5/15 vs Houston

[Northern Star]

Omg here comes the top of their order, the good news is that Ross isn't anymore in the mound and Hembree is ready.

 

...to dish up another couple of runs.

[Northern Star]

Our pitching has been the Achilles heel for a while in Boston.

 

To be fair, Porcello and Wright have been good, but you need more than that if you want to make the playoffs. Offense has masked the shortcomings but they can't do that the whole season.

[Northern Star]

Are you f***ing kidding me? This is f***ing ridiculous.

 

This game or the Yankees taking 2 of 3 from the White Sox?

[Jasonbay44]

Joe West sucks

[Jasonbay44]

hahahaha yes! Carlos Gomez has had some serious issues in the OF this series

[Youk Of The Nation]

Time for a home run from Mookie.

[Jasonbay44]

Time for a home run from Mookie.

 

A triple works too. MOOKIE!

[NativeBostonian]

Way to go mookie!

[Youk Of The Nation]

Time for a home run from Mookie.

 

Much like the night of my first high-school dance, it was only one base short of what I wanted, and it was still pretty satisfying.

[d-money]

Lets see if they can hold a lead.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Is Kimbrel available? If not, insurance runs please.

[Northern Star]

Is Kimbrel available? If not, insurance runs please.

 

Usually 10 runs is all the insurance you need.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Usually 10 runs is all the insurance you need.

 

As long as the other team doesn't have 9.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Wow, this has not been a stellar defensive game on either side. 3 errors for the Sox and 2 for the Astros, and that's being generous. There were a couple plays that could have gone for errors depending on the official scorer.

[d-money]

Good win. 3 out of 4. Pitching has to get better. On the road now against the royals. Should be good.

[Bellhorn04]

Outstanding job by our offense winning these last 2 games that easily could have been losses.

[Bellhorn04]

Orioles lose!

[devildavid]

Kimbrel did the job but he needed a lot of pitches and he makes me nervous.

[StephenCurry30]

Kimbrel last 8 games: 8 IP, 1 hit, 3 walks, 0 runs. 0.00 ERA, 0.50 WHIP. ERA on season 2.65, that is the guy we paid for.

[Spudboy]

No it wasn't, he sucks. 4 runs in 6 innings is a 6 ERA, and a solid 2.00 WHIP. He was giving up bullets to guys hitting .200.. Hell today he gave up a 3 run bomb to a guy hitting .198 coming into the game.

 

Journeyman is a nice way to describe a guy who sucks, as shown by his career 12-23 record with a career 6.00 ERA...

 

No one expected lights out from O'Sullivan.

 

He looked like who he is. A guy on the fringe of MLB ball.

 

Evey team needs guys like him over a 162 game season. It's called organizational depth.

 

Great pitching doe not grow on trees.

[Spudboy]

Seems like you can even put junk pitchers -like some we have- and we still are going to win.

 

Right now that seems to be the case but we all know that will change over 162 game season.

 

We need solid starting pitching to make it to the playoffs and then it's all a crap shoot.

[Spudboy]

He gave up hard hit balls the whole game and got lucky he was facing one of worst offenses in baseball in Oakland or his already s***** line would have been even worse. He still is horrible and not doing "his job" I don't care what the expectations are, if you pitch bad, when you are expected to pitch really bad, that isn't good.

 

So who would you have started in his place?

[S5Dewey]

Kimbrel did the job but he needed a lot of pitches and he makes me nervous.

 

No kidding!! He got all three batters he faced in the 9th but he went 3-2 on two of them. I mean, I like the outcome but it raises a couple of questions with me:

 

Does he get paid by the pitch??

 

Did we get spoiled by watching Koji throw a maximum of 5 pitches to each batter with at least one of them being a foul ball?

 

I like(d) watching Koji pitch but I'm old and I don't know how long my heart will take watching Kimbrel.

[Spudboy]

time for a home run from mookie.

 

x .75

[Spudboy]

Kimbrel did the job but he needed a lot of pitches and he makes me nervous.

 

I fell the same as you.

[royf19]

No kidding!! He got all three batters he faced in the 9th but he went 3-2 on two of them. I mean, I like the outcome but it raises a couple of questions with me:

 

Does he get paid by the pitch??

 

Did we get spoiled by watching Koji throw a maximum of 5 pitches to each batter with at least one of them being a foul ball?

 

I like(d) watching Koji pitch but I'm old and I don't know how long my heart will take watching Kimbrel.

 

I'll take the results and avoid stressing until he starts consistently blowing saves.

[royf19]

Hi Roy, IMO O'S shouldn't start again, he really sucks.

 

I agree. But the Sox needed someone to start two games. It's better to stick in a journeyman like him and hope for the best, rather than call up a minor leaguer who's not ready and stick him out there and perhaps set his development back. And what O'Sullivan did today makes my point about the first start. In his first start, while he's not very good he did get through six innings and allowed just four runs and set up the pen to bring to just pitch the seventh, eighth and ninth. He gave the Sox a chance to win w/o destroying the bullpen. That's doing his job. Today, he didn't do his job. He gave up five runs and couldn't get through the fifth inning and the bullpen had to scramble. See the difference.

[Kimmi]

Outstanding job by our offense winning these last 2 games that easily could have been losses.

 

It wasn't pretty, but the team got the job done. I'll take it!

 

Excellent home stand!

[mvp 78]

A win is a win is a win is a win.

[Kimmi]

I agree. But the Sox needed someone to start two games. It's better to stick in a journeyman like him and hope for the best, rather than call up a minor leaguer who's not ready and stick him out there and perhaps set his development back. And what O'Sullivan did today makes my point about the first start. In his first start, while he's not very good he did get through six innings and allowed just four runs and set up the pen to bring to just pitch the seventh, eighth and ninth. He gave the Sox a chance to win w/o destroying the bullpen. That's doing his job. Today, he didn't do his job. He gave up five runs and couldn't get through the fifth inning and the bullpen had to scramble. See the difference.

 

I agree Roy. O'Sullivan absolutely did his job in his first start. Giving the team 6 innings while keeping them in the game is pretty much what you hope for going into those spot starts from a guy who is the #8 or #9 guy in your rotation depth. Most of the time, teams are fairly happy if they get that from their #5 starter.