5/29/2014 Sweeping A First Place Team Is A Great Way To Boost Confidence

[Navafan29]

http://oi61.tinypic.com/2jg1dfo.jpg

 

Hard to predict how we'll fair against LHP Mike Minor by looking at the stats. We'll get em' somehow!

 

Prediction: Ortiz, Pedroia, and Gomes all hit one off the monster.

 

Braves starting lineup:

1. Heyward, RF

2. Upton B, CF

3. Freeman F, 1B

4. Upton J, LF

5. Gattis, C

6. Johnson C, 3B

7. Doumit, DH

8. La Stella, 2B

9. Simmons A, SS

 

Red Sox starting lineup:

1. Holt, 3B

2. Bogaerts, SS

3. Pedroia, 2B

4. AJ, DH

5. Gomes J, LF

6. Sizemore G, RF

7. Lavarnway, 1B

8. Ross D, C

9. Bradley Jr., CF

Edited May 29, 2014 by Navafan29

[Navafan29]

Also, this is what happens when I stay up till 5am:

 

http://oi62.tinypic.com/2w5vvjp.jpg

Edited May 29, 2014 by Navafan29

[User Name]

Sticking with my 5-3 prediction. Johnny Gomes homers and drives in 2.

[Wasatch]

Go RedSox!

[mvp 78]

@richardjustice: Worst AL rotations in May: Red Sox (4.82 ERA), Orioles (4.60), Guardians (4.57), White Sox (4.53), Royals (4.53).

 

But lets keep blaming JBJ and XB.

[jacksonianmarch]

You need 19 more WS titles to supplant us. And then you would have to be the highest spending franchise by far for 15 yrs.

[mvp 78]

Titles that happened before you were born don't count.

[Navafan29]

You need 19 more WS titles to supplant us. And then you would have to be the highest spending franchise by far for 15 yrs.

 

Being the highest spending is great and all, except when you waste tons of it instead of going for true value. Also, the Yanks don't have beards.

[Station 13]

Pete Abraham ‏@PeteAbe 31s

Per the #RedSox notes: Xander Bogaerts has reached base safely 80 times, most by Red Sox rookie prior to June over the last 100 years

[Navafan29]

Idk if I'm supposed to do this but VA didn't complain last time so

 

Braves starting lineup:

1. Heyward, RF

2. Upton B, CF

3. Freeman F, 1B

4. Upton J, LF

5. Gattis, C

6. Johnson C, 3B

7. Doumit, DH

8. La Stella, 2B

9. Simmons A, SS

 

Red Sox starting lineup:

1. Holt, 3B

2. Bogaerts, SS

3. Pedroia, 2B

4. Pierzinski, DH

5. Gomes J, LF

6. Sizemore G, RF

7. Lavarnway, 1B

8. Ross D, C

9. Bradley Jr., CF

Edited May 29, 2014 by Navafan29

[Bellhorn04]

Ortiz out with calf issue. Pierzynski DH.

[Station 13]

That's a bad lineup. Really bad.

[GomesBeard]

Not a line-up to sweep, that's for sure.....

[Navafan29]

Newsflash Ryan Dempster is on MLB Tonight as an analyst.

[RedSoxNC84]

I guess Jacko and Navafan are going to have to start all of our gamethreads from now on...

[Navafan29]

Lineups updated. Three catchers in the lineup ftw?

[Palodios]

It is great to see Xander early in the lineup. He seems to do a lot better with bases empty, so why not run with it?

[Station 13]

Fenway robbed Bogaerts of another HR.

[Navafan29]

Peavy looked fairly good but I think he got a little lucky in the first. Should settle in.

[Station 13]

Peavy looked fairly good but I think he got a little lucky in the first. Should settle in.

 

Lucky how? Those were pop ups.

[Palodios]

Lavarnway's favorite movie is Die Hard With a Vengeance. Surprising choice among Die Hard films, maybe he is a Samuel Jackson fan.

[Wasatch]

Let's go RedSox!

[Navafan29]

Aw yeah the leadoff Aussie comes through yet again.

[Palodios]

I never realized Pedro Martinez had a brother in baseball. Fun fact, Ramon Martinez is the only brother with a no-hitter.

[Station 13]

I never realized Pedro Martinez had a brother in baseball. Fun fact, Ramon Martinez is the only brother with a no-hitter.

 

His brother also played for the Red Sox.

[GomesBeard]

WTF is up with Peavy? Pretty soon Ross is gonna have to yell the pitch to him...

[Station 13]

C'mon Red Sox, get the offense rolling.

[Wasatch]

Get some runs!

[Palodios]

Come on Xander, prove Fred wrong!

 

Or not.

[NativeBostonian]

Come on Xander, prove Fred wrong!

 

Or not.

That one made me LOL