Rangers (Leiter) vs Red Sox (Gray): 6/12/26, 7:10pm

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Balls to the wall.

[Tedballgame]

The Sox could get a lot (assuming they know what prospects to ask for, and thats a HUGE assumption) for Sonny if they trade him to a contender. He has been pitching great and he will be a difference maker for a good team.

[FredLynn]

4 minutes ago, Tedballgame said:

The Sox could get a lot (assuming they know what prospects to ask for, and thats a HUGE assumption) for Sonny if they trade him to a contender. He has been pitching great and he will be a difference maker for a good team.

Nah. They need him for the playoff run 

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7 minutes ago, Tedballgame said:

The Sox could get a lot (assuming they know what prospects to ask for, and thats a HUGE assumption) for Sonny if they trade him to a contender. He has been pitching great and he will be a difference maker for a good team.

That's a Bingo.

[Tedballgame]

I like Lou and Pap together doing the game. They know baseball.

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17 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Before this game Sonny was 6 games above .500. The rest of the Sox staff is 18 games below .500.

With a lot of help from the missing Sox offense.

[Tedballgame]

2 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

That's a Bingo.

Knowing Breslow and his staff, they probably would end up with guys like Jeter Downs, Vaughn Grissom or Conner Wong.

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Just now, Tedballgame said:

I like Lou and Pap together doing the game. They know baseball.

I don't understand why Paps wants Leiter out of the game.

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Just now, Tedballgame said:

Knowing Breslow and his staff, they probably would end up with guys like Jeter Downs, Vaughn Grissom or Conner Wong.

That's another Bingo.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Another fine job by Sonny tonight. If he gets the win, he'll be tied for 2nd in MLB with 8 wins. There's a 3 way tie for 1st with 9 wins.

8 wins on this team at this point in the season is amazing.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Here's an interesting baseball fact. From what I could find only 7 pitchers in MLB history have won 20 or more games on teams that lost 90 or more games. The most amazing was in 1972 when Steve Carlton won 27 games for a Phillies' team that went 57-97. Steve finished the season 27-10 with a 1.97ERA.

[Tedballgame]

26 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Another fine job by Sonny tonight. If he gets the win, he'll be tied for 2nd in MLB with 8 wins. There's a 3 way tie for 1st with 9 wins.

8 wins on this team at this point in the season is amazing.

He should be on the All-Star team.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

33 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Here's an interesting baseball fact. From what I could find only 7 pitchers in MLB history have won 20 or more games on teams that lost 90 or more games. The most amazing was in 1972 when Steve Carlton won 27 games for a Phillies' team that went 57-97. Steve finished the season 27-10 with a 1.97ERA.

In 1962 Roger Craig won 20 games for a Mets' team that lost 120 games. Roger also lost 24 games that same season. 20-24, think about that when you see how pitchers are treated today.

[Tedballgame]

I wish some of these guys would get hits when its a 2-1 game rather than 7-1.

[vegasbob]

Take a laugher, especially at Fenway, when you can get one.  

Previous attempts at starting a streak have fizzled but maybe this is the one

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16 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

In 1962 Roger Craig won 20 games for a Mets' team that lost 120 games. Roger also lost 24 games that same season. 20-24, think about that when you see how pitchers are treated today.

Ignore the above. The Internet gave me bogus info. Craig was only 10-24 in 1962.

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Run differential sees significant change.

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7 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Take a laugher, especially at Fenway, when you can get one.  

Previous attempts at starting a streak have fizzled but maybe this is the one

That's what Mickey Rooney said about his 8 different wives.

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Abreu appears to own the Rangers.

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Interestingly, the night the Sox were rained out against the Yankems I flipped over to the Cleveland/Texas game and watched the Guardians abuse Jack Leiter.

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26 minutes ago, Tedballgame said:

I wish some of these guys would get hits when its a 2-1 game rather than 7-1.

Well, it was 2-1 at one point in this game, but I get what you're saying.