Red Sox (Fitts) vs Phillies (Sánchez): 7/22/25, 6:45pm

[dannycater]

tapper after tapper or swing and miss

[dannycater]

Platoon v. great pitching often means nothing.

[dannycater]

Yoshida is brutal

[FredLynn]

10 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

If the Sox win tomorrow and then sweep the Dodgers, then the Sox finish 5-4. Here's the thing; the Sox will have their 3 best starters scheduled against LA. Of course, what could screw this up is the inability of the Sox offense to score runs against good pitching.

On second thought 3-6 should be less a fantasy.

2-7

Trust me. LA is good. The FLOPS aren’t.

[FredLynn]

3 minutes ago, dannycater said:

tapper after tapper or swing and miss

25 strikeout in 16 innings. Pretty pathetic. 

[Nineintime]

1 hour ago, Maxbialystock said:

"Symmetry and expectations" are meaningless.  Baseball is quintessentially a team sport played by individuals.  Thus the central part of very game is pitcher vs batter.   

Last night's lineup worked pretty well against the best righty starter in MLB, but tonight's starter for Philly is a very good lefty, ERA 2.44, who is really hitting the corners.  So Cora is loading up with righty bats (7) and leading off with Ref instead of Duran.   Why is that such a conundrum for you?  

Ref, 2d time up, hits a dinger, which no doubt disappoints you.  

 

[Nineintime]

Two last place finishes and a third place finish in the last three years for a top four market team take away the 6 runs against the Cubs and this team has scored four runs in Four games since the break and are about to go 1-4 along with a whopping 2 hits tonight. Theres one constant in all of this and it’s Cora.  If he’s in the private sector performing this way he gets fired.  Instead he drones on at press conferences about benign successes instead of facing the reality that his teams once again underperform

[FredLynn]

1 minute ago, Nineintime said:

Two last place finishes and a third place finish in the last three years for a top four market team take away the 6 runs against the Cubs and this team has scored four runs in Four games since the break and are about to go 1-4 along with a whopping 2 hits tonight. Theres one constant in all of this and it’s Cora.  If he’s in the private sector performing this way he gets fired.  Instead he drones on at press conferences about benign successes instead of facing the reality that his teams once again underperform

It’s not just Cora, though he’s bad enough. 
It’s lack of talent. Toro? Gonzalez? WONG?? There’s more.

They just don’t have the talent.

[illinoisredsox]

12 minutes ago, dannycater said:

Yoshida is brutal

Who would you have in there instead?  Anyone is not an answer.

Sanchez is a really good pitcher; he’s 28, been around 5-6 years and has a pretty good idea of what he’s doing out there.  Tonight was never a good matchup for the Sox.

[FredLynn]

Hate to say it but I called this in the first inning when it was 2-0. In fairness it was an easy call. Non competitive game. 
But hey-just wait til next year, right?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If the Sox offense was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The Sox BP did a good job.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

8 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

If the Sox offense was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.

Strictly for humanity purposes.

[FredLynn]

27 Ks in 17 innings

Pathetic

[FredLynn]

Maybe the worse thing about these BUMS is that they’re BORING as well as bad

[Nick]

4 runs in 4 losses?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

12 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Hate to say it but I called this in the first inning when it was 2-0. In fairness it was an easy call. Non competitive game. 
But hey-just wait til next year, right?

"Hate to say it," I seriously doubt that.

[illinoisredsox]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

"Hate to say it," I seriously doubt that.

He loves patting himself on the back.  Luckily, I only see his drivel if someone quotes it.

[FredLynn]

3 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

"Hate to say it," I seriously doubt that.

What I mean is that I’d rather they win more of these games and be wrong. 
It is what it is

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Watching the Sanchez interview. The only English these guys can speak is "show me the money."

[Maxbialystock]

1 hour ago, Nick said:

Cora loves to micro manage, he loves platooning.

Look at the Phillies.

8 out of 9 positions are pretty much full time. (I'm not counting catching because everyone has two catchers). Only position its shared is CF.

With our lineup we never know who is going to step forward. I hate it.

1.  Both games the Sox started righties.  Phillies started a righty and then a lefty, both with ERA's under 2.5.  

2. Philly scored exactly 5 ER in 2 games, well below their season average runs per game and they did it against the Sox 4 and 5 starters.  

3.  You really don't know what the heck you are writing about.  

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Watching the Sanchez interview. The only English these guys can speak is "show me the money."

Turns out the Phillies signed Sanchez for 4 years for a total of 22 million dollars.

[Maxbialystock]

6 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Watching the Sanchez interview. The only English these guys can speak is "show me the money."

No doubt.  When you're as good as he is, your pitching speaks for you.  

[vegasbob]

Sox batters ( there are few hitters) get schooled by an experienced MLB pitcher .  The lineup composition had little to do with it

BUT it does emphasize that the Red Sox 13 position players are no playoff match for anyone except maybe the Yankees.    While it might be a feel good to be the 3rd WC, it matters not in  terms of being a good/great team. 

And this  current run of futility is not over, not even halfway through these 12 games that "define the season"

[Maxbialystock]

2 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Turns out the Phillies signed Sanchez for 4 years for a total of 22 million dollars.

He didn't have all that great a track record, so a great sign by the Phillies.  

[oldtimer]

1 hour ago, illinoisredsox said:

Phils may be developing a book on Anthony.  Or he might just be having a rough patch.  He was sick Sunday, wonder if there’s some lingering effects.

He has to be willing to swing the bat. His last AB he took two fast balls down the heart of the plate. Just awful look for a kid with tremendous potential. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

11 minutes ago, Maxbialystock said:

He didn't have all that great a track record, so a great sign by the Phillies.  

What's pathetic is thinking a ballplayer making over 5 million/yr is at the poverty level. But this is where baseball is.

[Maxbialystock]

Just now, vegasbob said:

Sox batters ( there are few hitters) get schooled by an experienced MLB pitcher .  The lineup composition had little to do with it

BUT it does emphasize that the Red Sox 13 position players are no playoff match for anyone except maybe the Yankees.    While it might be a feel good to be the 3rd WC, it matters not in  terms of being a good/great team. 

And this  current run of futility is not over, not even halfway through these 12 games that "define the season"

It's 9 games, not 12, and nobody said they would define the season.  Nor should they have when all 9 games are against NL Division leaders, and the first six on the road where the Cubs and Phillies both win 2/3 of their games.   In all 5 games the Cubs and Phillies have had excellent starters.  

Last night and tonight the Phillies started pitchers with ERA's under 2.5.  That's like back to back Crochets.  And the Sox would have won the first one (last night) if Narvaez,  an otherwise excellent catcher, had not had that passed ball.  

The Sox have played 5 of the 9 games and are 1-4.

If you mean 12, you really mean 13, including the 4 games vs the Rays, who in fact have a winning record so far this season.  The Sox won all 4 of those games.  

What these 9 games could do is inform Breslow about when moves he wants to make o/a 31 July.  

[Maxbialystock]

3 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

What's pathetic is thinking a ballplayer making over 5 million/yr is at the poverty level. But this is where baseball is.

Ain't it the truth.  

[Maxbialystock]

9 minutes ago, oldtimer said:

He has to be willing to swing the bat. His last AB he took two fast balls down the heart of the plate. Just awful look for a kid with tremendous potential. 

True.