5/27 vs Braves

[mvp 78]

Sale v Foltynewicz

[Maxbialystock]

Sale v Foltynewicz

 

Sure hope Foltynewicz's dad makes it to Fenway today. Tough righty, hard thrower. Devers in, Nunez out. JBJ in, Swihart out. Leon in, Vazquez out.

 

Yankees tied in the loss column, four back in win column.

[Slasher9]

Sweeeeeeeeeep

[Thunder]

Get 'er done. Win. Dance. Repeat. x3

[a700hitter]

Why is Betts scratched?

[Maxbialystock]

Why is Betts scratched?

 

Failure to shave or left side tightness.

[Sox75]

If i'm Sale, I'm either HIGHLY MOTIVATED to pitch my ass off, or extremely pissed off about the Sox lineup today behind him.

 

Probably both...

 

"This lineup is going to give me breathing room?"

[d-money]

It seems like it’s very difficult to sweep a team.

[d-money]

So predictable lol. This team just doesn’t know how to sweep teams.

[OH FOY]

Flowers hit a Sale mistake. Major Leaguers do this.

[Sox75]

Oh s***!

 

Now I'm really pissed off that I have Mookie and JDM sitting.

[d-money]

Need to get some offense going.

[jung]

Sale doesn't get more of those FB's up higher in the zone or lower in the zone he is going to get more of them tagged. Doesn't matter what the name is on your jersey...BP FB's are going to get crushed in this league.

[vegasbob]

Sweeeeeeeeeep

 

No Betts, No JDM, Sale unfocused giving up a 3 run bomb in the second are not the ingredients for a sweep. One guy in the lineup hitting ZERO and 2 guys below .200. The only thing getting swept will be the concourses after this game

[Sox75]

Oh god! Not sure I can handle this game if the Box is going to be packed with interviews all game long!!!!!

[bmattioli]

Hate to say you are right. On this dreary Sunday and listening to NESN go on and on with these promo's.. enough..

[Sox75]

Oh god! Not sure I can handle this game if the Box is going to be packed with interviews all game long!!!!!

 

I know it's nice. WORTHY CAUSE! But, I really just want to watch the game.

[jung]

We can hope this is just holiday weekend booth stuff. If the whole season was like this or anything like this, it would be unbearable, good causes and all.

[Sox75]

What the f*** is that YELPING in the stands?

[Sox75]

Could be a very LONG short game !

[jung]

This might be an interesting come back inning to watch from Sale. A pitchers as good as Chris Sale does not have the luxury to make mistakes with his FB because nobody is going to even try to hit that slider if its on and hitting the Change is mostly a matter of bad location no matter who throws it. So a hitter is just going to sit FB. If its in a juicy spot to hit, if it really doesn't have movement, 97-99 even 100mph does not mean anything. A FB like that is the exact reason Kelly can't be a starter.

[jung]

See that Slider from Sale. Good luck hitting that thing.

[jung]

Geez JBJ dropping his front shoulder so it does not cant his head on him makes sense. But how I wish his front shoulder was in the right place from the start. JBJ has got the busiest swing of any ML hitter I have ever seen. His upper body is all over the place. His lower body is all over the place. His head is all over the place. No wonder he is so streaky. About twice a year he has everything synced up and working toward actually hitting the baseball.

[Station 13]

I heard Mookie got scratch, then JD need to play today. Damn Cora, you can sit JD tomorrow too.

[d-money]

This game’s far from over but these guys seemed to be happy with just winning the series.

[d-money]

Get a damn hit! Still without a hit.

[jung]

I don't blame Flowers on that. Sale has thrown the ball farther off the outside edge than that and gotten a strike. Has thrown it on the edge and gotten a ball. Now this ump is calling it three different ways in one AB.

[Station 13]

Sale and runs support don't go together do they?

[vegasbob]

Devers (and many others) look overmatched today. Sale counts on getting no support , so no news to him. O'Brien calls Flowers HR only Sales's 3rd HR given up at Fenway. Well Dave, it i still May so plenty of chances for more.

 

At some point the Sox may need to get Devers some help in terms of a 30-45 days at Pawtucket working on basics of hitting and fielding. Looks like a sophomore slump which I think Bogaerts had a couple years ago too.

[d-money]

This team looks lifeless today and that’s unacceptable. They seemed to do that a lot when they win the first two games of a three game series.