6/4/22 bos @ oak

[moonslav59]

Pivetta (RHP) 4-4 3.95 ERA vs Blackburn (RHP) 5-1 2.15 ERA

 

Gotta win these games.

[vegasbob]

Back to 2 degrees below .500 . A sweep will say it all before descending to the crashing Angels and their 9 game losing streak. Sometimes you don't want to run into a seriously losing team at their place.

[moonslav59]

Back to 2 degrees below .500 . A sweep will say it all before descending to the crashing Angels and their 9 game losing streak. Sometimes you don't want to run into a seriously losing team at their place.

 

We gotta take care of business vs hot, cold or luke warm teams.

[vegasbob]

We gotta take care of business vs hot, cold or luke warm teams.

 

Every time this team in Boston seems disappointing or discouraging, I kneel and thank God I do not feel any attachment to the LAA's. Ohtani, Trout and Maddon will regret being associated with a snakebit team.

[notin]

Every time this team in Boston seems disappointing or discouraging, I kneel and thank God I do not feel any attachment to the LAA's. Ohtani, Trout and Maddon will regret being associated with a snakebit team.

 

 

Maddon might regret being associated, but Trout and Ohtani are the team.

[notin]

Every time this team in Boston seems disappointing or discouraging, I kneel and thank God I do not feel any attachment to the LAA's. Ohtani, Trout and Maddon will regret being associated with a snakebit team.

 

 

The Angels might be a prime example of overpaying for stars.

 

Trout and Rendon make roughly $75mil between them. Then the next highest paid players are Rasiel Iglesias and Aaron Loup. Yes, Aaron Loup.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Blackburn is overdue for a bad start. Hopefully.

[harmony]

We gotta take care of business vs hot, cold or luke warm teams.

Since sweeping the Seattle Mariners in a four-game series at Fenway Park the Red Sox have gone 5-5, all against teams with losing records, while the Mariners have gone 6-4, including three games against the 34-18 Houston Astros.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Looks like the A's have regressed from 'money ball' to 'pocket change ball.'

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

DEVERS DEliVERS!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Keep Devers even if they have to get rid of everyone else.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Keep Devers even if they have to get rid of everyone else.

 

Well, maybe they should keep EO, Pivetta, Whitlock and Story. The Bogey ship has already sailed.

Edited June 4, 2022 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Doubles Are Us.

[moonslav59]

Looks like the A's have regressed from 'money ball' to 'pocket change ball.'

 

Just taking a couple years off.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Great grab by Story. Just a hell of an athelete.

[moonslav59]

Great grab by Story. Just a hell of an athelete.

 

He really is a whiz on D. It took him a while to get comfy at 2B.

 

Maybe, we see him at SS, next year.

[Thunder]

What a turnaround for Pivetta since April

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Pivetta always had good stuff, but he usually paid for his mistakes. He's decreased the mistakes. I didn't have much confidence that he would put it all altogether, but it appears he's proven me wrong and I'm glad.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The statement that a team is what their record says it is, imho, is not true while the season is in progress. When the season has concluded, then I will agree that statement is true.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Another excellent job by Pivetta. Kudos to the SOX FO for having patience with Nick.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I suck at predictions, but that won't stop me from predicting by season's end Dugo's BA will be somewhere between .280 and .285.

[Bellhorn04]

How 'bout that Nick Pivetta?

[Thunder]

Let's get to .500 tomorrow and then go beat the currently hapless Angels

[moonslav59]

Pivetta has really rounded into a winner.

 

Good to see Verdugo coming alive.

 

Gotta keep this going.

[Maxbialystock]

When the Sox win, the game thread is short. When they lose, it goes on and on and on. I myself have been known to criticize errors, decisions.

 

Right now, I'm kind of staying with moonslav's point that the big weakness is the bullpen. The lack of a reliable closer is only one manifestation of that weakness.

 

Three very solid wins in a row thanks to three solid starts by Whitlock, Eovaldi, and Pivetta--plus good hitting.

[moonslav59]

When the Sox win, the game thread is short. When they lose, it goes on and on and on. I myself have been known to criticize errors, decisions.

 

Right now, I'm kind of staying with moonslav's point that the big weakness is the bullpen. The lack of a reliable closer is only one manifestation of that weakness.

 

Three very solid wins in a row thanks to three solid starts by Whitlock, Eovaldi, and Pivetta--plus good hitting.

 

Yes, I do think the pen is our biggest weakness, but we do have several, and if you look at the breakdown, game-by-game, the pen has done okay in about as many games as the starters, and side-by-side they have pitched better than the starters is ab out as many games as the starters have outpitched the pen. It's a crude comp, but kind of surprising, to me.