Game Day Thread 09.07.21 - Rays (Rasmussen) at Red Sox (E Rod)

[d-money]

Probably true. Of course, no one on talksox thought so either.

 

They need to get rid of a lot of dead weight on this team. Basically clean some house .

[d-money]

'Us competeing' is probably not sustainable.

 

You know what i mean. Anyway the only way this season would be less insufferable would be to see the Yankees miss the playoffs.

[jung]

You don’t think the rays would love to face Red Sox pitching all year long?

 

Our pen which started the year performing decent maybe better than the rest of the team at that point is an utter disaster now. Maybe they were never that good and just looked better than they were relative to the rest of the team.

 

Given that Sale is still newly back from TJ I would still suggest that the rotation is Nate and pray for rain and sometimes Nate is iffy.

[TylerD]

They have more runs than we have hits hahaha. Entire team just looks like ass.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

IMO the Sox have a lot of house cleaning to do.

 

During Bloom's time with the Rays he had no problem trading 'star' players; I hope he doesn't alter that formula with the SOX.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

During Bloom's time with the Rays he had no problem trading 'star' players; I hope he doesn't alter that formula with the SOX.

 

Imho, the only untouchable player on the SOX is Devers.

[Hugh2]

Bobby Dalbec is in track to make his mlb pitching debut tonight.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Bobby Dalbec is in track to make his mlb pitching debut tonight.

 

I guess that would be referred to as 'comedy relief.'

[Maxbialystock]

Rasmussen: 6 innings, 1 run, 7 hits.

ERod: 3.2 innings, 6 runs, 8 hits.

 

Hard to see how ERod outpitched Rasmussen.

 

Indeed, you can almost make a case that Feliz, 2.1 innings, 2 runs, outpitched ERod.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I guess this is Peacock's game to win or lose.

[Maxbialystock]

You don’t think the rays would love to face Red Sox pitching all year long?

 

Sox split the series in the Trop last week, 2-2, and won the last two games, 4-0 and 3-2, which look like pretty good Sox pitching to me. ERod started in the 4-0 win. Sale in the 3-2 win.

 

I do agree, however, that the Rays are the much better team.

[redsoxrules]

Not totally surprised by tonight. Definitely feeling the effect from yesterday's game.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Last 3 games the SOX have given up 34 runs and counting.

[vegasbob]

The real problem with this game is that many people in different formats have actually paid money to watch some total crap play by the Red Sox, featuring many pitchers you could go see in Worcester. This is a fraud

[vegasbob]

Last 3 games the SOX have given up 34 runs and counting.

 

Gee whiz, that will really mess up the advanced metrics and make this team look worse than they are, NOT.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Not totally surprised by tonight. Definitely feeling the effect from yesterday's game.

 

 

More like feeling the effects of having s*** pitching and s*** defense.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

I guess this is Peacock's game to win or lose.

 

Peacock's ERA is now 24.30. The Red Sox analytics department just sent this text to Cora: "If we give him a start and he goes six innings, we've determined he'll only give up 18.1 runs... but that's if you limit him to pitch six times through the order..." (18 runs + 18 outs + 18 LOB = 54 batters divided by a 9-man batting order = 6 times)

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Peacock's ERA is now 24.30. The Red Sox analytics department just sent this text to Cora: "If we give him a start and he goes six innings, we've determined he'll only give up 18.1 runs... but that's if you limit him to pitch six times through the order..." (18 runs + 18 outs + 18 LOB = 54 batters divided by a 9-man batting order = 6 times)

 

Damn, his ERA was only 7.68 at Columbus.

[vegasbob]

Peacock gives up 4 meaningless runs in a blowout and Cora leaves him in for the 8th (ok by me) to work on reducing his ERA . It's down around 22 now

[vegasbob]

Peacock may be the answer, once he gets warmed up a bit. Stick with him Alex.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Peacock gives up 4 meaningless runs in a blowout and Cora leaves him in for the 8th (ok by me) to work on reducing his ERA . It's down around 22 now

 

What do you think, Vegas; should Cora keep Peacock in for the 9th?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

What do you think, Vegas; should Cora keep Peacock in for the 9th?

 

 

Oops, I believe you've already answered that.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Bobby Dee has a small 'hot zone' that opposing pitchers continue to find.

[d-money]

Sox split the series in the Trop last week, 2-2, and won the last two games, 4-0 and 3-2, which look like pretty good Sox pitching to me. ERod started in the 4-0 win. Sale in the 3-2 win.

 

I do agree, however, that the Rays are the much better team.

 

They split. That’s the best they can do. Have they beaten a quality playoff team since the all star break?

[TylerD]

Here comes the garbage time runs to make this look more respectable

[moonslav59]

They split. That’s the best they can do. Have they beaten a quality playoff team since the all star break?

 

They swept a 2 game series vs TOR then took 3 of 4 vs NYY near the end of July, but that’s it.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Funny a pitcher named Hess would have no gas.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I doubt Peacock will be available tomorrow night to clean up that game.

[vegasbob]

It would not have played out this way, but had Peacock not have put 4 runs of gas on the dumpster fire, the Sox theoretically would only be down 8-5 with 3 outs to go. Anytime you are within a 3 run HR or GS of the opponent , there is a slim chance you can come back. Theoretically that is also true of being down 100-0 . It's not over until the 27th out

[vegasbob]

Peacock has that ERA down in the 17's, a major move from his previous 24++