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Well that was a pretty obvious mistake Cora. Now you are coming to get him?

Why is ERod pitching to Puig

We are so helpless against that Curve Hill might actually now have flipped his 60/40 FB/Cu % to 60/40 Cu/FB.

Joe Castig just gave the number we already know exists. We are 29th in baseball hitting v LH curveballs. Tell me something I don't already know.

Notice neither Fox nor MLB let it break into commercial time.

Hey this break in the action is going to break our momentum!

Do the Dodgers get brownie points for their pitcher actually putting the ball in play?

Have to wait for Hill to peter out. Chances were always pretty slim we were going to do well against him. You know the Sox are in trouble when Vaz needs to give the rest of them pointers.

Catchers tend to be good guess hitters. Atta boy Vaz

What this game? Yea that is possible. Hill is just the kind of pitcher that gives us fits. The board has basically been in a panic from pitch one of the 1st game and appears in a deep depression unless we are leading or have just recorded the last out on the Dodgers with the lead.

JD getting frustrated. You're the only guy that can change that JD

How are you swinging through that trash JD

Hum....eddie might be well suited to the pop up masters as long as he does not stick it on their stupid launch angle paths.

So while the Sox tried to guess along with Buehler last night which they should not have done (just sit dead red was the approach), they have to guess with Hill. He only has two pitches. So he forces you to guess at least location if not type.

Lumbering hippo erod out at 2nd.

2nd time through. Did they learn anything?

Well this should be interesting. Wonder if Hill will even bother to throw a curve to erod

Not a foot from the wall. Not even close to a foot from the wall.

Joe Castig just called that Vaz fly ball caught "a foot from the wall". Sure Joe...looking for a career as an ump are ya'.

JD moving tonight about like he finished last night which was actually much better than he started last night. Ah the wonders of modern medicine!

Erod nibbling at 95

I absolutely despise the alternate jerseys. The Blues are a bit better than the reds to my eyes....but not much.

Well there ya' go. He looked like he was running in sand because his first step off the base was just not worth a darn. Your first move off the bag has be like a fast acting muscle action, not a long acting muscle action. It has to be bang and your gone. If that does not happen, you are trying to gain momentum long after you should have and the result is that you look like you are running in sand. I have seen him move, so I don't think the snap is completely gone out of his legs. I think he saw Bellinger set up, realized Bellinger was not that far out in CF and was setting up to have momentum going toward home for the throw and just let doubt enter his mind that he would not be sent. Then when he was sent, the opportunity to snap off the base was gone and he pushed off the base instead. He never made up the lost momentum. If you can watch it looking for that, see if you think he snaps off the base or pushes off the base. To snap off the base your body has to be moving toward home before you leave the bag. You don't lean toward home and then wait to go. You get your body weight shifting toward home. Its an issue of timing. If your weight is not shifting toward home you end up pushing off the base instead of snapping off the base. If you are really fast, you might make up the momentum you lost. If not, you just look like you are running in sand and is that not what Kinsler looked like he was doing. The problem with snapping off the base is that if you get the stop sign, you have to be able to stop without falling on your ass. That first snap step provides tremendous momentum toward home. Have to be able stop on a dime without falling over. Before I forget, you are never looking for a go sign for the tag up to go home. You assume you are going without doubt and are only looking for a stop sign as you start home.

You really think we will have to tell them about this game? Have you seen game times coming down in recent years or going up? Do you really think they will be seeing 3 hour games while we are pushing up daisies. If you think that I am encouraged because you must believe MLB is going to do something about the utter mess they have made of their game.

That may be so. But if Cora is going to do with JBJ what he did with Beni last night he has to insert JBJ into the game while keeping Mookie in it. Can't be a straight PH assignment. That WAS a mistake.