6/29 @ blow up this stupid stadium

[mvp 78]

Move the Rays to Montreal.

 

Price vs Moore

 

f***ing win this goddamn series!

[Spudboy]

Move the Rays to Montreal.

 

Price vs Moore

 

f***ing win this goddamn series!

 

Yes. Then the Sox can unload Pablo on the Rays while eating his entire contract.

 

It would be worth it so we could witness Pablo consuming all the poutine in Quebec.

 

GO SOX!!!!!!1!!!

[bosoxmal]

The Rays lineup has 3 guys hitting under .200, and one other guy who is hitting a robust .202.

[mvp 78]

RED SOX (42-35)

 

Mookie Betts RF

Dustin Pedroia 2B

Xander Bogaerts SS

David Ortiz DH

Hanley Ramirez 1B

Jackie Bradley Jr. CF

Travis Shaw 3B

Bryce Brentz LF

Christian Vazquez C

Pitching: LHP David Price (8-4, 4.68).

 

RAYS (32-44)

 

Logan Forsythe 2B

Brad Miller SS

Evan Longoria 3B

Desmond Jennings CF

Brandon Guyer LF

Oswaldo Arcia RF

Curt Casali C

Tim Beckham DH

Taylor Motter 1B

Pitching: LHP Matt Moore (3-5, 5.04).

[mvp 78]

Red Sox vs. Moore: Ortiz 10-24 (3 HR), Pedroia 5-21, Bogaerts 4-7, Shaw 5-7, Bradley 1-6, Betts 4-6, Ramirez 1-4.

 

Rays vs. Price: Longoria 2-12, Forsythe 2-10, Miller 1-10, Morrison 2-9, Casali 5-8, Arcia 0-6, Jennings 1-6, Beckham 1-5, Franklin 1-4, Conger 1-3.

 

David Price is 1-2 with a 6.75 ERA in four career starts against the Rays. He faced them at Fenway Park on April 21 and allowed eight runs in 3.2 innings.

[Slasher9]

ERA+ 95

but i am told not to worry.

its an "Ace".

Ortiz going yard today.

[NativeBostonian]

This umpire sucks.

[a700hitter]

If you are losing sleep over Price being one of our pitchers, you must not be getting any sleep at all.

[bosoxmal]

I wonder what Mookie would be hitting (.320-.330?) if he hammered some of those first pitch cookies they are feeding him. Fastball down the middle, or dinky curves that bend of the middle of the plate. The psche is as old as baseball. See a pitch or two. Don't make an easy out for the pitcher on the first pitch. How about getting into the picher's pschy with a line shot into the gap or 2 or 3 bases?

 

IMHO, they only way get Mookie more aggressive is get him the hell out of the leadoff spot!!!! He's an RBI hitter, hitting behind a .210 hitter. I can think of a dozen good lineups that have him 3rd, 5th or 6th. It's infuriating to see this guy wasted taking strike one because that's the way lead off hitters are supposed to do it!

[NativeBostonian]

Think Evan Longoria is regretting signing a long term contract with the Rays?

[a700hitter]

I love day baseball now. The Red Sox schedule shows this as a Movie Night at 8:15. Is this the usual time for day games in Tampa?

[NativeBostonian]

This is going to be a low scoring game when a ball two feet off the plate gets called a strike.

[royplayer]

This is going to be a low scoring game when a ball two feet off the plate gets called a strike.

 

Where is that 30 million a year pitcher we acquired this year?

[a700hitter]

What happened to the mechanical adjustment that Price made? That has been gone for a while.

[iortiz]

Price's contract is beginning to look very awful.

[d-money]

Team's a flat out joke. Disgusted with price. I thought he would come out and pitch better after his embarrassing performance.

[bosoxmal]

Lunch hour over. Venice Cafe (etc) emptying out, but the faithful do not go skipping happily back to work. A long afternoon awaits.

[illinoisredsox]

Not helping that Moore appears to be getting every borderline pitch and then some.

 

Edit - OMG, a walk.

[a700hitter]

Bizarre outing by Price -- 4 runs and a bunch of hits but a boatload of k's.

[illinoisredsox]

Bizarre outing by Price -- 4 runs and a bunch of hits but a boatload of k's.

 

Rays are hitting .600 on balls in play. 8 K's otherwise.

[illinoisredsox]

Are the hits Price is giving up ropes, grounders, dinks or a mixture of all 3?

[a700hitter]

Are the hits Price is giving up ropes, grounders, dinks or a mixture of all 3?

Mainly ropes and grounders.

[illinoisredsox]

Mainly ropes and grounders.

 

Well, can't usually do too much about grounders hit in the "wrong" place.

[illinoisredsox]

Dumb play by Bradley. Utterly stupid given the score.

[illinoisredsox]

If Gamecast is at all accurate, Price is not getting the same strike zone that Moore is.

[bosoxmal]

I were JF, I'd have JBJ on the bench for the rest of the game. Maybe a small, non-public, fine to boot.

[NativeBostonian]

I were JF, I'd have JBJ on the bench for the rest of the game. Maybe a small, non-public, fine to boot.

 

What good is that going to do? Yes, that was stupid to run into an out at third. But, that's an overreaction.

[mvp 78]

If Gamecast is at all accurate, Price is not getting the same strike zone that Moore is.

 

Ah yes, the wonders of baseball! The strike zone is like a box of chocolates, you know...

[illinoisredsox]

I were JF, I'd have JBJ on the bench for the rest of the game. Maybe a small, non-public, fine to boot.

 

I don't think they can fine him like that any more. In the old days, the players' kangaroo court would have taken care of it, but I haven't heard of that in years.

[royplayer]

What happened to the mechanical adjustment that Price made? That has been gone for a while.

 

That is what I have been wondering. Doesn't this bozo coaching staff of ours know that in order to correct motor memory problems one has to keep repeating the new process to eventually eliminate regression. That is what has done; regressed back to the old bad habits.