4/10 @Yankees

[NewSox]

Diekman is in fuego!

[Old Red]

Love it!

 

Great job by the pen.

[moonslav59]

Big win

[a700hitter]

Wow! Big time inning!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Diekman strikes out 'murderers' row.' Well, maybe 'manslaughterers' row.' Edited April 11, 2022 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[a700hitter]

And he looked like horse hockey in Spring Training.

[Maxbialystock]

Great job by the pen.

 

It sure was. They've actually been pretty good in all 3 games, giving up I think 1 earned run in the series.

[notin]

The Sox bullpen has not allowed an ER in 11 innings and allowed just one 1ER in 13 innings.

[notin]

And he looked like horse hockey in Spring Training.

 

He knew he had a job…

[Tedballgame]

whoever thought Diekman would strike out the side, raise your hand.

[Maxbialystock]

Detroit tomorrow at 5:10.

 

Well done, Sox!

[moonslav59]

Out hit 11-5 and still pulled it out!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The Sox bullpen has not allowed an ER in 11 innings and allowed just one 1ER in 13 innings.

 

And they're doing it w/o Barnes. Please don't send me your hate mail.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

whoever thought Diekman would strike out the side, raise your hand.

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Jackson must have fallen asleep.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

MSNBC called the Diekman inning "an inflection point on the history of humanity."

[jacksonianmarch]

Hicks killed us twice in big spots. Some hard hit balls found gloves. A solo homer beat us. Diekman had some big balls in the 9th. Great game again, this time fell the other way. What a series

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Are the pitchers on NY and Bos this good or their hitters this bad? The old adage pitchers are ahead of hitters early didn't seem to affect the Rangers, Astros, White Sox, Guards, Jays, Rays or Twins -- who all scored more or launched more this weekend...

[Bellhorn04]

Are the pitchers on NY and Bos this good or their hitters this bad? The old adage pitchers are ahead of hitters early didn't seem to affect the Rangers, Astros, White Sox, Guards, Jays, Rays or Twins -- who all scored more or launched more this weekend...

 

Earl Weaver: "The pitchers are always ahead of the hitters this time of year. Or is it the other way around?"

[jacksonianmarch]

Cold weather suppresses bats. But I honestly don’t know what the deal is with the sticks as last year the Yanks didn’t even average 4 runs a game.

[Bellhorn04]

Cold weather suppresses bats. But I honestly don’t know what the deal is with the sticks as last year the Yanks didn’t even average 4 runs a game.

 

Good point about the weather.

 

The Yankees averaged 4.39 last year.

[Maxbialystock]

And they're doing it w/o Barnes. Please don't send me your hate mail.

 

Meh. Your first point is completely fair and accurate. In defense of both Bloom and Cora, who jointly must have agreed on that pay raise, when Barnes had that great knuckle curve and over 95 mph fastball, he was really effective.

[mvp 78]

Meh. Your first point is completely fair and accurate. In defense of both Bloom and Cora, who jointly must have agreed on that pay raise, when Barnes had that great knuckle curve and over 95 mph fastball, he was really effective.

 

Why would Cora approve a raise?

[bkzwhitestrican]

Where'd that guy Dickman come from? His stuff looked nasty (although he did get away with a couple of pitches that Judge fouled back).

[Maxbialystock]

Why would Cora approve a raise?

 

I'm simply assuming that Cora and Bloom talk about a lot of stuff and that the subject of the raise would have come up. It's Bloom's call, and I assume the only guy who might overrule him is John Henry.

 

If you are suggesting Cora was against the raise, I disagree, but I also have no inside knowledge or other info on how Cora felt.

[mvp 78]

I'm simply assuming that Cora and Bloom talk about a lot of stuff and that the subject of the raise would have come up. It's Bloom's call, and I assume the only guy who might overrule him is John Henry.

 

If you are suggesting Cora was against the raise, I disagree, but I also have no inside knowledge or other info on how Cora felt.

 

I'm not sure Bloom goes over the money with Cora or even needs to.

[mvp 78]

Where'd that guy Dickman come from? His stuff looked nasty (although he did get away with a couple of pitches that Judge fouled back).

 

Since 2016, he's been with Oakland, KC, Texas and Arizona, which are all teams nobody cares enough about to follow.

[mvp 78]

If you look at the percentile rankings on Statcast, there's a lot of red. The only knock against him has been his bb rate. If he could reign in the walk rate, he could be a really great asset. Unfortunately, if you look at his annual stats, they are always less than desirable because of all those walks. It's the same reason that they sent DHern down. If you're walking the park, it doesn't matter how many k's you get.

 

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/jake-diekman-518617?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb

[mvp 78]

Houck's outing could have been worse:

 

@_dadler

Joey Gallo had this lineout last night with a 112.5 mph exit velocity and a 22° launch angle.

 

Since Statcast started tracking, there have been 132 balls hit between 112-113 mph and 21-23°.

 

121 of the other 131 were home runs.

 

Gallo's is the first one ever to be an out.

[dgalehouse]

The Yankees have to get LaMahieu in the lineup every day. He is too good a hitter to be sitting on the bench.