May 10th Red Sox @ Braves

[moonslav59]

Bello vs the lefty Lee

 

1. R Refsnyder LF

2. L Verdugo RF

3. R Turner 3B (Devers with the day off despite having Mon & Thu off)

4. L Yoshida DH

5. R Kike SS

6. L Duran CF

7. L Casas 1B

8. R Wong C

9. L Valdez 2B

 

 

[Tedballgame]

A two game losing streak, an off day tomorrow and your best player is sitting out tonight. Ridiculous.

[Tedballgame]

Oh for the days of Cal Ripken.

[Maxbialystock]

A two game losing streak, an off day tomorrow and your best player is sitting out tonight. Ridiculous.

 

Not ridiculous. Devers is not our best player right now. And he is even less effective against lefties--.749 OPS vs. .888.

[Maxbialystock]

So far the homeplate ump won't give Bello anything, but will give the corners to Lee.

 

It also helps Lee that the Sox are swinging at everything.

[Maxbialystock]

Night and day between Bello's start tonight and Pivetta's last night.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

A two game losing streak, an off day tomorrow and your best player is sitting out tonight. Ridiculous.

 

Ridicoralous.

[Maxbialystock]

Was Lee injured or was this 3d inning reliever planned?

[d-money]

No offense thus far. None

[Maxbialystock]

Bello throwing a lot of pitches in the middle of the zone this inning. Either in the middle or outside the zone. No corners.

[Maxbialystock]

That's a nice sinker, 97 mph, Bello throws, but not if he keeps it in the middle of the strike zone.

[d-money]

Here we go with bello. He tends to implode in the later innings.

[Maxbialystock]

Finally, a slider low but in the zone. Then the K on a slider below the zone. Good.

[Maxbialystock]

Here we go with bello. He tends to implode in the later innings.

 

Yeah. Gimme Pivetta any time because he implodes with the first guy he faces. Then the 2d guy, then the 3d, then the 4th. No waiting with Pivetta, he throws the game away in the first inning.

[Maxbialystock]

Right now Bello's OK except when he throws that sinker right down the middle.

[Maxbialystock]

Changeup low and away for the 3d out!!!! Pivetta doesn't even have a changeup.

 

Three shutout innings for the kid.

[Tedballgame]

Not ridiculous. Devers is not our best player right now. And he is even less effective against lefties--.749 OPS vs. .888.

 

Yes, very ridiculous. They had an off day Monday and they have one on Thursday. Devers should be playing. The lefty was an opener. He wasn’t going to be in there more than a couple of innings. And Devers can hit left-handers. Would you rather have Devers in the lineup or Casas?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Although it's not a large sample size, Bello is the best SOX starting pitcher to come thru the SOX farm since Buchholz. That's pretty sad. Edited May 11, 2023 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[Maxbialystock]

Here we go with bello. He tends to implode in the later innings.

 

This team has no starters who don't struggle in the mid to later innings.

[Maxbialystock]

What we don't need now is a GIDP.

[Maxbialystock]

Although it's not a large sample size, Bello is the best starting pitcher to come thru the SOX farm since Buchholz. That's pretty sad.

 

That's what the big payroll is for--to hire good pitching.

[Maxbialystock]

Picherd across baseball did not invent a new pitch over the winter. All of a sudden announcers are calling sliders sweepers. Why? Are we going to start changing all of the baseball terminology to satisfy some element of society?

 

While I agree in principle that creating names for no reason is silly, I don't thing those big sweeping breaking balls are anything like the old slider, which was/is high velocity with a sharp, but not huge break.

 

Looks like Atlanta has Yoshida's number.

[Tedballgame]

Let’s have a big inning

[Maxbialystock]

Duran struggled yesterday just like Yoshida and Devers did. Time to deliver.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Kike hit a pitch he normally misses. Good for him.

[Maxbialystock]

Duran caught a break on that 2d ball--clearly in the strike zone.

[Maxbialystock]

Duran delivers!!!!

[Maxbialystock]

That sweeper (or whatever) sure had Wong's number. Three straight swings and misses.

[jad]

While I agree in principle that creating names for no reason is silly, I don't thing those big sweeping breaking balls are anything like the old slider, which was/is high velocity with a sharp, but not huge break.

 

Looks like Atlanta has Yoshida's number.

 

Right. I figured sweeper was just a new name for what was once called a roundhouse curve.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

That sweeper (or whatever) sure had Wong's number. Three straight swings and misses.

 

Easier to name it than it is to hit it.