Maxbialystock
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And a little child, a 6'5" rookie, shall lead them. Dalbec swings at the exact same middle of the zone fastball that Vazquez sneered at and gets a dinger.
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So far the Sox "hitters" look like clowns.
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Perfect at bat by Vazquez. Takes a fast ball down the middle, swings at one over his head.
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Stripling, meanwhile, makes it look oh so easy.
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Taylor gets a break, but he's thrown 64 pitches in 2 innings, given up 3 runs (could have been more), and can't control his breaking stuff or, too often, his fastball either.
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Slider in the middle of the zone works as well as a a fast ball in the middle.
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Well, at least it was Guerrero who walked.
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Richard is so lucky to have given up just 2 runs. He can only throw strikes with his fastball, and some of those end up in the very hittable middle of the zone. The slider and curve are only for when he wants to get a wild pitch or PB.
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That 3d pitch curve bounced into the strike zone.
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Richards throws a harder fastball than Stripling, but apparently a more hittable one. It doesn't rise????? Meanwhile, he and Vazquez seem to have agreed he can't command his slider or curve.
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Well, at least we can feel good that it's unlikely our guys are stealing signs. Except for Verdugo, who simply figured--correctly--that Stripling would throw the exact same first pitch to him he threw to the kid from CF.
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Horrible, horrible bottom of the 1st.
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JDM looked just as foolish as Hernandez. Stripling owned him. Terrible to leave a man on 3b like that.
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Hernandez was out the instant he stepped to the plate. Deer in the headlights. Verdugo smartly swung at the first pitch and wham!
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How is it possible for a MLB hitter to get 2 slowish fastballs right down the middle and watch one and miss the other?
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Incredible inning!!! Richards was dead, dead, dead, and got out of it with just one run scored. Every hard hit ball, including the liner caught by Enrique, was off a fastball near the middle of the zone.
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Great play by Hernandez!
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Another hard single off that fastball in the middle. 27 pitches, 1 out.
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26 pitches and still 1 out. Tough inning.
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That's it, right there. Fastball on the outside corner, called strike. Problem is, he doesn't have the command to keep doing that.
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That's 2 singles off fastballs in the middle of the zone. Fastball is OK, but not there.
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Nice play by Verdugo but no way he gets the guy going to 3b.
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Gets a 1-2 count and ends up walking the lead off man, which usually does not augur well for Sox starters.
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Ok, everyone, pay close attention to my commentary in the early innings, especially about how well the pitchers are pitching, the hitters hitting, and of course the likely game outcome. I am invariably wrong.
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Hard to predict this matchup. Stripling started bad, but has been excellent for 3 games. Richards has the better overall ERA, but not at Fenway and not against the Jays. Jays are 18-16 on the road, 13-13 at home. Is Fenway completely open now? Or, given the low attendance (24K vs. 37K capacity), are there still some restrictions?