7/2 at A’s

[iortiz]

Game!

[redsoxrules]

Jbj who?

[d-money]

As soon as I say that they get a ridiculous DP wow!!!!!

[TylerD]

We won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[iortiz]

I still believe we win this if Barnes doesn’t allow another run.

 

Told ya!

[d-money]

Great game!!!! Damn sweet win against a very good team. Go sawx!!!!!

[d-money]

Great game from ERod.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Excellent start by E-rod and some great defense by the SOX. Kike was the #2 star tonight.

[iortiz]

We literally always find new ways to win lol

 

Love my team! Let’s go Red Sox!

[illinoisredsox]

Jbj who?

 

To be honest, while JBJ had a cannon, he wasn’t consistently accurate with his throws. He had more than a few 2-3 bouncers or throws well off line.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I willing to hazard a guess that Kike has the strongest throwing arm of any 2nd baseman in MLB.

[iortiz]

I willing to hazard a guess that Kike has the strongest throwing arm of any 2nd baseman in MLB.

Not only a cannon but an accurate cannon.

 

It was a hell of an assist.

 

It’s not a thing of “deserving” but We fairly deserved more this win than Oakland. And it’s not even close.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

MVP78 going for 9 in a row tomorrow to tie MAX's 9 in a row back in April.

[d-money]

Our boy Richards going tomorrow. Hope he starts adjusting .

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Wasn't Lowrie on the '78 SOX? Seems like he's been around forever.

[iortiz]

Our boy Richards going tomorrow. Hope he starts adjusting .

 

Good thing, As don’t hit a lot.

 

I have a good feeling about Richards tomo. He will pitch well tomo.

[iortiz]

Wasn't Lowrie on the '78 SOX? Seems like he's been around forever.

 

I loved Lowrie but he just couldn’t stay healthy.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

MVP78 going for 9 in a row tomorrow to tie MAX's 9 in a row back in April.

 

Actually later today, not tomorrow.

[illinoisredsox]

Actually later today, not tomorrow.

 

It's still yesterday in Oakland for a couple more hours.

[Larry Cook]

Good news today: Rodriguez threw a great game. Hernandez wins it with the bat and the arm,

 

Bad news today: bogey was 60 percent of our team’s strike outs! Ouch!

[Oscars]

The Red Sox continue to find a way to win.

You gotta love it

[Thunder]

Well that was fun! Woke up this morning to some good news!

[Maxbialystock]

Rooting for mvp78 to get more than 9 in a row. This has been a fantastic run at just the right time.

[Maxbialystock]

I watched the 10th inning last night in bed. Rike and ERod the heroes. Both amazing.

[Maxbialystock]

The experts say winners of 1 run games are simply lucky. Last night luck was a factor. Devers' "double" was actually a horrible misplay of a single, which Laureno unwisely dove for and which bounced over him, untouched (thus the double), and rolled far enough to allow Bogey to score from 1b.

 

Kike's 10th inning rbi single was lucky in that it went between the CFer and RFer, giving Chavis, who overcautiously took a couple of steps back toward 2b, to score. Jed Lowrie's leadoff single in the bottom of the 10th went straight to Verdugo, who was also playing a tad shallow, so the 3b coach wisely held Seth Brown up at 3b, thereby setting up that amazing double play by Kike and Vazquez.

 

ERod's 6 inning shutout with just 1 hit was the opposite of luck. He had great command and a good assortment of pitches and did not over-rely on his fastball.

 

Lowrie's dinger was not luck, but Andrus's was literally an 86 to 1 shot based on 77 dingers in 6639 MLB at bats.

 

Lucky or not, it's still the Sox 8th straight win at the flex point--midseason, game 83--of the season.

[Thunder]

We also tied the Giants for the best record. They still have a higher win % though

[Bellhorn04]

The experts say winners of 1 run games are simply lucky. Last night luck was a factor. Devers' "double" was actually a horrible misplay of a single, which Laureno unwisely dove for and which bounced over him, untouched (thus the double), and rolled far enough to allow Bogey to score from 1b.

 

"The experts say winners of 1 run games are simply lucky."

 

That is not exactly what they say, I don't think.

 

It's simply a well-documented statistical fact that even the best teams tend to be around .500 in one-run games, while winning much more of their share of blowouts. The larger the margin of victory, the less randomness comes into it.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The experts say winners of 1 run games are simply lucky. Last night luck was a factor. Devers' "double" was actually a horrible misplay of a single, which Laureno unwisely dove for and which bounced over him, untouched (thus the double), and rolled far enough to allow Bogey to score from 1b.

 

Kike's 10th inning rbi single was lucky in that it went between the CFer and RFer, giving Chavis, who overcautiously took a couple of steps back toward 2b, to score. Jed Lowrie's leadoff single in the bottom of the 10th went straight to Verdugo, who was also playing a tad shallow, so the 3b coach wisely held Seth Brown up at 3b, thereby setting up that amazing double play by Kike and Vazquez.

 

ERod's 6 inning shutout with just 1 hit was the opposite of luck. He had great command and a good assortment of pitches and did not over-rely on his fastball.

 

Lowrie's dinger was not luck, but Andrus's was literally an 86 to 1 shot based on 77 dingers in 6639 MLB at bats.

 

Lucky or not, it's still the Sox 8th straight win at the flex point--midseason, game 83--of the season.

 

And the one hit that E-rod gave up was the run-saving gem by X-man in the 2nd inning.That, imho, made up for X-man's poor at-bats.

[moonslav59]

so many Sox teams from the distant past would have found a way to lose last night’s game.

 

This team finds different ways of winning on almost a daily basis.

 

Call it “mojo,” “chemistry” or whatever, but this season seems almost magical, except that the word magical implies we are more lucky than skilled.

 

Speaking just for myself, I often feel like I get a sense of how the season will turn out by June or July. Unlike many other losing seasons where I cling to glimmers of hope to the last minute, I was one of the first to give up on the 2019 team. It’s not something I’m proud of, but I just got a strong feeling very early that we just didn’t have it in us. I was not overly. Incident about 2021. I projected 86 wins and felt we might compete for a playoff slot if close to everything went right. I called this “a bridge year” where we could afford to play all our bubble players to find out which ones were keepers, or at least come close to knowing about most of the fringe guys and maybe a few prospects along the way.

 

Winning has kept us from doing some of this, but who is complaining. This has been a very enjoyable season, especially coming out of the cocoon many of us have been in for a year plus.

 

I’m liking our chances for a 2021 ring more and more. I’m not feeling like we are the favourites, but other really good teams have as many issues as we do.

 

Winning this west coast trip would boost my confidence even more!

 

Keep the mojo risin ’!