Red Sox (Bello) vs Cubs (Imanaga): 7/19/25, 7:15pm

[vegasbob]

How could Murphy not be ready for 2 consecutive innings ?   Serving deep dish meatball pizza to some real hitters.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, iortiz said:

Nobody on base and Cora finally decided to PH everybody. His stupidity is beyond me. 

If the Sox don't make the PO's this season, Cora, the faux genius, should not be the manager next season.

[vegasbob]

Men vs boys

[Jasonbay44]

Chris Murphy was due for a s***** game 

[d-money]

Yeah this team is fools gold. I expect a swoon here. 

[iortiz]

Why did Murphy took another inning? What happened with Cora’s LvsR obsessiveness?  

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Crochet is probably thinking he's still on the White Sox.

[vegasbob]

5 minutes ago, d-money said:

Yeah this team is fools gold. I expect a swoon here. 

Unless Crochet gets the win tomorrow, you may be looking at the summer swoon.  The fact that they are lifeless at the bat is very strange

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The Sox biggest strength is they have a lot of tradable players.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Perhaps the most pathetic game of the season and that's saying something.

[vegasbob]

Fitting that Ryan Brasier shuts off the 9th inning to complete the shutout.

All on Crochet for tomorrow, because he will be lucky to get the 1 run needed to win.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The AL is weak enough to keep the Sox in contention no matter how terrible they are in this 9 game stretch against much better teams.

[notin]

So glad to go to this game and see Refsnyder and Romy and Toro and Wong ALL IN THE SAME LINEUP!!

[notin]

25 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

If the Sox don't make the PO's this season, Cora, the faux genius, should not be the manager next season.

Agreed.  
 

Cora is indefensible as a manager 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

22 minutes ago, iortiz said:

Why did Murphy took another inning? What happened with Cora’s LvsR obsessiveness?  

One could lose IQ points trying to figure out anything that Cora does.

[Soxlover]

3 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

I'd be playing Mayer vs LHPs, but I guess Cora has his reasons. (We could have played Romy at 1B and Mayer at 2B. Toto is slumping, badly.)

Tonight's line-up:

1. R Refsnyder LF (Lefty killer.)

2. R Bregman 3B (Gotts be the man!)

3. R Romy 2B (I like him 3rd v L)

4. L Anthony RF (Coming into his own.)

5. R Story SS (Stay hot, my man!)

6. R Rafaela CF (Movin' on up...)

7. L Yoshida DH (Coulda put Romy or Ref here, too)

8. S Toro 1B (not only slumping but 165 pts worse vs L)

9. R Wong C (Bello's binky)

 

Shows what you know, Clown!!!

Toro and Yoshida had most of the hits!!!

[illinoisredsox]

22 minutes ago, iortiz said:

Why did Murphy took another inning? What happened with Cora’s LvsR obsessiveness?  

Would it have mattered?  0 runs is not a winning number.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

14 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Fitting that Ryan Brasier shuts off the 9th inning to complete the shutout.

All on Crochet for tomorrow, because he will be lucky to get the 1 run needed to win.

If Crochet pitches a SO tomorrow, there's still a good chance of extra innings.

[FredLynn]

Right again!

I knew the game was over after the first pitch; I knew it would be a blowout; and I knew these bums wouldn’t even get a single run.

I saw this game yesterday.

[FredLynn]

38 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

If the Sox don't make the PO's this season, Cora, the faux genius, should not be the manager next season.

Next season? He should be fired immediately.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Bello didn't pitch badly tonight. He was simply out pitched by Imanaga. In Bello's defense he did have to pitch against a better lineup than Imanaga faced.

[vegasbob]

So it seems the  superstition that the A-S break will suck the life out of a hot team is correct after all.

And it seems to be up and down the lineup and bench.  Yoshida's 2 hits look good in the box score but he couldn't also PH when men were on base.

[FredLynn]

32 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Unless Crochet gets the win tomorrow, you may be looking at the summer swoon.  The fact that they are lifeless at the bat is very strange

Happens nearly every year.

The FLOPS are toast.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, vegasbob said:

So it seems the  superstition that the A-S break will suck the life out of a hot team is correct after all.

And it seems to be up and down the lineup and bench.  Yoshida's 2 hits look good in the box score but he couldn't also PH when men were on base.

Vegas, this is the 4th straight season the Sox were over .500 before the ASB. Which probably means they'll end up mediocre again. Let's see what the TDL brings.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Vegas, this is the 4th straight season the Sox were over .500 before the ASB. Which probably means they'll end up mediocre again. Let's see what the TDL brings.

Except for the 5 everyday players I posted earlier, IMHO, all other everyday players are tradable.

[illinoisredsox]

1 hour ago, Jasonbay44 said:

I guess no team is good, because no team really hits him well. He has a career 2.83 ERA… 

Fred’s a little weak on being able to tell the difference between throwing and pitching.  Imanaga knows how to pitch and he was putting the ball where he wanted it most of the night.  Tip of the hat to him; he was excellent tonight.

I also recall that a certain Sox closer threw no harder than the upper 80s; all he did was help to win a World Series.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Fred’s a little weak on being able to tell the difference between throwing and pitching.  Imanaga knows how to pitch and he was putting the ball where he wanted it most of the night.  Tip of the hat to him; he was excellent tonight.

I also recall that a certain Sox closer threw no harder than the upper 80s; all he did was help to win a World Series.

Maybe the Sox should send their pitching draft choices to Japan where they will learn to pitch and not just throw.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

19 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Next season? He should be fired immediately.

I do agree with you there Fred. Unfortunately, that won't happen.

[FredLynn]

8 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Fred’s a little weak on being able to tell the difference between throwing and pitching.  Imanaga knows how to pitch and he was putting the ball where he wanted it most of the night.  Tip of the hat to him; he was excellent tonight.

I also recall that a certain Sox closer threw no harder than the upper 80s; all he did was help to win a World Series.

I made three predictions about the outcome and every one of them turned out true. I know this team very very well. I’m rarely wrong. Admit it

[illinoisredsox]

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