'A game we had to win.'
Are there really any games that don't matter, other than the ones after you've clinched a specific playoff spot, or been eliminated?
No, there aren't.
It's not a baseball name, but it has to be one of the worst/craziest/funniest names of them all.
I found out yesterday that the name of the CEO of BMW North America is:
Bernhard Kuhnt
I'm looking through the box scores since the ASB and I can't see that many rest days. I know that we had the game where Devers and Beni sat, followed by the game that Betts didn't start.
Other than that I don't know what rest days we're talking about.
Before today we had played 125 games.
Betts 124 games played
Devers 122
Bogaerts 121
Yes, he MIGHT pitch better than Porcello.
Personally I have more faith in the team than I do in the fans to make these calls. They won't always be right, of course.
After the All-Star break we had a long stretch of games with no days off. It did make sense to build in some rest days.
And there really haven't been that many rest days. Whenever one of our studs sits one game people freak out about it.