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Vaz has been screaming for eddie to get the high FB higher all night and eddie is just not getting it there. HE DOES NOT REALLY HAVE HIGH HEAT.

Erod does not have enough of a FB to leave it even at the letters...in fact even just above the letters. You let DeShields take you out of the park on your high heat and you really don't have high heat. If Devers did not snag that liner at 3rd there would have been another hot smash off that pitch which is why eddie tries to move it around. He really does not have a choice. Our pitching is the issue. The catcher is not the guy that has the ball in his hand.

Just killing us. We can't even make more than a run out of that nonsense inning

Oh my God that is a High School 3rd base play

We need Hamels to make a few more mistakes than he is making. Hamels is hitting his spots with off speed....Brutal

Hamels has us flailing from both sides of the plate. Killing us with that change.

That is as good an inning as we can expect from eddie. Hopefully he has a few more of those in him tonight

Where are you throwing it Eddie Nice way to get out of that and end the inning.

When you are down at the bottom of the order with the bases loaded and less than two outs a "stinking" run should be expected. Your best hitters are not down there. But you should get something and that is all I expect from down there.

I don't need a GS every time we load the bases. But if you can't get a stinking run out of bases loaded less than two outs with this guy on the mound where the heck are we going.

Gotta' get a win to stay ahead of the Yanks.

JBJ has gone through so many iterations of a bad swing in his Sox career that I just don't know if he will ever be a different hitter than what he is. Now, he can't let the ball get too deep into the zone on him because he does not keep his head on the ball. The farther into the strike zone the ball gets the more he losses sight of it. That means he has to swing early and the ball might not be anywhere near where his bat is because the ball is moving. How often does that actually look like a JBJ swing? If JBJ were not stubborn as a mule about his swing, it would not matter to me. Hitter's swings change over time. It just happens, to some more than others and to some in more fundamental ways than others. His CF defense is just off the charts and he is not a showboat. He does not turn easy catches or lets say unspectacular catches into floor shows for effect which the other great AL East CFer does on a regular basis. As long as the Sox can support his bat, I want him out there. But oh how I wish he would just not be so stubborn about his swing. Still feel the same way about JD in the OF. Keep him away from the Fenway OF because it will not be good for his health. Play him in the OF where you can on the road, play him in the Fenway OF only when you have to and take advantage of what the DH position gives you.

I hate this infield. You would love X to shade to the 3rd base side to help devers as X goes to his right way better than he goes to his left and can probably claim to be as good as anybody defensively going that way. Instead, since Nunez can't move at 2nd, X is pinned to having to support Nunez.

Come on Rick. We need you tonight buddy. We need you more than ever until Sale's slider comes back to form. Need it Rick.

- Sale's slider is nothing like it was last year at least so far - Pom is either hurt or we are stuck now forever watching him blow the first 3 innings of every game. In any event something is wrong with him. Funny how we klll some guys for having rough 1st innings and Pom is now stringing the first 3 innings from hell together without much notice - Price has been sub-par to average for most of his Sox career no matter who is behind the plate. Just not the monster we were expecting I guess - Eddie is a head case that last time out could not even throw two FB's in a row with the same motion, same arm angle and to the location desired - Porcello for all of the guff he has taken round these parts is the best starter we have right now and its not even close So I would be very very hesitant to blame the catchers for what are obvious mechanical problems with the actual pitches in the arsenals of our starters at this particular time

Swihart in against TX. OK...lets see what happens here.

Nice way to end the home stand

We have seen some screwy baseball games this home stand.

Maybe this is just the way Pom is now. Hard to tell. He cannot go three innings getting no RH batters out though. There are teams that hit better than the Royals.

I swear Moose looked like he did not know the ball was in his glove.

Put these guys away before we have to get to our pen

Fenway is no longer a great HR park. Certainly is not the HR park I grew up with. All that extra seating has turned the place into a fishbowl that the breeze just does not get into like it did. Definitely a doubles park now especially with the new press box and lux boxes.

Wonder how MLB will analyze starting in March and if they will continue with that. The Snow-outs can't have made them happy.

Honest to God OB...just stop. JD did not lose HR's in April due to the weather. The weather is the weather OB. April is April. Go complain to MLB that they should start the season in mid-May and end it in Mid-Sept. See how far that gets you.

Pom gets back to even. Best get somebody going if Cora actually has any interest in winning this game.