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

[vegasbob]

Lowe failed to put the ball in play 3 times with 8 men on base, 3 on 3rd.

Nice pick up Brez

[FredLynn]

Rafaela will k

[Nineintime]

Raffy is a right handed Phil Plantier.  Swings out of his shoes on every pitch 

[illinoisredsox]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Lowe reminds me of a LH Judge.

How, unless you mean he might resemble Judge if Judge was trying to hit left handed.

[FredLynn]

Rafaela didn’t K and he’s had a lot of good ABs in this series. They are throwing him strikes for an unknown reason 

[Nineintime]

2 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Lowe failed to put the ball in play 3 times with 8 men on base, 3 on 3rd.

Nice pick up Brez

Well he did get Dustin May and Matz to shore up the playoff run.  Lowe is just the trifecta 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, illinoisredsox said:

How, unless you mean he might resembled Judge if Judge was trying to hit left handed.

You missed the punchline I posted. Please go back and check, although it's really not worth the trip.

[vegasbob]

Between Hudson's coaching at 3rd, Matz's allowed HR, baserunning by Duran.  zBregman's throw home, Lowe's personal 8 LOB

Sox should be up by 4 runs

[illinoisredsox]

Overall, Matz has been fine.  

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

If the Sox do make the PO's, Cora could get MOY.

[FredLynn]

4 minutes ago, Nineintime said:

Well he did get Dustin May and Matz to shore up the playoff run.  Lowe is just the trifecta 

His effort at the deadline can only be described as abysmal. 

[FredLynn]

3 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Overall, Matz has been fine.  

And how would you assess the performance of the other M&M?

This strategy of dumpster diving for talent is pretty stupid. Hasn’t worked out for years.

[illinoisredsox]

5 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

You missed the punchline I posted. Please go back and check, although it's really not worth the trip.

Ba dum ba. He’ll be here all night folks.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, illinoisredsox said:

Ba dum ba. He’ll be here all night folks.

Unfortunately.

[illinoisredsox]

13 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Lowe is truly awful despite his unproductive. poorly timed hit

It should have set up 2nd and 3rd.  Not his fault Gonzales was sent.

[vegasbob]

Abreu is so far behind the FB he will 2 weeks to catch up

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

7 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

And how would you assess the performance of the other M&M?

Mantle & Maris? Mantle was a great switch hitter but a bad drunk. Maris was an excellent defensive RF, who I doubt ever had a drink in his religious life.

[vegasbob]

Duran misses a HR pitch for 13th K

[Maxbialystock]

14 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Lowe failed to put the ball in play 3 times with 8 men on base, 3 on 3rd.

Nice pick up Brez

Only one thing worse that having Abreu on the IL--having him back in the lineup.  Both have been just awful.  

[illinoisredsox]

13 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Lowe is truly awful despite his unproductive. poorly timed hit

It should have set up 2nd and 3rd.  Not his fault Gonzalez was sent, and he did score the 1st run, so not unproductive.

The other 3 ABs were pathetic, not only because of the result, but they followed the exact same pattern.  Fastball up high to get ahead then soft stuff down that he swung over.

[illinoisredsox]

34 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

[FredLynn]

1 minute ago, vegasbob said:

Abreu is so far behind the FB he will 2 weeks to catch up

He hurt the team by his absence and now he’s hurting the team with his presence 

[FredLynn]

I was right the first time I called the game over (at 4-1).

The Flops are going to

lose a game they couldn’t lose

[illinoisredsox]

3 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Duran misses a HR pitch for 13th K

Just shows not every mistake is a homer and not every homer is on a mistake.

Uceta looked like he had some pretty serious movement on those pitches.

[vegasbob]

[d-money]

Nice start to the inning. It would not shock me if the blue jays put this team out of its misery. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

One important thing I've learned from watching sports is it's impossible to polish shite.

[FredLynn]

1 minute ago, d-money said:

Nice start to the inning. It would not shock me if the blue jays put this team out of its misery. 

The Tigers will do that

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, d-money said:

Nice start to the inning. It would not shock me if the blue jays put this team out of its misery. 

Misery? Most of these guys are multi millionaires. What misery?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Misery? Most of these guys are multi millionaires. What misery?

As for us fans, that's an entirely different story, except for Fred.