8/3 Vs The Choos

[jung]

Well if there is a silver lining to having Crawford down here in the order, once on base there is no reason to hold him from trying to steal.

[mvp 78]

Well, maybe should have attempted a steal there.

[TutGadol]

He had no real lead, I think they gave him the red light and it costed a run.

[jung]

It is so hard to make speed count for much in this park...the painful lesson that the Sox should have known long before bringing Crawford here.

[jung]

Well if they did red light him....pardon me but that is ridiculous...it is Shop for crying out loud. If they are not going to let Crawford go with Shop up there, how are they ever going to let Crawford go when he is batting higher in the order and guys like Pedey and Agons are coming up behind him?

[mvp 78]

It is so hard to make speed count for much in this park...the painful lesson that the Sox should have known long before bringing Crawford here.

 

Dave Roberts?

[TutGadol]

Perkins vs Els. Clutch time.

[jung]

I have posted a couple of times now though that I really think that game where V got burned bunting with Punto (I think it was Punto) really has turned V off to trying anything with this team. Remember Punto bunted into a DP....hard to do I know and then the next guy ran into an out...can't remember how that last out happened but that was the last time I saw V aggressively try to manufacture a run with this team as both plays blew up in his face. He went from two on and nobody out to three outs and no runs in.

[mvp 78]

Squeeze play?

[jung]

Dave Roberts?

 

You can have one speed guy and make due with that but having two speed guys that you think will likely be at the top of your order just does not work here. All we have to do is look.

 

I also think Roberts spent most of his time down in the order and even pinch running. You should be willing to take more risk with guys batting down in your order because you are not as confident that the hitters behind them are going to get the runners around by strength of bat.

 

I really would have thought Crawford would have at least looked like he was trying something with Shop up there.

[mvp 78]

Waste of an AB.

[TutGadol]

s***.

[jung]

For crying out load we can't get a guy home from third with less than two outs in a tie game late....why????????

[SoxFanForsyth]

Pedroia obviously going to come up big here. Ho hum.

[jung]

Now nothing else will do but a hit. Great

[SoxFanForsyth]

Wow. That just happened.

[SemperFi Sox]

this team is the definition of anti clutch

[jung]

Wow......both guys swing at balls way out of the strike zone....with the bases loaded and a chance to just win it in the next half inning. No wonder some folks are thinking this series may just touch off the trigger on that nuclear bomb waiting to go off.

[TutGadol]

Looking at it now Mauer did the best he can framing those Ks to Pedroia & Els. He really caught them with the edge of his glove. I read this piece not to long ago about how Jose Molina can noticeably enlarge the strike zone, Mauer can do it too. On the other hand Salty...

[a700hitter]

The little guy is having a big off year with the bat and he did a lot of damage early with his mouth.

[mvp 78]

Salty isn't the long term solution at C. Trade bait in the offseason.

[jung]

But those were swinging strikes on both cases...did not matter where Mauer had the glove in those cases. They just swung at bad pitches in very big spots. There are times when the Sox look like the most constipated offense I have ever seen....just cannot push a run across to save their skin.

[SemperFi Sox]

shut up mcclure

[TutGadol]

But those were swinging strikes on both cases...did not matter where Mauer had the glove in those cases. They just swung at bad pitches in very big spots. There are times when the Sox look like the most constipated offense I have ever seen....just cannot push a run across to save their skin.

 

I was talking about the 2 Ks earlier back to back to Els and Ped (Which were both bad calls).

[jung]

I think MVP said it...squeeze bunt...although they also can't bunt to save their skin but try something...anything because it is not like the usual is working in most cases.

[mvp 78]

I think MVP said it...squeeze bunt...although they also can't bunt to save their skin but try something...anything because it is not like the usual is working in most cases.

 

Wasn't everyone on here freaking out about how much BV stressed fundamentals in ST?

[jung]

You are right Tut...those were terrible terrible calls....I actually think they were so far off the plate that even whatever mauer was doing should not have had an impact.

 

That said, that was a terrible effort on the part of Shop on that backdoor breaking ball from Miller...he did an awful job framing that pitch.

[italstallianion]

I actually watched a lot of the Twins players when I did stats with the Rockcats a couple of years ago, and they were clearly the worst team in the minors. A lot of these players looked horrible yet they are still finding ways to beat the Red Sox. The Sox should just stop playing games all together before someone else gets injured or loses trade value.

[jung]

Wasn't everyone on here freaking out about how much BV stressed fundamentals in ST?

Well that is what we were being told happened...evidence would suggest otherwise

 

and now here comes the mad man

[jung]

I am glad we got the K there but do you know how absolutely wild we would have been if the hitter took that down main street pitch and deposited it into the outfield? Yea it was a rising FB but if that is what you are trying to accomplish as a pitcher, that pitch got way to much strike zone and could easily have been tagged. Why go there with an 0-2 count.