Yankees (Fried) vs Red Sox (Suarez): 4/22/26, 6:45pm

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Lot of indifference in this game, starting with Sox ownership.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Numbers are in. Durbin killed 203 worms tonight.

[iortiz]

They need to eat more meat. My grandma hit way harder man. Geez! 

[Old Red]

Cora only said we got to do better 3 times in the postgame tonight.👏

[JoeBrady]

1 hour ago, iortiz said:

IMO all these everyday rotations in the OF, IF and DH are taxing the team. We don’t have an everyday lineup. This platoon obsession by Cora and Breslow is hurting this team. Your titular team has to see lefties and righties. Period. Explain how Mayer is going to grow as a hitter putting IKF, who btw is a bum, when we face lefties. I simply don’t get it. 

I agree.  If we had a lefty-killer, then I'd platoon (occasionally).  But I'd rather see Mayer v a lefty than IKF.

[iortiz]

If this gets 10 games behind 500 heads must role, and it won’t matter if it’s still April. 

[JoeBrady]

On the bright side, we aren't being subject to long-term torture.  These are pretty quick affairs.  And we aren't suffering the pain of a 5-4 loss in the 9th inning.

[Old Red]

1 minute ago, JoeBrady said:

I agree.  If we had a lefty-killer, then I'd platoon (occasionally).  But I'd rather see Mayer v a lefty than IKF.

Last year they had Ref Man, and Romy to platoon. This year it’s IKF, and Mon Man.🤭

[notin]

14 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

I agree.  If we had a lefty-killer, then I'd platoon (occasionally).  But I'd rather see Mayer v a lefty than IKF.

Agreed, but the Sox manager thinks it’s criminally negligent to allow left-handed hitters to face left-handed pitchers…

[Randy Red Sox]

12 minutes ago, iortiz said:

If this gets 10 games behind 500 heads must role, and it won’t matter if it’s still April. 

at this point let's just tank for the draft pick.

[notin]

1 hour ago, a700hitter said:

He is nothing more than a late inning defensive replacement.  He is a zero offensively.  It would have been nice to have IKF as Devers' defensive replacement,but we know how that went.

The thing with IKF, you get the glove.  Hes not a viable platoon option if you’re trying to get right-handed hitting.  You hit him 9th and accept the defense as his contribution for the day.
 

But Monasterio?  He has made 5 starts this year, batting 2, 2, 2, 5, 6, all vs LHP.   Does anyone think Cora is even aware he is giving top batting order spots and a DH role vs lefties to a guy WITH A .298 OPS VS LHP?!?

[Randy Red Sox]

14 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

I agree.  If we had a lefty-killer, then I'd platoon (occasionally).  But I'd rather see Mayer v a lefty than IKF.

IKF was a terrible addition but hey he came cheap {sorta}

[vjcsmoke]

Embarrassed by the Yankees in back to back games.

This Red Sox Front office should be ASHAMED of itself!

[iortiz]

26 minutes ago, notin said:

The thing with IKF, you get the glove.  Hes not a viable platoon option if you’re trying to get right-handed hitting.  You hit him 9th and accept the defense as his contribution for the day.
 

But Monasterio?  He has made 5 starts this year, batting 2, 2, 2, 5, 6, all vs LHP.   Does anyone think Cora is even aware he is giving top batting order spots and a DH role vs lefties to a guy WITH A .298 OPS VS LHP?!?

He should be playing more than a half of the actual lineup.  

[FredLynn]

42 minutes ago, iortiz said:

If this gets 10 games behind 500 heads must role, and it won’t matter if it’s still April. 

Why wait? It’s inevitable. Heads should have already rolled. 

[FredLynn]

22 minutes ago, vjcsmoke said:

Embarrassed by the Yankees in back to back games.

This Red Sox Front office should be ASHAMED of itself!

Like I said, Henry owes us an apology 

[moonslav59]

Hard to imagine it being any worse than this.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Watching the Dodgers/ Giants game and one of the guys in the Giants' booth mentioned how well Devers has been playing 1st base. The other guy in the Giants' booth responded that we shouldn't be surprised because Devers won a gold glove playing with Boston.

[moonslav59]

6 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Watching the Dodgers/ Giants game and one of the guys in the Giants' booth mentioned how well Devers has been playing 1st base. The other guy in the Giants' booth responded that we shouldn't be surprised because Devers won a gold glove playing with Boston.

 

6 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

 

He did: in his own mind.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

26 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Hard to imagine it being any worse than this.

Keeping Cora as manager and it just may be worse.

[vjcsmoke]

1 hour ago, FredLynn said:

Like I said, Henry owes us an apology 

I've never heard them apologize.

I have heard them LIE to our faces.