September 12 Red Sox @ White Sox

[moonslav59]

Nick Pivetta vs RHP Lance Lynn

 

Game time: 2:10

 

No Boegy.

No JD.

No Arroyo.

 

1. Kike 2B

2. Schwarber LF

3. Renfroe RF

4. Devers 3B

5. Verdugo CF

6. Dalbec DH

7. Shaw 1B

8. Plawecki C

9. Iggy SS

 

GO SOX!

Edited September 12, 2021 by moonslav59

[illinoisredsox]

JD’s missed the past couple games with a back issue; I get it.

 

Who knows where Arroyo is in coming back? He must have gotten hit harder than Kike.

 

Unless Bogie’s hurt, there is no excuse for him not to be in the line-up.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Nick Pivetta vs RHP Lance Lynn

 

Game time: 2:10

 

No Boegy.

No JD.

No Arroyo.

 

1. Kike 2B

2. Schwarber LF

3. Renfroe RF

4. Devers 3B

5. Verdugo CF

6. Dalbec 1B

7. Shaw 1B

8. Plawecki C

9. Iggy SS

 

GO SOX!

 

'No Arroyo' has been most of the season. But it's good you mentioned him because I sometimes forget he's on the team.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Nick Pivetta vs RHP Lance Lynn

 

Game time: 2:10

 

No Boegy.

No JD.

No Arroyo.

 

1. Kike 2B

2. Schwarber LF

3. Renfroe RF

4. Devers 3B

5. Verdugo CF

6. Dalbec 1B

7. Shaw 1B

8. Plawecki C

9. Iggy SS

 

GO SOX!

 

 

Moon, it looks like 1st base may be overcrowded.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Jays already leading O's 5-0 in the 1st.

[moonslav59]

Moon, it looks like 1st base may be overcrowded.

 

Dalbec at DH, today.

[Maxbialystock]

Dalbec at DH, today.

 

I believe DH is still Shaw and 1b is still Dalbec.

 

The big switch is Iglesias for Bogey at SS.

[Maxbialystock]

Lance Lynn appears to rely heavily on 3 versions of his fast ball.

[Maxbialystock]

Lance Lynn appears to rely heavily on 3 versions of his fast ball.

 

Correction. His cutter looks like a slider--same speed, same break.

 

I see 4 pitches: 4 seamer, cutter (92 mph), slider (85 mph), and changeup.

 

Schwarber continues to struggle.

[jung]

Well those aren't the ugliest CWS unis but only because there is an all time worst that simply retires the trophy.

[Maxbialystock]

Verdugo seems better going back than coming in for a ball.

[Nick]

'No Arroyo' has been most of the season. But it's good you mentioned him because I sometimes forget he's on the team.

 

He won't return on this road trip is what I read in paper.

[Maxbialystock]

Pivetta looks sharp. If only the defense did. How many mistakes by Iglesias today now that he's back at SS?

 

Hold it! Iggy just made a routine play at SS!!!!!

[illinoisredsox]

Verdugo seems better going back than coming in for a ball.

 

Definitely that way when he’s in center, but it’s a tougher read there.

 

I never paid that much attention when he’s manned one of the corners.

[Maxbialystock]

He won't return on this road trip is what I read in paper.

 

I can remember when Jacoby Ellsbury would get injured for extended periods and we all kind of hoped/believed that he would put that behind him. To their regret, the Yankees believed that even more than we did.

[illinoisredsox]

That K was set up by the bad first pitch call.

[Maxbialystock]

Devers still has that great swing and big chaw of tobacco. I think he believes the tobacco will help him out of a pretty obvious slump at bat and in the field, and I also think he is wrong.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Bobby Deefence.

[Maxbialystock]

So far two guys came to play--Pivetta and Dalbec. All others look lost.

 

But here comes Shaw!!!

[Maxbialystock]

What most of us forgot is that it is almost impossible for a decent thirdbaseman not to be a decent firstbaseman because the latter is a much, much easier position. Thus is leftfielder Schwarber almost adequate. As for Arroyo injuring himself at 1b, that seem to me a tell-tale that Arroyo is from the Ellsbury school of injury-proneness.

[Maxbialystock]

Sox K'd 15 times last night and are intent on getting more today.

 

Iggy with a brilliant swinging bunt perfectly placed!!!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Iggy prevents the no-hitter.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

So far two guys came to play--Pivetta and Dalbec. All others look lost.

 

But here comes Shaw!!!

 

Lynn is a tub on the mound, but he's definitely a very good pitcher.

[Maxbialystock]

Kike K's again. Sox on schedule for 15 more K's today.

 

Both starters have good variety, good velocity, good movement in their breaking balls, and good command.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Kike K's again. Sox on schedule for 15 more K's today.

 

Both starters have good variety, good velocity, good movement in their breaking balls, and good command.

 

Except one of the starters has that most times he starts.

[Maxbialystock]

Schwarber with a magnificent leaping grab of a sure home run!!!

 

Different standard for part-time DH'er.

[Maxbialystock]

Except one of the starters has that most times he starts.

 

Too true. Pivetta is having one of his good games, which are not frequent. Could Plawecki be one of the reasons?

[Maxbialystock]

That Pivetta knuckle curve is the best one I've seen this year by a Sox pitcher.

[illinoisredsox]

Lynn getting a lot of strikes outside the strike zone. Not all are swinging.

 

Even the White Sox announcers are subtly alluding to it.

[Bellhorn04]

Gameday says that was ball four and not close. Robot umps now.