Red Sox (Crochet) vs Yankees (Yarbrough): 6/7/25, 7:35pm

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Cora manages like flies f___.

[Jasonbay44]

Why is Wilson still in? 

[urban cowboy]

They look like little Leaguers out there whipping the ball around. Little things throughout the game, and there we have all losses in one-run games. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, Jasonbay44 said:

Why is Wilson still in? 

See above.

[vegasbob]

3 hours ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Can't post about David w/o thinking of Manny. Was there ever a better 3-4 combination in a lineup post WWII than these two? I seriously doubt it.

The answer in modern time ( post 2000) is NO, they were the best.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If this season doesn't get Cora fired, then it's been a complete waste.

[vegasbob]

Major function going on at my house for about 60 people so could get very limited looks at this game, BUT just saw the Yankees 8th.    

I felt compelled to say Justin Wilson is a gutless thrower of the baseball.  Yes, he K'ed 2 but only after s***ing his pants at the prospect of throwing vs. the Yankees.  

I would move him at the earliest opportunity to someone in the NL Central.   What a loser

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

You could build a pretty good team around El Toro.

[vegasbob]

Why does Boston historically and presently only get 1 base on a single while the opponents seem to score from second on groundball singles ?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

What's happened to Story?

[vegasbob]

Story having a big game, thank you,

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Why does Boston historically and presently only get 1 base on a single while the opponents seem to score from second on groundball singles ?

Can I call a friend?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Hamilton vs Hamilton.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Hamilton vs Hamilton.

Is any team looking for a pinch runner?

[vegasbob]

That was an in the vicinity play at second on Hamilton's DP.  Thought that type ruling was rescinded when they took away the injury type slide like Machado's

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I would re-sign Chapman for one more season.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

For a minute there I thought the MASH helicopters were on their way.

[Jasonbay44]

9 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

I would re-sign Chapman for one more season.

If Sox fall out of playoffs completely, he could get a nice prospect at deadline 

[Maxbialystock]

23 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Why does Boston historically and presently only get 1 base on a single while the opponents seem to score from second on groundball singles ?

The Sox have become more cautious recently.  Also fewer SB attempts.  

Kind of hard to fault them tonight when the beat the Yankees by scoring 10 runs, don't you think?  

[Maxbialystock]

35 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

If this season doesn't get Cora fired, then it's been a complete waste.

Could not agree more.  Why he started Crochet, who gave up 5 bigs runs, is beyond me. 

Oh, wait.  Crochet is the Sox ace and the Yankees clobbered him.  The Yankees scored 16 runs in 2 games and you want to blame the manager?  

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, Maxbialystock said:

Could not agree more.  Why he started Crochet, who gave up 5 bigs runs, is beyond me. 

Oh, wait.  Crochet is the Sox ace and the Yankees clobbered him.  The Yankees scored 16 runs in 2 games and you want to blame the manager?  

Don't worry, your friend Cora isn't going to get fired. He and JH are dating.

[Maxbialystock]

1 hour ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

A manager would, but we've got Cora.

Devers is having his best season in large part because Cora sold him on being the full-time DH and is batting him 2d--and you're not happy with that?  

 

[Maxbialystock]

Heckuva win.  This time our ace gave up 5 runs, including a 3 run dinger in the 1st, but it was the Sox who came back with 10 big runs, including 5 in the 3d and 2 in the 10th.  

Gonzalez played 1b and went 3/4 with a dinger and 2 rbi's, but Cora had Mayer pinch-hit in the 9th.  He singled and scored 1 of 2 runs to make the margin 3 runs instead of 1.  Plus Mayer replaced Toro at 3b and Toro moved to 1b to replace Gonzalez.  But we all know Cora is clueless as a manager, which he proves time and time again whenever a Sox pitcher gives up more runs than our boobirds thinks he should have.  

Yankees starter Yarborough was having a great season until tonight.  He gave up 8 runs, 1 more than he had in the prior 7 games and 30.2 IP.   

Are the bats coming to life despite the absence of Bregman?   In their last 5 games (3 vs Angels and 2 @ Yankees) the Sox have scored 6, 3, 11, 6, and 10 = 36 runs.

 

[moonslav59]

3 hours ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

That Anthony is still at Woo makes the Sox the laughing stock of MLB.

He's real close to being MLB ready... LOL!

[moonslav59]

4 hours ago, harmony said:

In four seasons 1996-99 the Seattle Mariners had Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez in the 2-3-4 holes.

Rodriguez finished his career with 117.4 bWAR, Griffey 83.8 bWAR, Martinez 68.4 bWAR, Ramirez 69.2 bWAR and Ortiz 55.0 bWAR.

 

[moonslav59]

4 hours ago, harmony said:

In four seasons 1996-99 the Seattle Mariners had Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez in the 2-3-4 holes.

Rodriguez finished his career with 117.4 bWAR, Griffey 83.8 bWAR, Martinez 68.4 bWAR, Ramirez 69.2 bWAR and Ortiz 55.0 bWAR.

That was nice.

'96-'99:

30.2 Griffey Jr

26.1 ARod

22.8 Edgar

The Big Sox trio (pick any 3) did not overlap perfectly:

27.6 Nomar '97-'00

21.1 ORTIZ '04-'07

20.8 Pedroia '08-'11

20.4 Youkilis '07-'10

19.9 Manny '01-'04

14.7 Ellsbury '10-'13

13.8 Nixon '00-'03

13.7 VTek '02-'05

(27.3 Betts '16-'19/ 17.6 Bogaerts '16-'19/  12.6 JBJ '16-'19/  11.8 JD '18'21)

 

 

[jdc69]

Great win with Story hitting pretty little singles. Imagine that.

[oldtimer]

9 hours ago, vegasbob said:

Why does Boston historically and presently only get 1 base on a single while the opponents seem to score from second on groundball singles ?

The Sox won last night although I only watched the game sharing time with another program. While I watched, Devers ran into an out at home and Looked bad at the plate, Rafaela launched a throw to home instead of the cutoff man and there were other poor plays but not errors. The Sox need to play clean baseball.

[Nick]

47 minutes ago, oldtimer said:

The Sox won last night although I only watched the game sharing time with another program. While I watched, Devers ran into an out at home and Looked bad at the plate, Rafaela launched a throw to home instead of the cutoff man and there were other poor plays but not errors. The Sox need to play clean baseball.

Thanks for noticing that.....that's at least twice he's done that this week. 

Keep the single hitter off second base. Geez I told my 12 year olds that 30 years ago.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

24 minutes ago, Nick said:

Thanks for noticing that.....that's at least twice he's done that this week. 

Keep the single hitter off second base. Geez I told my 12 year olds that 30 years ago.

But 12-year olds with good arms always want to show them off.

Or young men acting like 12-year olds.

Why do we assume guys who play a kid's game for a living would ever be mature?

(the reason I played for half a century was to try to stay young as long as possible...)