07/26/19 Yankees (Paxton) @ Red Sox (Cashner)

[TylerD]

Hey Cashner..... You had a nice stretch with Baltimore where you only gave up 7 runs in 33 innings.... Where the hell is that since you came to Boston? Tonight is a good night to do that again. Oh and also the same run support as last night would be nice too GO SOX!

[jacksonianmarch]

Cashner is a bit of a Yankee killer, so this one could be tough for the boys in grey

[Maxbialystock]

So much depends on whether the guys has all or most of his pitches that day--and of course command. Tanaka, who is capable of shutting the Sox down, got killed last night because he couldn't put the ball where he wanted to. Lefties have given the Sox problems this year, and Paxton was one of them.

[jacksonianmarch]

Paxton relies more on power. His command isn’t as good nor needs to be as good as Tanaka’s. Paxton runs into trouble less with his in zone command but more with the walk. If he can limit the walk, he can juice up the heat into the high 90/s and get the batters to chase up with heat or down with the slider. When he starts walking guys, he dials it down to command it better and gets romped.

[moonslav59]

Paxton relies more on power. His command isn’t as good nor needs to be as good as Tanaka’s. Paxton runs into trouble less with his in zone command but more with the walk. If he can limit the walk, he can juice up the heat into the high 90/s and get the batters to chase up with heat or down with the slider. When he starts walking guys, he dials it down to command it better and gets romped.

 

Are you still as high on Paxton and Happ as you were over the winter?

 

(I know I've had to revise my thinking on Porcello & Eovaldi.)

[moonslav59]

1 Mookie Betts, RF

 

2 Rafael Devers, 3B

 

3 Xander Bogaerts, SS

 

4 J.D. Martinez, DH

 

5 Christian Vazquez, C

 

6 Andrew Benintendi, LF

 

7 Sam Travis, 1B

 

8 Michael Chavis, 2B

 

9 Jackie Bradley Jr., CF

 

Andrew Cashner, RHP (9-5, 4.19 ERA)

[Slasher9]

f*** the Yankees and f*** Yankees fans.

Win.

[jung]

Paxton relies more on power. His command isn’t as good nor needs to be as good as Tanaka’s. Paxton runs into trouble less with his in zone command but more with the walk. If he can limit the walk, he can juice up the heat into the high 90/s and get the batters to chase up with heat or down with the slider. When he starts walking guys, he dials it down to command it better and gets romped.

 

Well then maybe his command is not really better when he dials it back. Command is not laying meatballs in the strike zone to get strikes. If you can locate 94, ML hitters are going to have trouble with that. If you lay 97 right down main st at the belt line or just below it, 97 in that location is not going to get past ML hitters and neither is 94. The best the pitcher gets is what Sale got the other night v the bottom half of the Rays order dealing 97 in that location....lots of balls fouled off. If the hitters are above average ML hitters, those foul balls turn into bombs over the fence.

Edited July 26, 2019 by jung

[TylerD]

Are you still as high on Paxton and Happ as you were over the winter?

 

(I know I've had to revise my thinking on Porcello & Eovaldi.)

 

You love Porcello, stop it.

[YastrzemskI]

Hey Cashner..... You had a nice stretch with Baltimore where you only gave up 7 runs in 33 innings.... Where the hell is that since you came to Boston? Tonight is a good night to do that again. Oh and also the same run support as last night would be nice too GO SOX!

 

Why not use last night as a stepping stone? How about 20 runs tonight? It's good to have goals man.

[TylerD]

f*** the Yankees and f*** Yankees fans.

Win.

 

X2!!!!!!!!!!

[TylerD]

Why not use last night as a stepping stone? How about 20 runs tonight? It's good to have goals man.

 

I like the way you think!!

[d-money]

Would be nice if rod beck jr doesn’t get lit up tonight. Hope he can give us a chance. I want no split. 3 out of 4 or a sweep.

[d-money]

Already a man on base.

[d-money]

Hey cashner try not to get destroyed.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

There go the Judge.

[d-money]

Straight cash homey! Let’s go.

[Tedballgame]

Strike em out, throw em out. Yes!

[d-money]

I wish our pitchers could put these batters away quickly.

[d-money]

Like that!!!!! Jump on them early!!!!

[jung]

Runs in the bottom of the 1st would be very helpful. Not sure how much Cashewnuts is going to get away with tonight.

[jung]

No matter how this comes out, the Yankmees need another starter. We probably need another reliever.

[Tedballgame]

Nice start by Mookie!!!!!

[Station 13]

Betts!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Betts cha by golly wow!

[Tedballgame]

Bridge!!!!

[Tedballgame]

Devers is a hit machine.

[jung]

I know a bunch of people here don't believe batting orders mean anything. But this offense just took off from the day Cora lined up Mookie, Rafi and X, 1,2,3 in the order.

[YastrzemskI]

Let's go! It starts now!!! Let's kick some goddamn tail!!!!!!

 

GO SOX!!!!!!!!

[Tedballgame]

Xander not looking for that.