4/7 @ Toronto

[redsoxbeatz]

When Nava plays 1B? It's sorta like watching Moneyball.

[TylerD]

A little late for me but couldn't have asked for a better start haha! This is fun to watch.

[onlybereaved]

Shame about Lackey yesterday...Hope Lester out-pitches Dickey tonight. I expect that we are going to be able to capitalize on some wild-pitches and passed-balls tonight, prior to that being tightened up by Toronto when Dickey is on the hill.

 

I guess yesterday was a good day for me to get married and have to miss the game, seeing as how we didn't do much other than struggle and lose. We can blame that loss on me

 

Would be really awesome to win this one tonight! Let's go Red Sox.

[onlybereaved]

Oh snap, the game already started! I am out of it. Tuning in now

[jung]

The problem in AL East is in fact the parks combined with the teams. A knuckler often has an inning in a game where it just sits there right in the middle of the plate or up as it just did for Dickey in the first inning. Also there are days outside where the wind is blowing hard and in an unfavorable direction for his pitch. Knucklers are very vulnerable when it is not working. In the AL East you could be what the Jays are now...down 5 from one bad inning and not even that many pitches.

 

Anybody can be down 5 from one bad inning but the knuckler is particularly helpless to do anything about it. Dickey clearly had one major problem in that first inning so he was able to adjust. More often than not the knuckle ball pitcher can do nothing more than keep throwing it and hope the thing stops finding the middle of the plate and bats.

 

Maybe one of the most impressive things about Wake was that he did have many of these. He was rarely able to go deep into games but he could keep that thing dancing for 5-6 innings almost every time out.

[MANNYHOF24]

Middlebrooks is heating up

[TylerD]

Oh snap, the game already started! I am out of it. Tuning in now

 

Hahahaha that was me to. I just woke up lol.

[redsoxbeatz]

RBI good job Nava

[onlybereaved]

Hahahaha that was me to. I just woke up lol.

 

 

Better now than missing it completely...Nice to tune in to a 5-0 lead in the 3rd

[Dojji]

How's nava looking defensively?

 

(can't have the game on yet because of what you might call a prior broadcast commitment)

[mvp 78]

So where are all the posters that wanted RA and Josh Johnson and bitched about the Sox doing jack s*** this offseason and missing out on 2 aces?

[RedSoxNC84]

wow they are lighting Dickey up like a forest fire right now

[jung]

We are just not used to seeing a guy Nava's size at 1st. Glove makes him look like a little leaguer....junior division.

[User Name]

So where are all the posters that wanted RA and Josh Johnson and bitched about the Sox doing jack s*** this offseason and missing out on 2 aces?

 

Marcum isn't looking so good either.

[RedSoxNC84]

Marcum isn't looking so good either.

 

Neither is Haren.

[MANNYHOF24]

JBJ is cold

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

So where are all the posters that wanted RA and Josh Johnson and bitched about the Sox doing jack s*** this offseason and missing out on 2 aces?

I don't know, probably playing bingo or something.

[mvp 78]

I thought Dickey's stuff would translate totheALE because he throws a fast knuckler?

 

Also, Iggy can't hit! :harhar:

[mvp 78]

I don't know, probably playing bingo or something.

 

Yeah, that's what the AARP posters on here probably do in their free time.

 

The they have bingo in Mexico?

[onlybereaved]

Woop Iggy good hustle

[a700hitter]

So where are all the posters that wanted RA and Josh Johnson and bitched about the Sox doing jack s*** this offseason and missing out on 2 aces?

More phantoms.

[jung]

Notice how Cabrera runs without any oil in those joints....looks like an old man trying to gimp around out there. That body probably won't like this carpet.

[redsoxbeatz]

wow they are lighting Dickey up like a forest fire right now

 

Lighting him up like a blunt yo

[redsoxbeatz]

JBJ is cold

 

JBJ is 5.4 games into Majors. He will heat up!

[a700hitter]

7-0 Tito should tell Gibbons about the 7-run rule.

[mvp 78]

More phantoms.

 

Did you go back and delete those posts? Otherwise, they aren't phantoms. Maybe skeletons in your closet?

[NativeBostonian]

7-0 Tito should tell Gibbons about the 7-run rule.

 

Shhhhh, don't tell them that. I like scoring runs.

[redsoxbeatz]

Does Drew have to play SS on Monday? Iggy is cruising.

[mvp 78]

"The Jays just put some huge room between us. Cherington is just too slow on the trigger. I can't imagine how he didn't get in on some of those players."

[NativeBostonian]

I think Lester found the ace in himself again!