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  1. I respectfully disagree. For big chunks of this season, granted, Dalbec has looked awful at 1b. However, he has been a third baseman and should have been able to pick up this new position. I think that has finally happened and that he is better defensively than other options like Schwarber, Arroyo, etc. Meanwhile, including this game, Schwarber is 0 for his last 16 at bats with 9 K's. His September OPS (for 12 games) is .606.
  2. Cora erred in starting schwarber, who was in a slump before tonight and Dalbec has the hotter bat and has played well at 1b recently.
  3. Schwarber has become an unmitigated liability. He can’t field and he has stopped hitting.
  4. Well, I guess that's progress. On his third at bat vs Gilbert, Schwarber did not K. Instead, a lazy pop to left field.
  5. A lucky single, and I'm still going ape. Iggy ties it with persistance!!!!! Time for the top of the Sox order to do something besides punt.
  6. FWIW, that 3d strike against Renfroe was on hanging slider that he should have killed.
  7. I remain astounded at how rotten Schwarber, Bogey, and Devers looks against Gilbert vs. Iglesias, Verdugo, and now Vazquez.
  8. I do not. If, however, he hits a double and brings Verdugo home, I will go ape.
  9. How can Verdugo hit easily what Devers and Schwarber simply cannot hit? Leadoff man on!!!
  10. Two excellent innings by ERod and, honestly, a pretty fair 4 innings with a real shot at 5. He is still throwing mostly hard stuff--4 seamer, cutter, etc--but is spotting them better.
  11. Wow. ERod getting the calls, but is also close to those corners on almost every pitch.
  12. ERod finally getting a call or two.
  13. Sox hitters can't seem to catch up to that fastball Gilbert is throwing (a lot). Schwarber, Bogey, and Devers--batting 2d, 3d, and 4th--have 5 K's in 6 at bats so far. Iglesias dingers was off a slider well up and in the dead center of the strike zone.
  14. Gilbert is getting more calls than ERod. That said, it makes no difference to Devers, who can't hit anyway.
  15. That was an unbelievably cool K by ERod (and Vazquez who called for it)--a low changeup breaking in on a lefty batter and well below the strike zone for a swing and a miss. Here's hoping ERod can keep this up for 5 innings.
  16. Great K by ERod!!! His 4th straight out, 3 by K's. Outfield so far looks awful. Since when does a professional ballplayer at the highest level blow bubbles with bubblegum while he is making a play on the ball?
  17. Schwarber is in a slump, pure and simple. Meanwhile, Iglesias gets the dinger to make it 2-1, which is an amazingly close score given how much better Gilbert looks than ERod.
  18. Finally, finally on the 11 pitch a slider for a called strike. 46 pitches to get 5 outs, so this looks like another 3 or 4 inning game for ERod.
  19. He's throwing nothing but 92 mph fastballs to a .166 hitter, who has fouled off every strike--6 so far.
  20. If anyone in the Seattle lineup swings and misses an ERod pitch tonight, he's going to get fined.
  21. Error by Renfroe dismaying, but even more dismaying is that ERod threw a perfect changeup on the low outside corner, which Torrens easily lined to RF for a single.
  22. No question that ERod is also feeling the pressure, especially after his last start.
  23. If he's not dumb, and I sure don't think he is, he knows he is the team mvp and is therefore feeling a lot pressure to deliver. I think the tobacco is intended to calm those inner demons, and my impression is that the tobacco, which he chews voraciously, fuels his disquiet.
  24. Ouch. True, however.
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