Red Sox (Moran) vs Tigers (Valdez): 5/5/26, 6:40pm

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Getting the Tigers' feed and learned that Durbin is the Sox #1 worm killer. He has a 59% ground ball rate. League average is 43%.

Duran is 2nd at 50%.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Another 3 run homer. What the hell is going on?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

They may have to bring in Bello 

[vegasbob]

Rafaela's 3 runner breaks a long tradition of no early scoring by Sox

Moran quickly fits the mold of giving it back . Needs to get a couple more outs asap

 

 

[illinoisredsox]

14 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Duran is 2nd at 50%.

One difference though is many of Duran’s grounders are hit pretty hard.  Durbin makes  a ton of weak contact.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The idea of having an opener for Bello I guess comes under the heading of psychoanalytics.

[FredLynn]

Moran stinks. More runs are on the way. Game almost over 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

One difference though is many of Duran’s grounders are hit pretty hard.  Durbin makes  a ton of weak contact.

Well, the worms are still dying because of Durbin.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, FredLynn said:

Moran stinks. More runs are on the way. Game almost over 

Of course he stinks. He's part of the Sox BP 

[FredLynn]

Just now, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Of course he stinks. He's part of the Sox BP 

You mean part of the flops team.

[vegasbob]

Moran--moron, no clue. what was the difference to Bello's typical

 

37 pitches to get 3 outs. But he struckout the side.

Terrible effort

[illinoisredsox]

He struck out the side.  Tigers BABiP is 1.000.

How did they morph Bello into Moran’s body?

[FredLynn]

Durbin is a joke. Like most of this team. I can list maybe a half dozen players who are worth anything on this team-if I’m being generous.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

One more thing about Durbin. If he's gonna terrorize the Green Monster, doesn't he have to hit the ball in the air?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, illinoisredsox said:

He struck out the side.  Tigers BABiP is 1.000.

How did they morph Bello into Moran’s body?

Science!

[vegasbob]

2 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

One more thing about Durbin. If he's gonna terrorize the Green Monster, doesn't he have to hit the ball in the air?

If you keep raising these technical issues. the analysts will need to anal-yze you

[illinoisredsox]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

One more thing about Durbin. If he's gonna terrorize the Green Monster, doesn't he have to hit the ball in the air?

He has hit the ball in the air.  But when he does, flying insects over the infield are also in danger.

[vegasbob]

Odd. but it wss good to see Bello relieve Moran

[moonslav59]

44 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Mayer should play everyday. And Duran should remain leading off. As for the rest of the line-up do as you may.

I'm fine with this idea.

[illinoisredsox]

What the hell was that?

[vegasbob]

Bello appeared to whiz through the second.

Every pitch up, each out in the air. Bello used to be a sinker pitcher. 

Let's see how long that lasts

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Right now the Tigers are a .500 team. How boring that must be for their fans.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Raffy with two excellent at-bats.

[vegasbob]

Here's Durbin with MoB

Showing a new way to turn around the bad press

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Framber is getting hambered

[vegasbob]

Beginning to respect Wong as a key piece again

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

5 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Here's Durbin with MoB

Showing a new way to turn around the bad press

Breaking News:

Durbin doesn't suck anymore.

[FredLynn]

8-2

Game over-even with Bello out there

[jad]

I hate Valdez, the only pitcher in history tht has tried to hit his own team-mate.  Very gratifying to see this happen.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, jad said:

I hate Valdez, the only pitcher in history tht has tried to hit his own team-mate.  Very gratifying to see this happen.

He does look miserable. YouTube did a video about his personality or lack of.