7/05 SOX @ Yankems 7:05PM ET

[Maxbialystock]

All we need, an absolutely, inexcusably bad throw by Hamilton. I don't care if he can hit. Get someone else who isn't such a bonehead.

[jung]

Do the Sox have somebody up in the pen?

[vegasbob]

Valdez is a terrible defender. Totally screwed Houck, who is struggling, and the team. He can take his sometimes bat and shove it

[d-money]

f***ing lame start by houck.

[Oscars]

How many years do we have to watch Farking clowns fielding at 2nd base for the Red Sox

[FredLynn]

Sox giving away another game. Crap throw by a crap defender

[d-money]

They’re gonna give this team a chance in this game.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2nd bad start in a row. With his innings total so far this season, this is a foreign country for Houck. But, as usual, bad defense comes back to haunt the SOX.

[Tedballgame]

Valdez is just a horrible second baseman. Cora should be fired for writing his name in the lineup.

[vegasbob]

All we need, an absolutely, inexcusably bad throw by Hamilton. I don't care if he can hit. Get someone else who isn't such a bonehead.

 

Buy a scorecard, Max. Hamilton should have been playing but asswipe Valdez was

[Maxbialystock]

All we need, an absolutely, inexcusably bad throw by Hamilton. I don't care if he can hit. Get someone else who isn't such a bonehead.

 

Correction. Valdez made the bad throw.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

All we need, an absolutely, inexcusably bad throw by Hamilton. I don't care if he can hit. Get someone else who isn't such a bonehead.

 

That's Valdez, not Hamilton.

[vegasbob]

Start and stop rain delays routinely mess up a pitcher. Houck induced a DP ball to stop the Yankees. Valdez couldn't handle the most basic toss to 2B

[Maxbialystock]

Buy a scorecard, Max. Hamilton should have been playing but asswipe Valdez was

 

Yeah, I finally saw that.

[Tedballgame]

All we need, an absolutely, inexcusably bad throw by Hamilton. I don't care if he can hit. Get someone else who isn't such a bonehead.

 

Do you mean Valdez? Because Hamilton is on the bench.

[jung]

Its pretty amazing what the modern day starter cannot tolerate. Rain delays were once just rain delays. Now, the starter is shot and its not just the Sox starters.

 

All over the league, managers are trying to add days of rest between starts for most starters. First the number of complete games dropped. Then guys were going 5 and maybe 6 if lucky. Now they can go 5-6 for half a year. But of course advanced stats say get your spin rate rip as if that does not tax pitchers more.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Valdez is just a horrible second baseman. Cora should be fired for writing his name in the lineup.

 

Hamilton is also a better hitter than Valdez, so it makes no sense, unless Hamilton has an injury.

Being that this is the SOX, that's entirely possible.

[d-money]

Can this team show you some fight? Cortes has looked like CY Young.

[Oscars]

Valdez below average bat does not make up for his bush league fielding .

He should not be starting on this team

[Maxbialystock]

Start and stop rain delays routinely mess up a pitcher. Houck induced a DP ball to stop the Yankees. Valdez couldn't handle the most basic toss to 2B

 

A fair point, but Houck finished with 1 K and 4 BB's. In the same 4 innings, Cortes has 5 K's and 1 BB. Houck was seriously outpitched.

 

Valdez, agreed, was just awful. He was not hurried and was fully set before throwing.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

It sux what happened that inning, because once Houck walked Soto and Judge, he was more or less facing a Marlins' line-up.

[Maxbialystock]

Two unearned runs off Valdez's error.

[Duran Is The Man]

Valdez sucks at 2nd. Why isn't Hamilton playing 2nd? WTF!

 

it's little league and Cora has to play everybody whether they suck or not.

[Maxbialystock]

Rafaela needs to stop arguing with the ump and pay attention to the game--at bat and in the field. That late throw for the DP was all on him for insisting and doing a 360.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

One has to wonder where the SOX would be in the standings if they just had an average defensive infield. F'ing Story's injury obviously didn't help.

[d-money]

Good for one stinking run. Need to keep this game at 2 runs.

[d-money]

Here we go with the relief pitching

[vegasbob]

Valdez and Rafaela make a DP combo that would remind you of many of the all-time greats, NOT

[d-money]

One has to wonder where the SOX would be in the standings if they just had an average defensive infield. F'ing Story's injury obviously didn't help.

 

I say the teasing with this team. They lured you in.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Dugo not wearing his gold necklace. Maybe trying to change his luck.