Sep 13 @ Seattle

[illinoisredsox]

Renfroe’s “great” D is based on throwing. He kicks a lot of balls out there. I think that’s his 10th error, and only a couple have been on throws.

[illinoisredsox]

Error by Renfroe dismaying, but even more dismaying is that ERod threw a perfect changeup on the low outside corner, which Torrens easily lined to RF for a single.

 

You really start to wonder if he (or Vazquez) is tipping.

[Maxbialystock]

If anyone in the Seattle lineup swings and misses an ERod pitch tonight, he's going to get fined.

[Maxbialystock]

You really start to wonder if he (or Vazquez) is tipping.

 

Always possible.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Nice glove by Bogey.

[Oscars]

Red Sox now in first place in MLB!

Errors that is, with 129.

[TylerD]

2-0. Ugh

 

Colts lost horribly yesterday. I don’t need this s***

 

Wake up!!

[d-money]

Eduardo Rodríguez just sucks. These are big games yet they continue to lose them. Just end the season.

[Maxbialystock]

He's throwing nothing but 92 mph fastballs to a .166 hitter, who has fouled off every strike--6 so far.

[illinoisredsox]

If anyone in the Seattle lineup swings and misses an ERod pitch tonight, he's going to get fined.

 

Haniger swung and missed one in the first; that’s been it.

 

Zero put away stuff.

[Maxbialystock]

Finally, finally on the 11 pitch a slider for a called strike. 46 pitches to get 5 outs, so this looks like another 3 or 4 inning game for ERod.

[illinoisredsox]

Finally, finally on the 11 pitch a slider for a called strike. 46 pitches to get 5 outs, so this looks like another 3 or 4 inning game for ERod.

 

He’s going to make a nice long reliever.

[TylerD]

Some runs would help though.

[illinoisredsox]

Some runs would help though.

 

Let’s start with a hit.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Iggy Pop!

[TylerD]

We got a run!!

[Maxbialystock]

Schwarber is in a slump, pure and simple.

 

Meanwhile, Iglesias gets the dinger to make it 2-1, which is an amazingly close score given how much better Gilbert looks than ERod.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If I posted the way the SOX play defense, every word would be misspelled.

[Maxbialystock]

Great K by ERod!!! His 4th straight out, 3 by K's.

 

Outfield so far looks awful. Since when does a professional ballplayer at the highest level blow bubbles with bubblegum while he is making a play on the ball?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

That Seattle only has 2 runs against this rag only magnifies why they are 14th in the AL in OPS.

[Maxbialystock]

That was an unbelievably cool K by ERod (and Vazquez who called for it)--a low changeup breaking in on a lefty batter and well below the strike zone for a swing and a miss. Here's hoping ERod can keep this up for 5 innings.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Not worried. Iggy will hit another dinger.

[Maxbialystock]

Gilbert is getting more calls than ERod.

 

That said, it makes no difference to Devers, who can't hit anyway.

[illinoisredsox]

Devers has not put a ball in play since the 4th inning on Saturday. 2 walks and 6 Ks.

[TylerD]

That’s it for me

 

Bed time. Hope I wake to good news tomorrow.

[illinoisredsox]

Gilbert is getting more calls than ERod.

 

That said, it makes no difference to Devers, who can't hit anyway.

 

Someone on the Sox bench needs to start saying something. It happened yesterday too.

 

Vazquez should be saying it quietly, but I doubt he is.

[Maxbialystock]

Sox hitters can't seem to catch up to that fastball Gilbert is throwing (a lot).

 

Schwarber, Bogey, and Devers--batting 2d, 3d, and 4th--have 5 K's in 6 at bats so far.

 

Iglesias dingers was off a slider well up and in the dead center of the strike zone.

[Maxbialystock]

ERod finally getting a call or two.

[Maxbialystock]

Wow. ERod getting the calls, but is also close to those corners on almost every pitch.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Seattle must have one hell of a starting staff and BP to still be in contention. Their offense is, should I say, less than stellar.