5/30 Tigers vs Red Sox

[mvp 78]

Not throwing cutters tonight? What does that mean to his average velocity?

[jung]

This ump has got the Tiger hitters all screwed up about low strikes. He has been giving Lester those pitches out of the strike zone and it has really got the Tigers screwed up. About the one thing Lester has going for him tonight.

[mvp 78]

Should IBB here.

[FredLynn]

You do not let Fielder beat you here. First base is open

[FredLynn]

Did this site just go down?

[Palodios]

We need some insurance Agon.

[Palodios]

Did this site just go down?

 

Yep.

[FredLynn]

Another K by AGON....yawwwwwwwwwwwn.

[TutGadol]

Only sub .250 hitters in sight. a 1 2 3 here could make this performance not all that awful.

[jung]

Agons on the quietist ten game hitting streak in the history of baseball.

[NativeBostonian]

Agons on the quietist ten game hitting streak in the history of baseball.

 

I didn't know he was on one until tonight.

[jung]

not all that awful

 

You get the award....most strained string of words ever put together in an effort to squeeze out a compliment. Geez that is without doubt the most constipated compliment I have ever heard for a pitching performance.

 

Just kidding ya' big fella:D:D

[TutGadol]

Would you let Lester go out there for the 7th?

[FredLynn]

Agons on the quietist ten game hitting streak in the history of baseball.

 

He is on a 10 game hitting streak, but how often do we see him hit for power nowadays? He is only fourth in RBIs on the team with Ortiz, Ross, and Aviles ahead of him. He has already struck out 42 times in under 200 ABs and has looked lost on some of them.

I expected more consistency and a MUCH better performance.

[evilhand]

Would you let Lester go out there for the 7th?

 

Nope. He's labored through 6. Let him sit down with a quality start (most useless stat in baseball) and hand it to the pen.

[NativeBostonian]

Would you let Lester go out there for the 7th?

 

No he blows up if you let him go that long. Just take what he have us and let the bullpen do the rest.

[FredLynn]

To Lester's credit, once his team scored four runs for him, he settled down. I am just wondering what took him so long. For a #1 SP three runs in six innings isn't good enough.

[FredLynn]

Would you let Lester go out there for the 7th?

 

Yes, until one baserunner gets on base.

[jung]

If the Sox go up and down real quick I might let him go. But on balance I would say no. He would leave with a lead at this point and has really been living on thin ice the whole game. The absolute only way to do it would be to have the guy ready in the pen and give Lester a one batter shot. If nobody gets on, let him finish the inning. Soon as somebody got on...out he comes. That would be the only way I would consider it.

[jung]

I expected more consistency and a MUCH better performance

 

Well of course that is why it is such a quiet hitting streak. He has really not accomplished anything. Did you see the stats they posted for the ten games. I nearly fell off my chair they were so pathetic for hitting streak stats. He has scalded the ball for a 289 average over the ten games, with 5 RBI and a HR....now that is getting it done

[Palodios]

Nava is a superhero.

[FredLynn]

Lester owes Nava a beer and some chicken after the game

[Station 13]

Lester luck there.

[jung]

Nava is a baseball player...that is what he is....he is not a coulda been Linebacker or a shoulda been power forward....he is a baseball player.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Lester needs to be pulled now. They're tee'ing off on him.

[SoxFanForsyth]

But he had Laird K'd on the pitch before that.

[jung]

Not sure why V allowed Lester to stay after that first rocket off the wall. Seemed like that was a break for V. Wow keeping him in. This is more on V than Lester if it blows up

[evilhand]

Shades of Grady Little right there...

[FredLynn]

Just the right time to take him out. Do it now. Leaving him in is a mistake.

[NativeBostonian]

That's why you pull Lester in the six.