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I can't handle another late inning loss.. Please win this game

 

Yep. It's August, every game is big now. It's going to be one hell of a tight race. They have to win these close games.

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Anderson Valley makes a great Gose. For other sours, I'd suggest any lambic: Boon Oude Gueuze (mariage Parfeit, etc), Lindemans Cuvee renee, Hanssen's, de troche oude gueuze, timmermans limited edition oude gueuze or oude kriek, Oude Beersel, St. Louis gueuze, Tilquin.

 

For Great american sours/saisons, I'd highly recommend Allagash (lots of sours, allagash.com should give you a good idea of what is available), Oxbow, Cascade, Wicked Weed, Almanac, etc

 

Be warned, outside of Gose, sours can get very expensive! (as in $10+ for a small bottle! Just about every sour is single-bottle, small or large format, but not 4 or 6 pack). But it's worth it occasionally!

 

Sours are a very wide spectrum too. There are many different styles; fruited vs non-fruited; aged vs fresh; barrel aged; super sour vs less aggressive but more funk; and some are just not all that good. So don't get turned off if you try one (or a bunch) that you don't like, there's a ton of variety.

 

+1. I will definitely give some of these a try and do some research to try and find even more. Man, alcohol is a great thing, tastes great, is a good time and it seems like there is an endless supply of different alcohol i've neer even tried.

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A lefty specialist throwing to a righty, tied on the 9th inning? Really? Of course hw now leaves 2 on base for Cano...
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They gutted out that victory. Every win is a beautiful thing.

 

That's what I say too. As they say in golf, there are no pictures on the scorecard.

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That's what I say too. As they say in golf, there are no pictures on the scorecard.

 

Good comments by both of you. I myself tend to be critical.

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I woke up at 1 am and watched the bottom of the 8th and the next 3 innings. It was actually a classic baseball game from an earlier era (100 years ago?) when scoring was at a premium. If you get mlb.com At Bat as I do for my ipad, you can get the highlights for replay. For last night's game there were 12 highlights for 11 innings which is far and away the fewest highlights I can remember for one game.

 

I missed Pomeranz but noticed he gave up 6 walks in 6 innings. That must have been fun. Farrell ended up using 5 relievers, I thought to good effect.

 

Someone complained that Kimbrel should have pitched the 11th and ignored the brilliance of pulling Abad for Kimbrel in the 9th with two on, two out, and Cano coming to the plate. Kimbrel seems to have rediscovered his knuckle curve during his time on the DL because he is using it more now than before and used it with great effect on Cano, who in this case had the advantage, lefty batter vs. righty pitcher. He grounded out--not a hard grounder--to Pedroia on that lovely knuckle curve. Kimbrel pitching the 10th also made sense.

 

Had Ziegler not been available, I think Kimbrel would have pitched the 11th, but I can't see how anyone can question the use of of Ziegler. The fact that Kimbrel only needed 14 pitches means he is available tonight against the Dodgers. Ditto, for that matter, Ziegler. Has no one else notice that the Sox great scoring machine ain't exactly hitting on all cylinders? They have averaged over 5 runs per game for the season, but have scored more than 5 runs in exactly one game out of the last 9--the 6-2 win over the Angels in game 2. Earlier, they scored 3 against the Tigers in game 3; 1, 2, and 3 runs in the other 3 games against the Angels, and 1, 4, 1, and 3 runs against Seattle. During that same period Ortiz had 3 rbi's and 4 hits.

 

The point is, right now we need good pitching from both the rotation and the bullpen. Fortunately, the rotation is probably better right now than it has been all year. And the bullpen is capable if not lights out.

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