5/26 vs Cleveland

[SoxFanForsyth]

The strikeouts and GIDP's will make a man go insane. This team is horrific in these categories, worse than any team I've seen in a long long time, perhaps ever

[User Name]

The strikeouts and GIDP's will make a man go insane. This team is horrific in these categories, worse than any team I've seen in a long long time, perhaps ever

 

Atlanta is worse in K's, and may be worse in GIDP too, problem is that lineup has OBP and power threats up and down. Sox have one, but lack the other.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Just an ugly AB by Pedroia. Not what I expected.

[jung]

Down 4-1, Ells stealing in that situation was flat stupid. Had a LH hitter coming up behind him in a situation where one run does nothing. Sox needed to rally.

[Standing Room]

Entering today, we were 9th in the league in GDP. Honestly, the GDP don't bother me that much because it's typically the teams that get on base that ground in to double plays.

[Station 13]

A few more Ks for our hitters. Absolutely f***ing ridiculous.

[crazydiamond]

ok, Doubie is out. walk-off win.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Consistent with that outside corner.

[jung]

Maybe this is just a bad day to be hitting.....odd sun or something. Naps lost that ball to the sky over at 1st base on a ball that you would think normally would not have caused a problem. Neither team's hitters have been all that impressive today.

[Standing Room]

Maybe this is just a bad day to be hitting.....odd sun or something. Naps lost that ball to the sky over at 1st base on a ball that you would think normally would not have caused a problem. Neither team's hitters have been all that impressive today.

 

Or maybe it's the pitching :dunno:

 

I don't think batters look in to the sky when they're hitting.

[italstallianion]

After the way the game started I was impressed that Doubront was able to make it through 6 innings.

[Station 13]

Bourne is such a ****.

[jung]

I can't buy it being the pitching at least not our pitching. Felix was wild both in and out of the strike zone the entire time. When he was out of the strike zone he was often way out of the strike zone and when he was in the strike zone he was often up and in the middle of the plate. Indian hitters swung at too much junk and often beat very good pitches to hit right into the ground.

 

 

Our guys have fallen prey to the usual for us...any pitcher that can hit the outer third going low and away has this team by the short hairs.

[Standing Room]

Your explanation seems pretty reasonable. Must be an odd sun sitting in centerfield today.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Ellsburys dropped pop up and GIDP were the turning points in this game. He virtually single handedly lost the game.

[jung]

I can credit Kluber. While it is true that the Sox have been meat to pitchers that can hit that spot starting on the plate and headed lower and farther outside, the pitcher still has to hit his spot to be that kind of effective. Kluber has hit it with regularity with the usual result for pitchers we face that can.

[User Name]

Who?

[Standing Room]

Who?

 

Kluber Kliber, he's an up-and-comer.

[Station 13]

Ellsburys dropped pop up and GIDP were the turning points in this game. He virtually single handedly lost the game.

 

There's some s*** f*** up in his swing. His hits now are just groundballs sneaking through. He has 2XBH in May, 3 going back 1 month.

[Station 13]

Good AB Gomes.

 

 

Can we please get Bradley back up?

[jung]

It really does not matter if his name is Mickey Mouse...if he can hit that spot pitching against the Red Sox he becomes Cy Young.

[Standing Room]

Isn't pitching low and away, keeping the ball out of the middle of the strike zone and throwing stirkes exactly what Cy Young caliber pitchers do? There doesn't need to be a sun behind the pitcher to make them effective when they're doing that.

[italstallianion]

I love and hate this team so much at the same time.

[jung]

It would be nice if the Sox hitters could lay off pitchers that end up a foot off the plate outside and low.

 

We have regularly turned junk ballers into legends for the past two years. It is not a question of a well rounded, pitcher with command of several pitches using a slider for an out pitch...it is a matter of pitchers coming in here that don't have much more than a slider or maybe a cutter depending on location owning this team.

[Standing Room]

It would be nice if the Sox hitters could lay off pitchers that end up a foot off the plate outside and low.

 

We have regularly turned junk ballers into legends for the past two years. It is not a question of a well rounded, pitcher with command of several pitches using a slider for an out pitch...it is a matter of pitchers coming in here that don't have much more than a slider owning this team.

 

Do you have anything to back up your observation, or is more "Middlebrooks is a dead pull hitter" drivel?

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

8th inning is where the Sox come alive, lets go!

[Station 13]

Drew with some luck. He's been hitting the ball hard all homestand.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Iglesias hits his first HR here.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Damn it lmao. I was so close!

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Ellsbury with an inside the park HR here.