9/12 vs Yankees Game 1

[iortiz]

...and now brings a bum lol

[illinoisredsox]

I know it’s garbage, but OB’s announcers curse works again for the opposition. He blabbed something about the Yankees having trouble scoring runs and immediately they put up a 3 spot.

[illinoisredsox]

...and now brings a bum lol

 

Put on your big boy managers pants and tell us who you would have brought in? You even have the benefit of hindsight here.

[Maxbialystock]

Cora is a f***ing Zombie in that dugout.

 

Ahem. Pivetta pitched a clean 5th with just 70 pitches thrown. Plus the Sox are playing a double header today. Plus he was facing the bottom of the Yankees order in the 6th.

 

Unfortunately, he hit the leadoff guy and then gave up a grounder single to LF. The real damage was by leadoff LeMahieu's double which drove in one guy and put runners on 2d and 3d with no one out. Then Pivetta got Judge on the pop fly to RF--followed by the double that gave the Yankees the lead, 3-2. That's when the reliever came in and got 2 outs to end the inning.

 

I'd say Cora got it about right.

[illinoisredsox]

Ahem. Pivetta pitched a clean 5th with just 70 pitches thrown. Plus the Sox are playing a double header today. Plus he was facing the bottom of the Yankees order in the 6th.

 

Unfortunately, he hit the leadoff guy and then gave up a grounder single to LF. The real damage was by leadoff LeMahieu's double which drove in one guy and put runners on 2d and 3d with no one out. Then Pivetta got Judge on the pop fly to RF--followed by the double that gave the Yankees the lead, 3-2. That's when the reliever came in and got 2 outs to end the inning.

 

I'd say Cora got it about right.

 

iortiz is one of the masters of 20-20 hindsight. I seriously doubt he will answer my direct question to him about about what he would have done.

[Maxbialystock]

...and now brings a bum lol

 

The "bum" gets 2 outs and holds the line at 3-2.

[Old Red]

Ahem. Pivetta pitched a clean 5th with just 70 pitches thrown. Plus the Sox are playing a double header today. Plus he was facing the bottom of the Yankees order in the 6th.

 

Unfortunately, he hit the leadoff guy and then gave up a grounder single to LF. The real damage was by leadoff LeMahieu's double which drove in one guy and put runners on 2d and 3d with no one out. Then Pivetta got Judge on the pop fly to RF--followed by the double that gave the Yankees the lead, 3-2. That's when the reliever came in and got 2 outs to end the inning.

 

I'd say Cora got it about right.

 

I don’t care if the Red Sox are playing 10 games today. If you have a chance to win a game you take it. You can’t be choosy at this point. Time is running out. LL is not your best option.

[Maxbialystock]

iortiz is one of the masters of 20-20 hindsight. I seriously doubt he will answer my direct question to him about about what he would have done.

 

I've been wrong too, but when it happens in favor of the Sox, I love announcing my ignorance.

[illinoisredsox]

I don’t care if the Red Sox are playing 10 games today. If you have a chance to win a game you take it. You can’t be choosy at this point. Time is running out. LL is not your best option.

 

So enlighten us with what you would have done?

[Maxbialystock]

I don’t care if the Red Sox are playing 10 games today. If you have a chance to win a game you take it. You can’t be choosy at this point. Time is running out. LL is not your best option.

 

It was a 2-0 freaking lead, for crying out loud. How many times have you read me saying the Sox normally, usually need to score 5 runs to have a shot at winning?

[illinoisredsox]

I've been wrong too, but when it happens in favor of the Sox, I love announcing my ignorance.

 

You don’t post and run. If asked a question, you usually answer it and you do it often enough that if you don’t answer, I figure you just didn’t see it.

[vegasbob]

So enlighten us with what you would have done?

 

I think the real question will come if Llovera comes back out. Should be Whitlock shooting for 7th & 8th

[Old Red]

So enlighten us with what you would have done?

 

Schreiber would have come in before LL.

[Maxbialystock]

Used to be a great excuse for an afternoon meeting out of the office

 

No doubt.

[vegasbob]

F'ing 9 pitch strike out on a ball well outside and low by Rafaella, leaving the LOBsters a highly refined Boston trait

[Dipre]

iortiz is one of the masters of 20-20 hindsight. I seriously doubt he will answer my direct question to him about about what he would have done.

 

iortiz is a master of something other than constantly blasting the manager and FO? Duly noted.

[vegasbob]

It was a 2-0 freaking lead, for crying out loud. How many times have you read me saying the Sox normally, usually need to score 5 runs to have a shot at winning?

 

5 runs may give you a shot, then again sometimes 12 are not enough. It's a variable equation. They need 5 today for sure

[Old Red]

It was a 2-0 freaking lead, for crying out loud. How many times have you read me saying the Sox normally, usually need to score 5 runs to have a shot at winning?

 

Was LL the best option in that situation? And now??

Edited September 12, 2023 by Old Red

[illinoisredsox]

I think the real question will come if Llovera comes back out. Should be Whitlock shooting for 7th & 8th

 

Definitely. Either Schreiber or Whitlock for the 7th, depending on the matchups and how the hitters have done on those guys (data Cora has and we don’t)

 

Edit - Llovera back out. Mistake in my mind, but we pretty much are in try out mode at this point, so who knows.

 

IMO, if Bloom is retained, it would not shock me to see Cora resign; they are definitely not on the same page.

Edited September 12, 2023 by illinoisredsox

[vegasbob]

I think the real question will come if Llovera comes back out. Should be Whitlock shooting for 7th & 8th

 

Ok, I'll go on the limb and say that since Llovera came out for the 7th, he should get pulled at first baserunner. Hope he goes through them 1-2-3, but no way that will happen

[vegasbob]

Here comes the mistake, letting LLovera pitch to Judge, just a guess

 

Delete this post... Llovera is the man !!!

 

Judge swung at a bad pitch showing no more plate discipline than JDM

Edited September 12, 2023 by vegasbob

[Maxbialystock]

I think the real question will come if Llovera comes back out. Should be Whitlock shooting for 7th & 8th

 

Hmmm. Cora gets it wrong again. What is wrong with him sending Llovera out there to ruin such a well-pitched game by Pivetta?

[Maxbialystock]

Was LL the best option in that situation? And now??

 

Absolutely the wrong guy. He should have left Pivetta in so that the Yankees could score a bazillion runs and we could all post on the "fire Cora" thread.

[mvp 78]

https://twitter.com/redsoxstats/status/1701680312525205846

 

@redsoxstats

That was a frustrating at-bat by Rafaela in a big spot. Got two horrendous breaking balls hung over the heart of the plate and fouled them off, while swinging at 3 pitches way out of the zone.

 

The Rafaela experience in a nutshell.

[Dipre]

https://twitter.com/redsoxstats/status/1701680312525205846

 

@redsoxstats

That was a frustrating at-bat by Rafaela in a big spot. Got two horrendous breaking balls hung over the heart of the plate and fouled them off, while swinging at 3 pitches way out of the zone.

 

The Rafaela experience in a nutshell.

 

What I've feared since before he got promoted to AA.

[iortiz]

Put on your big boy managers pants and tell us who you would have brought in? You even have the benefit of hindsight here.

 

Anyone but this bum.

[iortiz]

Ahem. Pivetta pitched a clean 5th with just 70 pitches thrown. Plus the Sox are playing a double header today. Plus he was facing the bottom of the Yankees order in the 6th.

 

Unfortunately, he hit the leadoff guy and then gave up a grounder single to LF. The real damage was by leadoff LeMahieu's double which drove in one guy and put runners on 2d and 3d with no one out. Then Pivetta got Judge on the pop fly to RF--followed by the double that gave the Yankees the lead, 3-2. That's when the reliever came in and got 2 outs to end the inning.

 

I'd say Cora got it about right.

 

I'm not surprised. You are a pink hat.

[iortiz]

The "bum" gets 2 outs and holds the line at 3-2.

 

Still a bum.

[Old Red]

Absolutely the wrong guy. He should have left Pivetta in so that the Yankees could score a bazillion runs and we could all post on the "fire Cora" thread.

 

Pivetta pitched a great 5, and he took a chance to leave him in, which I have no problem with. The problem with me is who came first out of the BP.

[vegasbob]

Sox hitters response the NYY 3 spot in the 6th is inspiring, or not