Padres (Vasquez) vs Red Sox (Early): 4/4/26, 4:10pm

[Brandon Glick]

Huge win in the home opener yesterday. Let's keep the momentum rolling in this direction, yeah?

	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	TOT
Whitlock	0	0	37	0	0	37
Slaten	0	0	0	0	9	9
Chapman	0	0	0	0	21	21
Coulombe	0	0	16	0	0	16
Watson	0	27	0	0	0	27
Weissert	0	0	16	0	17	33
Moran	0	26	0	0	0	26
Oviedo	72	0	0	0	0	72

[Brandon Glick]

 

[moonslav59]

1. Anthony (DH again)

2. Story (up 2nd again)

3. Duran (LF again)

4. Contreras (will homer again?) 1B

5. Abreu RF (has 6 RBI)

6. Durbin 3B (needs to heat up)

7. Mayer 2B (stay hot, please!)

8. Narvaez C (Out of the dog house?)

9. Rafaela CF (3 RBIs is second on the team)

 

[Old Red]

2 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

1. Anthony (DH again)

2. Story (up 2nd again)

3. Duran (LF again)

4. Contreras (will homer again?) 1B

5. Abreu RF (has 6 RBI)

6. Durbin 3B (needs to heat up)

7. Mayer 2B (stay hot, please!)

8. Narvaez C (Out of the dog house?)

9. Rafaela CF (3 RBIs is second on the team)

 

Yes LF again for Duran. Cora has already come out, and said Duran is not going to be a full time DH.🤔

[moonslav59]

44 minutes ago, Old Red said:

Yes LF again for Duran. Cora has already come out, and said Duran is not going to be a full time DH.🤔

Yes, we all know that.

I figured he'd DH more than Anthony, or at least I feel he should.

Counting Anthony, today, the tally will be:

3 Duran .539 as DH

3 Anthony .347 as DH

2 Yoshida .375 as DH

[mvp 78]

[mvp 78]

Is this the Early that is going to outpitch Crochet this year?

[vegasbob]

May as well pile on Cora's misaligned lineup.  Top 3 batters, no hitters yet, take only 9 pitches to give up 3 outs.

Anthony may not be the best choice at leadoff as he tries, often, to hit the first pitch which by itself is not a bad idea for the batter, but not productive to see an unfamiliar pitcher like Vazquez.    Story is still lost at #2, and may be in that role just to break up the left handed string of Anthony/Duran.  Abreu should be there now but that would be 3 consecutive LH batters.    Duran batting 3rd, probably should go back to leadoff, switching with Anthony, who can then continue his pursuit of Ted William's record from the sacred LF/#3 hitter position

[vegasbob]

Getting late for Early with 47 pitches through 2 innings.  Making it a bullpen game if he doesn't get a quick 3rd/4th.

However, he escapes a big inning only giving up 1 run and K'ing Tatis.   

[vegasbob]

Interesting AB by Mayer to get the sac fly and tying run.  Tales 2 strikes, one of which was a middle-middle, then hits a 390' flyball when Vazquez fails to exploit the near rookie  by giving him another cookie FB.

Marcello gets the job done.

[mvp 78]

Productive outs for Durbin and Marcelo lead to a run. Better than striking out and hoping for a double.

[mvp 78]

“Why didn’t Early throw 120 pitches in his first start?!?!?”

[vegasbob]

Early dodging bullets, may be done after 3 with 80 pitches .  Showing nothing special and may be holding back on a cold day in Fenway

[vegasbob]

16 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Productive outs for Durbin and Marcelo lead to a run. Better than striking out and hoping for a double.

Machado made a nice play on Durbins hard hit grounder to limit a rally opportunity, but Durbin playing well off the line with 2 on could come close to Fermin's ground ball double, allowing the lead run.

Beginning to wonder, Bres

[vegasbob]

Story paying no attention to advice continues to overpull every swing and can't buy a hit.  Very basic change , Trevor, is needed.  Try going up the middle because you have not got a wall ball in you right now

[mvp 78]

Finally an easy inning

[vegasbob]

Suddenly Early saves his arm and has an easy inning getting Tatis for the 3rd time.  Breslow is already talking trade with SD.

[mvp 78]

10 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Machado made a nice play on Durbins hard hit grounder to limit a rally opportunity, but Durbin playing well off the line with 2 on could come close to Fermin's ground ball double, allowing the lead run.

Beginning to wonder, Bres

Players don’t decide where to position themselves anymore. 100% on the coaching and analytics.

[vegasbob]

Note to Marcello:  getting rung up on a failed check swing vs a pitch well out of the zone, leaving two on base isn't a great idea

[mvp 78]

Nips for trips

[mvp 78]

DFA Story

[vegasbob]

Nothing more useless than a two out triple in front of Story, who at least did not try to pull the ball, so at least his hearing is good

[illinoisredsox]

1 hour ago, vegasbob said:

Suddenly Early saves his arm and has an easy inning getting Tatis for the 3rd time.  Breslow is already talking trade with SD.

Kid wasn’t sharp but he did limit the damage and gave them a chance.  A loss at this point is on the O (again).

[mvp 78]

Freakin Story

[mvp 78]

11 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Kid wasn’t sharp but he did limit the damage and gave them a chance.  A loss at this point is on the O (again).

He only went 4 innings. Not great.

[vegasbob]

Really hard to watch Story who is essentially incapable of anything useful right now

[mvp 78]

Double play by Story would have been better than a K.

[illinoisredsox]

3 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

He only went 4 innings. Not great.

Didn’t say he was great, but given the number of runners he allowed, it easily could have been 4-5 runs.  He kept the game close and gave the team a shot.  

[mvp 78]

Monasterio with a strong AB. Put the ball in play and good things happen. 
 

[mvp 78]

1 minute ago, illinoisredsox said:

Didn’t say he was great, but given the number of runners he allowed, it easily could have been 4-5 runs.  He kept the game close and gave the team a shot.  

Sure, he deserved a loss though. The first 3 innings were bad bad.