Red Sox (Bernardino) vs Orioles (Sugano): 8/25/25, 6:35 PM

[FredLynn]

27 minutes ago, Nineintime said:

So this bullpen by committee strategy is better than either WB or Harrison, or even Fitts pitching as a starter.  So we exhaust the arms in our pen to experiment with this strategy?  Don’t get it.  I realize a few guys can come up and go down to supplement the pen but this feels disruptive for no reason 

Doesn’t make sense to me with all the games on the schedule over the next three weeks.

[d-money]

This team can’t win on the road. It’s f***ing embarrassing already .

[Maxbialystock]

An unbelievable 3d by Fitts.  With 2 outs and no one on, he walks one, hits a second, and walks a third batter to load the bases--followed by a solid single to bring 2 runs in.  

[Nineintime]

1 minute ago, FredLynn said:

Doesn’t make sense to me with all the games on the schedule over the next three weeks.

What was the point of using Bernardino??  Warn him up, let him pitch one in king and lose his availability for at least the next game or two?  I don’t get it. 

[Maxbialystock]

Equally incredible 4th with 3 K's no baserunners.  

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Wong=Mr Late August.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Anthony=Mr Natural 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Duran=Surprise Me.

[FredLynn]

Duran finally gets a big hit.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Duran=Surprise Me.

A timely HR!

[Nineintime]

Who plays SS to spell Story?  Hamilton? Raffy?  

[Maxbialystock]

Huge dinger by Duran--whom I have unfairly maligned--huge.  

Whole new ballgame, obviously, with absolutely nothing guaranteed.  Fitts is more frightening than Freddie Kruger.  

Lowe looked entirely too human on that K, but that splitter was also a doozy.  

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Put a little Sugano on it baby.

[Maxbialystock]

3 minutes ago, Nineintime said:

Who plays SS to spell Story?  Hamilton? Raffy?  

My vote is Hamilton.  When Abreu returns, it could well be Rafaela.  

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Leadoff home run to Romania. 

Three-run shot by Duran to take the lead.

Timely HRs and instantaneous runs... seem like a mirage... 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Location, location, location.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, Maxbialystock said:

My vote is Hamilton.  When Abreu returns, it could well be Rafaela.  

Why do we want to replace Story?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Great shutdown inning.

[Maxbialystock]

Great move by Cora to replace that dipstick Fitts with someone who can get people out.  

Six straight outs, 4 of them by K's.  Ace city.  

[FredLynn]

Fitts didn’t do awful. He kept the team in the game at least and didn’t get blown out 

[Maxbialystock]

3 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Location, location, location.

Duran hit that spitter which has been pretty effective, but this was a tad up in the zone, suggesting maybe it didn't break as much.   Any way you look at it, Duran was amazing.  That was to centerfield. 

[Maxbialystock]

2 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Fitts didn’t do awful. He kept the team in the game at least and didn’t get blown out 

He gave up 3 freaking runs in 2 innings.  Cora had no choice but to pull him and bring that other guy in.  

Never, ever question Cora's judgment.  

[Nineintime]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Why do we want to replace Story?

We don’t but he may need a day off soon or if he gets hurt.  Who steps in?

[Maxbialystock]

That time Raffy K'd because Sugano hit a bunch of corners.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, Nineintime said:

We don’t but he may need a day off soon or if he gets hurt.  Who steps in?

I'd be afraid to even think about it.

[FredLynn]

3 minutes ago, Maxbialystock said:

He gave up 3 freaking runs in 2 innings.  Cora had no choice but to pull him and bring that other guy in.  

Never, ever question Cora's judgment.  

Cora didn’t pull him. Fitts finished the inning. And I expected even worse from him.

[Maxbialystock]

Looks like the real Hamilton is back--although those are pretty good splitters (except the one to Duran).  

Sox 1/5 with RISP, but what a 1 that was.  

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Call Col Potter. Incoming.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Call Col Potter. Incoming.

 

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Call Col Potter. Incoming.

Tough break for Fitts.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

 

Tough break for Fitts.

Also, tough break for the Sox. Injuries are us.