4/4 @ Orioles

[Thunder]

Great win! It's good to know we can rely on them to come back when they fall behind

[Bellhorn04]

Put Max in a grocery cart!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Saturday is next game.

 

 

Friday night and no SOX game. That sux.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Put Max in a grocery cart!

 

He's a great 'opening' act.

[moonslav59]

Friday night and no SOX game. That sux.

 

Insanity on MLB's part.

[Bellhorn04]

Insanity on MLB's part.

 

It's just the home opener thing.

[moonslav59]

About the best we could expect from ERod.

 

Pen looked solid.

 

4 hitters with 2+ hits and Marwin on base 3 times.

 

Gotta like the trend, here.

[Maxbialystock]

It's just the home opener thing.

 

Moonslav’s still right, however.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Insanity on MLB's part.

 

Sanity would have been having today with no game.

[Thunder]

About the best we could expect from ERod.

 

Pen looked solid.

 

4 hitters with 2+ hits and Marwin on base 3 times.

 

Gotta like the trend, here.

 

And, first place!

 

But, like I said, way too early to care about standings.

[Thunder]

Sanity would have been having today with no game.

 

Well our home opener last Thursday is the perfect example of why that scheduled off day exists. It's a built in rain date

[Bellhorn04]

About the best we could expect from ERod.

 

We should have no complaints with his outing, considering what he's been through.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

It's just the home opener thing.

 

They could have opened tomorrow.

[Bellhorn04]

Moonslav’s still right, however.

 

They've been doing it like this forever.

[Bellhorn04]

They could have opened tomorrow.

 

What they do is build in a rain day for home openers.

[Thunder]

What they do is build in a rain day for home openers.

 

Only in outdoor stadiums located in the North. Somehow, they played 4 straight in Colorado last weekend. That should be a city that needs that scheduled off day, for either rain or snow

[Bellhorn04]

Only in outdoor stadiums located in the North. Somehow, they played 4 straight in Colorado last weekend. That should be a city that needs that scheduled off day, for either rain or snow

 

Now you've got me intrigued - do the Rockies get a lot of games rained out?

[TylerD]

This time last year wasn’t our record 1-6

[Thunder]

Now you've got me intrigued - do the Rockies get a lot of games rained out?

 

Well they definitely lead the NL West in rain outs - and snow outs, for that matter

[Thunder]

This time last year wasn’t our record 1-6

 

We don't talk about last year

[moonslav59]

Barnes K'd all 3 in the ninth.

 

He had a 14.4 K/9 rate from 2018-2021, before this game.

 

Maybe he can be that closer we've needed. (The 5 BB/9 and 1.0 HR/9 are a bit concerning over the same time frame.)

 

FIP 3.22

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Screw it. The SOX won today; I can survive with no game tomorrow.

[a700hitter]

JD and Vazquez may be the hottest hitters on the planet right now

i didn’t understand all the negativity about JD. Throw out last season for everyone. Heck, the Marlins made the playoffs and Tampa went to the World Series. The entire season was a mockery.

 

if you throw out last year and rank JD last 5 or 6 seasons for OPS and TB you would find that he is in very elite company. He isn’t that old, hasn’t suffered a debilitating injury and pitchers don’t figure out how to neutralize a big bat after all these years.

[a700hitter]

This time last year wasn’t our record 1-6

This time last year the Red Sox record was 0-0.

[a700hitter]

It is huge getting ERod back in action. Even a diminished version of ERod is better than anyone else in the rotation.

[notin]

Barnes K'd all 3 in the ninth.

 

He had a 14.4 K/9 rate from 2018-2021, before this game.

 

Maybe he can be that closer we've needed. (The 5 BB/9 and 1.0 HR/9 are a bit concerning over the same time frame.)

 

FIP 3.22

 

 

His numbers on 0 days rest are atrocious...

[Thunder]

i didn’t understand all the negativity about JD. Throw out last season for everyone. Heck, the Marlins made the playoffs and Tampa went to the World Series. The entire season was a mockery.

 

if you throw out last year and rank JD last 5 or 6 seasons for OPS and TB you would find that he is in very elite company. He isn’t that old, hasn’t suffered a debilitating injury and pitchers don’t figure out how to neutralize a big bat after all these years.

 

I agree completely. As long as we still had JD this year, I knew the offense would be formidable

[TylerD]

This time last year the Red Sox record was 0-0.

 

Oh you know what I mean. Lol

[Maxbialystock]

I agree completely. As long as we still had JD this year, I knew the offense would be formidable

 

JDM transformed the Sox lineup in 2018, which turned out to be a pretty decent season.

[TylerD]

I’m celebrating by eating a milky way chocolate bar.