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Cano out there for 29 pitches....

Cano may have 97-98 but that FB is flat as a pancake

His ball moves but everything is up. Does not much matter how much a pitcher's ball moves horizontally. If everything is just right above the belt line of the hitter its gong to get tagged in MLB.

Henderson goes CLANK!

Probably going to have to challenge Verdugo which should work to Vertigo's advantage

Flaherty refuses to challenge LH hitters. Nibble....Nibble....Nibble drop Charlie on em' Its not really worked that well as his Charlie hasn't been that good today.

Almost every game looks like a BullPen game even when they are not trying to play a Bullpen game. Sorta' hard to tell the difference.

7 runs and not out of the 4th. Bing....bang....bong

Nice location Chris

With the exception of Jimmy Fund Telethon games nothing good ever happens in an inning when the Sox have a NESN booth guest.

This is just an impression but Story looks feeble to swinging the bat to me. Sort of like we would look attempting to hit ML pitching or I should say how I would look.

Notice the difference in a competent baseball team and one that simply is not. Anybody want to guess which of these two teams is the competent team and which is not? For one thing there is no such thing as a normal looking defensive play for the Red Sox unless its a ball hit to Story or maybe sometimes Verdugo. The O's just dripping with solid play. The way they run the bases make the Rays look like a joke and the way they field their positions make the Red Sox look like a joke.

My take on ownership is that it considered the Red Sox a cash cow.....thats it. The Red Sox no longer blow up John Henry's dress. He has been there and done that. Even his English league football team is a been there and done that now.

Glasnow making his way back in a big way. We don't necessarily need a Glasnow though one would be nice. We need guys that can at least go 5 and an occasional 6. As it is the BP is just gassed with what....20-something games to go against some decent teams........Yikes

Raley crashes into the wall in RF. Apparently can't play Right either. Does he have any idea where he is in the OF? The real life Bump Bailey.

Well I guess now its known territory

If truth is insuperable then I guess I am insufferable.

The SS was right in front of it and he moved out of the way so he could Ole it. If he had just stood there it would have hit him right in the clove on one bounce. And no...that was not a shot.....more of a looping liner. Then Siri who did make a very good to great play in the OF earlier in the game crosses in front of the RFer as he is trying to make a catch. What the hell was he doing there? The correct place for him to be would have been several feet in front of the RFer so that if the RFer gave himself up trying to make the catch and the ball rebounded off the wall Siri could have hunted it down without much damage. From where Siri was he was just in the way and in no position to do anything. Then in the next half inning Siri lays down a bunt and Casas who is often found chewing on his glove at 1st base fails to get back to first so that there is somebody for the pitcher to toss the ball to in order to recored an out. Defense/fielding in MLB this year is just terrible and it will remain terrible until MLB adapts to life without the shift and gets more all around ballplayers in the game....guys that can actually hit AND field some position.

Which one, the JT "shot" or that mess in shallow LF. Both were errors in my book. 2023 MLB....not so much.

Aha....aha.....ah....ah....ahahahahaha Dead ML ballplayers not just turning in their graves. Their coffins with them inside are shooting off into outer space, right out of the ground.....BLAST OFF!!!!

Hysterical ....just hysterical. Rays SS actually moved over so he could take that JT hit off to the side. He WAS in front of it before he moved. Yeah, that worked. Comment from the Sox booth. "That was a shot"

Neither, its Middlebrooks Give me Papelbon in the booth....PLEASE God give me Paps. Never going to happen though.

MLB defense is laughably bad....just awful across MLB. They are even trying to hide it and they can't hide it.

No I am saying that IMO Yoshi will never be a competent ML OFer and they have signed him at a point in time when the league's teams really are going to be forced to draft and field more well rounded players by virtue of the end of the shift in MLB. So maybe his salary for a DH is fine. I am just not kidding myself that he will ever be a competent ML OFer. Maybe they can hide him in LF...maybe not.

Its a Ballpark that was going to be the Rays home as an MLB franchise. The league owners vote new franchises into their little club. The vote tally for the Tampa franchise was 28-0 as it was for the Diamondbacks that year. So the Red Sox voted this team in with this ballpark. OB works for NESN which is owned by Fenway Group which owns the Red Sox. So for my money OB should just shut his snickering, juvenile horse s*** mouth about it. Write a letter to his bosses if he wishes. In fact, if I had my way I would run Bloom, Cora and OB out of town on a rail.