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  1. Maxbialystock
    Everyone with confidence in HanRam in this next at bat, please raise your hand. I don't see any hands.
  2. Maxbialystock
    great bunt by moreland!
  3. Maxbialystock
    Pineda is pitching well, and Price isn't. It's that simple.
  4. Maxbialystock
    Correction. He just threw one and it produced a weak grounder foul. So of course he won't do that again.
  5. Maxbialystock
    Did I forget to say he can't even throw a slider or curve to a lefty batter?
  6. Maxbialystock
    How in the hell could DD shell out $200M for a pitcher with no repertoire? Fast ball, cut fast ball, the fast ball again. Or a changeup in the middle of the zone with no movement.
  7. Maxbialystock
    What do you to bet the pitching coach just told Price, "hey, don't be afraid to throw fastballs."
  8. Maxbialystock
    I get it now. He can't throw a changeup--one that's any good, anyway. The same must be true for the curve and slider. So the Yankees are going to get a steady diet of fastballs and cut fastballs. Nice work if you can get it.
  9. Maxbialystock
    Isn't this fun? Now Farrell comes out to complain Price is being squeezed. If he is, it's no more than Pineda.
  10. Maxbialystock
    Price did throw the one changeup, but I don't believe we've seen a curve or a slider for that matter. Whoops, there goes another walk, so now men on 1st and 2d and no one out.
  11. Maxbialystock
    I seriously don't like the way this game is going. Price seems once again to have fallen in love with his fast ball. Occasionally he throws a cut fastball, and I did see one changeup for a called strike, which must be why he stopped throwing--can't have that. Pineda meanwhile is really mixing up it up and getting K's or weakly hit balls, including one of our two hits. So Price is having to work harder and harder to get outs--he's already at 47 pitches with 0 outs in the 3d inning--and Pineda is finding it easier and easier to get outs, the second time thru the Sox lineup yet. This, sports fans, is the Price of last year. Mindless.
  12. Maxbialystock
    Winning this series would bring the Sox back to 1 behind the Yankees and ensure a winning 10 game road trip. The Sox kind of stole game 1 by jumping on Tanaka's mistakes with dingers--3 I think. Game 2 the Yankees jumped on Porcello in the 4th while Sabathia shut us down. Tonight I think Price will pitch well, but I also would like to see the rest of the team play tough--good defense, smart baserunning, timely hitting.
  13. Maxbialystock
    Actually, brainless might be advantageous. I think some pitchers tend to overthink and second guess the catcher.
  14. Maxbialystock
    Another excellent start by Price would sure hit the spot. Betts Beni Bogie Moreland HanRam JBJ Rutledge Pablo Vazquez Four lefty bats alternating--2d, 4th, 6h, 8th--which I like.
  15. Maxbialystock
    Super. Thanks, JBay. Hopefully, Youk will kill my thread. In any case, I will post here.
  16. Maxbialystock
    I too thought Barnes could get one more out, but the real point is that there was more than one good move available, and the one Farrell took worked. If it had not, if Kimbrel had given up a 2 run dinger to tie the game, I would still have said it was a good move.
  17. Maxbialystock
    You're right. A very balanced game--all the bad stuff in one package.
  18. Maxbialystock
    S5Dewey is dead right. Kimbrel's primary value is to secure wins. I would have kept Barnes in for that third out, but I think I would have been wrong. Plus this was a Yankees game and right now we are chasing them, and this was a chance to win one in their park.
  19. Maxbialystock
    A balanced game. Sox weren't hitting and Porcello wasn't pitching, so we did not waste a great pitching performance nor a good night at bat. 8-0 says it all. But of course we will have those who say, "wrong. Farrell lost this one with that terrible lineup.
  20. Maxbialystock
    Well, not most nights, but certainly too many nights. I think that's the direct result of no Ortiz, whose presence in the lineup appears to have made other hitters better. Tanaka is having an awful season, but back in April he threw a shutout against the Sox--9 innings worth.
  21. Maxbialystock
    Are you serious? Those five guys, awful as you think they are, have 4 of our 5 hits tonight. On top of that Pedroia is on the DL, Marrero is way better than Pablo on defense and Pablo doesn't hit lefties well. Travis hits lefties way better than Moreland. Vazquez would no doubt have hit better than Leon, but my guess is Leon got the nod because he's a better defensive catcher. So my question back to you is, what the hell are Betts, HanRam, and JBJ doing out there? No hits among them plus JBJ looked awful running into Betts who was the right guy to make the play on the single to right center.
  22. Maxbialystock
    None so blind as those who will not see. Sabathia is headed toward a shut out because he's pitching great--mixing up his pitches and hitting his spots. Oh, and he maybe prayed that Benintendi, the most feared hitter in MLB right now, wouldn't get into the lineup. Sabathia knows he would have been helpless against Beni because he owns lefty pitchers, even those he never batted against.
  23. Maxbialystock
    Michael Kay is so perceptive. All by himself he figured out Ortiz wasn't in the lineup. What an idiot.
  24. Maxbialystock
    Against righty batters Sabathia is hitting the outside corner with sliders, and that, ladies and gents, is simply great pitching. His lost a few mph on his fastball, but it's still 91mph. But time has improved his control and ability to use a variety of pitches and put them in tough places in the strike zone.
  25. Maxbialystock
    Who did you have in mind that isn't out there? Ortiz retired, in case no one told you. This team, with any lineup you want to pick, is going to be shut down by good pitching. Sabathia has a good repertoire and good control and I'm guessing pitching motion is deceptive. It is ridiculous to claim the manager can someone fix a dominant performance by the opposing pitcher by, for example, using Benintendi, who ain't they good against lefties and who has never seen Sabathia pitch before.
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