Red Sox (Crochet) vs Cubs (Horton): 7/20/25, 2:20pm

[alsoason]

They really need a win today to prevent this from being a replay of 2024 after the break. The all star break could not have come at a worse time, given how they were playing  just one week ago.

[FredLynn]

Idiot Cora putting Yoshida in the OF. Moron

Get the brooms out!

Flops will lose. 

[FredLynn]

And here comes the hammer….

[FredLynn]

1-0

Game over

[illinoisredsox]

Got lucky on the pickoff; Crochet easily could have been called for obstruction.

Cubs with a couple of lucky hits this inning, but that’s baseball.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

That's Narvaez' 21st throw out of the season.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

10 minutes ago, alsoason said:

They really need a win today to prevent this from being a replay of 2024 after the break. The all star break could not have come at a worse time, given how they were playing  just one week ago.

Not how they were playing: more like who they were playing.

[FredLynn]

The Flops will go 2-7 in the nine games after the break, ending any hope for Oct baseball 

[Jasonbay44]

1 minute ago, FredLynn said:

The Flops will go 2-7 in the nine games after the break, ending any hope for Oct baseball 

Do you do anything besides complain? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a positive post about anything. The team sucks. Every player sucks. Every coach sucks. Every opposing teams players also suck, it’s just Red Sox players suck more! 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Duran's trade value continues to decrease.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Nice grab by Duran.

[Nineintime]

Cora seems to lead the league in creative lineups. Defensive players out of position, hitters wondering where they will fall in the lineup if at all.  While lineups change often it seems Cora just picks names out of a hat.  

[Nick]

Pray for Rays' loss....we'll still be up 1/2 game but everyone else is creeping up....

[vegasbob]

1 run scored in 21 innings now.    These team wide slumps are inexplicable .  Nobody even crushing the outs .

[FredLynn]

3 minutes ago, Jasonbay44 said:

Do you do anything besides complain? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a positive post about anything. The team sucks. Every player sucks. Every coach sucks. Every opposing teams players also suck, it’s just Red Sox players suck more! 

Try to pay attention. Yesterday I wrote that Bello settled down nicely and that the loss wasn’t his fault. 
When the team blows like the FLOPS do there’s not much to write that’s positive.

[vegasbob]

Off topic, But I saw Devers in the SF/Toronto game for 2 AB's.

1. He has lost about 20 pounds .     2. He still K's out of zone pitches.    3. He did hit a 325' line drive at 115mph one bounce off the wall for a single.   His groin hurts.

[illinoisredsox]

6 minutes ago, Jasonbay44 said:

Do you do anything besides complain? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a positive post about anything. The team sucks. Every player sucks. Every coach sucks. Every opposing teams players also suck, it’s just Red Sox players suck more! 

The short answer is no.  The long answer is no, he doesn’t.

You only see posts from him if things are not going well.  The minute they do, he disappears. dmoney is/was the same way.

[illinoisredsox]

Story back to trying to pull everything.

[illinoisredsox]

Well, minor progress.  At least a couple of hard hit balls at’em that inning.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Wrigley's fences are too far away for this lineup.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Story back to trying to pull everything.

Story's a streak hitter. We'll just have to wait for his next streak.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Masa didn't sign up for that. Duran tried to get him to drop the ball. Kudos to you, Masa.

[illinoisredsox]

7 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Wrigley's fences are too far away for this lineup.

That last out was an example of how the wind really affects things.  That ball may have cleared the bleachers yesterday.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Masa didn't sign up for that. Duran tried to get him to drop the ball. Kudos to you, Masa.

A movable force hits a movable object.

[illinoisredsox]

Live look Abreu’s out

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

He's out and it wasn't close.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Rafaela catches that.

[illinoisredsox]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

He's out and it wasn't close.

I thought he was out live; replay was a lot closer than I thought it would be.

[illinoisredsox]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Rafaela catches that.

So does that guy 99% of the time.  

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Can they move the fences in when the Sox are at bat?