Maxbialystock
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Need a smart at bat by Vazquez. No, repeat no GIDP. Great! Takes a ball on first pitch.
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Tough call on strike 2 to Renfroe. Bases loaded!!!!
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Finally! Huge double by JDM. And Renfroe actually looked at a ball instead of swinging at it. Make that 2!
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Verdugo walks!
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OK. Good at bat by Verdugo. 10 pitches so far.
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Bogey looks at a fastball down the middle, swings at a slider a mile outside, then lets a slider go by for strike three. Now Verdugo takes two strikes down the middle--changeups. Looks like the Sox lineup is going to roll over in this game.
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ERod looking very professional and skilled after 2 innings. The Sox lineup, on the other hand, looks like it expected to be playing slow pitch soft ball.
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Miserable bottom of the first. Lots of fastballs, popped up.
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Here's hoping the Fenway fans make a difference.
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2-2-1 is bad enough, but 2-2-1-1-1 is absurd.
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You bet.
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My mistake. “What if” can be fun.
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I went back and read/reread some of the early pages and comments. This has been a really good thread.
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Neat!
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You have been the leading proponent for never playing Kike at 2b because he plays centerfield so well. Now you want to screw up the outfield so that Dalbec, who is hitless in October, can hit instead of Arroyo, who has--wait for it--7 hits in October and 2 hits in the ALCS vs. the Astros. To do this you also have to ignore that Dalbec has a DWAR of -1.1 at first base whereas Schwarber has demonstrated in 7 postseason games he's not half-bad at 1b. He sure as heck seems more adaptable than Dalbec, who needed almost an entire season to figure out 1b even though he only had to shift from 3b to 1b, which should have been duck soup, as indeed it was for Youk. As for ERod, I'm nervous. Yes, absolutely, he looked great vs. the Rays, but the Astros OPS vs. lefties in the postseason has been .957.
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A Realistic View at 2021: Part III
Maxbialystock replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
"A Realistic View at 2021" might need some tinkering as a thread title. How about, "An Attempt at a Realistic View of 2021?" Forget the topsy-turvy season the Sox have had. I've been watching the 88 wins Braves take the first two games from the 106 wins Dodgers, who had to win the wild card game before whipping the 107 win Giants by taking game 5 at Candlestick Park. -
Just the Bruins, Pats, and Sox? No Celtics? I starting watching them and the NBA when they had Sharman and Cousy but not yet Russell, KC, and Sam. The Celtics and Lakers are tied with 17 championships apiece.
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Interesting. The Dodgers are supposed to have better pitching and better hitting.
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So true. When you round off, all ten of the postseason teams won slightly less than 6 out of 10 games or slightly more than 6 out of 10 games.
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The slowpoke Sox stole 40 bases this year, and the speed demon Braves 59--so they stole 19 more bases in 162 games or 1 more every 8 games. That said, I agree both teams will be hard to beat in the WS because both have good pitching and hitting. With the DH, the Sox scored 829 runs in the regular season. Without the DH, the Dodgers scored 830 and the Braves 790.
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I was being facetious in the remark about Scherzer. The Braves won just 88 games in the regular season to the Dodgers 106 and Giants 107, but they are playing good ball and have an insane postseason ERA of 2.04.
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Wrong!!!! Scherzer the Magnificent held the Braves incredible lineup to 2 measly runs in 4.1 innings, and his manager will be putting him in for some pretty important citations when this is over with.
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The Braves centerfield looked slow and sloppy on the soft liner that went by him for a double and 2 Dodger runs in the 7th.
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Astros team OPS vs. lefties in the postseason is .957. but I'm sure ERod will be fine. Sale was--for 2.2 innings and 1 run.
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Pretty fair overall assessment.