Red Sox (Early) vs Rays (Boyle): 9/21/25, 7:35pm

[Brandon Glick]

What a well-timed sweep this would be...

[moonslav59]

This team has had many bounce back hot streaks. Of course, many of those streaks and stretches were with guys like Anthony, Devers, Abreu and a few others no longer active on the 26.

Being an inconsistent team does not predict a losing team, going forward, especially when you look around and see that just about every AL team has been wildly inconsistent, too. That includes these teams:

DET lost 9 of their last 10

NYY had a 22-29 stretch within a 25-34 period.

SEA had a 21-27 stretch and a shorter 1-6 stretch not too long ago.

HOU went 20-27 for a long stretch, then lost 5 of 8 right after.

Tor went 11-18 early in the season.

CLE went 7-21, once.

[Maxbialystock]

3 hours ago, Brandon Glick said:

What a well-timed sweep this would be...

To quote Sidney Poitier, "Amen., Amen. Amen Amen. Amen."  

[moonslav59]

Abreu says, "I'm ready to go."

[moonslav59]

More game to go, but...

After 6 innings: ATL 3 DET 0 and BAL 1 NYY 0.

After 3 innings: CLE 2 MIN 1

[illinoisredsox]

What? Minnesota finally scored a run?  Or is that more properly worded the Guardians finally allowed a run?

[moonslav59]

NYY tied BAL.

ATL still up 3 on DET into the 7th.

SEA v HOU tonight.

[illinoisredsox]

One good thing for the Sox is that Cleveland and Detroit have a 3 game set while we are north of the border.  One of the two has to lose 2 games which helps Boston big time with a good outcome and mitigates any bad outcome in Toronto.

[Nick]

50 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

More game to go, but...

After 6 innings: ATL 3 DET 0 and BAL 1 NYY 0.

After 3 innings: CLE 2 MIN 1

And Detroit finishes with 3 at Cleveland and 3 at Fenway. It's going to get interesting.

[moonslav59]

Twins up on CLE 3-2 in 7th!

ATL still up 3-0 on DET with game delay.

NYY still tied w BAL in 8th.

[Nick]

One of the best seasons ever for me because of Bres bringing up youngsters to play in the big leagues.

Early makes his third start tonight.

Harrison made his first start yesterday.

Tolle has been relegated to the pen but he made three starts.

Hunter Dobbins had started eleven times.

Not a rookie, but Fitts started ten times.

It would please me if Bello gets relegated to #6 status because of these young guns. It just means we've upgraded our starting rotation. Bello needs an opener.

 

 

[moonslav59]

9 minutes ago, Nick said:

And Detroit finishes with 3 at Cleveland and 3 at Fenway. It's going to get interesting.

We need DET to keep losing, since they have the tiebreaker on us. Beating them ourselves could solve that issue, too.

[moonslav59]

3 Run HR by Royce Lewis! MN up 6-2 on CLE!

[Nick]

With automatic runner on second on top of the 10th, why in the hell would you pitch to Judge? He was eventually walked but why take the chance? Am I dumb?

[Beaneater]

6 minutes ago, Nick said:

With automatic runner on second on top of the 10th, why in the hell would you pitch to Judge? He was eventually walked but why take the chance? Am I dumb?

It does seem like a pretty bad idea, yeah. Can't really imagine a rationale. I mean, I guess it might increase your chance of giving up a crooked number, but it seems like it also very much increases the odds of...

Ah. Grand slam. Rats.

[Beaneater]

Absolute meatball from the O's Akin, too. That pitch could have been used by physicists to calculate the absolute center of the strike zone.

[Beaneater]

Twins win! Huge chance for the Sox to put a sliver of breathing room between them and Cleveland.

What on earth has happened to Detroit?

[moonslav59]

DET & CLE both lose.

NYY looks like a win.

SEA-HOU and BOS-TBR tonight!

Big chance for a +1 on 3 teams and stay even with 2 teams.

[Beaneater]

4 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

NYY looks like a win.

Maybe Baltimore will score 6 (or more) (and counting) in the bottom... 😐😒

[Beaneater]

Mountcastle earns the golden sombrero with the bases loaded to end the game. And to imagine that I was figuring that Baltimore was actually going to give the Yanks some trouble. Rogers won for the O's but that was the end of the fun.

[moonslav59]

Standings going into tonight w SEA-HOU and BOS-TBR to go...

90-66 TOR (+2.5 on NYY)

87-68 NYY (WC1)

86-69 SEA (ALW leader by 2 on HOU)

85-70 BOS (WC2 leader -2.0 from NYY)

85-71 DET (ALC leader by 1 on CLE)

84-71 HOU (WC4)

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84-72 CLE -0.5 from HOU, -1.0 from DET for WC and ALC lead

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NL

CIN & NYM are tied last WC slot w AZ -1.5 from both

 

[moonslav59]

Tonight's Line-Up

L Duran LF

R Story SS

R Bregman 3B

L Yoshida RIGHT FIELD

R Romy 2B

L Lowe 1B

R Rafaela CF

L Abreu DH

R Wong C

[Beaneater]

Uhhhhh....

EDIT: I mean, offensively that lineup is not bad. We've had worse. But can Yoshida throw? Rays are going to go first to third all night.

[moonslav59]

1 minute ago, Beaneater said:

Uhhhhh....

EDIT: I mean, offensively that lineup is not bad. We've had worse. But can Yoshida throw? Rays are going to go first to third all night.

What Yoshida in RF says the most to me is, "How bad must Duran's arm be?"

[FredLynn]

12 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Tonight's Line-Up

L Duran LF

R Story SS

R Bregman 3B

L Yoshida RIGHT FIELD

R Romy 2B

L Lowe 1B

R Rafaela CF

L Abreu DH

R Wong C

Eaton should be in CF. He is at .299/.743/107.

[moonslav59]

1 minute ago, FredLynn said:

Eaton should be in CF. He is at .299/.743/107.

Or RF over Masa. Agreed.

He's hot.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

2 hours ago, Maxbialystock said:

To quote Sidney Poitier, "Amen., Amen. Amen Amen. Amen."  

To quote the Pointers Sisters, "I'm so excited, and I just can't hide, I'm about to lose control and I think it's...

(NOT Weissert, NOT Wilson, NOT Kelly -- wait, is that Matz or Slaten... nope...) it's TOLLE, it's TOLLE!"

[illinoisredsox]

38 minutes ago, Beaneater said:

Uhhhhh....

EDIT: I mean, offensively that lineup is not bad. We've had worse. But can Yoshida throw? Rays are going to go first to third all night.

 

35 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

What Yoshida in RF says the most to me is, "How bad must Duran's arm be?"

Early’s a lefty; Tampa likely will load the lineup with right handed hitters so in theory more balls should be hit to left.  I assume that’s the thought behind it.

Now, you just know the ball will find Yoshida all night, but it probably would true if he played left as well.

[vegasbob]

3 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

Abreu says, "I'm ready to go."

 Doubt that he is near game ready after a month. Hope he hits 3 dingers though

[jad]

1 hour ago, Nick said:

With automatic runner on second on top of the 10th, why in the hell would you pitch to Judge? He was eventually walked but why take the chance? Am I dumb?

I felt the same way when the RS had 2nd and 3rd and 1 out in the 10th a few nights ago.   Why pitch to (who was it? Eaton? Sogard?)  to ANYONE?  Just walk the bases loaded setting up the force at home.