7/12 Dodgers @ Boston

[TylerD]

5-1. I’m up. We’re good.

[TylerD]

Thankyou

 

Much needed. Guardians have been red hot lately

[Swiharts Ghost]

Joe Kelly Fight Club

 

X is due

[Swiharts Ghost]

Called it

[Swiharts Ghost]

Booooooooooooom X gonna give it to ya

[FredLynn]

Joe Kelly Fight Club

 

Kelly should never have to buy another beer for himself when in Boston.

[Tedballgame]

Best SS in baseball.

[d-money]

They broke it open.

[Swiharts Ghost]

JD bear down

[Swiharts Ghost]

JDM looks like dog s*** but Xander huuuuuuuge shot

[Oscars]

Even the Sox bullpen can’t blow this one!

Can they?!

[Station 13]

Taylor has great stuff, he has to control it.

[illinoisredsox]

If a player is playing for Rochester and he gets the call from the O's, that would be a lateral move.

 

Actually, it would mean he’d been traded. Rochester was the O’s AAA team for forever but it’s been a Twins affiliate for at least 15 years now.

[d-money]

The rangers and Oakland are in the mix as well. So you have 5 teams vying for two spots.

[Oscars]

Vaz looks so balanced at the plate

[moonslav59]

A bit more jump in our step on this site, tonight.

[YastrzemskI]

The rangers and Oakland are in the mix as well. So you have 5 teams vying for two spots.

 

It’s gunna be a fun September. If Dombrowski makes a few moves, I like our chances.

[a700hitter]

It was nice to have a bullpen-proof game.

[d-money]

Let’s keep this up. Let’s send a message that this team will be a lot different in the second half.

[TylerD]

5 in a row. And that was pure domination. Can’t complain at all. Though I’m sure some will find a way.

 

I’ll be sleeping easy tonight.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Actually, it would mean he’d been traded. Rochester was the O’s AAA team for forever but it’s been a Twins affiliate for at least 15 years now.

 

Thanks for the heads-up. As you can tell I'm not up to date on minor league affiliates.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The good news is the SOX won.

The bad news is the next 2 games are on FOX and ESPN.

Mute will be in play.

[iortiz]

Way to start the 2nd half.

 

This team will make noise, you’ll see.

 

Go Sox!

[moonslav59]

Big confidence bump.

 

ERod & Bogey have been huge, this year. Others helped in smaller ways.

 

It would be nice to keep the streak going for a few more games.

[vegasbob]

Beating the winningest team in baseball by 8-1, mimicing the 2018 World Series, is fun enough. Having Taylor and Velazquez close out he Dodgers after Erod stifled them is super. f*** these clowns and just keep winning to see where it winds up.

Tough to think of a 108 game winner as a WC but whatever. Tonight feels good.

[vegasbob]

Let’s keep this up. Let’s send a message that this team will be a lot different in the second half.

 

Not sure how you know that for sure after the up/down first half, bu tI sure hope so. Runoff a 17-2 string and then see what Jacko has to say.

[Thunder]

Great game to start the 2nd half! Felt like 2018

 

I'm about to leave to head up to Boston. It's such a beautiful day, so we're going to go up early and do some sightseeing before watching a WS rematch for only $9. Hopefully Sale starts his turnaround this evening. I was surprised at how well we made Bellinger look human last night. Make him keep swinging and that offspeed stuff down and in

[TylerD]

That win let me sleep easy. Slept for 10 hours. Ugh.

[jung]

Time to acknowledge that for all his faults ERod will be the most improved if not the only improved Red Sox pitcher this year. He has done it on the strength of one pitch really but there ya' go. It does not take much in this iteration of MLB.

 

He is able to turn the circle of his circle change so that the circle ends up facing the catcher at the release point. As such it stays straight. He throws it outside to the RH hitters and it does not drift back over the plate which is what you would expect from a LH pitcher. He throws it inside to the LH hitters who almost to a man expect it to leak back to the inside corner which is never seems to do.

[moonslav59]

Time to acknowledge that for all his faults ERod will be the most improved if not the only improved Red Sox pitcher this year. He has done it on the strength of one pitch really but there ya' go. It does not take much in this iteration of MLB.

 

He is able to turn the circle of his circle change so that the circle ends up facing the catcher at the release point. As such it stays straight. He throws it outside to the RH hitters and it does not drift back over the plate which is what you would expect from a LH pitcher. He throws it inside to the LH hitters who almost to a man expect it to leak back to the inside corner which is never seems to do.

 

With our pen being overworked and in shambles, going longer into games has been great for ERod, but in almost every other category of measurement, he is doing worse than 2018 (and in some, 2017 as well):

 

ERA

4.19 2017

3.82 2018

4.43 2019

 

ERA+

109

116

107

 

WHIP

1.28

1.26

1.32

 

FIP

3.97

3.65

4.03

 

IP/GS

5.7 (4th on team)

5.4 (4th on team)

5.9 (leads team)

 

QS%

50% (5th on team)

30% (4th on team)

37% (4th on team)

 

Run Support/GS

3.5

5.9

7.8

 

Team winning %

54%

83%

74%

 

Strange the team won more with ERod last year, despite scoring 2 more runs for him this year!

Edited July 13, 2019 by moonslav59