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  1. Maxbialystock
    But he has great control and those non straight pitches bend in different directions and different amounts.
  2. Maxbialystock
    That liner that moved Pearce from 2d to 3d--pretty good throw by Judge.
  3. Maxbialystock
    Were I an oddsmaker, I would have favored Sabathia over ERod, Sale over Grey, and Severino over Price. But you gotta play the games. So far I like this one even down 1-0.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Meh. Three excellent cut fastballs to Romine, all low in the zone and resulting in a very nice GIDP.
  5. Maxbialystock
    So far Erod and Sabathia are polar opposites. ERod has very little mix to his pitches--cut fast balls and fast balls--and doesn't hit spots.
  6. Maxbialystock
    Nice try by JBJ but he slightly misjudged it--wrong shoulder plus it was high off the wall.
  7. Maxbialystock
    What Pearce giveth, Nunez takes away. Awful at bat. Devers' liner would have brought Pearce home. Sabathia has 2 scoreless innings and has thrown I think 18 pitches. Not good.
  8. Maxbialystock
    Miracle but good 1st by ERod. Hit hard but both caught. Then the walk. Then the pop by Gregorious. 15 pitches. Good for him for a 1st inning. Could be wrong, but don't think I saw a changeup in the 1st, which is actually pretty normal for ERod. I think he has a good changeup, but tends to wait before using it. Basically what I think I saw was a mixture of cut fastballs and regular fastballs. No sliders, curves, or changeup.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Ominous top of the 1st. A lot of strikes by Sabathia but just 11 pitches. He is mixing his pitches and hitting his spots. At this rate he could go 7 innings easy.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Sabathia is definitely effective when he is hitting his spots and mixing up his pitches. Pearce at cleanup can't be much worse than Moreland at cleanup and allows everyone else to stay in their usual spot. Also limits lefty bats to three: Beni, Devers, and JBJ. Agree with others that tonight the bullpen could be problem, especially because Kimbrel just closed 2 straight and needed at total of 47 pitches. Kelly got smacked around last night, so much so I wondered if he was telegraphing his pitches. So it's probably up to Barnes, Hembree, Workman, and Velazquez. Even without that, I would rate the Yankees bullpen as better. Tough series, no doubt. Getting Pearce was/is just in time. Maybe he can help tonight against Sabathia because the next two are righties--Grey and Severino.
  11. Maxbialystock
    moonslav might have a point about oddsmakers. Ken Pomeroy has his own website with tons of stats on NCAA Basketball teams. Numbers that understandable but also well presented and accessible. Costs $20/year to get. His website predicts the score for every NCAA Div I game all season long and is surprisingly accurate, so much so that very often Vegas odds begin with his and that change as betting goes on. However, Pomeroy himself has written nothing is better at predicting than knowledgeable, experienced, collective opinion, by which he means oddsmakers. Thank goodness, however, Kimmi is more right than wrong. Sports outcomes are often very unpredictable. I mean, who the heck wants to watch a sporting event with a preordained outcome?
  12. Maxbialystock
    Not me, certainly. I would have been ecstatic with .600. I also didn't expect JDM to be this good, for Betts, Beni, and Bogie to bounce back this well, nor for the pitching, especially, the rotation, to be this good.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Porcello has needed a lot of pitches, but you can't complain about the results. 4 innings, 0 runs. Sweet.
  14. Maxbialystock
    He's at 75 after 4. 7th ain't happening.
  15. Maxbialystock
    According to espn's version of pitching WAR's, the top six for the Sox are: Sale 4.3, Porcello 2.3, Price 2.1, ERod 2.0, Kimbrel 1.4, and Velazquez 1.3. who knew Porcello was our 2d best pitcher?
  16. Maxbialystock
    Me too. For all Yankees series prepare for the worst and hope for the best. They are like cancer. Thank goodness for modern medicine which keeps getting better, and thank goodness for John Henry who ended the curse and then won 2 more--with minor assists from GM's, managers, players, et al. Since he bought the Sox, there has been parity between the two franchises.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Still .5 games behind the DY and need to keep the pressure on.
  18. Maxbialystock
    We gotta get rid of that guy. He's making moonslav59 insufferable.
  19. Maxbialystock
    I honestly did not think Price was at his best last night. I did think it was gutsy because he struggled with the changeup and had to throw a lot of fastballs and cut fastballs. If there was a curve or slider, I don't remember seeing it. Don't misunderstand me. When I say subpar, I also recognize that he did 6 innings and gave up 1 run against a team with winning record. It's important for the really good starters to show they can be tough too.
  20. Maxbialystock
    While I did from time to time acknowledge your insistence he would come around, I was one of the naysayers even though I was always fine with whatever Cora decided. I also came to recognize that replacing him with a good bat would not be simple or easy because DD really doesn't have a lot of moves he can make right now. What he has been doing for the last 2 or more games is nothing less than spectacular. He's hitting the ball hard consistently and to all fields.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Good for Price on that last out in the 4th. He doesn't have his best stuff, but he is battling.
  22. Maxbialystock
    A miracle! Right here at Fenway in the top of the 3d. Price threw an effective changeup to get the final out. Let the rejoicing begin. Bring out the duck boats.
  23. Maxbialystock
    The problem is the only pitch he commands is his fastball. I swear the Sox must have a rule barring their lefties from developing a reliable changeup. Price has one, but it ain't working. It's either in the middle or in the dirt. I don't think I've seen a slider or curve. So the Angels are sitting on those fastballs.
  24. Maxbialystock
    I don't disagree with the notion of inclusion, only with the resulting one game playoff. For example, it's possible the Sox or Yankees could end up with the second best record in the AL and have to play a wild card game. That ain't right. Of course, the Sox went to the ALDS--no wild card game--the last two years and got hammered both times. So what's one more game?
  25. Maxbialystock
    Nasty. But funny.
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