8/5 vs Yankees

[Station 13]

Agreed.

 

Cold blooded.

[Bellhorn04]

Boone may have a short career as Yankem manager.

 

If George was still alive Girardi would already have been re-hired.

[Station 13]

https://nesn.com/2018/08/brian-cashman-believes-yankees-are-only-team-that-does-damage-vs-red-sox/

[Bellhorn04]

https://nesn.com/2018/08/brian-cashman-believes-yankees-are-only-team-that-does-damage-vs-red-sox/

 

Attaboy Cash. Helping your team in every way!

[OH FOY]

Leon has to catch Price.

[moonslav59]

Great baserunning by JBJ scoring from 2b on the groundout-turned-error. Tied the game

 

Yes, that was a huge play by JBJ, yet it was barely mentioned by the Yankee favorite announcers.

 

On that key play, I noticed Bogey was real slow getting out of the batter's box. It looked like he was watching the ground ball, but maybe he was just a little off balance from his swing. Had he began running hard from the get-go, he might have beaten out the throw regardless of the dropped ball. (He also did not seem to be running full speed.)

 

I'm not trying to be negative during such a joyous time. It was a great win that might have set up the psyche needed to believe you can win any game and will when it counts.

 

Don't peak too early! Make this season special from start to finish!

[moonslav59]

Leon has to catch Price.

 

...and Porcello & Sale.

[FredLynn]

Glad I couldn’t stay up for this one. Here is what I can fault Boone for.

 

Chap has been erratic of late. You let him walk the bases loaded with 2 outs and think it’s a good idea to let him face Martinez? You have Green ready fresh, you go to him at some point. You don’t go to Holder who needs to be worked up to pitching against Boston. I understand not walking Beni from the simple point that he’d have no margin for error and had just thrown a wild pitch. You don’t want to move the winning run up 90 feet then let them score on a wild pitch.

 

We needed to get out of Fenway. This team isn’t ready for prime time as is. Once our guys get back and we get our confidence back, we’ll be ready

 

You can stick a fork in your team as far as the ALE goes Jacko.....they are cooked. Not only are you guys 9 1/2 games behind us but your team has a brutal schedule coming up-and the worst part of it is that the Yankees have to play the Red Sox six more times.

[Dojji]

Leon is very rapidly cementing his place as the team's starting catcher. Poor Swihart.

[S5Dewey]

https://nesn.com/2018/08/brian-cashman-believes-yankees-are-only-team-that-does-damage-vs-red-sox/

 

The Sox now have a record of 79-34 (.700) and since the Sox are "only" playing .615 baseball (8-5) against the Yankees, the Y's are the only team that does damage against the Sox. I'll take that "damage", thanks.

 

In fairness, Cash's quote was before this recent 4-game series. I wonder if he'd like to walk that back now.

[Bellhorn04]

The Sox now have a record of 79-34 (.700) and since the Sox are "only" playing .615 baseball (8-5) against the Yankees, the Y's are the only team that does damage against the Sox. I'll take that "damage", thanks.

 

In fairness, Cash's quote was before this recent 4-game series. I wonder if he'd like to walk that back now.

 

It was stupid stuff for Cash to say on record-classic bulletin board material. I don't think DD would say something like that.

[Emp9]

1Bman should have caught that throw, but yes, Andujar sucks on D.

 

Would anyone trade Devers for Andujar?

 

Yup, Bird should’ve made that play regardless if that throw takes a bounce. It was on target. It hit in his glove fcs.

 

It’s been a frustrating season for our young Devers, but no I wouldn’t make that trade.

[moonslav59]

Leon is very rapidly cementing his place as the team's starting catcher. Poor Swihart.

 

...and Vaz.

[mvp 78]

I just don't even understand the thought process in saying something like that to begin with. It just doesn't make sense to me even if you ignore the bulletin board aspect. Yanks were 5-4 against the Sox. It's not like it was 8-1 or 7-2.

[Fan_since_Boggs]

So, uh, Boone is not supposed to use his closer, who has blown one save all year and hasn't pitched in 5 days, to start the 9th inning in a save situation against their division rivals? When and how is he supposed to use him, then? Or am I missing something? I'm interested to see what Francesca's reasoning is here.

 

Maybe he's just trying to say that once Chapman has demonstrated he can't find the zone in a given outing, he should be out of the game?

 

I think he is saying that Boone must use Chapman on a regular enough basis to keep him sharp. No one disagrees with using Chapman in the 9th, but Chapman was rusty because the manager had not used him in 5 days. This is my guess. He will probably clarify his remarks today.

[FredLynn]

...and Vaz.

 

The team is winning regardless of who is catching. I have no doubt that the Sox would have swept the Yankees with Swihart catching the games...or Vas....instead of Leon. Swihart has shown in the few games he has played that he is capable defensively and that he is a superior offensive force compared to either Leon or Vasquez. My opinion of him hasn't changed: if he keeps playing the way he is playing he should displace one of the other two guys on the playoff roster.

[Fan_since_Boggs]

I understand not walking Beni from the simple point that he’d have no margin for error and had just thrown a wild pitch. You don’t want to move the winning run up 90 feet then let them score on a wild pitch.

 

You trust your pitcher and catcher to execute the fundamentals in that scenario.

 

Benintendi has an OPS of .950 (against RHP) and Bradley, who strikes out 25% of the time, has an OPS of .700 (against RHP). I'm not knocking Bradley, I like him as a player, especially his defense, but he isn't in Benintendi's class as a hitter or offensive player. The drop off from Benintenti to Bradley is significant enough to justify an intentional walk to face the weaker hitter. If JD Martinez was on deck, I could understand not walking Benintendi but it was Jackie Bradley, a dude who makes a lot of outs and has contact issues.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Fan_since_Boggs

[Slasher9]

1Bman should have caught that throw, but yes, Andujar sucks on D.

 

Would anyone trade Devers for Andujar?

 

waiting for jacksonianmarch to start the "send Andujar to AAA" thread like he did with our Devers.....

 

ps....yankees suck

[S5Dewey]

waiting for jacksonianmarch to start the "send Andujar to AAA" thread like he did with our Devers.....

 

ps....yankees suck

 

You're a mean bastard, do you know that?

[Fan_since_Boggs]

https://nesn.com/2018/08/brian-cashman-believes-yankees-are-only-team-that-does-damage-vs-red-sox/

 

GMs should not engage in that kind of rhetoric. Cashman is usually smarter than that.

[S5Dewey]

Last night's win felt like vindication, of sorts. A continuation of 2004.

 

You'll remember that yesterday I made a reference to driving a wooden stake through their hearts. That's because up until 2004 it seemed like every time the Sox had a win against the Yankees in hand during a big game (or not) the Y's would rise up late in the game and snatch it away. It's no longer that way. In fact, it's now the opposite, and it feels GOOOOOOOOOOD!!

[Fan_since_Boggs]

I too could not stay up for the finale and actually went to bed when the Yankees scored 4 in the 7th. Not sure I would have brought Price out for the 7th.

 

Great baserunning by JBJ scoring from 2b on the groundout-turned-error. Tied the game

 

Yeah, I thought Price was done after 6. When Gardner ripped a lead off single to start the 7th, I would have taken Price out. He was left in and walked Romine, which was a disaster, since Romine can't hit. I'm not sure what a quicker hook would have meant, however, since Hembree didn't look all that great anyway.

 

Bradley is a great base runner. Good point.

 

As far as Bogaerts goes, I'm not sure if he was running hard from the beginning, I didn't notice. I'm worried about him, though. The sample size is small, but he hasn't done anything offensively since he got hit in the hand and he made that crucial error in the field. Over the last few games, he has reminded me of the Bogaerts from last year post-hand injury.

 

When Kinsler returns (over the weekend) maybe they should DL Bogaerts and keep him out of action for 10 days to make sure his hand fully heals.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Fan_since_Boggs

[moonslav59]

Yeah, I thought Price was done after 6. When Gardner ripped a lead off single to start the 7th, I would have taken Price out. He was left in and walked Romine, which was a disaster, since Romine can't hit. I'm not sure what a quicker hook would have meant, however, since Hembree didn't look all that great anyway.

 

Bradley is a great base runner. Good point.

 

As far as Bogaerts goes, I'm not sure if he was running hard from the beginning, I didn't notice. I'm worried about him, though. The sample size is small, but he hasn't done anything offensively since he got hit in the hand and he made that crucial error in the field. Over the last few games, he has reminded me of the Bogaerts from last year post-hand injury.

 

When Kinsler returns (over the weekend) maybe they should DL Bogaerts and keep him out of action for 10 days to make sure his hand fully heals.

 

In all fairness, that was Bogey's first non-throwing error of the season.

[moonslav59]

The team is winning regardless of who is catching. I have no doubt that the Sox would have swept the Yankees with Swihart catching the games...or Vas....instead of Leon. Swihart has shown in the few games he has played that he is capable defensively and that he is a superior offensive force compared to either Leon or Vasquez. My opinion of him hasn't changed: if he keeps playing the way he is playing he should displace one of the other two guys on the playoff roster.

 

It's not just about being capable of defense: it's the comfort level pitchers feel with certain catchers behind the plate.

[Spudboy]

Yankees: "We have assembled perhaps the greatest bullpen of all time."

Red Sox: "Yeah, about that..."

 

Hahahahahahahahahaha!11!!

[Spudboy]

If George was still alive Girardi would already have been re-hired.

 

Getting rid of Girardi made no sense to me.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Both of Chapman's blown saves as a Yankem have been against the SOX. Let's hope this trend continues.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Getting rid of Girardi made no sense to me.

 

I'm pretty sure that Girardi would have walked Beni in the 10th.

[vegasbob]

Have watched Benintendi's bouncing single to win it all last night several times. One, it feels good to see it several times, but I do wonder what the Yankee "shifted" infielders were doing because there was no apparent urgency to go hard after that ball. It may have been in the one perfect spot to bounce through, but I don't see any great effort to flag it down setting up a throw to the plate.

 

Overall the series could not have gone better in terms of results. The Red Sox won with high scoring, low scoring, bullpen work and 3 very good to great starting pitching, beating each of the Yankee's best 3.

[Fan_since_Boggs]

In this series, the rookie Torres went 0 for 11 with 6 Ks. On a positive note, he had 4 walks. Has the league finally caught up to Torres, figured out how to pitch him?

 

The Yankees need a 1b if Bird doesn't improve. Bird went 1 for 13 with 6 Ks, no walks. His OPS+ for the 2018 season: 97.