Youk Of The Nation

Drew Pomeranz vs. Yefry Ramirez Hopefully this can be a bounce-back game for Pomeranz, the Orioles are so bad that this could be a way for him to ease back into things.

Rick Porcello vs. Kevin Gausman The Red Sox RBI leader is JD Martinez with 81. The Orioles RBI leader is Adam Jones with 37. Light 'em up, boys.

Chris Sale vs. Blaine Hardy. I haven't started a GT in a while, so I would like to start a new, awesome streak. I'm starting this now because I will be working all day tomorrow.

I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't know Brandon Phillips was in the Sox system. I don't pay a lot of attention to the minor leagues. I honestly thought he had retired.

Yeah I'm really glad Facebook and Twitter really exploded only after I had passed my early 20s. I had a MySpace account but that's long gone, I never had a FB account. I have a Twitter but I hardly post anything. Mostly I just use it to keep updated on stuff that might not necessarily make the news.

Yeah but you're kind of a douche too, so how can I use your opinion as a reference point?!

Some of us still are Yankees fans. I mean, raging morons, sorry. Wait, no, same thing. Language is so confusing sometimes.

I agree. There's definitely a positive reason to include sexual harassment and discrimination information or training in any organization, and I'm glad the MLB does it even if it doesn't always help, but doing it specifically for Hader based on a single 7 or 8 year old Tweet (that looks like it was written BY a 7 to 8 year old kid) is probably a huge waste of time. However, it will probably have the actual desired effects, which are to prove to the public that MLB is at least attempting to look like it doesn't support use of the n-word, and also to remind every other player that if you do something that dumb, you're going to have your time wasted sitting in a stuffy conference room somewhere while the local HR guy drones on about this stuff. So no money was wasted, only time, and everybody is happy except Hader. I'm okay with that, especially because he seems like a douche. I will also say, that my personal opinion, based on my personal experience, is that people don't usually grow up with regards to this s***. The kids I knew in high school who were outright racists are still the same racists today, they're just better at masking it in public. I don't know that this is the case with Hader, so I'm not going to judge him too harshly and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and accept that he's wised up. But he still seems like a douche.

Bastardo doesn't even make sense to me. It's not like an innocent name in another language that means something gross or funny or insulting in English. It means the exact same thing in Italian AND Spanish as it sounds like to us. How did that become a proper surname?!

I don't like Bryce Harper and I couldn't care any less about the HR Derby usually, but that 9 HR in 50 seconds to come back and win the Derby was kinda cool.

Joe Castiglione didn't realize it was going to go out at first, he started off by saying "deep enough". When it cleared the stadium he seemed a little bemused.

Xand Slam!

Haha Gameday's pitch-locator makes the first pitch to Xander look like it hit him right in the nuts.

0-4 with 6LOB. At this point I'd just prefer for Holt to take one off of the shinguard or somewhere else non-injury threatening. I don't have a lot of confidence in him to get on base today. EDIT: Literally as I hit send he gets a hit. What an *******.

I thought Cora was a small-ball kind of manager, he spent most of his career in the NL and he was never known for his offense, 18-pitch HR notwithstanding.

I try not to dump on the manager too much but some of this was on Cora, who reverted to the old 7-run rule.

Damn, I was hoping that banning that guy would be the mojo the Sox needed for an improbable 7-run comeback in the ninth. Oh well, we'll get 'em tomorrow.

Natick to NC is gone. And nothing of value was lost. I want to make it very clear he was not banned for his political beliefs, such as they are. I have tried for a long time to shut down any political conversation that might develop here because it never ends well, especially on a site that is not dedicated to politics. I banned him because he sucks, he contributes nothing, and his last few posts were a pretty obvious sign that he was getting ready to totally devolve into a combination of all the worst kind of trolls we've ever had on this board. Again, this was not a political banning. I don't care what your political beliefs are. Well, I guess I do, I'd love everyone in the world to share mine, but you guys know what I mean. Support whatever platform you want as long as you keep it the hell off of this baseball site.

Seriously with all this complaining? The Sox have a 10-game win streak, they've set a record for wins before the All-Star Break, they have the leaders in almost every offensive category, they have two different guys in the running for MVP, and, oh yeah, this game isn't actually over yet.

This seems to be a recurring pattern the last couple years. 1. Price starts, everyone complains that he sucks. 2. Price begins pitching and gives up between 1-3 runs early 3. Everyone shouts that Price should be beheaded as an example to others and his body be nailed to the Green Monster to be feasted on by the vultures 4. Price settles down and pitches solidly for 5-6 more innings, ending with a 6-7.2 IP game giving up 4 runs or less 5. Red Sox win 6. Everyone complains that next time will be the time Price gives up 100 runs and randomly murders several children in the crowd.

I'm ashamed to admit that I don't get it. I'm missing the joke here.

Well, that settles it. If Jacko thinks it's a good idea for the Sox, I'm running fast in the opposite direction. Or, put another way: If'n Jacko's fer it, than I'm agin it!

The Sox are 9-1 this season against Baltimore.

The Yankees are 3-4 against the Orioles so far this season. The Orioles don’t have a winning record against any other team they’ve played more than 3 times.