7/24 vs Rays

[NativeBostonian]

I don't know if I can watch this anymore. Its making me so angry.

[NativeBostonian]

Game of Thrones time. I can't stand watching these guys swing at everything they see.

[Jasonbay44]

Hey! We scored.

[jung]

Salty could set up a little earlier to take the throw from the outfield instead of looking like he is standing on s street corner waiting for a bus.

[Station 13]

Thornton is a joke. More joke acquisitions.

[jung]

Man what an ordeal. One more to go tomorrow. Easy to see why the Rays are winning so many three game series. Moore and Price take two and then Mr. AKA and Helickson are left to try to win one or two.

[NativeBostonian]

If we're going to wing the division, we need a good starter at the deadline.

[Standing Room]

If we're going to wing the division, we need a good starter at the deadline.

 

You mean like Clay Buchholz?

[SoxSport]

Garza just beat the Yankees.

[jung]

Everybody is going to beat the yanks going down the stretch. They will be fighting with the Jays for last.

[NativeBostonian]

We need clay and someone else. The Rays have a deep rotation.

[User Name]

So do the Red Sox when Clay comes back. Who do you bump out from the rotation?

[Station 13]

Drew, Iglesias, Salty at the bottom of the order is not working Cherries. Time to give Middlebrooks a second look.

[a700hitter]

So do the Red Sox when Clay comes back. Who do you bump out from the rotation?

Dempster. He has pitched out of the pen in his career.

[a700hitter]

We are not getting Buch back maybe until September. I have concerns that we cannot hold onto first or second place until September.

[seabeachfred]

We need clay and someone else. The Rays have a deep rotation.

 

Well we could have made a real move to get Matt Garza, a suggestion that was met with snickers and snotty remarks by a few characters on this board, but they might look at the box score of the Rangers-Yankees game tonight and see that he pitched a hell of a game and now has a 7-1 record with an ERA under 3.00. Yes, I think he was just what we needed and didn't get. Yeh, he spit, looked like a cow, was thoroughly unlikeable and all that s*** according to some, but you don't pitch with your face and spit hurts nothing if you play on natural grass and we still need a solid starter and there are hardly anymore out there, are there? Well Peavy, but some have some misgivings about him too. OK, let's give Webster a few more starts so we all can get sick to our stomachs.

 

Now you all know why I don't post on the game threads during games.

[mvp 78]

Drew, Iglesias, Salty at the bottom of the order is not working Cherries. Time to give Middlebrooks a second look.

 

He's been horrible in Pawtucket.

[Bellhorn04]

We are not getting Buch back maybe until September. I have concerns that we cannot hold onto first or second place until September.

 

Very legit concerns, especially since we could be out of first place tonight.

[Bellhorn04]

Everyone has talked about David Price has come off the DL in a blaze of glory to lift up the Rays to a WS contender.

 

He beat the Astros. Then the White Sox. Then the Astros again. Then he gave up 4 runs to the Blue Jays. I'm unimpressed. So far, the Rays are 0-2 when facing the Red Sox with Price on the mound. Tonight, it will be 0-3.

 

Oh well, full marks for the positivity, Pal.

[Palodios]

Oh well, full marks for the positivity, Pal.

 

There's always tonight....

[SoxSport]

Drew, Iglesias, Salty at the bottom of the order is not working Cherries. Time to give Middlebrooks a second look.

 

I think Middlebrooks should have been brought up when Drew got hurt again. Bradley should be up, too, for defense and facing RHP. Iggy is a SS. He doesn't have enough offense to play 3B, especially with Drew not hitting.

[SoxSport]

Well we could have made a real move to get Matt Garza, a suggestion that was met with snickers and snotty remarks by a few characters on this board, but they might look at the box score of the Rangers-Yankees game tonight and see that he pitched a hell of a game and now has a 7-1 record with an ERA under 3.00. Yes, I think he was just what we needed and didn't get. Yeh, he spit, looked like a cow, was thoroughly unlikeable and all that s*** according to some, but you don't pitch with your face and spit hurts nothing if you play on natural grass and we still need a solid starter and there are hardly anymore out there, are there? Well Peavy, but some have some misgivings about him too. OK, let's give Webster a few more starts so we all can get sick to our stomachs.

 

 

Nolan Ryan, who knows more about pitching than anybody, now has 8 starters on the Rangers. The Red Sox have about half that many right now, plus minor league pitchers they are shuffling in to make starts. Their pitching has thinned out considerably with the injuries. They need another starter and another prime reliever to step in if those Japanese guys falter. I doubt they have the pitching depth to sustain a stretch run, unless they get more surprises from their prospects.

[mvp 78]

I think Middlebrooks should have been brought up when Drew got hurt again. Bradley should be up, too, for defense and facing RHP. Iggy is a SS. He doesn't have enough offense to play 3B, especially with Drew not hitting.

 

Who would you have dropped from the roster to make room for Bradley? Carp? Gomes? Nava?

[VA Sox Fan]

Someone feel free to start tonight's GT.

 

RED SOX (61-42)

Ellsbury CF

Victorino RF

Pedroia 2B

Ortiz DH

Napoli 1B

Saltalamacchia C

Gomes LF

Drew SS

Iglesias 3B

Pitching: RHP John Lackey (7-7, 2.95)

[SoxSport]

Nava not in lineup tonite in LF against RHP. Hope he doesn't get traded. That would be a mistake. One of their best hitters.

[kapsis21]

me starting GT.

[Standing Room]

i volunturred