Red Sox (Crochet) vs White Sox (Smith): 4/13/25, 2:10pm

[Brandon Glick]

Listen, if Garrett Crochet pitching against his former team can't stop this sweep, this may be the worst week in Red Sox history in forever. How are we losing to the White Sox...

[mvp 78]

I don’t know what to say at this point. 

[Bellhorn04]

Have to win today just to square our 2024-2025 record against the mighty pale hose. 

[Nick]

Finally, Cora flips Abreu and Casas in batting order.

He's not always smart as many think.

[Nick]

We need this and our pitching staff should line up well for this.

Crochet starting, hopefully he'll go 7

Whitlock, has two days rest, ready to go, threw 31 pitches on Thursday so he may only be good for one inning

Weissert hasn't pitched since Tuesday

Wilson only threw 4 pitches yesterday.

I think Chapman go back to back days, but this will be his 4th outing in 5 days, maybe not.

It would be ideal to have Whitlock for the 9th inning to close.

[vegasbob]

News Flash : Red Sox do not score in the first inning despite Bregman's 2 out single and Abreu's rocket shot into the 1Bman's glove.  

[vegasbob]

No offense but it is looking like another  NO OFFENSE DAY

[moonslav59]

Are we turning the corner?

Just 2 Ks in 15 outs. Look how this has led to much more run scoring.... NOT!

[vegasbob]

Crochet throwing a gem but with no run support  .    Really ridiculous pop fly hitters

[iortiz]

This offense is getting beyond brutal. The bats are literally dead.

[mvp 78]

Always nice when Story gets going.

[moonslav59]

Word of Story's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

 

[moonslav59]

7 minutes ago, iortiz said:

This offense is getting beyond brutal. The bats are literally dead.

Nice reverse jinx!

[vegasbob]

Story gets away with a strong flyball, when the RF'er  doesn't want to  run hard to the landing spot at the foot of the wall.  2 runs should be good to go for Crochet.

[moonslav59]

1 minute ago, vegasbob said:

Story gets away with a strong flyball, when the RF'er  doesn't want to  run hard to the landing spot at the foot of the wall.  2 runs should be good to go for Crochet.

Shoulda been caught, yes.

[mvp 78]

The radio announcer (Cooper Boardman maybe? Not Will Flemming) is making sure to remind everyone every few seconds how many hits the ChiSox have. 🙃

[illinoisredsox]

Wind definitely a factor though.  Kept it from going 10 rows back and it looked like  it kept pushing the ball away.

You take the break when you get it.

[Jasonbay44]

Crotchet is pretty damn good 

[moonslav59]

90 pitches in 7 IP. Can he go 9?

Should he?

[notin]

44 minutes ago, iortiz said:

This offense is getting beyond brutal. The bats are literally dead.

The problem is the almost complete lack of any hard hit ball.  Story actually did hit his double pretty hard, but everything else on this game was lackluster and routine.  The White Sox defense isn’t being tested, unless you count their trying to stay awake due to lack of action…

[moonslav59]

Man, these 1-2-3 innings by our offense are brutal.

[moonslav59]

2 minutes ago, notin said:

The problem is the almost complete lack of any hard hit ball.  Story actually did hit his double pretty hard, but everything else on this game was lackluster and routine.  The White Sox defense isn’t being tested, unless you count their trying to stay awake for to lack of action…

I think Casas has a hard line out, but that's about it.

[Jasonbay44]

1 minute ago, moonslav59 said:

I think Casas has a hard line out, but that's about it.

Casas, Duran, Abreu and Rafaela all have hard hit outs with exit velocities over 100

[moonslav59]

Chase, the spoiler!

[moonslav59]

I think brining in Whitlock is the right call.

Fingers crossed.

We need this win!

[mvp 78]

6 minutes ago, notin said:

The problem is the almost complete lack of any hard hit ball.  Story actually did hit his double pretty hard, but everything else on this game was lackluster and routine.  The White Sox defense isn’t being tested, unless you count their trying to stay awake for to lack of action…

Huh? You might need to check the statcast. Sox had 5 exit velos above 107.

[moonslav59]

Just now, mvp 78 said:

Huh? You might need to check the statcast. Sox had 5 exit velos above 107.

Wow! FIVE!

Damn, this team is on fire!

[vegasbob]

Hah, Meidroth , of course.

BP better hold this lead and get the win to GC

[Jasonbay44]

Whitlock you can’t blow this game. 

[notin]

People focus on errors, but Rafaela throwing to third base there is the kind of bad defense no one should tolerate…