6/20 Red Sox @ Tigers

[Youk Of The Nation]

Well, I could ban everyone who is annoying, but then I'd be the last one left right before I had to ban myself.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Hm, I wonder if I can ban myself?

[jung]

Talking about Lavarnway and expectations now gone that he would have turned into a ML HR threat. I always had a hard time with that one. He is such a line drive hitter whereas Salty just as an example gets the ball in the air.

 

Wonder how much trying to become a HR hitter screwed with Lavarnway's approach at the plate.

[jung]

Wow....way to go Iggy. Hunter running in cement out there.

[MJantomaso]

This kid need to be an everyday player

[VA Sox Fan]

Well, I could ban everyone who is annoying, but then I'd be the last one left right before I had to ban myself.

 

 

Come on Pedey!!!!

[VA Sox Fan]

This kid need to be an everyday player

 

Jose is so awesome!!

[Thunder]

This is what I like to see coming back from a long day in the sun! Keep it up boys!

[jung]

I know I have said this before but since we are discussing Lackey, what he has shown me this year is how much of a real professional pitcher he is on the mound. Now that he is healthy and has access to all of his pitches, he really does a great job with his pitch sequences. He sets up the hitters but does not do it in such a way that he ends up with crazy pitch counst by the fourth inning. We see guys all the time that run up crazy pitch counts. Sometimes they don't even do a good job setting up the hitters while running up big pitch count numbers.

[jung]

Lackey looked like he thought WMB would have had a play at 1st if he let the ball go.

[RedSoxNC84]

Just when things seemed to be going so well.

[Station 13]

That 4 ball walk really hurts.

[jung]

Doesn't it seem like the Sox have had a ton of tight, relatively low scoring ball games the last couple weeks. They have definitely won more than their share of them. Getting production from so many different guys and I think that has really helped them through this stretch.

[mvp 78]

What'd I miss so far?

[a700hitter]

I wouldn't know where to start.

[italstallianion]

It's so weird that now I don't get Sox games but I get Yankee games and Mets games.

 

(I just moved from CT to NY this afternoon)

[mvp 78]

Oh Jenny Dell, I don't know how anyone could hate you.

 

Bradford is the worst though.

[jung]

Wow, Iggy got rid of that ball so fast.

[a700hitter]

Nice running catch by Jackson.

[SoxFanForsyth]

No clue how this is a 2-2 game. The Sox are scorching the ball, the Tigers scored on back to back bloops

[Station 13]

Middlebrooks seems to have the worst luck when he hit the ball hard. It's mostly caught out there.

[jung]

Jeez Iggy is an acrobat.

[SoxFanForsyth]

I've never seen anyone turn a DP as fast as Iglesias.

[Station 13]

Dirks with a dirty slide.

[SoxFanForsyth]

Should have been an auto DP. He wasnt in the same area code as 2B

[mvp 78]

Bad slide but not egregious. Shut up Bradford!

[mvp 78]

Should have been an auto DP. He wasnt in the same area code as 2B

 

Never gets called.

[Station 13]

Send Lackey back for the 8th?

[Station 13]

Pedroia up again with another runner on base. It's amazing he's only at 40RBI.

[jung]

Never gets called.

 

I wouldn't say never but the runner literally has to chase the fielder off the base to get that called. It is almost like the blocking foul in auto racing where the car in front can move across the nose of the car trying to pass once but cannot move back the other way once he has established a line. If the baserunner holds a pretty straight line even way off the base, the ump will not make that call. If the baserunner changes his route and literally chases the fielder, the fielder will get the call. Nothing less than that gets called though. Its a shame cause that is not the way the play should be called.