8/27 @ Cleveland

[Maxbialystock]

Prediction - ERod will never have an immaculate inning.

 

So what? Very few pitchers have had one. Better to say his control sucks, with which I heartily agree.

 

Great to see these bit players get a chance to show what they can do, which, it seems, isn't much. Munoz an awful K, Arauz an error, a piss-poor one in fact.

[Maxbialystock]

ERod is at least mixing up his pitches today and not throwing fastball after fastball after fastball. Plus he is trying not throw anything down the middle. 2 straight groundouts off that changeup, which is probably his best pitch.

 

He also has that cutter, which works well on the corners as it just did for his 3d ground out.

 

We just saw an ERod immaculate inning: 3 up, 3 down, all on grounders, and he only threw 6 pitches. That's good pitching!!!!

[illinoisredsox]

So what? Very few pitchers have had one. Better to say his control sucks, with which I heartily agree.

 

Great to see these bit players get a chance to show what they can do, which, it seems, isn't much. Munoz an awful K, Arauz an error, a piss-poor one in fact.

 

Has nothing to do with control; it has everything to do with mindset. Sale goes 0-2 on a hitter and he goes after the hitter on the next pitch. ERod, on those rare occasions when he does go 0-2, will nibble and often as not, end up 2-2 or 3-2.

 

Read that the immaculate inning is more rare than a no-hitter. There have been something like 315 no-hit games in major league history vs. 204 immaculate innings.

[Maxbialystock]

Two terrible, rotten, worthless starters have together given up 3 hits and 0 runs in 3 innings. Someone forgot to tell them how truly awful they are, and the hitters would vehemently disagree with that characterization.

[iortiz]

He was so bad the Twins were walking Shwarber--4 times last night alone-- to get to JDM for the easy out.

 

plus a position player pitching got him out.

 

He needs a rest.

[Maxbialystock]

Has nothing to do with control; it has everything to do with mindset. Sale goes 0-2 on a hitter and he goes after the hitter on the next pitch. ERod, on those rare occasions when he does go 0-2, will nibble and often as not, end up 2-2 or 3-2.

 

Read that the immaculate inning is more rare than a no-hitter. There have been something like 315 no-hit games in major league history vs. 204 immaculate innings.

 

It has everything to do with control. It's precisely because Sale is confident he can throw his fastball, slider, or changeup where he needs to that he is able to be aggressive on K's.

 

If ERod had Sale's command, he would be more aggressive.

 

Tonight he has no K's, but needed just 30 pitches to get through the first 3 innings. He has thrown few pitches down the middle and has mixed them up.

Edited August 28, 2021 by Maxbialystock

[d-money]

No offense whatsoever tonight.

[Maxbialystock]

That first pitch fast ball was down the middle--the right pitch to do that on.

[d-money]

I expect cleveland to take a lead soon.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Two terrible, rotten, worthless starters have together given up 3 hits and 0 runs in 3 innings. Someone forgot to tell them how truly awful they are, and the hitters would vehemently disagree with that characterization.

 

One of these starters has a 5.06ERA and the other has a 9.13ERA and a career ERA of 7. So I would at least call them awful.

[d-money]

Don’t start nibbling.

[TylerD]

Damn 2-0

[d-money]

So f***ing predictable with this team. Smh

[Maxbialystock]

So much for lavishing praise on Ramirez's changeup. That's what Ramirez hit for a 2 run dinger. It's obvious he sees ERod's pitches well.

[iortiz]

ERod is falling apart after a nice start.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Do the SOX have to present E-Rod with a QO? How 'quality' does it have to be to get a comp pick?

[oldtimer]

E-Rod was having trouble putting hitters away. That led to him giving in and giving up 2 runs.

[d-money]

I can’t wait to see this guy off this team. An implosion.

[Tedballgame]

Logan Allen comes in with an ERA over 9 and is shutting out the Sox while E-Rod is choking again.

[Maxbialystock]

Interesting. The infield seems to want to test Shwarber's ability to handle lousy throws. So far, one by Arauz (uncatchable) and one by Bogie (barely catchable).

[moonslav59]

Well, we finally have Munoz on the team and playing, Duran in the line-up, too, so let's see what all the clamoring was about!

 

[iortiz]

Playing 1B is incredible hard but playing C, is way harder. Odds say Schwarber will be oks there.

[iortiz]

Well, we finally have Munoz on the team and playing, Duran in the line-up, too, so let's see what all the clamoring was about!

 

 

based on one game? lol

[Maxbialystock]

Logan Allen comes in with an ERA over 9 and is shutting out the Sox while E-Rod is choking again.

 

Interesting. Last night everyone was lavish in their praise of how absolutely brilliant Sale was. I guess we were blinded by that immaculate inning.

 

But the simple fact is that Sale too gave up a 2 run dinger--but against the last place Twins.

[Maxbialystock]

If there is blame, it belongs to the lineup.

[Tedballgame]

Stupid base running pays off when they miss the tag.

[Maxbialystock]

E-Rod was having trouble putting hitters away. That led to him giving in and giving up 2 runs.

 

Really? That must be Sale's problem too because he did exactly the same thing last night.

[Tedballgame]

Vaz snuffs out the rally.

[Maxbialystock]

E-Rod was having trouble putting hitters away. That led to him giving in and giving up 2 runs.

 

Did you bother to watch the 3d inning when ERod got three outs on 3 groundouts and just 6 pitches?

 

You also seem to be unaware that the Sox lineup so far stinks tonight although I personally think Allen is pitching pretty well.

[oldtimer]

A promising inning down the toilet.