5/04 Angels @ SOX 7:10PM ET

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Detmers (1-1) vs Whitlock (1-1)

 

Hopefully, this game can be played tonight. Forecast is for showers (62% chance) this evening.

 

Go SOX!

[Thunder]

It's not going to rain all day here, but I would still be surprised if we play. Going to be 70 in Boston tomorrow, so a doubleheader in those conditions certainly wouldn't be the end of the world

[jad]

Latest weather has it clearing late (by game time), so they'll likely play, no?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

It's not going to rain all day here, but I would still be surprised if we play. Going to be 70 in Boston tomorrow, so a doubleheader in those conditions certainly wouldn't be the end of the world

 

Of course I'm hoping for the SOX to sweep the Angels, but playing a doubleheader, imho, makes that sweep more difficult.

[Thunder]

Latest weather has it clearing late (by game time), so they'll likely play, no?

 

Not raining here now. I haven't checked since this morning. I am always a proponent of squeezing a game in on the night it is supposed to be played

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Story

Devers

Bogey

JD

Kike

Dugo

VAZ

Dalbec

Arroyo

[jad]

Not raining here now. I haven't checked since this morning. I am always a proponent of squeezing a game in on the night it is supposed to be played

 

Absolutely! In weather and in life. Don't sit on your ass today thinking tomorrow everything will clear up! As for winning double-headers, do you know the statistics on this? (A fairly easy problem: is a team's record in double-headers significantly different from that team's record in general. I suspect it is not, even though we all believe it is.)

[JDavis76]

Absolutely! In weather and in life. Don't sit on your ass today thinking tomorrow everything will clear up! As for winning double-headers, do you know the statistics on this? (A fairly easy problem: is a team's record in double-headers significantly different from that team's record in general. I suspect it is not, even though we all believe it is.)

 

Doubleheaders have more of an effect on the bullpens I would think.

[mvp 78]

IF is being detarped.

[jad]

Just a quick search: the only study I found in my cursory search was one over the past twenty years or so, and it found that roughly 55% of dh were sweeps, 45% splits.

 

Need help from a mathematician here, but it seems to me, if you took any 2 games at random, you have 50% chance of winning the first, and 50% the second. So each team has a 25% chance of sweeping. I.e., the chances of a 'sweep' by either team are 50%. Looks to me that in the 'real world', there are more sweeps than would be expected mathematically; thus historically, it's a better bet that the dh will be a sweep than that it will be split. (This will be true regardless of a team's record--obviously for a team with a dismal record, the chances of a sweep by that team will be very low. For the RS tonight, somewhere around 20%).

 

It's quite possible I'm wrong here as it has been over a half-century since i flunked statistics.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

WTL (Whit the Lock).

[NewSox]

Boys looking for contact tonight, letting good things happen. That's what we need!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Nothing comes of runner on 2nd and no outs. Funny, no one in the booth has mentioned the large amount of times that has happened.

[Bellhorn04]

Nothing comes of runner on 2nd and no outs. Funny, no one in the booth has mentioned the large amount of times that has happened.

 

And here we are again, this time top of the order up.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Yipee!

[Bellhorn04]

Much better.

[a700hitter]

Watching Whitlock pitch is a pleasure.

[Old Red]

Watching Whitlock pitch is a pleasure.

 

Doesn’t need a pitch clock either.

[vegasbob]

When will Cora and the coaches get Whitlock straightened out? That young man seemingly cruises on his own wavelength. He better study some spray charts.

[Bellhorn04]

In the Yankees-Jays game, each team has a perfect mobster name in the lineup. The Yanks have Joey Gallo and the Jays have Vinny Capra.

[Bellhorn04]

When will Cora and the coaches get Whitlock straightened out? That young man seemingly cruises on his own wavelength. He better study some spray charts.

 

Great job by Bloom adding 2 years of team control over him.

[vegasbob]

Just joined into this game, but I see strange things happened when Dalbec and Arroyo took walks instead of flailing away , and then Story delivered. What a difference when the bottom of the lineup participates.

[vegasbob]

One out in the 5th. Will Cora let Garrett qualify for the win through 5? Or does the computer say PITCH COUNT !!!!

[Bellhorn04]

Just joined into this game, but I see strange things happened when Dalbec and Arroyo took walks instead of flailing away , and then Story delivered. What a difference when the bottom of the lineup participates.

 

So true. Last night it was Cordero and Bradley.

[jacksonianmarch]

Whitlock isn’t going back to the pen.

[Bellhorn04]

Story is going to like Fenway.

[Bellhorn04]

Whitlock isn’t going back to the pen.

 

100%. They do have to watch his innings, though.

[vegasbob]

4 1/3 no hit innings; 4 2/3rds 1 hit-no runs ; 5 innings complete , 2-2 tie due to a jerkoff Hr by Max Stassi. First Angel runs in at least 22+ inn9ings. Cora should have pulled him after the first hit, lol. Now Garrett will need a nice bottom 5 to get back in line for a W

 

Glad to see he now has the chance, as Story bangs for all the Sox RBIs to this point

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Good baserunning by Arroyo, but lt's for naught.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Whitlock=Thank You, Yankems; you idiots.