Rangers (Leiter) vs Red Sox (Bello): 5/8/25, 1:35pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

[TheSplinteredSplendor]

I like the early Thursday games.

[vegasbob]

Bello pitching a day game ?   This should be illuminating.

A pivotal game for the big boy to try and dominate.  The Sox will either be 1 over or 1 under .500  heading towards their Mother's Day weekend.

[mvp 78]

Should help my 8 hour drive today.

[TheSplinteredSplendor]

5 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Should help my 8 hour drive today.

That's a long ride.

I hope you're headed somewhere good.

I'm going to take the 4 1/2 hr ride to Key West to celebrate Mother's Day for my girlfriend.

[mvp 78]

1 minute ago, TheSplinteredSplendor said:

That's a long ride.

I hope you're headed somewhere good.

I'm going to take the 4 1/2 hr ride to Key West to celebrate Mother's Day for my girlfriend.

Home. Was in Charleston the past few days.

[TheSplinteredSplendor]

4 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Home. Was in Charleston the past few days.

Well, I hope home is "somewhere good", lol.

How'd you like Charleston?

I have a business partner that lives in a Charleston suburb.

[jad]

You guys are so ambitious.  I'm driving 14 miles to town, and that pretty much should do it for the day.

[Nick]

It's Hendriks, Whitlock, Slaten bullpen day. Coin flip for this threesome.

[illinoisredsox]

1 hour ago, Nick said:

It's Hendriks, Whitlock, Slaten bullpen day. Coin flip for this threesome.

And with Bello starting, you know they will have to cover 3 and possibly 4 innings.

[Nick]

5 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

And with Bello starting, you know they will have to cover 3 and possibly 4 innings.

Unfortunate that this 3 along with Chapman were considered 'closer' possibilities.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

A 30 pitch shut down inning by Bello .

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Nice inning by Bello.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Salami, salami, belloni.

[Nick]

Nothing really has changed with Bello. 

83 pitches thrown, 44 strikes. 5 walks, many deep counts.

I loved it that Cora took him out before Bello can go 5. 

Cora is telling him it's time to grow up, son. 

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Throwing Devers a low fastball was just plain stupid, but thank you for doing it.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I still contend there's no better defensive left side of the infield than Bregman and Story in MLB.

[Nick]

Very efficient offense.

4 Hits, 4 BBs, 4 runs.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Narvaez has been a great pickup by the FO.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Defensively the Sox are very strong except at 1st base.

[Nick]

23 pitches for Whitlock to get out of the inning. A hit and walk. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Koji Hendriks.

[Nick]

Only  5 pitches required by Hendriks. 

[Nick]

Dobbins, Crochet and Giolito vs the Royals this weekend.

[vegasbob]

Interesting that in the Sox 6-4 win yesterday, they only had 1 K , today back to 7 and should not be batting in the 9th.   

The win awaiting them is the big deal before going on the tough team road trip.

Bello is just himself. Sloppy but got it done with some DP help.

Slaten apparently sobered up. Whitlock, the one inning wonder and Hendriks, an old pro

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

'Whale of a catch' is correct.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Great job of 4+ innings by the BP.

[Nick]

Great catch by Rafaela. 

[Nick]

Hendriks get through 8/9th innings on 19 pitches. Saved Chapman from pitching. 

[moonslav59]

That was a sweet win. We needed one.