9/13 Athletic Plays

[Station 13]

Bogaerts SS, Pedroia 2B, Benintendi LF, Betts RF, Moreland 1B, Ramirez DH, Devers 3B, Leon C, Bradley Jr. CF

 

Make the plays, and get some clutch hits, win.

[Maxbialystock]

Yankees just beat Tampa (in NYC of course) 3-2. Girardi used the heck out of his bullpen, 4 guys who went 4.1 and gave up 1 runs (by Betances). Chapman got the save, Green the win.

[Maxbialystock]

Tonight we got Fister, so I like our chances. Rookie Cotton, a righty, is 7-10 with a 5.82 ERA.

[Maxbialystock]

Bogaerts SS, Pedroia 2B, Benintendi LF, Betts RF, Moreland 1B, Ramirez DH, Devers 3B, Leon C, Bradley Jr. CF

 

Make the plays, and get some clutch hits, win.

 

Is that the lineup? It's got five lefty bats, about right. But Bogie leading off? Last three of Devers, Leon, and JBJ is something he has done before and makes the bottom of the order potentially tough.

[Youk Of The Nation]

YOTN at the game mojo. Made a spur of the moment decision to head up to Boston. Four rows back from the field, just beyond first base.

 

They have TVs set into the wall in front of the very first row of seats. Why the f***!? Does someone with seats that good need the TV? They need more of them in the areas where you can barely see what's going on on the field.

[Maxbialystock]

YOTN at the game mojo. Made a spur of the moment decision to head up to Boston. Four rows back from the field, just beyond first base.

 

They have TVs set into the wall in front of the very first row of seats. Why the f***!? Does someone with seats that good need the TV? They need more of them in the areas where you can barely see what's going on on the field.

 

those are the seats I inevitably get. How do you get so close on the spur of the moment?

[Kimmi]

Hopefully, we didn't use all of our runs up last night. My money is on Fister and the Sox!

 

WIN!!!

[Youk Of The Nation]

those are the seats I inevitably get. How do you get so close on the spur of the moment?

 

StubHub.

 

I should be more clear. I am not a spontaneous person. For me, "spur of the moment" means I decided last night to go today and bought the ticket this morning when I got out of work. There were still a great deal of tickets left at 7AM.

[Maxbialystock]

Bogaerts SS, Pedroia 2B, Benintendi LF, Betts RF, Moreland 1B, Ramirez DH, Devers 3B, Leon C, Bradley Jr. CF

 

Make the plays, and get some clutch hits, win.

 

OK. That's the right one. Three of the first four have pretty good speed. On a good day--not so much this season--all four can also hit and two with power. 5th and 6th are Moreland and HanRam, probably about right. Good to see Pedey in his second straight start at 2b, especially with Nunez out.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Pedroia just tossed a ball into the stands and I watched some 16-year old (or so) kid snatch it out of the air by shoving his arm in front of a bunch of little kids. Teenagers are the worst.

[Maxbialystock]

StubHub.

 

I should be more clear. I am not a spontaneous person. For me, "spur of the moment" means I decided last night to go today and bought the ticket this morning when I got out of work. There were still a great deal of tickets left at 7AM.

 

that's where I got mind, stubhub. Over $100 apiece for seats down the right field line that were like watching the game through the wrong end of a telescope. Twice.

 

I have not been back to Fenway in this decade. Maybe the first decade of the 21st century was the wrong one for getting decent seats there.

Edited September 13, 2017 by Maxbialystock

[Maxbialystock]

Game is on espn and the camera shows lots and lots of empty seats for an important game about to begin.

 

Correction. New camera shots show lots of fans and a good crowd.

Edited September 13, 2017 by Maxbialystock

[d-money]

Well hopefully we win tonight. Need good fister again.

[Maxbialystock]

Three very hittable 91 mph fastballs, which Semien finally hammered to rf for a single. Typical 1st inning for Fister, who regularly give up a run in the first.

[d-money]

Not good at all! Always seems to struggle in the first inning

[Maxbialystock]

When oh when is that Betts guy going to show some fire out there in RF? I am being facetious of course because was trying to make the only play that could keep the guy on 1st from scoring--and diving toward that right field wall was a little risky. Edited September 13, 2017 by Maxbialystock

[d-money]

Fister really has to settle down here.

[d-money]

What a f***ing disaster of an inning!

[NativeBostonian]

Welcome back to earth, Fister.

[d-money]

Well we will see if they can chip away

[Maxbialystock]

I'd love to say bad luck on those 4 runs, but three of those balls were hard hit--two on fastballs and one a curve that was little up in the zone and breaking toward a lefty hitter who clearly saw it well.

[d-money]

Gonna have to find a way and score some early runs. Cotton hasn't looked good but he could turned out to be a stud tonight.

[Station 13]

This is what being fisted is like.

[Maxbialystock]

Fister has consistently not been a good first inning guy, but usually gets better. I honestly expect that tonight. I never saw him throw a changeup against Lowrie or Olson, both lefty bats who got the big hits--a dinger and a triple. That has to change. Edited September 13, 2017 by Maxbialystock

[NativeBostonian]

This is what being fisted is like.

 

I’m sure you’d feel a lot more violated then that.

[Maxbialystock]

Why would Betts swing at a first pitch slider low in the zone? Answer: he doesn't read sliders well, not at all.

[NativeBostonian]

Bad at bats.

[Maxbialystock]

Wow. Sox bats in the first very aggressive. Only Beni took Cotton to 6 pitches--and got the only double. Moreland hit the 2d pitch, Betts the first, Pedey the 3d, and Bogey the 2d.

[Maxbialystock]

Bad at bats.

 

I think so. On the other hand, maybe those aggressive at bats just show that these guys finally have that fire they seem to be lacking. Can't wait to swing those bats. To heck with Bill James.

Edited September 13, 2017 by Maxbialystock

[oldtimer]

So, why did JF pull the infield in with a runner on first and one out? That is one strategy and the other would to play for the out and allow the run to score on a ground ball. As it turned out, there would have been 2 outs and a man on 3rd. What happened after is on Fister.