4/19 @ Toronto

[Fisk]

I admit that's pretty harsh, but right now our guys do remind me of the not yet amazin Mets. So far we're seeing weak hitting, weak fielding, and pitching that may or may not be effective.

 

We are 9 and 5 on the year.

[Jasonbay44]

We are 9 and 5 on the year.

 

And have barely had JBJ, haven't had Price, and a majority of our lineup has missed multiple games with flu. I'm not worried right now.

[Northern Star]

Hey, at least he's kept it in the park, amirite?

[NativeBostonian]

I never thought I say this. But, I miss JBJ.

[Jasonbay44]

Cmon Leon, we need to get some runs here.

[Fisk]

And have barely had JBJ, haven't had Price, and a majority of our lineup has missed multiple games with flu. I'm not worried right now.

 

Not at all.

[TylerD]

Make this count!!!

[Fisk]

Nice right handed at bat for Pablo.

[Jasonbay44]

Leon slumping bad right now.

[Fisk]

Ugh

[Jasonbay44]

Porcello looks good.

[Fisk]

Porcello looks good.

 

Very good. At least we have that tonight.

[Fisk]

Very surprised he took Liriano out this early. Hanley and Moreland have had terrible at bats against him.

[Jasonbay44]

This is an extremely frustrating game.

[Northern Star]

Over/under Panda errors for the season: 50

[Youk Of The Nation]

Well, that sucked.

[Jasonbay44]

Can't win em all. Got Sale on the mound tomorrow though, so its all good.

[jad]

I admit that's pretty harsh, but right now our guys do remind me of the not yet amazin Mets. So far we're seeing weak hitting, weak fielding, and pitching that may or may not be effective.

 

Weak hitting? Where? 4 guys in the starting line-up hitting over .300 does not strike me as weak. As for the comparison with Stengel's Mets, I really don't think anyone who was around to see that would ever seriously make that comparison!

[Spudboy]

Weak hitting? Where? 4 guys in the starting line-up hitting over .300 does not strike me as weak. As for the comparison with Stengel's Mets, I really don't think anyone who was around to see that would ever seriously make that comparison!

 

Those Mets were a joke.

 

This Sox team is very far from a joke.

[Maxbialystock]

While I'm mad as heck at those two errors--by Sandoval and Moreland--I am also very impressed with the guts Porcello showed on the mound afterward--7 innings (actually, 23 outs) and 0 earned runs. I have to say this because I badmouthed him a lot after his last start of the 4 dingers and 8 runs.

 

Funny thing, but we had five full-time, all-righty hitters in the lineup--Pedroia, Betts, Ramirez, Bogaerts, and Young--and together they were 2 for 19 against a lefty starter (for 5.1 innings anyway).

 

The espn guy who covers the Sox says that Sandoval's defense is definitely an issue. However, his OPS is now at .706 and is probably on the rise, and he is tied for the team lead in rbi's with 10 and leads in dingers with 3.

 

If Porcello is back and Pomeranz can be decent--ditto ERod--then the Sox now have a pretty good rotation because Sale is terrific and Wright seems to have gotten his good knuckler back. Barmes slipped Tues, but the bullpen has been good.

 

 

I cited Casey Stengel on the early Mets to categorize how the Sox played in this game, not this season. Those errors by Moreland and Sandoval were right out of the early Mets playbook. I believe their first baseman was Marvelous Marv Throneberry, whose other nick name was "stone hands" because he committed 17 errors at 1B in 1962 when the Mets set the record for losses with 120.

 

If you look him up, you will also find out that he hit a triple in one game, but was called out when the opposing SS got the ball and tagged 2B, meaning Marv had failed to touch that base. When Casey went out to protest, the umpire said, "don't bother me because he also failed to touch first base."

Edited April 20, 2017 by Maxbialystock