7/31 vs Tampa Bay

[d-money]

That sucked. We look not great tonight.

 

This team is dead in the water. How can you be taken seriously by dropping these games at home against a team that looked dead coming in.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

What the hell is ECK talking about in regards to Betts? I wouldn't be surprised if Mookie didn't lead the SOX in taking called 3rd strikes.

[jung]

I’ve said it before, solo homers usually don’t really hurt you (provided you keep the number allowed reasonable). 3 run homers do. And there was a big of bad luck on it; went right over the foul pole and probably isn’t a homer anywhere else except Fenway.

 

Well actually that was way back in the RF grandstands, higher than the pole when it went past. The HR's that are only HR's in Fenway are the ones that literally wrap around the Pesky pole only 305' from Home Plate.

[TylerD]

Porcello really rebounding. This offense needs to do their part.

[TylerD]

This team is dead in the water. How can you be taken seriously by dropping these games at home against a team that looked dead coming in.

 

Yup. And I juR said Porcello looked good but he gave up another and this offense sucks. We are so inconsistent

[YastrzemskI]

Porcello gunna go break a few more monitors now? Man o man... brutal.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Is the excuse the SOX starters didn't get enough work in ST still valid?

[d-money]

This team is f***ing dead. Unreal. They take 3 out of 4 from the Yankees and you think they will right the ship. Wrong! Same f***ing ********.

[TylerD]

Porcello looks depressed. Makes me sad

[jung]

Why does Porcello always have to have one ugly inning. He has been pretty solid since. Even the 2 runs he gave up weren’t true end of the world. But that home run sucked to make it 5. He’s been solid since.

 

IMO Rick literally does not know what he can throw when he takes the mound for the 1st inning any longer, mainly because he cannot follow the approach to pitching he used for that magical 1.5 years and he can't go back to what he was before that 1.5 year run.

 

He simply was not meant to be a power pitcher and did not have the endurance to do what he did for more than a year and a half. Now he is stuck trying to figure out if he has any sort of 4 seam FB at all when he takes the mound. He fails that test virtually every time out and then he has to figure out which of his secondary pitches he can throw good enough to get through however many innings he can go and he does not know at that point which he can or can't trust. Like I said earlier, Rick is literally reinventing himself every single start. We can knock him for his performances but not for a lack of guts. I just can't imagine what that must be like.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

IMO Rick literally does not know what he can throw when he takes the mound for the 1st inning any longer, mainly because he cannot follow the approach to pitching he used for that magical 1.5 years and he can't go back to what he was before that 1.5 year run.

 

He simply was not meant to be a power pitcher and did not have the endurance to do what he did for more than a year and a half. Now he is stuck trying to figure out if he has any sort of 4 seam FB at all when he takes the mound. He fails that test virtually every time out and then he has to figure out which of his secondary pitches he can throw good enough to get through however many innings he can go and he does not know at that point which he can or can't trust. Like I said earlier, Rick is literally reinventing himself every single start. We can knock him for his performances but not for a lack of guts. I just can't imagine what that must be like.

 

I think Rick should 'reinvent' himself in whatever field he majored in during college.

[YastrzemskI]

This team is f***ing dead. Unreal. They take 3 out of 4 from the Yankees and you think they will right the ship. Wrong! Same f***ing ********.

 

This sucks. It’s really does. Porcello with his head down in the dugout.. I feel bad for the guy but at the same time he has to be better. This entire pitching staff is in shambles. That last bad start by Sale just left a bad taste in my mouth. It may be a start that we point back to.. a breaking point perhaps. Remember that pep talk that Chris gave the team in the dugout during the World Series?

Feel like an eternity ago. At what point do you look at the pitching coaches??? I don’t know.

[jad]

Well actually that was way back in the RF grandstands, higher than the pole when it went past. The HR's that are only HR's in Fenway are the ones that literally wrap around the Pesky pole only 305' from Home Plate.

 

I think he means that with the foul pole further back (as it is in all other parks), the ball, however far it might have been hit, would not have 'wrapped around' the pole but would have curved well foul before it got to the pole.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I think Rick should 'reinvent' himself in whatever field he majored in during college.

 

Oops. Just checked and found Rick didn't attend college. Oh, well, I'm sure he can find a job outside of baseball.

[jung]

I think Rick should 'reinvent' himself in whatever field he majored in during college.

 

That is not far wrong at this point. Were it not for the lack of any sort of baseline acceptable MLB pitching across baseball, he would likely be out of baseball after this season. But with a Cy in hand and with the trash that passes for MLB pitching today, he will get a shot to pitch somewhere if he wants it on a much reduced contract.

[jung]

I think he means that with the foul pole further back (as it is in all other parks), the ball, however far it might have been hit, would not have 'wrapped around' the pole but would have curved well foul before it got to the pole.

 

Well actually that did not look like it was hooking that much and because of the shape of the RF wall in Fenway the distance once you get past that foul pole grows remarkably and very quickly. That was likely out and fair in a lotta' parks.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The SOX are like a major Hollywood motion picture with a lot of big stars, but the movie really isn't as good as it should be. The Rays are similar to a low budget independent film with a bunch of unknown actors, but the movie itself isn't half-bad.

[d-money]

The SOX are like a major Hollywood motion picture with a lot of big stars, but the movie really isn't as good as it should be. The Rays are similar to a low budget independent film with a bunch of unknown actors, but the movie itself isn't half-bad.

 

Our team makes them look really good while the Yankees make them look like just another team. I am disgusted with this team. They should not be making the rays look this good at home.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

That is not far wrong at this point. Were it not for the lack of any sort of baseline acceptable MLB pitching across baseball, he would likely be out of baseball after this season. But with a Cy in hand and with the trash that passes for MLB pitching today, he will get a shot to pitch somewhere if he wants it on a much reduced contract.

 

True. That is the state of the game today.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

DD looks like a GM who has just discovered how important pitching is in baseball.

[Swiharts Ghost]

Our team makes them look really good while the Yankees make them look like just another team. I am disgusted with this team. They should not be making the rays look this good at home.

 

We all need to understand this .The Tampa bay Rays of 2019 are a better team and better coached at every level than the Boston Red Sox .We have a huuuuuuuge problem with player development and More so with pitching .Dana Levangie is a terrible pitching coach and to not recognize this one fact will lead toDaves and Coras demise .

[Swiharts Ghost]

Smoked

[illinoisredsox]

Well actually that was way back in the RF grandstands, higher than the pole when it went past. The HR's that are only HR's in Fenway are the ones that literally wrap around the Pesky pole only 305' from Home Plate.

 

Listening to the game with Castiglione and company and they made it sound as if it went over the pole, though now that I think about it, they may have said higher than the pole.

[YastrzemskI]

This is getting really ugly fellas.

[Swiharts Ghost]

Dana Levangie is killing this team he has no answers for these pitchers he's destroying this staff .

[d-money]

HR derby by the rays? Really? What a sham. Yankees can bury this team this weekend.

[Swiharts Ghost]

Ohhhhh hey Worthless Danas out to what ? Talk about how s***** he is ?

[fxkatt]

The SOX are like a major Hollywood motion picture with a lot of big stars, but the movie really isn't as good as it should be. The Rays are similar to a low budget independent film with a bunch of unknown actors, but the movie itself isn't half-bad.

 

This is only too accurate. When the Rays play half their home games north of the border, it will be even more true.

[Swiharts Ghost]

Same ******** every night and no one gets canned DFA nothing

[jung]

Tampa is winning this game going away. As much as I can blame the pitching which is godawful, for all our gaudy offensive numbers when we really need runs, all too often this year we just don't get them.