Aug 6, Bos (Eovaldi) @ Toronto (Manoah)

[Maxbialystock]

No way Eovaldi doesn't bounce back from last time.

 

Hernandez CF

Verdugo LF

JDM DH

Bogaerts SS

Devers 3B

Renfroe RF

M.Gonzelez 2B

Vazquez C

Cordero 1B

[iortiz]

I just bet a parlay, included Sox line which pays +130. Tonight the turn around begins.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I'm going with my 'blind squirrel' pick tonight and predict Cordero hits a dinger.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

No way Eovaldi doesn't bounce back from last time.

 

Hernandez CF

Verdugo LF

JDM DH

Bogaerts SS

Devers 3B

Renfroe RF

M.Gonzelez 2B

Vazquez C

Cordero 1B

 

EO has an ERA against the AL East of 2.13 so far this season. So there's that.

[jung]

Decent batting order tonight. Gonzolez and and Cordero in, Duran and Dalbac out.....WHO CARES. They are all some version of awful for any team that has post season aspirations.

 

I will go with Verdugo has a good night from the 2 hole. Heck its as good a bet as anything.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Marwin in the line-up instead of Duran is wrong in so many ways. I thought the plan was bringing Duran up to face ML pitching.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Marwin in the line-up instead of Duran is wrong in so many ways. I thought the plan was bringing Duran up to face ML pitching.

 

Maybe Duran has to change his last name to Duranez.

[TylerD]

Let’s get a W

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

JD performing his way back to the SOX next season.

[Nick]

Maybe Duran has to change his last name to Duranez.

 

I saw what you did...

[jung]

Atta' boy JD. Wouldn't want to surprise us would ya'.

 

If its not on the outer half of the plate, JD ain't hitting it. Oh and if its 6" off the outside of the plate, he is swinging at it and missing it. He got one he likes on the outer half in Tigerland and parked it.

[mvp 78]

Having a 1b hit 9th is embarrassing.

[Maxbialystock]

Marwin in the line-up instead of Duran is wrong in so many ways. I thought the plan was bringing Duran up to face ML pitching.

 

Wake up and smell the coffee. Duran is on the COVID roster.

 

Two hard hit balls by Hernandez and Verdugo--one caught and one a clean single--followed by an absolutely spineless GIDP by JDM.

[Maxbialystock]

Eovaldi is definitely mixing his pitches, right from the get go.

[Maxbialystock]

OK to throw that cutter, but not over the absolute dead center of the strike zone.

[mvp 78]

Wake up and smell the coffee. Duran is on the COVID roster.

 

Two hard hit balls by Hernandez and Verdugo--one caught and one a clean single--followed by an absolutely spineless GIDP by JDM.

Duran sucked even when he was COvID negative.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Toronto leads MLB with a .281BA with RISP.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Wake up and smell the coffee. Duran is on the COVID roster.

 

Two hard hit balls by Hernandez and Verdugo--one caught and one a clean single--followed by an absolutely spineless GIDP by JDM.

 

Thanks for the info and I love the smell of coffee.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Based on Bogie's last swing it appears his wrist is fine.

[Maxbialystock]

Thanks for the info and I love the smell of coffee.

 

Matter of fact, so do I--my wife's coffee.

[Maxbialystock]

Renfroe gets a medium fastball in the heart, the absolute center of the zone, and swings and misses.

[jung]

Based on Bogie's last swing it appears his wrist is fine.

 

I would not be to sure about that. He wrist broke down on that floater to RF in Detroit and that was only a day or two ago. That is largely why the ball just floated out to RF. That should have been one of his power alley shots to the opposite field.

 

It may be to the point where it is feeling fine just walking around. Just walking around ain't swinging at ML pitches, especially FB's.

Edited August 6, 2021 by jung

[Maxbialystock]

Eovaldi has good stuff, even the fastball when thrown judiciously, but he does not have good command.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I would not be to sure about that. He wrist broke down on that floater to RF in Detroit and that was only a day or two ago. That is largely why the ball just floated out to RF. That should have been one of his power alley shots to the opposite field.

 

It may be to the point where it is feeling fine just walking around. Just walking around ain't swinging at ML pitches, especially FB's.

 

Maybe JD and a few others on the SOX also have injured wrists.

Edited August 7, 2021 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

EO leads all AL pitchers in fWAR. 2nd is Cole.

[Maxbialystock]

Horrible at bat, but JDM, looking like a rookie, manages to ground out, but also to move the runner to 3b.

[Maxbialystock]

I would not be to sure about that. He wrist broke down on that floater to RF in Detroit and that was only a day or two ago. That is largely why the ball just floated out to RF. That should have been one of his power alley shots to the opposite field.

 

It may be to the point where it is feeling fine just walking around. Just walking around ain't swinging at ML pitches, especially FB's.

 

I am pretty sure the soft fly ball you keep mentioning was in fact a line drive.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Worms are bringing a class action suit against JD for killing so much of their population.

[Maxbialystock]

That sac fly barely got out of the infield, and Verdugo should have been out by a mile. So sad that Bogie's wrist is really, really, really weak. I mean really weak.

[jung]

I am pretty sure the soft fly ball you keep mentioning was in fact a line drive.

 

No it wasn't. It was a floater. Should not have even gone in the direction it went.