5/18 @ Target Field

[VA Sox Fan]

Pedey hustling!

[VA Sox Fan]

Love ya PAPI!!!!

[SoxFanForsyth]

:ortiz:

[jung]

Ortiz murdered that. If that pitch was a little higher I am sure he would have hit that out.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Ugh anytime Nap gets 2 strikes on him, I just go ahead and chalk it up to a K.

[BigPapi]

Almost got a hit there, but nava is beggining too cool off in his past 10 games. Still 3rd on the team with 24 rbis though, which is pretty remarkable.

[jung]

It is not just one pitch they are getting Naps on now either....Up and in...down and in....up and away....at this rate teams are going to start to walk Ortiz even with men on base that get pushed up one.

[BigPapi]

Naps got 58 strikeouts now. At this pace, he'll be right there for about 220 if he doesnt stop laying of terrible pitches when hes down with two strikes. Papi, on the other hand, only has 12.

[a700hitter]

Lavarnway has the graceful mobility of Frankenstein"s monster.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Bullpen game to be sure. I'd be surprised if either starter makes it to the 6th

[BigPapi]

34 balls already for dempster but he was lucky to get out of that one.

[a700hitter]

This is the Dempster that I remember from the Cubs. High pitch counts and lots of walks. He escapes again.

[SoxFanForsyth]

This is the Dempster that I remember from the Cubs. High pitch counts and lots of walks. He escapes again.

 

That's not very fair. He averaged 6 and 1/3 innings per outing with the Cubs since 2010.

[Standing Room]

Lava couldn't buy a hit. Another line drive right at an outfielder.

[jung]

Demps has not often left that really ugly pitch up in the zone where he can get hurt. The BB's have been piling up but he is almost never wild in the strike zone and that has saved him tonight and other nights. However if he starts to leave more pitches up in the zone on top of all these BB's then he will really start to get rocked. He has been a very hard nosed pitcher.

[jung]

Lava couldn't buy a hit. Another line drive right at an outfielder.

 

It was a lotta' this last time he was up. He would either hit a GB, K or line drive right at somebody. Uncanny really how often it goes this way for him.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Lavarnway hitting th ball well right now. They'll start to fall.

 

Side note - can you imagine if the Sox didn't start the year with Bradley, and he went down to AAA and was performing as well as he is not (.304, .418 OBP)? With the way Ellsbury has been performing, I wonder if people would be calling for Bradley right about now.

[Standing Room]

Dempster's looked like s***. He's walking bottom of the order bats and allowing a lot of deep fly outs. We're lucky this is a big stadium.

[Station 13]

Ellsbury still an infuriating player. Thank god they didn't signed him after 2011 long term.

[Standing Room]

We're also lucky they did away with the Type A, Type B classifications, he wouldn't have qualified as either one.

[jung]

Almost unbelievable how bad it has gotten for Ells. Pitchers have almost got to make an effort NOT to get him out. The pitch he hit in the 1st was as grooved a pitch as it could be.

 

At this rate, Demps is bound to walk somebody and then leave a pitch up in the zone where even this place won't hold it. While I am stretching to compliment him, he has been pretty tough. Many pitchers would have just been so demoralized by the walks that they would have just tossed a lollypop up there by now.

 

Well like that...at least it was not a dinger.

[a700hitter]

He'll be lucky to get through 5 innings tonight.

[BigPapi]

Wow. Demoster really got away with that last pitch to willingham. Josh should have drove that right into the left field stands..

[Standing Room]

Still love Gomes hitting second.

[BigPapi]

Great double pedey. Right to opposite field.

[Mr Tibbs]

PEDI!!!!!

[VA Sox Fan]

Gomes AND Pedey!! Nice....

[jung]

Suprisingly Gomes has been even more patient than Nava and patience is one of Nava's strong points. I expected Nave to be just a tad more patient than Gomes. But it is the other way round.

[Station 13]

Alright Napoli, time to hit like it was April.

[jung]

Pedey has developed as a hitter along what I think is exactly the right path for him. He does generate tremendous bat speed but he is just not big enough to be a true power hitter. I think it unrealistic to have expected him to hit HR's at the rate he did when he was younger. He is not even through getting better but he has to this point become a hitter with terrific bat control. At some point here he is going to out-Jeter Jeter IMO. He will be able to spray the ball wherever he wants to whenever he wants to but will generate more extra base hits than Jeter has since Jeter became such a master of bat control.