7/19 SOX @ Dodgers 10:10PM ET

[dgalehouse]

I don't fault Cora for last night. Managers are second guessed for pitching changes probably more than anything else. He played the percentages. It didn't work out. Ohtani and Freeman are great hitters. If Dave Roberts brings in a lefty to get Duran and Devers out, nothing is said. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[Maxbialystock]

No question Bernardino did not get his job done, getting a LH bat out. But the game outcome would have been no different had Freeman struck a single. 2 runs score, Sox done.

 

On the upside, I thought it was a very exciting game until the bottom of the 8th. I was hugely impressed with the Sox pitching--@ the Dodgers--and by Duran's dinger. I think Pivetta struck out Ohtani 3 times.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

But there is no such thing as clutch, Splendid . It is random chance that Freeman hits well with the bases loaded. Probably due to the pitcher being tired and not wanting to walk him, so he grooves him a hittable pitch.

 

Freeman took that IW to Smith personally. He's just a great hitter, who rarely misses mistakes.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

There's no such thing as momentum other than the way Earl Weaver described it.

 

2 things I know about the great Earl Weaver: 1) he was madly in love with the 3-run homer and 2) he would have benched O'Neill for getting doubled up last night.

[illinoisredsox]

2 things I know about the great Earl Weaver: 1) he was madly in love with the 3-run homer and 2) he would have benched O'Neill for getting doubled up last night.

 

Weaver didn’t manage in the current 4 man bench world though (one of whom is your backup catcher).

 

I’m not saying he didn’t deserve it, but it’s not as simple to do these days.