Red Sox (Dobbins) vs Tigers (Skubal): 5/14/25, 6:40pm

[Brandon Glick]

Oh boy. A date with Tarik Skubal is just what I needed after last night. Thank you baseball gods.

[TheSplinteredSplendor]

Skubal should get a sponsorship Skrewball whiskey!

[Nick]

10 minutes ago, TheSplinteredSplendor said:

Skubal should sponsor Skrewball whiskey!

Me thinks it's not about Dobbins. Our pen will lose it again.

[moonslav59]

It's games like these where we seem to beat expectations.

[Nick]

 

It's games like these where we seem to beat expectations

 

Pedro says we need to improve our defense before anything else.

 

Well our 1B D sucks. We need a longer term solution at 1B. That needs to be fixed before we do anything else. July trade deadlines are too far off.

 

 

 

[vegasbob]

22 minutes ago, Nick said:

 

It's games like these where we seem to beat expectations

 

Pedro says we need to improve our defense before anything else.

 

Well our 1B D sucks. We need a longer term solution at 1B. That needs to be fixed before we do anything else. July trade deadlines are too far off.

 

 

 

Thanks for speaking in your inside voice, Nick

With all the complaints about Cora's managing decisions and relief pitcher timing,  does Andrew Bailey get a pass here ?     or is pitch selection a problem for certain pitchers ?   

 My understanding is that the catcher is calling the specific pitch based on the game plan info .  The pitcher can shake off, though that appears rare.   

It may be hard to accept but it is somewhere on the pitching spectrum that our pitchers simply cannot execute in difficult situations .  They are not that good.

The 11 blown saves and high loss rate in one run games  seems to support that premise

[moonslav59]

Ref is back in the line-up vs the lefty...

1. Duran

2. Devers

3. Bregman

4. Refsnyder

5. Campball

6. Story

7. Sogard

8. Narvaez

9. Rafaela

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Hoping to see Dobbins throw 7 shutout innings tonight . Expecting to see Skubal throw 7 shutout innings tonight.

[iortiz]

Is Narvaez our titular C now? 

[iortiz]

Despite all the odds and what we’ve seen recently I have a good feeling about this one. 
 

Let’s f go! 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

7 minutes ago, iortiz said:

Is Narvaez our titular C now? 

I don't know. I haven't seen him with his shirt off.

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I'd really love to know what Duran's BA is in the 1st inning. I'm guessing it's microscopic.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

27 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Hoping to see Dobbins throw 7 shutout innings tonight . Expecting to see Skubal throw 7 shutout innings tonight.

Glad I didn't have money on that.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Houck on the IL and Criswell brought up.

In this case IL means Ineffective List.

[iortiz]

Dobbins giving a clinic man. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Sogard got so robbed.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

BREG is the MAN.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

BREG is the MAN.

On this team he is the main man.

[vegasbob]

Bregman does something well that some Sox have trouble with:   Turning on a fast ball and sending it outward on a high arc

[vegasbob]

Houck's flexor pronator strain is often a precursor to the TJS process.   For his sake , I hope it is only a strain not a partial tear, but hope is not a strategy for success.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

9 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Bregman does something well that some Sox have trouble with:   Turning on a fast ball and sending it outward on a high arc

W/O Bregman this team wouldn't be mediocre; this team would be bad.

[vegasbob]

Houck, Fitts, Buehler , Crawford  , who is next on the list

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Houck, Fitts, Buehler , Crawford  , who is next on the list

I'm guessing Whitlock.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Middlebrooks on NESN feels he has to explain why Duran can't hit this year, by constantly saying that "he's uncomfortable up there."

Yup, and I'm uncomfortable over here, watching every one of those at bats...

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Leading off for the Tigers is Kerry Carpenter. Leading off for the Sox is Karen Carpenter.

[FredLynn]

4-2

Game over 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I still like Dobbins, but he has to develop a 4th pitch.

[FredLynn]

What a disgusting team 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, FredLynn said:

4-2

Game over 

Against Skubal I'm surprised the Sox got 2.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Rafaela has a rifle out there.