Maxbialystock

Cheap shot. Very cheap. He had that 3d out for a great relieve appearance with I think the bases loaded, but the ump took it away from.

Why is that stupid? And forget that split second pause stuff because Devers is clearly struggling with his throw from 3b, so he hangs onto the ball and hangs onto it and hangs onto it. Nunez is the exact opposite at 3b and never double clutches. Besides, Devers has been in a hitting slump and is a shadow of the guy who hit that dinger off the 103 mph fastball. Other teams' pitchers have adjusted and found out what works against Devers, and he hasn't made his own adjustment. Did I forget to mention that he is still 20 and barely paused at AA and AAA on the way to Boston?

Potential don't put the put the fat part of the bat squarely on the ball. You want to be seen as a good hitter in 2017? Show me. And please don't tell me about how good you were last year. To his credit Betts has not fallen back on that but has truthfully said he is doing a lot of things wrong. In 2011 Ellsbury had a once in a lifetime season that turned out to be just that--his career OPS is 200 points below the .932 he had that year. For all we know Ortiz's magical bat last year is what lifted these guys up. Now on their own, they are clueless.

Estrada has pitched well tonight, but he has also thrown plenty of hittable pitches in the fat part of the strike zone, but against really skinny bats.

Meh. I'm now on the lynch Farrell train, but what we are seeing tonight is the real reason the Sox are losing. They simply can't hit and basically haven''t except for that 16-4 run in August which it is now possible was created by stealing signals. We love to gripe about overly aggressive baserunning, but completely ignore this team's total lack of power and therefore compelling need to run more than they have in the John Henry era (except one or two seasons when Jacoby Ellsbury was greased lightning on the base paths).

You really believe we will get a wild card slot? Keep watching and get back to me. This team right now is completely in step with the disastrous crew of September 2011.

Last night I was torqued with Farrell because he waited too long to take Porcello out. Tonight it seems so obvious that with this pathetic bunch of bums managerial moves are completely irrelevant. Indeed, one could make the argument they have been doing this all season long--taking the manager out.

I lucked out and fell asleep. Here we are in the 6th and I can't remember watching a more pathetic Sox lineup. This is exactly the same lineup--with tweaks here and there--that basically could not hit 10 or 11 straight starters, including tonight except for that one win which now seems to have been made possible by stealing signals.

Nice hit, but Bautista's terrible throw made that double easy.

Nice K, Erod. Why the heck didn't you do that with the man on 3b? Wake up.

I'm serious. I can think of no better reason to fire a manager. The fact that Farrell might also be inept just makes it easier.

That was a great changeup ERod threw for that single. Bad luck. But then his very next pitch was a fast ball right down the middle for the sac fly. That was a terrible pitch. thoughtless.

Nice double by Pillar. Too bad our righties can't or won't do that. Nice work by the ball girl getting out of the way.

I'm joking about it because it's so painful. You are absolutely right. If Farrell knew, he should be gone tomorrow.

OK, so maybe the ump ain't giving Estrada nothing. He just has a problem seeing the strike zone. Beni GIDP after the Pedroia single. This is good because otherwise Betts would have again gone 0 for whatever with RISP.

I sure hope the Sox told the Orioles about how to use those apple watches because they could use some help.

Maybe the home plate ump decided to even things about against those lowdown, no good, rotten signals-stealing Sox. Give the Jay pitcher the corners, but not ERod. works for me.

That was ERod's best first inning in the last decade or so.

Excellent first out by ERod, but he barely beat the batter to 1b because for him going there is always an afterthought.

I never thought deflategate was real. Are you saying it was, that the Patriots deflated footballs and nobody noticed?????

This is getting hilarious. On mlb tv they are talking about nothing else and generally acting as though this is deflategate only much, much worse. No one, as far as I can tell, is saying, "but it didn't any good. The Sox can't spit." I am fine with whatever punishment MLB thinks is fitting because the Sox deserve it.

The Sox have admitted it but also filed a counter complaint against the Yankees for using one of their Yankees network cameras to read our signals. I'm completely opposed to this kind of cheating of course, but the good part is that getting the signal and then passing it to the batter is tricky and time-consuming. Put it this way, if we were stealing Yankees signals in NYC, it sure as heck didn't help much.

I doubt it. His last dinger was August 20 and his last rbi Aug 30. His Sep OPS is .500 (small sample,however). He seems to have a mental block on his throws to 1b, which is why he keeps hesitating. Right now Nunez is a much better choice at 3b--hitting and fielding. This also gets Pedey back in at 2b. Me, I would probably have played Devers at 3b tonight and Nunez at SS--no Bogaerts.

We are all with you, but couldn't you at least have put some good bats in the lineup?

That's me--influenced by short streaks. But let's not forget that you regularly refer to the 16-4 streak in August as evidence this team is basically sound. Me, I look at 4 of our 5 starters--in a row--pitching poorly and am ready to call Houston to say we have a problem. Worse, the hitting has been sour--at least against opposing starters--for the last 10 games with the notable exception of the 3 dingers in the one game we did take in NYC. That lousy hitting has been with us all season. It is not a short streak. You yourself have noted noted how bad our hitters are compared to last year and even how bad post all star game vs. before. Plus it's September, for crying out loud. Patience is a virtue with limited value this month. Even though all wins are equal, to me wins and losses in September are more important simply because the team and the manager have lost the element of time to put bad streaks behind them. I have defended Farrell because I think all managers deserve that, but also because I just haven't seen any of his decisions hurting the team--until last night. I have also said, however, that the best yardstick for all managers is wins vs. losses and whether FO believes the manager got the most out of his players. Since I don't think I'm qualified to say whether a manager got the most of his players, I go pretty much by wins and losses. You win, you stay. Not, you go. Thus I don't want to fire Farrell now because the season isn't over. But I absolutely want to vent a little bit right now because I watched last night's game very intently and I honestly am not sure Farrell did.