7/29 Vs Rays

[jung]

Wow...that totally sucked.

 

The base running on this team is terrible and Nava has proven to be slow and inept on the base paths. What the hell does Farrell have to see to get the message.

 

On top of that, the quality of umpiring in this league has maybe actually surpassed the NBA at this point. It is an embarrassment. If Uncle Bud is not going to do anything about the quality of the umps themselves then he has to institute more replay. This is stupid. Every night and almost every crew is just pitiful.

[MANNYHOF24]

3 goats

 

Nava

Umpire

Farrell

[Jasonbay44]

f*** David Price too

[BigPapi]

f*** David Price too

 

 

Yea i want too beak his f***in left arm.

[a700hitter]

and f*** Maddon just because I hate him.

[Bellhorn04]

Tonight's math...2 doubles + 1 sac fly + 3 blunders = 0 runs.

 

Drew crushed that ball too. s***.

[User Name]

The funny thing is that if Farrell isn't dumb enough to sacrifice Vic BEFORE having Ellsbury steal, they tie the game.

[jung]

Farrell get's my vote for biggest goat. Nava had done the job he could do. Drove the ball to RF for a big hit. Time and time again he has proven inept and slow on the base paths. It has already hurt us before tonight. So why leave him out there to hurt us again?

 

Second goat goes to the ump. I refuse to believe that they teach umps to gravitate to that position on the 1st base side of home plate to make that call. I think the idiot umps gravitate over there and are out of position before the brain actually kicks in to tell them they are out of position. Stupid.

 

Lastly Nava...but we are blaming Nava for being Nava. He has proved time and again that he is a liability on the base paths. Gotta' get him outta' there with the game on the line if you have the chance to do it. Farrell had the chance. I just don't know what he was thinking.

[jung]

Look at that f***ing replay. The ump is purposefully moving to the 1st base side of the plate...beyond incompetent.

[SoxSport]

Merloni tweeted Farrell should have pinch run Iggy for Nava. You have to use percentages to win these games. Can't miss stuff like that. Speed on the bases in low run games can be vital.

[Bellhorn04]

Yes it was unquestionably a horrible decision to use Nava there instead of Iglesias.

[User Name]

He pinch ran Nava for Lavarnway....Nava should not have entered the game in the first place.

[SoxSport]

boy pedey needs a damn day off. Hes been bad at the plate.

 

The guy is telling the world he needs a day off. 3 for 39 since the all-star break.

[jung]

He pinch ran Nava for Lavarnway....Nava should not have entered the game in the first place.

 

That right...I forgot about that. Lavs got the double and Nava ran for him...even worse!!!! "Here let me put my slow, inept base runner in.....instead of my fast, competent base runner"....why?????

[BigPapi]

The funny thing is that if Farrell isn't dumb enough to sacrifice Vic BEFORE having Ellsbury steal, they tie the game.

 

Ur right, i was preaching that.

[BoSox92]

Too bad, Sox battled throughout.

 

But, Nava was safe at the plate. Umpire had a terrible angle. But, still Farrell should of used Iglesias in that situation. But nothing you can do now.

 

Let me just say, Pedroia is clearly struggling, as some said, he could possibly use a day off. I'd even give Napoli a day off as well, because the way he is swinging the bat, its quite horrendous. Last 15 AB's have included 8 strikeouts and only 2 hits. Napoli looked terrible tonight in crunch time against Rodney!

[jung]

As far as the way the Sox utilize their speed, Nava has no speed to utilize. He is slow as molasses. Should not have been brought in tonight.

 

That said, the Sox do a poor job of using the speed they have. While you cannot completely discern instinctive base running plays by the player from calls from the dugout, it almost looks like the Sox players with the exception of Nava, make better instinctive plays on the base paths than the Sox coaches make via called plays. That is sort of remarkable.

 

But Nava's problems on the base paths are not known by now by all of us. Farrell should know it by now as well. I just don't know what to say about that. While we are all rank amateurs here compared to MLB coaches, I don't think a single one of us would have looked down the Red Sox bench tonight and pointed to Nava to go in to run for Lavs with other options sitting on the same bench and the game on the line.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

What the Rays tweeted: "Dear @RedSox scoreboard operator - your standings are wrong. Yours truly, @RaysBaseball"

 

We respond with: "Don't worry @raysbaseball we look forward to seeing you in Tampa in September for our home games at the Trop." but then they deleted it. I hope they remember that tweet and beat the s*** out of them next time we face.

[italstallianion]

Dear @raysbaseball, if you don't log off of your computer you'll have to worry about more than your bullpen phones breaking.

[Station 13]

Florida is full of s*** heads.

[jung]

We have a couple of weeks of pretty light scheduling at this point. Maybe we can put together a run, regain first and put some distance between us and the Rays and O's. We just about have to think about these two weeks ahead this way and we have to get it done. After that, it is going to be a hell of a war down to the end.

[MJantomaso]

God they keep showing that reply on MLBN of nava dancing like a fiddler crab on that ball hit by Drew. It's unbelievable how boneheaded of a play that was. They teach players at such a young age, a ball hit deep to right field to go half way or even 3/4 of the way. Worst that happens is the ball is caught and you head back to 2nd with less than 2 outs. I mean Nava wasn't even going back to tag. He was shuffling around like MC hammer to the point where he was 3 steps off 2nd when that ball played off the wall. Not to say the umpire wasn't to blame on the next play but it's more of Nava's fault. We should have never been in the position to put the game in the umpires hands.

 

With that being said, everybody is human and we all have retard moments. We can now put that in the past and go on a nice run against this cupcake schedule coming up.

[v2freak]

Lol fiddler crab. A bad play but that doesn't excuse the poor umpire call at all. Some guys think it's no consolation if the umpires admit a mistake but I appreciate it actually. Most NBA refs pretend they're always right and it drives me nuts.

[a700hitter]

God they keep showing that reply on MLBN of nava dancing like a fiddler crab on that ball hit by Drew. It's unbelievable how boneheaded of a play that was. They teach players at such a young age, a ball hit deep to right field to go half way or even 3/4 of the way. Worst that happens is the ball is caught and you head back to 2nd with less than 2 outs. I mean Nava wasn't even going back to tag. He was shuffling around like MC hammer to the point where he was 3 steps off 2nd when that ball played off the wall. Not to say the umpire wasn't to blame on the next play but it's more of Nava's fault. We should have never been in the position to put the game in the umpires hands.

 

With that being said, everybody is human and we all have retard moments. We can now put that in the past and go on a nice run against this cupcake schedule coming up.

NAva has had 3 retard moments on the bases since the Yankee series.

[MNSoxChief102]

NAva has had 3 retard moments on the bases since the Yankee series.

 

Yep... No idea why he pinch ran in that situation. Farrell's a bigger retard for putting him in instead of Iggy. f*** the double switch later... go for the run to tie now. Then worry about switching defensively. Can't win unless they score that run and Iggy would've scored easily on the double and even easier on the fly to left.

[VA Sox Fan]

Pitching matchups for the Mariners series

 

Posted by Peter Abraham, Globe Staff July 30, 2013 09:45 AM

 

Tuesday: LHP Joe Saunders (9-9, 4.48) vs. RHP Brendan Workman (0-1, 4.40), 7:10 p.m., NESN.

 

Wednesday: RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (10-4, 2.87) vs. RHP John Lackey (7-8, 3.19), 7:10 p.m., NESN.

 

Thursday: RHP Felix Hernandez (11-4, 2.34) vs. RHP Ryan Dempster (6-8, 4.24), 7:10 p.m., NESN.

[Behindenemylines]

Baseball GODs didn't want the Sox to win Monday. Any Sox fan who watched the 8th and 9th has to still be wondering what the F#@% just happened.

[Bellhorn04]

Baseball GODs didn't want the Sox to win Monday. Any Sox fan who watched the 8th and 9th has to still be wondering what the F#@% just happened.

 

I've been mindf***ed by the endings of Red Sox games too many times to count. I'm just thankful it wasn't a postseason game.

[User Name]

It happens to every team. We're just more focused on the Red Sox because it's our team.

 

Just think that Chris "Who is Chris Denorfia?" Denorfia hit a two run walk-off homer off Aroldis Chapman yesterday, and i'm not sure even he believes it.