5/20 Cleveland Indians @ Boston

[a700hitter]

• http://mlb.mlb.com/images/players/assets/74_446372.png Kluber (2-5, 4.30 ERA)
   
  
  
• http://mlb.mlb.com/images/players/assets/74_453329.png Buchholz (2-3, 6.11 ERA)
   
  @7:10 pm
   
   
  Go Red Sox!
  

Edited May 20, 2016 by a700hitter

[mvp 78]

I wish your mojo good luck...

 

Win!

[Maxbialystock]

This season has been one surprise after another--not all of them good, but even the bad surprises have had a certain fascination and at least given us a chance to vent.

 

Tonight I suspect we will see Swihart in LF. At the same time, JBJ is near an OPS of 1.000, which tells me Farrell might be tempted to shift things around in the lineup. On the other hand, JBJ has batted in a ton of runs, which says maybe he should stay down around 7th. Shaw, we should note, bats 6th most of the time and also has an OPS over .900. Pedroia and HanRam have OPS's around .820 (below the team average) and bat 2d and 5th.

 

Another chance to see if Buchholz can turn things around the way Price seems to have done.

 

Cleveland this year has good hitting--2d to us in runs--and decent pitching, a little better than ours. They have won 4 in a row. We split with them in April in the cold. The splits on their starter say he pitches better on the road, at night, and against righties.

[Spudboy]

Good post Max.

 

I just ate lunch and now after looking at the thumbnail photo of our starting pitcher I feel queezy.

 

Buch looks more like the guy at the grocery store that fetches the shopping carts in the parking lot.

 

Anyway, GO SOX!!!!1!1!!1!

[Maxbialystock]

Lineup tonight: Betts, Pedroia, Bogaerts, Ortiz, Ramirez, Shaw, Bradley, Vazquez, and Swihart.

[Youk Of The Nation]

The best I will hope for from Swihart is not striking out every time he comes up. I already miss Holt.

[Maxbialystock]

The best I will hope for from Swihart is not striking out every time he comes up. I already miss Holt.

 

Interesting. In April Swihart had 18 at bats and 3 K's and 4 BB's. In April and May Holt had 113 at bats, 21 K's,and 12 BB's. Holt's OPS right now is .664. Swihart's was .669 in April. However, in those 18 at bats Swihart was great against lefty pitchers and terrible against righties--the exact opposite of Holt.

[bosoxmal]

Betts, Vazquez, Shaw, BRADLEY, and now Swihart???

 

Back tonight-interesting!

[royf19]

What we have tonight is John Farrell playing Walter Mathau and Jackie Bradley playing Kelly Leak with Farrell/Mathau telling Bradley/Leak to catch everything in left that he can get to.

[mvp 78]

Yup, this should be in the gamethread. Edited May 20, 2016 by mvp 78

[Kimmi]

Good Clay is in the house the tonight!

 

Go Sox!

[cp176]

Who out there saw this one coming - Swihart!

[mvp 78]

If he hits well and plays decent LF, does his trade value still go down?

[d-money]

f***holz needs to start pitching well. Go sox!!!!!

[Northern Star]

f***holz needs to start pitching well. Go sox!!!!!

 

Not a good start.

[a700hitter]

Nice play by Pedroia to end the inning.

 

Holy Cow, Bradley with a CF Home Run!

[Northern Star]

25...

[mvp 78]

JBJ is alright I guess...

[Northern Star]

Tek should have immediately been put in the Red Sox Hall of Fame when he pushed A-Rod in the face.

[cp176]

If he hits well and plays decent LF, does his trade value still go down?

 

Not sure i guess. what do you think? I don't want to see the kid traded actually.

[cp176]

If he hits well and plays decent LF, does his trade value still go down?

 

if Buchholz pitches well, what do you think, picking up the option still make sense?

[Northern Star]

sigh

[a700hitter]

Good Buchholz is a distant fond memory. He gives up too many multiple run bombs.

[iortiz]

Wonder when is going to be the time for this team to realize that Clay Buchholz is done. When he is over 7 ERA? Edited May 21, 2016 by iortiz

[yankthis]

Just got home, and the second I flipped on the tv, I hear "that's a 3-run homer". Thought to myself "Buchholz". Yep.

[d-money]

This guy plain ole sucks. "Smh"

[iortiz]

Seems like we are going to need one of those 10+ Rs games again.

[d-money]

This offense will have to score once again.

[yankthis]

"Wonder when is going to be the time to this team to realize that Clay Buchholz is done. When he is over 7 ERA? "

 

They should have scrapped him two years ago. Let him be an experiment for a team that's a little lower down the totem pole. One bad habit that the Red Sox have had for a very long time is to give rickety pitchers like this 4 or 5 more chances every time they have one reasonably good start.

[iortiz]

"Wonder when is going to be the time to this team to realize that Clay Buchholz is done. When he is over 7 ERA? "

 

They should have scrapped him two years ago. Let him be an experiment for a team that's a little lower down the totem pole. One bad habit that the Red Sox have had for a very long time is to give rickety pitchers like this 4 or 5 more chances every time they have one reasonably good start.

Yup, and not to mention he is so fragile. He is a DL resident.