Dodgers (Kershaw) vs Red Sox (Crochet): 7/26/25, 7:15pm

[Brandon Glick]

Excuse me while I geek out over this pitching matchup.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

A pitcher on his way up vs a pitcher on his way out. Should be interesting.

[moonslav59]

Kerrrr- PLUNK!

[Bellhorn04]

Kershaw can still pitch.  Hell of a career.  Now let's beat him up, please.

[mvp 78]

Hope Kershaw’s arm breaks off Dave Dravecky style.

[Bellhorn04]

2 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Hope Kershaw’s arm breaks off Dave Dravecky style.

Only after he gives up some runs, though.

[Maxbialystock]

7 righties, including Toro, in the lineup tonight.  Lefties are Anthony and Duran.    Narvaez back after 2 days rest.  Rafaela back in CF.  Ref DH.

Last night's 36,369 was a thousand short of a sellout.  

Stunning pitching matchup.  Kershaw gets the nod because of the Dodgers lineup.  

 

 

 

[moonslav59]

25 minutes ago, Maxbialystock said:

7 righties, including Toro, in the lineup tonight.  Lefties are Anthony and Duran.    Narvaez back after 2 days rest.  Rafaela back in CF.  Ref DH.

Last night's 36,369 was a thousand short of a sellout.  

Stunning pitching matchup.  Kershaw gets the nod because of the Dodgers lineup.  

The Dodgers have 5 guys at .747 or lower in tonight's line-up. We have two.

Don't just look at the glitzy top 2-3 batters to determine who has the better line-up. (They do have 4 guys over .820, while we have 3, balance beats a couple or three beasts.

[Bellhorn04]

With the Dodgers Freeman is the guy you don't want to face in a big spot.  (Not that Ohtani is a day in the park.)

[Maxbialystock]

36 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

The Dodgers have 5 guys at .747 or lower in tonight's line-up. We have two.

Don't just look at the glitzy top 2-3 batters to determine who has the better line-up. (They do have 4 guys over .820, while we have 3, balance beats a couple or three beasts.

Against lefties, the Dodgers Hernandez OPS is .984, Smith .952, Kim .933, Ohtani .902, Rojas .832, Pages .760, Ruiz .750, Freeman .703, and Edman .710.  

For the Sox vs lefties, Gonzalez 1.065, Bregman .988, Ref .933, Narvaez .835, Rafaela .769, Story .688, Toro .641, Duran .551, and Anthony .526.  

 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

The Dodgers have 5 guys at .747 or lower in tonight's line-up. We have two.

Don't just look at the glitzy top 2-3 batters to determine who has the better line-up. (They do have 4 guys over .820, while we have 3, balance beats a couple or three beasts.

The numbers, which are falling off, may persuade you into believing the Sox have a good offense, but my eyes say different.

[Soxlover]

1 hour ago, Maxbialystock said:

Against lefties, the Dodgers Hernandez OPS is .984, Smith .952, Kim .933, Ohtani .902, Rojas .832, Pages .760, Ruiz .750, Freeman .703, and Edman .710.  

For the Sox vs lefties, Gonzalez 1.065, Bregman .988, Ref .933, Narvaez .835, Rafaela .769, Story .688, Toro .641, Duran .551, and Anthony .526.  

 

Crochet will bring those numbers down

[Soxlover]

2 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

The numbers, which are falling off, may persuade you into believing the Sox have a good offense, but my eyes say different.

I’d like to see us get a nice bat for 1B, but not overpay for one. Platoon Romy with Yoshida and Ref with Abreu and trade Duran plus for Ryan- Maybe Keller

[Maxbialystock]

16 minutes ago, Soxlover said:

Crochet will bring those numbers down

One would think--and I sure hope so.  He has come through so many times this season.  

[jad]

25 minutes ago, Soxlover said:

Crochet will bring those numbers down

When?  Next inning?

[Nick]

We have done Nothing to help this team.

All talk Bres.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just had my first sip of coffee and the Sox are already playing from behind.

Good news: It's early 

 

Bad news: It's early.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

LA loses the challenge. Probably the only thing they'll lose tonight.

[vegasbob]

Non chalant Duran al.ist gets burned. Crochet does get burned

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Hopefully, Kershaw will think he's pitching a WS game.

[vegasbob]

Say it again, Sox pitchers never ready for first inning. 

Will the lineup be ready or 3 and out ?

[jad]

5 minutes ago, Nick said:

We have done Nothing to help this team.

All talk Bres.

Come on!  He got rid of Rafy and put 30Million annually into his pocket!   That definitely helped the RedSox organization, maybe not the team, but (reading these posts) who cares about that?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

6 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Say it again, Sox pitchers never ready for first inning. 

Will the lineup be ready or 3 and out ?

4 and out.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

It appears Crochet is pitching to contact tonight.

[Hitch]

16 minutes ago, Nick said:

We have done Nothing to help this team.

All talk Bres.

I swear some of you just think we only have to decide a trade and it happens.

Two huge trades this year so far. You might disagree with one of them but to call him all talk is idiotic.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Timely hitting by Duran.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Non-productive out. See too many of those.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Good job Toro.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Kershaw does appear to be in WS form.

[FredLynn]

We already got our two wins against the good teams.