Talksoxers hate wins. It's much more fun to find fault, which in fact have abounded this season.
But the Sox are now 11-10 despite the absences of Story, Devers, O'Neill, Pivetta, Whitlock, et al.
And the Sox pitching continues to have the lowest ERA in MLB.
"Fans have become more entitled than anything. So they're starting to question our motives for the game, or how we approach the game. The ones that do question -- like who are you? Just shut up and watch the game tonight." --Kevin Durant on players' lack of effort in regular season games.
Reread the very first page, which is filled with gloom and doom and predictions of errors, etc.
2d page has just 2. 3d page gets into the baserunning and third base coach issue, which continues onto page 4.
Nowhere does anyone say the Sox are now 10-9, that the beat a team with a winning record, and that the Sox pitching still has the lowest ERA in MLB.
mvp 78 did, however, tell us the Sox are 2d in MLB in dingers--a huge surprise for me.
Last edited by Maxbialystock; 04-19-2024 at 08:38 PM.