Twins (Lopez/Matthews) vs Red Sox (Pivetta/Crawford): 9/22/24, 12:35pm/5:35pm

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

SOX always do well after a postponed game.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

 

Even watching a SOX/Twins game I find more exciting than the NFL.

[gojohn99]

Where's this Casas been?!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

7 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Abreu ain't afraid of a damn wall.

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Sox give up a rare unearned run.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Goodness Casas!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Very good job by Pivetta. I see no sensible reason to bring him back for the 6th. He's already thrown close to 100 pitches.

[FredLynn]

Rafaela absolutely SUCKS. He needs to go. He's JBJ reincarnated. I don't want him on my team.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Duran is the leader on the SOX. The same way as V-Tek used to be.

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The closest I'd ever seen a SOX player hit 4 homers in a game was Will Miiddlebrooks. 

In a game at Toronto he hit a HR his 1st 3 times up and on his 4th time up he hit a deep fly out to LF.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Blewett. The SOX have a few of those in their BP.

[vegasbob]

The incredible climb back to the .500 level continues on the broad back of Casas, the stat builder when it doesn't matter.     

Let's check game 2 and see if the holy grail of .500 can be reattained.  Since the Sox high water mark of 11 over was achieved, one could deduce a negative win rate of about 12 games in less than 1/2 a season.

[moonslav59]

Casas added over 60 points to his OPS in one game. He's over .800, now.

I can't help but feel like we will lose game 2 by  1-0 or 2-1 score.

[vegasbob]

15 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Casas added over 60 points to his OPS in one game. He's over .800, now.

I can't help but feel like we will lose game 2 by  1-0 or 2-1 score.

It's easier with the relatively small sample size of a season mostly spent on IL, doing game interviews.

[FredLynn]

 Nice to see Crawford is doing his job. Devers is finally out? Just tuned in.

Just lose baby!

[illinoisredsox]

Crawford getting his usual run support.

[FredLynn]

I haven’t seen a bum as bad as Rafaela since JBJ

[FredLynn]

Well looky looky! The blind squirrel found a nut!

[FredLynn]

Romy didn’t get the message

[moonslav59]

Blinded by the light

Revved up like a deuce

You know the Romy in the night

[FredLynn]

Rafaela will K

[FredLynn]

Hilarious!

Thats the only way he would ever get on base

[FredLynn]

The Twinkies are self destructing 

[illinoisredsox]

32 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Crawford getting his usual run support.

Well, that didn’t age too well.

[FredLynn]

Crawford has had a couple of decent seasons as a lower tier SP. Probably a good guy to hang on to.

ERA just over 4 both years.

[FredLynn]

Only true die hard fans are left here (me) 😉

[FredLynn]

Another echo chamber 

outta here

its safe for everyone else to return 

[moonslav59]

last 7 starts  by Crawford: 6 with 3 or less ERs allowed, but never less than 2.

(6 HRs, but none today.)

[Maxbialystock]

 A couple of solid wins to keep the season alive.   Good hitting and good pitching in both games.  

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

9 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

last 7 starts  by Crawford: 6 with 3 or less ERs allowed, but never less than 2.

(6 HRs, but none today.)

A few more stats for the Crawdad: no MLB pitcher has lost more games this season... but neither has anyone started more games.

His WHIP is just out of the Top 10 BEST, while his ERA+ is better than the big league average.

Even as gopher ball king, Cutter Crawford is a viable member of a five-man starting rotation.