Red Sox (Bennett) vs Angels (Detmers): 7/3/26, 9:38pm

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

2 minutes ago, illinoisredsox said:

Might be fair, but the unfair part is 7 for Cavalli, which amounts to missing 1 start.

That's a joke. 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I wonder what the record is for most different players batting leadoff for a team in a season. The Sox have to be challenging that record, if they haven't broken it already.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

It's easy to see why the Angels also live in a basement apartment.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Durbin is the finest defensive 3rd baseman the Sox have had since Beltre.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Durbin is the finest defensive 3rd baseman the Sox have had since Beltre.

Although Devers was a low bar.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Eaton should have not requested an appeal.

[moonslav59]

Why can't Brez ever get us any SP'er depth, instead of trading it all away?

[alsoason]

1 hour ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Contrares and Eaton appear to be in the line-up while they appeal their suspensions.

huh, who knew, got em until we dont.

[alsoason]

props to Durbin, been playing better for awhile now

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

HR Durby 

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Abreu's offensive numbers have dropped faster than an Acme anvil.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Very good job by Bennett tonight. He possesses an impressive change-up.

[jad]

8 hours ago, illinoisredsox said:

Might be fair, but the unfair part is 7 for Cavalli, which amounts to missing 1 start.

Both miss 7 games of salary, which I'm pretty sure is more important to them than how many 'starts' they lose.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Loved that Duran finally bunted. I don't care if Tracy called it or Jarren did it on his own, it's a positive way to help a player out of a slump and to contribute to a win.

And for a guy as fast as Duran, bunting is a disruptive weapon that should be part of his game anyway.

[Bellhorn04]

Digging this Bennett kid.  

[illinoisredsox]

3 hours ago, jad said:

Both miss 7 games of salary, which I'm pretty sure is more important to them than how many 'starts' they lose.

Sure, on that level.  But I’m talking about the effect on the teams.  Suspended players cannot be replaced on the roster.  The Red Sox lose an everyday player for 7 games (or whatever it’s reduced to on appeal).   Over 7 games, a starting pitcher will appear no more than twice, and the team can easily figure out a way to make it once via off days or dropping the appeal the day after a start.  Far different effects on the teams. 
 
Look at the other two guys suspended, Eaton and Mikolas.  Eaton is out 3 games.  Mikolas can start on his normal day, serve his suspension the next 3 games, then make his next start on normal rest.  Zero issue for the Nats.

 

[Deja Doh]

Great game last night.  Nice to see Chapman break Hoyt Wilhelm's strikeout record for a reliever (though after giving up two solid hits I thought he was going to blow the game-nice DP to end it).  I saw/heard no announcement of the record).  

[moonslav59]

Gotta like this win, but we need to put a stop to this "one step up and two steps back" pattern. Maybe it started last night. More likely not.

5.5 GB SEA (45-44) for the last playoff slot. (6.5 behind the CWS might be more reasonable, and TEX is just 6 games ahead of us, but 5 other teams are between us and that last slot.)

We are...

1.5 GB BAL

2.0 GB ATH

2.5 GB MIN

3.0 GB HOU & TOR

It might be nice to pass a couple teams by the ASB, but I'm not sure we can or if that would even matter.

[Bellhorn04]

7 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Gotta like this win, but we need to put a stop to this "one step up and two steps back" pattern. Maybe it started last night. More likely not.

5.5 GB SEA (45-44) for the last playoff slot. (6.5 behind the CWS might be more reasonable, and TEX is just 6 games ahead of us, but 5 other teams are between us and that last slot.)

We are...

1.5 GB BAL

2.0 GB ATH

2.5 GB MIN

3.0 GB HOU & TOR

It might be nice to pass a couple teams by the ASB, but I'm not sure we can or if that would even matter.

Yeah, they just haven't shown us they can do it.  They have a few weeks left to change that. 

[notin]

12 hours ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

Durbin is the finest defensive 3rd baseman the Sox have had since Beltre.

Although his time there was brief, I thought nobody looked more smooth and flat out better at third than Jose Iglesias…

[moonslav59]

42 minutes ago, Bellhorn04 said:

Yeah, they just haven't shown us they can do it.  They have a few weeks left to change that. 

Even if we got 16-7 to end the month (fat chance, right?) I'm still not sure I'd want us to be buyers.

[moonslav59]

28 minutes ago, notin said:

Although his time there was brief, I thought nobody looked more smooth and flat out better at third than Jose Iglesias…

Beltre was more a wrecking ball, but I'd give the nod to him over JI.

[FredLynn]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

Gotta like this win, but we need to put a stop to this "one step up and two steps back" pattern. Maybe it started last night. More likely not.

5.5 GB SEA (45-44) for the last playoff slot. (6.5 behind the CWS might be more reasonable, and TEX is just 6 games ahead of us, but 5 other teams are between us and that last slot.)

We are...

1.5 GB BAL

2.0 GB ATH

2.5 GB MIN

3.0 GB HOU & TOR

It might be nice to pass a couple teams by the ASB, but I'm not sure we can or if that would even matter.

I think its time for everyone to face he reality that we will not be playing Oct baseball AGAIN. Probably best to focus on what can be done to prepare the franchise to become competitive in a couple of years, like positioning ourselves for the draft, trading pieces away if the return is worthwhile etc. There have been some positives of course. Durbin is playing much better. We have several very good young SPers. There are a few but not many position players who could contribute in a few years. But face it: this is not our year-AGAIN. It could have been our year. Its not.

[moonslav59]

19 minutes ago, FredLynn said:

I think its time for everyone to face he reality that we will not be playing Oct baseball AGAIN. Probably best to focus on what can be done to prepare the franchise to become competitive in a couple of years, like positioning ourselves for the draft, trading pieces away if the return is worthwhile etc. There have been some positives of course. Durbin is playing much better. We have several very good young SPers. There are a few but not many position players who could contribute in a few years. But face it: this is not our year-AGAIN. It could have been our year. Its not.

To me, the frustrating part of this season is how bad the AL is, and how easy it should have been to make the playoffs or even be a top 3 or 4 team in the AL.

Our run differential points to us being better than our record indicates, but that only goes so far, Pythagorean has us at 43-43, which is pretty pathetic in a league like this, too.

It's hard to write this team off in early July due to the weaknesses of the teams ahead of us, but even if by some miracle we do advance into the playoffs, nobody thinks we can do anything magical once there.

It is frustrating as all hell to watch this team flounder. It worse, because most of us felt the carry-over base from the 2025 team and the decent additions made would get us to at least about the same record. Hell, even you predicted 90 wins, so it's not like any of us felt this team was going to be this bad.

If every team finishes with the same winning % as now, SEA makes the WC with 82 wins. Texas wins the ALW with 83 wins. CLE wins the ALC with 85-86 wins, and the Rays win the ALE with 99 wins. What a major lost opportunity, here!

It's hard to know if Alonso or BLowe & Paredes would have made a big enough difference. If the rest of the team played like they have, I doubt it.

[mvp 78]

On 7/3/2026 at 4:29 PM, moonslav59 said:

I will say that the toilets in Fenway are among the worst of the worst.

Is this cuz the pee trough is gone?

[moonslav59]

7 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Is this cuz the pee trough is gone?

LOL. Good one.