Red Sox (Giolito) vs Braves (Holmes): 5/30/25, 7:15pm

[vegasbob]

Story simply cannot turn on anything in mid 90's, cannot resist chasing a slider away , cannot do anything with amid 80's change up ( fouled off).

He literally cannot hit anything meaningful.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, vegasbob said:

Story simply cannot turn on anything in mid 90's, cannot resist chasing a slider away , cannot do anything with amid 80's change up ( fouled off).

He literally cannot hit anything meaningful.

Just another dead contract. We're used to those or we should be.

[illinoisredsox]

1 minute ago, vegasbob said:

Story simply cannot turn on anything in mid 90's, cannot resist chasing a slider away , cannot do anything with amid 80's change up ( fouled off).

He literally cannot hit anything meaningful.

It all plays off the fastball;  because he can’t catch up to a fastball, he has to cheat and start his swing early which means when the slider comes, he can’t hold up.

[vegasbob]

7 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

True. 

How can the scorer put that error on Abreu.??      The error was Narvaez not being able to catch it or knock it down in front of himself to get to a tag.  

If the throw skipped off the edge of the infield cut and the dirt arc in front of home, then it's not anybody's error except the Atlanta ground crew.  

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Gio making Rafaela's life terrible 

[vegasbob]

Just now, illinoisredsox said:

It all plays off the fastball;  because he can’t catch up to a fastball, he has to cheat and start his swing early which means when the slider comes, he can’t hold up.

I do not think his exaggerated stance  ( wide open/leg kick)  gets him to the hitting zone quick enough .

It may work for Devers and Abreu but not for Trevor.  But that would take a hitting coach to analyze

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2 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

How can the scorer put that error on Abreu.??      The error was Narvaez not being able to catch it or knock it down in front of himself to get to a tag.  

If the throw skipped off the edge of the infield cut and the dirt arc in front of home, then it's not anybody's error except the Atlanta ground crew.  

Hopefully they change that. Totally unfair.

[vegasbob]

I have to go and help a friend fly a plane that he built.   50-50 this is my last Red Sox game, so SS and Jad, try to bring it home a winner.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Acuna is easily the best player between these two teams. Maybe 2nd only to Bobby Witt,Jr as best all-around player in MLB.

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This Sox offense makes a Charlie Chaplin movie seem noisy.

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DFA* Story 

*DFA=Drop From Airplane.

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Nice play by Campbell.

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That's the park the Sox offense should play in.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Honestly, didn't see that coming. Is this another case of the blind squirrel?

 

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Just IW Acuna 

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V-Tek doesn't do many interviews. Easy to see that he and David Ross are good friends.

[jad]

1 hour ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

True. 

Ball must have taken a bad hop?  Hit Narvaez right in the shoulder.  (And 'bad bounce' gets error charged to thrower).

[Cameron Tran]

not a fan of the apple TV broadcasts to be completely honest

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[illinoisredsox]

Ahead of time, I have no issue with Cora pulling Giolito here, given that Olson has hit about .750 against him.

[Larry Cook]

Why can’t any starters not named crochet go at least 5 innings!!!!

[illinoisredsox]

Just now, Larry Cook said:

Why can’t any starters not named crochet go at least 5 innings!!!!

See my post above.  Any other hitter, he’d stay in.  Olson, no.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, Larry Cook said:

Why can’t any starters not named crochet go at least 5 innings!!!!

Cora the BP killer.

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4 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Ahead of time, I have no issue with Cora pulling Giolito here, given that Olson has hit about .750 against him.

Wouldn't it be better to IW Olson than to go to the BP again?

Cora can't be fired soon enough.

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El Toro doesn't think the Sox have a 1st base problem 

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If you blinked, you missed Story's hot streak.

[iortiz]

f***ing Whitlock, after 0-2 he walks him. 
 

Whata f***ing bum. 

[iortiz]

Fasten your seatbelts fellas, here comes Whitlock again…

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If Abreu can't be trusted to bat against LH pitchers, then maybe he should be the obvious choice to be traded.

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Like him or not, Whitlock does possess some nasty stuff.