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  1. illinoisredsox
    He wasn’t going to score on the 3rd inning double; Betts wouldn’t have scored on it. The one in the first okay, yeah, although Mookie made it a moot point.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Ultimately the protest will go nowhere, since it had no material affect on the outcome of the game. That's the proviso that MLB uses to get around technical violations that don't really amount to anything. However, there may well be some clarification in the rule book and/or case book to codify what should happen in these situations.
  3. illinoisredsox
    This time? Nothing. The thread is 2 years old and I guess there were conflicting reports about his involvement then.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Mueller’s hit came with no one out.
  5. illinoisredsox
    And all any of this shows is that 99% reliable is not 100% reliable.
  6. illinoisredsox
    People forget that Rivera also blew a save in the 8th inning of Game 5 when he allowed a game tying sac fly by Varitek. But I think he came in with the guys on 1st and 3rd and no one out; an incredibly tougher situation. Still, there’s no one else I would have wanted on the mound in those situations.
  7. illinoisredsox
    New rules this year; no trades after July 31. You can still pick up a player in August if he is put on outright waivers and you claim him or he is released, but no trades are allowed.
  8. illinoisredsox
    That will increase offense even more. About a decade ago in high school softball, they moved the pitching circle back from 40 to 43 feet, offense went up a lot.
  9. illinoisredsox
    In fact, he may have been easier to hit if he was throwing harder. When you’re geared to 90+, adjusting to 70 is hard.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Exactly. But there are impatient posters here who demand perfection to start, and then improvement from there.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Pretty obvious Eovaldi needs reps. What’d he throw, 1 minor league rehab inning? The stuff is there.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Good call 😉
  13. illinoisredsox
    It wasn't just 3 games to none, it was 3.9 games to none with the GOAT on the hill for the Yanks for the last 3 outs.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Agree. 4 runs will keep you in most games. Unfortunately, the O’s pitcher picked today to have a career game.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Why wait for a decent game? Do you seriously think major league GMs care if a guy just had a decent game?
  16. illinoisredsox
    I’m at a community theater performance of 42nd Street tonight, plenty of tap dancing in it
  17. illinoisredsox
    I agree. But even the GOAT is a goat once in a while; all it means is he was human. My vote for best pitcher of all time is for Walter Johnson. 400+ wins for basically mediocre Senators teams (in an era when wins meant something for a pitcher) 110 shutouts. A career ERA just north of 2.00 and he held the strike out record for over 50 years. All while throwing just fastballs ( they say he very occasionally mixed in a curve). It’s also said he was deathly afraid of hurting someone and rarely threw inside.
  18. illinoisredsox
    Excellent. Hard the believe it’s been 50 years since I heard those immortal words. I was just shy of my 11th birthday that Sunday afternoon and evening. I was reflecting a couple days ago on how much has changed over that time. One was that they took that journey with a computer with less power than the phone I’m typing this on. Then it hit me that my grandmother, born in 1889, came into the world about the time of the invention of the automobile and lived to see a man walk on the moon. To keep this baseball related, that was before the DH and it was the first year of divisional play.
  19. illinoisredsox
    One good sign is JBJ has gone to the left side 3 times. He seems to hit best when he does that.
  20. illinoisredsox
    There’s no secret to keep. I’m pretty sure the scouts on other teams have their opinions on what’s up with him.
  21. illinoisredsox
    I think that back is still bothering him some, not terribly but enough to screw with his swing just a bit, and that’s all it takes.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Actually, forget that back end arm part; I bet they activate Eovaldi for tomorrow.
  23. illinoisredsox
    This is the perfect time to use him. If he manages to wriggle out of this cheap (say only giving up 1 run), then maybe the Sox offense can come back against the O’s pen. If he doesn’t, so what?
  24. illinoisredsox
    If it gets too far out of hand, Weber will probably eat some innings, then get sent down for some other back end arm.
  25. illinoisredsox
    Price has overall been decent this year. He didn’t have it tonight. Have to wonder if all the pitches he threw against the Dodgers affected him tonight.
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