Nationals (Mikolas) vs Red Sox (Suarez): 6/29/26, 7:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Has your opinion of this team changed at all in the wake of a good series against the Yankees?

	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	TOT
Tyron Guerrero	25	0	0	0	9	34
Tommy Kahnle	0	0	21	0	0	21
Ryan Watson	0	0	13	0	0	13
Justin Slaten	19	0	0	12	16	47
Greg Weissert	0	21	0	0	0	21
Garrett Whitlock	0	10	0	7	0	17
Danny Coulombe	5	3	0	0	0	8
Aroldis Chapman	0	23	0	20	23	66

 

[moonslav59]

I don't see how anyone's opinion has not changed, at least to some degree.

We still have way too many teams between us and the WC berth, but looking at the run diff numbers of those teams, they are due to regress to their norm.

+101 NYY (13 over .500)

+24 TBR (15 over .500)

+18 CWS (4 over, but are they really this good?)

+5 BOS (13 under!!! Talk about snakebitten!)

+4 SEA (1 under and the last WC berth)

-3 DET (14 under is about as shocking as the Sox)

-8 TEX (at .500 and the last 2nd of 3 WC berths)

-8 CLE (4 over- go figure)

-26 BAL (7 under)

-30 MIN (just 5 under)

-33 TOR (just 6 under)

-36 LAA (13 under)

-42 HOU (just 2 under is amazing!)

-70 KCR (15 under is about right)

[moonslav59]

Sox are 7-8 in Suarez starts. He has 4.26 run support and some bad luck.

The Sox lost these games with these Suarez lines:

4IP 3H 0ER 1BB 3K

5.1  4  9  1  8

6.1  6  1  0  6

6.0  7  1  1  9

The record could easily be 11-4 or 10-5 in his starts.

There was one win with 4 ERs in 5 IP, so 10-5 or 9-6 is a fair estimate.

[moonslav59]

The Sox have won 7 of their last 10 games and have 13 straight quality starts. (June 15 to June 28)

MLB Team ERAJune 15>

2.58 BOS

2.84 TBR

2.91 SFG

SP Only:

1.87 ERA (43 ERA-)

0.84 WHIP

Pitchers:

0.71 Suarez (16 ERA-)

1.53 Bennett (35)

1.69 Gray (39)

2.25 Early (51)

3.00 Tolle (69)

All under 0.94 WHIP

(The pen has a 4.32 ERA in these 13 games)

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Great pickup by Breslow.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Another great pickup by Breslow.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

5 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Another great pickup by Breslow.

HR Durby.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Good shut down inning.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Still don't understand why Durbin isn't batting 5th in the lineup.

[alsoason]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Good shut down inning.

agreed, this National's team has been involved in a lot of high scoring games both for them as well as against them. Definitely a good start for the Sox again tonight

[alsoason]

another 3 run shot would work here

[Jasonbay44]

That ejection is ridiculous. That umpire is a pussy

[JoeBrady]

7 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Still don't understand why Durbin isn't batting 5th in the lineup.

And half our fans don't understand why we haven't DFAd Durbin yet.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1st base chUMP is a disgrace.

[alsoason]

2 minutes ago, Jasonbay44 said:

That ejection is ridiculous. That umpire is a pussy

who got tossed?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

And half our fans don't understand why we haven't DFAd Durbin yet.

Same morons who would have wanted Pedey DFA'd in 2007.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, alsoason said:

who got tossed?

Contrares for tapping his helmet.

[JoeBrady]

6 minutes ago, Jasonbay44 said:

That ejection is ridiculous. That umpire is a pussy

i forgot to attach the sound.  Was he ejected for taunting?  He spent about 20 seconds on the bat toss and jumping up and down.  I'm surprised he didn't get drilled.  And this isn't the first time with the bat toss.

[Jasonbay44]

3 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

i forgot to attach the sound.  Was he ejected for taunting?  He spent about 20 seconds on the bat toss and jumping up and down.  I'm surprised he didn't get drilled.  And this isn't the first time with the bat toss.

He tapped his own helmet towards his own dugout without saying a word, kind of making a gesture he wished he could challenge check swing strike call at first. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

3 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

i forgot to attach the sound.  Was he ejected for taunting?  He spent about 20 seconds on the bat toss and jumping up and down.  I'm surprised he didn't get drilled.  And this isn't the first time with the bat toss.

You complained when the Sox weren't hitting or winning. Maybe you're just a passive aggressive.

[JoeBrady]

1 minute ago, Jasonbay44 said:

He tapped his own helmet towards his own dugout without saying a word, kind of making a gesture he wished he could challenge check swing strike call at first. 

Okay, that makes much more sense.  I didn't see a replay, but that looked like a bad call.  That wasn't close to enough to get tossed.

[alsoason]

lead off walks....bad thing

[alsoason]

confirmed...go sit down

[alsoason]

Ranger looking good

[FredLynn]

8 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

I don't see how anyone's opinion has not changed, at least to some degree.

We still have way too many teams between us and the WC berth, but looking at the run diff numbers of those teams, they are due to regress to their norm.

+101 NYY (13 over .500)

+24 TBR (15 over .500)

+18 CWS (4 over, but are they really this good?)

+5 BOS (13 under!!! Talk about snakebitten!)

+4 SEA (1 under and the last WC berth)

-3 DET (14 under is about as shocking as the Sox)

-8 TEX (at .500 and the last 2nd of 3 WC berths)

-8 CLE (4 over- go figure)

-26 BAL (7 under)

-30 MIN (just 5 under)

-33 TOR (just 6 under)

-36 LAA (13 under)

-42 HOU (just 2 under is amazing!)

-70 KCR (15 under is about right)

Exactly. We aren’t making the playoffs. But leading by five runs isn’t the right way to plan for the future. They should be tanking.

[alsoason]

2 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

Exactly. We aren’t making the playoffs. But leading by five runs isn’t the right way to plan for the future. They should be tanking.

tanking???  tell me you are joking

[FredLynn]

This home plate umpire is missing a LOT of calls 

[FredLynn]

2 minutes ago, alsoason said:

tanking???  tell me you are joking

I’m not joking. Since this season is already over it’s time to plan for a more successful future by improving our draft position 

[alsoason]

do we have an ignore button here?

[FredLynn]

4 minutes ago, alsoason said:

do we have an ignore button here?

Sure. But then you’ll miss out on my wisdom. Probably tap on my username and find it somewhere in there. Or you could just succumb to my irrefutable logic.