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  1. illinoisredsox
    Any announced make-up date? Lots of common days off, June 7, 17 and 21, August 23, September 16, 23 and 27; I didn't check where the teams were playing around those dates.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Lot of very soft contact by the Marlins the last 2 innings.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Agree.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Barnes will pitch the 9th unless the Sox take a big lead in the bottom of the 8th. Sawamura will come in for Hernandez if he gets to the Marlins right handed hitters. Edit - like now.
  5. illinoisredsox
    Hernandez is the real box of chocolates out there right now; you really don’t know what you’ll get from him. Seems like it’s either great or bad, seemingly very little in between.
  6. illinoisredsox
    He’ll regress a little, those numbers aren’t sustainable to that level. That being said, the angst here over him has been basically unfounded. He had 2 awful outings early in April which make his season look a lot worse than it’s been. May’s been excellent and he was pretty good the last part of April as well.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Yep, now 4-46. His issues are usually walks.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Can’t, he has to face 3 hitters or finish the inning.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Taylor’s numbers in May going into today, 10 games, 7 innings, 1 hit, 3 walks, 6 Ks. 3 really weak hits and 2 Ks today in an inning. He’d have been better off with harder contact today. The dribblers would have gone for outs and the ground rule double goes foul. It’s baseball.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Venable. Cora’s attending his daughter’s high school graduation in Puerto Rico.
  11. illinoisredsox
    I pretty sure that the umps are required to wait a certain amount of time before they can call it: I want to say it's 75 minutes but don't quote me on that.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Workman's on a minor league deal; he's not on the 40 man roster.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Unless they've changed the rules, you can't trade recent draft picks for one year. It's one of the reasons you sometimes see PTBNL take a long time to actually be named; the player can't actually be officially traded for a period of time.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Any word on who is coming up?
  15. illinoisredsox
    For those who went to bed early: Taylor started the 7th; hit the first batter (Acuna, well the umps said he got hit), got Freeman on a deep fly to left and then induced Albies to tap a soft grounder to second base that the Sox just missed turning into a DP; Cora brought in Ottavino, who got a foul pop by Riley to end the inning and then set the Braves down in order in the 8th. Sox scored 2 unearned runs in the bottom of the 8th on a walk to Bogaerts, a ground rule double by Renfroe, an error and a SF by Vazquez. With the 5 run lead, Andriese started the 9th, got one out and then surrendered a bomb to Contreras. After a single by Acuna, Cora brought in Barnes who got Freeman to hit into a game ending DP. Final 9-5
  16. illinoisredsox
    That depends on what type of first strike thrower said pitcher is. If he tends to throw the same pitch in the same spot most of the time, sure, have at it. If he throws a lot of first strikes but the location and type of pitch vary, then you have to be disciplined enough to look for a particular pitch in a particular spot. If it's not there, let it go.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Catcher doesn’t get the putout if there’s a throw to first; catcher gets an assist with the first baseman getting the putout. And Bellhorn is right about it being something no one cares about.
  18. illinoisredsox
    Au contraire, I saw a pitcher (Ryu) who kept our hitters off balance all night. Up, down, in, out, changing speeds and putting the ball exactly where he wanted it. Every pitch had a purpose and he executed extremely well. He’s a very good pitcher and you saw it on display tonight. He’s now pitched 12 innings against Boston this season and the Sox have scored in exactly 1 of them; they got 4 off him in one inning back in April at Fenway but they did little else; the other innings were pretty much a carbon copy of tonight.
  19. illinoisredsox
    He was at 94 a couple times early, which is higher than it’s been. It went down as the pitch count mounted, but with men on constantly, every pitch seemed to be a stress pitch.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Watching Ryu tonight showed what a good pitcher can do. Every pitch he threw was with a purpose; one set up another and he had pinpoint control. He knew exactly what he wanted to do and did it. It would not have mattered how well ERod pitched tonight; Ryu was masterful.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Nope. Border’s closed. Moose out front shoulda told you.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Was it Mussina who something like “you’ll start 32 games. 8 of them you’ll have everything working, 8 you’ll have nothing working and the others you’ll make do with something working.” The only saving grace at least 3 of the hits ERod has allowed have been grounders. We aren’t as concerned if those are at somebody.
  23. illinoisredsox
    He’s been known to do that to a lot of teams, especially the past few years. His ERA+ the past few seasons is really good (198, 179, 162 and is at 144 this year). He’s a damn good pitcher.
  24. illinoisredsox
    He’s slumping at the plate right now (lot of K’s lately) and it’s carrying over to the field; seems to be an ongoing theme with him. The better he’s hitting, the better his fielding.
  25. illinoisredsox
    ERod is a number 2 type starter. He’s almost always going to give up 3 runs and give you 6 innings. Most of the time he’s going to keep you in a game and give the team a decent chance at winning, but he’s not the type of guy who can win a game by himself. Over the course of his career, he really hasn’t shown himself to have #1 stuff, either in the way of overpowering pitches (like we think of most aces) or in terms of pinpoint control (ala Greg Maddox). I haven’t seen the bulldog mentality that goes along with a #1 either. He’s a good pitcher (maybe our best one) but he’s not a true #1; he has the role by default. Now coming off of the heart issue last year, I’m willing to cut him some slack this year.
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