8/30 @ Angels

[BigPapiEnFuego]

Maybe they can win this game. 10 Eastern Time

 

Lackey vs. Greinke

[a700hitter]

Lackey is back?

[ibot2much]

Lackey is back?

 

Oh yea...it was a miracle. He got out to the field and yelled "let me pitch" after he heard Gammons saying yesterday on Felger and Mazz that he was valuable and everybody in the club house loved him and it would be "stupid" to get rid of him.

 

Ah... the power of positive reinforcement.

[Laser Show]

Lackey Jr. (Lester)

[Thunder]

Posednik LF

Pedroia 2B

Ellsbury CF

Loney 1B

Ross RF

Saltalamacchia DH

Lavarnway C

Aviles SS

Pedro 3B

[wyo-sox]

Wow, why am I watching this?

[SoxSport]

Lackey must have infected Lester before the game. Gave up 2 runs immediately.

I see the FO love affair with Aviles is on again.

[jung]

This Angels team may just catch everybody ahead of them before it is over but it does sort of point out how difficult it is to construct a team via trade and FA intending to go all the way. On paper the Angels are a terrific ball club but they are surely not where you would think they would be with this much team.

[wyo-sox]

Good job Aviles. Let's find another run fellas.

[swansrule100]

Lackey must have infected Lester before the game. Gave up 2 runs immediately.

I see the FO love affair with Aviles is on again.

 

I dont get too see much in Australia, this is the first year i subscribed to MLB Tv (great year to do it NOT!)

 

Was Lackey ever a decent player? or even a decent person like ever? The few times I saw him, and now read about him i wonder why in the hell he ever got signed.

[jung]

Hope Lester settles. We are in no shape for a base path merry go round with these guys. I do wonder if we will see Bard as soon as tonight as the pen is shot.

[NativeBostonian]

Hope Lester settles. We are in no shape for a base path merry go round with these guys. I do wonder if we will see Bard as soon as tonight as the pen is shot.

 

I didn't realize they brought him back up.

[jung]

Was Lackey ever a decent player? or even a decent person like ever? The few times I saw him, and now read about him i wonder why in the hell he ever got signed.

 

Believe me it did not look like a very good decision from much closer than you are either.

 

Lackey is not and was not a power pitcher. Pitching to contact never works very well in the AL East so while he was in fact the top FA pitcher in the year the Sox signed him, he was not the kind of pitcher you would expect to succeed in Fenway or in the AL East generally. Seems to be another bad case of Theo just going to the name at the top of the page for any given year and signing that guy.

[NativeBostonian]

I dont get too see much in Australia, this is the first year i subscribed to MLB Tv (great year to do it NOT!)

 

Was Lackey ever a decent player? or even a decent person like ever? The few times I saw him, and now read about him i wonder why in the hell he ever got signed.

 

Lackey was a good picture when he was with the Angels. He even had the Red Sox number in a couple of playoff games. unfortunately he unraveled when he signed the big contract. Sounds like a lot of our huge contracts.

[jung]

I didn't realize they brought him back up.

 

I don't think he is here because he is ready to be here. The Sox are now desperate for bull pen arms. I don't think he is at all ready at this point. Based on what he has been doing, I expect the Angels to line up a row of ambulances if he comes into the game.

[Station 13]

And ellsbury is back to swinging at the first or second pitches again.

[NativeBostonian]

Of course he makes the catch. Why can't anything go our way?

[NativeBostonian]

And ellsbury is back to swinging at the first or second pitches again.

 

You know you have absolutely no confidence in yourself when you swing the first pitch.

[jung]

Why can't anything go our way?

 

Lots of things go our way. Train wrecks....typhoons......locust plagues.....John Lackey.....anything apocalyptic you can think of tends to come our way.:D

[redsoxbeatz]

I'm at the game!! Right field row A babyyyyyyy

[jung]

What a tremendous hitter Albert is. While I don't get to see him that often, I think right now, he does more with good pitches than any other hitter in baseball.

[swansrule100]

this team has had the cue in the rack for a while now. Think ill get back to work and stop watching soon, even when they arent far behind It doesnt seem like they fight much at times.

[Station 13]

Lester is not immune.

[wyo-sox]

If I'm Bobby I put Salty in to pitch. These pitchers are just silly bad.

[jung]

Well that was never going to work. I know that at the very start of the year V or somebody announced that outfielders would be relaying to a middle infielder on all throws from the outfield but you are only going to catch really slow guys doing that. Pods probably has the best of the outfield arms when Kalish is not out there. I can see Ells throwing to a middle infielder as he does not have a strong arm and Ross does not have much arm either. They had no shot at Hunter that way.

[wyo-sox]

Salty bomb, please!!!!!

[wyo-sox]

Or salty k I guess, always one or another.

[jung]

Staggering...a Red Sox pitching coach actually talking to a pitcher. Got so tired of old Mt. Rushmore McClure sitting there, stone faced as ever as the world passed him by.

[wyo-sox]

I've been thinking Clay may be a one or two, Lester could be a solid three or four type pitcher. I've been wrong. They suck. We are so screwed next year if we can't find some pitching.

[jung]

These games are starting to come down to seeing if the opponent will put up double digit runs or not.

 

The Oakland games could be interesting except we can't pitch with them.