5/25 vs Rays

[FredLynn]

The offense can make it a game here.

 

That would be refreshing. Doesn't change the fact that we are toast, but at least for tonite, it would provide some entertainment.

[VA Sox Fan]

Damn Pods with the determined bunt! LOL

[Station 13]

Bloop and blast

[FredLynn]

Pedroia is going to have to get a base hit to make this any kind of a game.

[VA Sox Fan]

Aviles with the sac. Liking it. Step it up Pedey!

[VA Sox Fan]

Pedroia is going to have to get a base hit to make this any kind of a game.

 

Not really, it's the bottom of the 6th.

[FredLynn]

Now Papi can huff and puff and tie the game up.

[VA Sox Fan]

God Dammit! Pedey almost hit in the head in his first at bat. Now this? Control your s*** TB

[jung]

What is the fascination of that pitch anyway? Buchholz is a total headcase that I'm sure he throws it just to get along with the chicken/beer guys.

 

Well I think the first order of business for any pitcher is what can I throw for strikes without being what is called "wild in the middle of the plate". In other words if you think you have a pitch that you can only throw for strikes that end up right down main street, in MLB, you are dead dead dead. Punk #9 hitters are going to take you yard. Wild in the middle of the plate is actually worse than not being able to throw a pitch for strikes but not being able to throw a pitch for strikes at all will also make a pitcher lose confidence in that pitch.

 

So that is what I meant earlier about Red Sox like Lester and Buch not having enough confidence in their FB to throw it enough to cut down on the number of cutters they are throwing.

 

The cutter is a great pitch if you can throw it the way Beckett normally throws it and when Beckett normally throws it. Even Beckett gets cutter happy sometimes. But he is more likely to throw it well and at the right time than Lester and Buch who throw it as a matter of desperation as far as I am concerned. You have to be able to locate your FB and either have a decent slider or decent curve to throw the cutter. The cutter is an alternate pitch the way the straight change is an alternate pitch. The cutter is not meat and potatoes and if you as a pitcher try to make it meat and potatoes, you will get the meat part. In fact you will be the meat part.

[lesterkett]

time to go deep papi

[jung]

C'mon David...we need ya'

[markj]

For the few asshats that feel that they are above the crowd and pretend that this team isn't f***ed' date=' where has the SP and or BP ranked in the last four years? We might talk s*** about a team playing underwhelmingly but it makes a lot more sense than pretending they are good and attacking the fans that don't drink the kool-aid.[/quote']

 

Where you been, Brennan? 'Bout you showed up and cracked the whip.

[FredLynn]

Mighty Casey has struck out

[markj]

Damn, thought that was gone for a sec.

[jung]

Damn that was off the end of David's bat. That was so close to being gone!

[Station 13]

f*** man.

[kapsis21]

papi cmon man.!!!argghh

[Elktonnick]

Mighty Casey has struck out

 

That would have been gone in the TROP

[FredLynn]

Or flied out anyway.

This game was over in the third inning when Lester served up walks with meatball flambe.

[User Name]

Gotta feast on that s***** bullpen early and often.

[FredLynn]

That would have been gone in the TROP

 

I think it would have hit a catwalk

[jung]

Not so fast pumps. if the pen can keep holding these chumps down...remember the Rays pen is not exactly the second coming of Cy Young.

 

Just embarrassing as hell that our supposed #1 can't hold these guys down and the pen can do a better job. The whole thing makes me sick.

[FredLynn]

Not so fast pumps. if the pen can keep holding these chumps down...remember the Rays pen is not exactly the second coming of Cy Young.

 

Just embarrassing as hell that our supposed #1 can't hold these guys down and the pen can do a better job. The whole thing makes me sick.

 

Wait until Sunday. Buchholtz is pitching. :lol:

[a700hitter]

Nava with a below average arm.

[markj]

Nava booted that one.

[a700hitter]

This should have been a walk over by the Sox. The Rays lineup is weak without Longoria and Jennings and our number 1 was facing off against their number 5. Lester s*** the bet big time.

[Station 13]

Nava with a below average arm.

 

Crawford got nothing on it.

[jung]

Man Mike, ya gotta' get those man. Salty does not throw enough good balls down to second in the first place. Catch the damn ball man.

[markj]

Gotta admit, Salty is better at gunning down runners than Tek ever was. Good throw there. Aviles just muffed it.

[FredLynn]

This should have been a walk over by the Sox. The Rays lineup is weak without Longoria and Jennings and our number 1 was facing off against their number 5. Lester s*** the bet big time.

 

Yup.

He does that a lot.