Blue Jays (Gausman) vs Red Sox (Houck): 4/9/25, 6:45pm

[Brandon Glick]

With a win and Yankees loss tonight, the Red Sox can move back into first place in the AL East. I'm ready for the Tanner Houck of '24 to show up.

[mvp 78]

Just freakin' win already.

[Old Red]

Heat wave in Boston tonight being in low to mid 40’s.

[mvp 78]

Maybe Houck will have a better game tonight? Aside from Santander, the better Jays hitters are RH. 

Vlad RH

Bo RH

Kirk RH

Springer RH

Houck's results haven't been too hot so far.

[moonslav59]

Campbell in CF, tonight and batting 7th.

DHam at 2B batting 8th.

Narvaez at C batting 9th.

The first 6 are as the norm.

[Kimmi]

4 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Just freakin' win already.

Enough said.

[Kimmi]

Wishful thinking on my part, but I was hoping that once we overcame the 1-4 start to get 2 games above .500, we would not see .500 anymore this season.  Let's at least not go below that mark please.

 

[mvp 78]

 

[mvp 78]

12 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Campbell in CF, tonight and batting 7th.

DHam at 2B batting 8th.

Narvaez at C batting 9th.

The first 6 are as the norm.

What the heck is "the norm?"

[Kimmi]

Duran needs to ignite the offense with one of his patented singles turned into a double.

[moonslav59]

18 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

What the heck is "the norm?"

The first 6 have been the same vs RH'd SP'ers just about every game.

1. All games Duran

2. All games Devers

3. All games Bregman

4. All games vs RH'ers Casas, except 1 dbl header gm  (Ref & Abreu vs LH'd SP)

5. All games Story, except game 4, when he was rested

The "norm" seems clear, to me, so far...

[moonslav59]

Fried pitched a gem for the Yanks. 7 IP, 5H, 0ER, 0BB, 11Ks

Flaherty went 5.1 for DET w 0 ER, but DET lost 4-3.

D Williams made it close by allowing 3 ERS in the 9th.

[Randy Red Sox]

i believe that is 4 errors for Bregman already this year?  Is he really an upgrade over Devers at this point defensively?

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

18 minutes ago, Randy Red Sox said:

i believe that is 4 errors for Bregman already this year?  Is he really an upgrade over Devers at this point defensively?

Cora's answer is yes, because the Red Sox lead the majors in double plays turned this year.

[vegasbob]

6 out of 12 outs so far by strikeout.   These types of k rates will kill this team.  Inability to put the ball in play  is a real problem

[vegasbob]

Now 8 of 15 outs by K, over 50%    But I guess Blue Jays have excellent pitching and our pitchers should be throwing shutouts every night.

[vegasbob]

Now 10 K's of 18 outs.     Wasted both of Raffy's doubles. 

Meanwhile Houck is pitching a good game with a major assist from Casas on the rocket to 1B, turning into a DP

[moonslav59]

1 hour ago, Randy Red Sox said:

i believe that is 4 errors for Bregman already this year?  Is he really an upgrade over Devers at this point defensively?

You really need to ask?

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

For those not watching on NESN, OB just said, "the Red Sox are so much better when they put the ball in play."

That is verbatim.

I replied, "And Gausman is so much better when the ump's strike zone is the armpits to the ankles, and the plate is two feet wide."

[vegasbob]

5 pitch inning for Gausman ??   Sox hitters want to go back to Ft. Myers and warm up.  Atrocious ABs.

[vegasbob]

14 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

For those not watching on NESN, OB just said, "the Red Sox are so much better when they put the ball in play."

That is verbatim.

I replied, "And Gausman is so much better when the ump's strike zone is the armpits to the ankles, and the plate is two feet wide."

Pretty clear that HP ump wants to get it done.     Works both ways, if he is consistent, 

[vegasbob]

Walk off in bottom 9, just do it

[Duran Is The Man]

gotta love a guy that stands there and watches strike 3 whiz by.

[vegasbob]

What did Story think the 0-2 pitch after 3 fouls was going to be ??  Chaser

[vegasbob]

Sox hitters timing of pitches is not right.   Loud fouls do not score runs.   Man on 3rd, 2 more K's

[Tedballgame]

No way Winckowski shuts them out.

[Tedballgame]

Winckowski had one good year. He was bad last year and bad this spring. I don't think he was good at AAA this year either. 

[Tedballgame]

1 minute ago, Tedballgame said:

 

 

[Tedballgame]

All Story had to do was hit a SF like Bichette just did. Bring up Marcelo!

[Duran Is The Man]

8 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

What did Story think the 0-2 pitch after 3 fouls was going to be ??  Chaser

i was talking about Bregman.