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  1. Maxbialystock
    Nice grounder by Pedey to score one--almost a swinging bunt. Man on 3b, 1 out, time for Beni to shine against lefty Liriano.
  2. Maxbialystock
    That's impressive. No hits first time thru, 3 hits second time thru, now a double in the third time thru the lineup. Way to go, lineup!
  3. Maxbialystock
    Price delivers. Neat. Now the lineup needs to do something. Eight guys before Leon comes to bat again--plenty of time.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Two doubles by lefty bats. Five righties are 0 for 9. Price in, about right. I like Fister, but, if there is a time to use your bullpen, it has to be tonight. 3-1 game, which might be the closest we will get in the whole 4 game series. But Price still has to deliver.
  5. Maxbialystock
    too true
  6. Maxbialystock
    Is Leon a worthless piece of s*** or what? Takes strike 3 over the middle of the plate.
  7. Maxbialystock
    First intelligent at bat tonight--Moreland gets the right fast ball on smacks to left. Then HanRam swings at a very fat first pitch and hits a worthless groundball to SS. Huge hit by Devers on that nasty splitter. Huge. 1 run in!!!!
  8. Maxbialystock
    Fastball up to the guy, Bregman, who already had 2 hits. Not a smart pitch at all. 3-0 after 5.
  9. Maxbialystock
    I have the sound (NESN) off. Have those idiots in the booth said anything intelligent about why Fister is doing so well? I frankly doubt it.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Fister has gotten a couple of calls, but so far Morton has had a couple of strikes called balls. Doesn't seem to matter. He just keeps mowing our guys down. How's that for good fundamentals (even though I know pitching isn't really a fundamental--nor is hitting)?
  11. Maxbialystock
    Bogie got his pitch and couldn't smack it--pop to the right side. Not good.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Four innings, 1 run which shouldn't have happened if the real Betts were in RF, and 56 pitches. Fister could go 6. But you can't win if you can't score.
  13. Maxbialystock
    You know, I think Fister just might be best fielder we have in this game. Two very nifty outs.
  14. Maxbialystock
    Morton has a perfect game after 3. Fister, the outcast of talksox, the incredibly maligned starter who for about 6 weeks was our best starter, is the only guy on the team who came to play.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Agreed.
  16. Maxbialystock
    Wrong. It's the only pitching--by a starter--we have seen in the last five days including this one. This guy is a pitcher, not a thrower. The other guys--sadly, including Sale--are more throwers than pitchers. And choke artists (not Sale). Has anyone else besides me also noticed that Fister is conscientious about holding runners on 1b? No other starter does that as well.
  17. Maxbialystock
    Good throw by Betts gets that guy going home. When is the lineup going to show they came to play? Is this how they plan to be in the postseason? Hitless and not so good supporting the pitcher?
  18. Maxbialystock
    Ain't that something? A Sox starter besides Sale who can actually field his position. Shocking.
  19. Maxbialystock
    Bad pitch on the 2-0 count by Fister--a fastball slightly up in the zone which the hitter was clearly looking for.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Morton routinely does what few--Fister may be the exception--of our starters or relievers do. He keeps the ball low in the zone--not all the time, but a lot of the time. That plus the 97 mph fast ball plus the curve plus that nasty splitter (better than a slider or changeup) makes Morton pretty tough. So far, anyway.
  21. Maxbialystock
    By the way, in case no one noticed--and clearly no one else has--Morton so far has shown nasty stuff and very good command of his pitches.
  22. Maxbialystock
    That's 2 scoreless innings. I'll keep rubbing this in at least until the Astros have a big inning--if they do. Why? Because I am the only freaking person on this thread who expressed any confidence whatsoever in Fister.
  23. Maxbialystock
    That, folks, is a pitcher. Yes, he walked a guy and needed 22 pitches and threw a whole lot of fastballs, but boy did he hit some corners and did he use that curve, finally, so well. Even that double was off a decent pitch low in the zone.
  24. Maxbialystock
    I like this lineup--it's basically the guys who bore the burden of this season except for Rajai and Devers. Only 3 lefty bats against righty Morton, but, except for Rajai and Nunez, these are our best hitters. The first four are I believe the best first four (except Nunez) we have had all season even though Betts is now 4th and Bogie 1st. Moreland at 5 and HanRam at 6 are still both capable of doing some damage. Ditto Vazquez and Devers and maybe even Rajai Davis. My real point is that, if these guys are going to make it or not make it, they are they the best we've got right now. I'm even happy that Fister is out there and will be incorrigible if he does well--but also apologetic if he does not.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Yankees win, so no help there, which is fine with me because this is probably the same team we play in the ALDS if we get there. None of our last 4 starters--ERod, Sale, Porcello, Pom--pitched well. Tonight Fister gets a shot and tomorrow night Pom. Time for the rotation to man up. Right now they all look like they are clueless. I do not for one second think any of them has a reason to be tired. Unlike the overwhelming majority of other MLB pitchers this year, ours seem to eschew the notion of keeping the ball low in the zone. it's fine to bring in a high hard one now and then, but not pitch after pitch after pitch. I like Fister because he does understand that--but knowing and doing ain't the same thing. The doing requires excellent control.
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