Navafan29

Men on 2nd and 3rd with no outs, up by 2... Bring in Ziegler to get out of this, then Bring in Buchholz for 1-2 innings, then shut it down with someone else.

Bogaerts looks to be out of his slump! Now it's time for him to hit .500 for a while, then go back to hitting .100, then go back to .500

Bases loaded nobody out! If we don't score in this inning, then this team is officially cursed. Like with actual supernatural reasons behind it.

If we ground into another DP this inning, we should just try to break the record for most grounded into in a game.

If you think about it, the loss was unlucky. Wright wouldn't have done bad in the 1st if he had normal playing time, which wouldn't have happened if it weren't for his unlucky injury. The Red Sox's performance with the bases loaded this year proves my point about why it's good to treat clutch as a real thing - at the very least in the sense of "clutch hitter = not doing worse when pressure is on". In the game of baseball, a team doesn't win by getting more hits. A team wins by getting more hits when it counts than the other team. So if doing what actually wins ball games from an offensive standpoint has zero unique skill to it and is mostly random, then baseball feels like a gimmick. I think we can all agree that the Red Sox are at least doing something wrong this season with the bases loaded, and that it isn't only random chance that their hits are coming a lot less when they really need them. What they may need to do is what I do to hit well in the clutch in MLB video games - let the pressure increase your heart rate and cause extreme focus on the strategy of "if X pitch happens, do Y" that hitting requires, and ignore the specifics of the situation, except knowing that a flawless AB is necessary.

Game was definitely worth watching just to see three of the B's do so well. Bogaerts went 3 for 5, Buhdroia 4 for 5, and Betts 5 for 5! Showed some fight at the end which will prevent this game from getting to them. Red Sox will win 6-2 tomorrow.

It seems like the team doesn't really feel like it needs to win like it did in 2013. It seems like we're a bunch of really good players who are only worried about individual statistics. Idk, that could be completely wrong, but something doesn't feel right.

We really could have used another win against the Rays, because the Royals have won 9 of their last 10, and we play them tomorrow. Guess nothing will come easy this season. This is the closest that the three way race in the AL East has been all year. Time for the most exciting part of the season.

1st place!!! Took forever but we finally did it boys! We finally made up those few games. Outlasted the Orioles! Let's sweep the Rays and keep going. Also Lol @ the 10 men left on base in the NESN box score at the end.

Wow... Benintendi just made like the 2nd best catch of the year

I know what you mean. When Betts's numbers were struggling a little early in the season, I never felt like he should have been dropped in the order or given a day off. You could just tell by watching his ABs that he was doing everything right for the most part. Betts had that "It's only a matter of time" look to his game when his numbers were down. Bogearts has a lot more strikeouts when he doesn't have it; he either seems to get a hit or look bad. It's not all his fault though; I think he should have been given a day off a while ago.

Imagine if the Red Sox are saving all their 2 out hits for the postseason and we end up batting .750 those spots... Seems impossible to get a 2 out hit with RISP now

We definitely deserve a lucky win over the Tigers since they had a lucky win over us in the first game. Very satisfied that we just held on to win somehow.

If the game doesn't resume, what a jip for the Tigers fans. Wait an hour and 20 mins to see the game and then it's only 6 innings

Who needs clutch when you can just keep hammering!

Here we go! Game on Betts's stick! Will this be a lame moment where we fail to score again, or a breakout moment??

I'm very impressed by Benintendi laying off that high fastball on the 2-2 count and not striking out. Most rookies strike out on that I think.

Hammered it right into the ground. And holy cow at the Blue Jays lead only being 1 run at the moment.

I predict that based on the Detroit weather radar, we'll get started at 8:35 PM. There's a little patch of rain that is expected to cross over Detroit from 7:53 PM to 8:22 PM. Edit: NESN just announced that the game is expected to start at 8:30... That would be nice.

Any Guesses as to when we'll resume? Don't have access to NESN yet.

So Butterfield got ejected. Watch the Red Sox lose from sending a runner right into an out at home.

So there's a runner on first, then the batter hits it to center. The center fielder (JBJ) tries to catch it and it's ruled an out initially by the umpire (but it was actually not caught). If it was not ruled an out in the moment by the ump, both runners would have been safe. So I guess that's why this is happening. I'm not sure if the umps are supposed to just put the runner on 3rd though.

It's pretty hard to see the ball. Guess it's the bright lighting.

Why did I even bother watching the post-game interview? You know Betts is just going to say "I tried to put together a good at-bat". Though I did get to see Benintendi and JBJ dump gatorade on him.

What a game so far. Betts is the surprising best player on the team right now. Came outa nowhere. Nobody could handle Gallardo's sinky cutter until Benintendi followed it down for that huge double (or maybe it was a curve on that pitch, I forget, but it was dropping). Then Betts comes through in the clutch with one of the most surprising and exciting HRs so far this year! Ziegler did a good job in my opinion. Anyone else would have given up a big inning. Bogaerts could use a day off for mental rest. I think he's frustrated from being a bit overworked.