5/18 Orioles at Fenway

[Maxbialystock]

Gotta start pecking away....this is a winnable game. Its theOrioles after all

 

Good. Agree.

[FredLynn]

Can we please PH for Bradley??? Come on....give it up Cora!

[jacksonianmarch]

JBJ cannot hit cockshot fastballs. He needs to be optioned out

[mvp 78]

Ugh.

[FredLynn]

Just horrible.....playing Bradley is simply indefensible

[cp176]

Speaking of defense, who would you pick as the better defensive RF'r? Dewey or Mookie?

 

Now that is a tough one. Guess I would have to go with Dewey in a photo finish but what the hell I'd take Freddie over JBJ all day.

[mvp 78]

At this point in this season, it's kind of hard to imagine anyone overrating Vazquez.

 

Let me rephrase: We vastly overestimated what his defense would be.

[illinoisredsox]

I just watched a replay of Mookie getting doubled off 2B and must say he didn't take much of a lead and was in fact hustling back to 2b on a close play. Schoop just made a terrific grab and flip to Machado. You want boneheaded--look at the 2 or 3 times last year when JBJ forgot how many outs there were when he was on base. The next two guys grounded out anyway. As for Bogie getting throw out, it was a hit and run and the pitch was in the dirt, but fielded cleanly with a good throw to 2b.

 

Our problem tonight is another horrible start by Pom and weak hitting against Cobb and his 7+ ERA going into this game.

 

Cobb is having a bad season, but he does have a decent track record over his career; he's better than he has showed this year.. He has usually pitched pretty well at Fenway.

[Maxbialystock]

Will the JBJ fan club please take note that tonight he has struck out twice on fastballs right down the middle.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

JBJ even defies the old 'blind squirrel' adage.

[jung]

I hate to say it but they are right back to where they were in 2014 with JBJ....allowing him to just prove to himself that he simply cannot work his way out of this. So does that mean we go though another 500 useless AB's again this year before we pull another intervention? He is in a bad place and the Sox seem to have unwittingly put themselves in a bad place with him.

[a700hitter]

Bradley is lost.

[jacksonianmarch]

JBJ got 2 center cut fastballs that he missed then a fastball on the inside corner and he couldn't hit it. It's one thing when a guy is throwing 98 and blows it by someone. Cobb is throwing 92 and JBJ cannot hit it

[Maxbialystock]

Cobb is having a bad season, but he does have a decent track record over his career; he's better than he has showed this year.. He has usually pitched pretty well at Fenway.

 

Good point. He has done so tonight. But six fastballs right down the middle and zero contact are on the hitter, not Cobb.

[cp176]

I hate to say it but they are right back to where they were in 2014 with JBJ....allowing him to just prove to himself that he simply cannot work his way out of this. So does that mean we go though another 500 useless AB's again this year before we pull another intervention? He is in a bad place and the Sox seem to have unwittingly put themselves in a bad place with him.

 

I call ******** on anybody who gives me a "small sample size" call with respect to JBJ.

[FredLynn]

JBJ got 2 center cut fastballs that he missed then a fastball on the inside corner and he couldn't hit it. It's one thing when a guy is throwing 98 and blows it by someone. Cobb is throwing 92 and JBJ cannot hit it

 

And its not new. Its been that way since Sept of last year. He has lost confidence and if he has options, he needs to work out his problems elsewhere

[jung]

Pure conjecture on my part but I would bet real money that they approached JBJ as delicately as they thought necessary as a new coaching staff with a player that is struggling and this is what they got!!! Classic JBJ

[mvp 78]

Vaz in slomo there

[Maxbialystock]

JBJ got 2 center cut fastballs that he missed then a fastball on the inside corner and he couldn't hit it. It's one thing when a guy is throwing 98 and blows it by someone. Cobb is throwing 92 and JBJ cannot hit it

 

But he's so great in the outfield\.

[bosoxmal]

This has got to be "last call" night for both Pomeranz and JBJ.

[Maxbialystock]

Vaz in slomo there

 

That is absolutely astonishing that he barely made it to 3b from 1b on a clean double. Not a good baserunner, period. But of course he did make it all the way home from 3b on the single. There's that.

[Maxbialystock]

Gotta start pecking away....this is a winnable game. Its theOrioles after all

 

OK, ladies and gents, this guy here is the man of the hour because he called it.

[mvp 78]

When Pedey comes back, have Nunez play LF and Beni in CF?

[mvp 78]

OK, ladies and gents, this guy here is the man of the hour because he called it.

 

Slasher called it on page 1

[FredLynn]

Hanley rally killer....couldn't afford that. Just a sac fly is all we needed

[Station 13]

He's so bad. Get the f*** out Cora.

[FredLynn]

I would have sent Beni to avoid that...or at least try to avoid that.

[Maxbialystock]

Manley Ramirez, on the other hand, gets the booby prize.

 

Let's hear again from the advocates who believe that, with men on 1b and 3b with 1 out, the smart play by Manny was to strike out. The rally would still be alive if he had played it smart. And, yes, that was said on a game thread the other night.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I don't remember much of what Gomes muttered in the last series, but I'll never forget when a couple times he referred to Hanley as 'the RBI guy.' That's memorable..

[oldtimer]

Hanley rally killer....couldn't afford that. Just a sac fly is all we needed

 

That is classic Hanley. Shorten your swing and hit it to the outfield. No, doble play.