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  1. illinoisredsox
    Who didn't see that one coming? Even when he swings at the first pitch (about once a month), he's not really committed to it. Just look at the Astros' hitters. They are looking to hammer the first pitch that comes in their wheelhouse. They don't stand there and look at it. Make a perfect pitch and they wait for a better one, and once they get to 2 strikes, they foul tough pitches off.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Kelly was warming in the first. And as I type this, here he comes.
  3. illinoisredsox
    It's a reference to the 2004 ALCS. Before Game 4 (remember the Yanks led 3-0 at that point), Kevin Millar was good by around to anyone who would listen saying "Don't let us win tonight" and then added they had Schilling and Pedro scheduled for games 5 and 6 and that in "Game 7 anything can happen."
  4. illinoisredsox
    Well at least they are giving Shaughnessy and his protege at the Herald, Buckley, some good material to write about.
  5. illinoisredsox
    And now Betts reinjures his thumb/wrist. Is Stephen King writing this script?
  6. illinoisredsox
    They are easily ignored.
  7. illinoisredsox
    I think some will go. To me, the only absolute keepers are Betts, Benintendi, Devers and Vazquez. Everyone else is fair game, and even Benintendi could go in the right deal. Unfortunately, Hanley is untradable and Pedroia will veto any trade.
  8. illinoisredsox
    They might, but the Astros have a lot of really good hitters. There's never a break. How many teams have their leading RBI guy batting 8th.
  9. illinoisredsox
    WTF are you talking about?
  10. illinoisredsox
    See what happens when you are actually committed to hitting the first pitch if it's in your wheelhouse
  11. illinoisredsox
    Maybe it's time to admit the Guardians last year and the Astros this year are just better. Name a position player for the Sox who would start for this year's Astros. Betts probably. Perhaps Vazquez, because he's better defensively than anything the Astros have and with the rest of that line-up they could carry whatever weakness he might have with the bat. Devers would probably still be at AAA in the Houston organization. I don't see anyone else that would be a regular in Houston.
  12. illinoisredsox
    That's one interpretation; there are others that are just as viable.
  13. illinoisredsox
    It is very hard to string together a bunch of hits off good pitchers. The Astros have scored 12 runs this series, 8 of them on homers.
  14. illinoisredsox
    This is who they've been all year. Mediocre offense occasionally buoyed by a good week every month or month and a half to prop up the stats.
  15. illinoisredsox
    They had their chances early against a good pitcher in Keuchal and didn't take advantage. He's rolling now.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Well I guess Farrell gets to fly back with the team; the two hardest hit balls of the day from the Sox are off of Young's bat (the line drive to Correa his second time up being the second).
  17. illinoisredsox
    It is patently obvious what you are doing.
  18. illinoisredsox
    Smith should have gotten himself tossed. Then Price would have all the time he needs to warm up, and I would take my sweet time doing that if I'm Price.
  19. illinoisredsox
    DD, he's lawyering you. He's going to keep peppering you with questions and he will NEVER answer a question you ask him.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Those of you of my age will remember Frank Howard, a guy eerily similar to Judge in size at a time when athletes in general were smaller than today. He put up several 40 home run seasons in the late 60s. He was just a big man. Judge is just a big man. If he were inclined that way, he'd make a heck of a tight end or offensive tackle in football or perhaps a power forward in basketball.
  21. illinoisredsox
    A player who becomes injured can be replaced on the roster, but is out not only for the remainder of the current series, but the next one as well.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Ortiz is actually an example of a player who did seem to elevate his game in key situations. Baseball Reference has a stat dealing with leverage (high, medium and low). They define leverage as how a situation affects win probability. Man on second late in a tie game = high leverage, same situation in a blowout = low leverage. Somewhat subjective, but instructional: Ortiz's stats by leverage: High - 1998 PAs, .292/.388/.556/.943 Medium - 3921 PAs, .299/.388/.571/.959 Low - 4162 PAs, .271/.368/.532/.900 His career slashline was .286/.380/.552/.931 He did seem to "bear down" when it counted. But the numbers still are not all that different than his overall career.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Tell that to a lawyer.
  24. illinoisredsox
    I played against a kid from a neighboring town in Babe Ruth ball who ended up at UConn and then was the #1 pick of the Jays; he never made it past AAA. He was a year older than I was per the way youth baseball figured their ages back then, but he was only a couple months older than me on the calendar. I hit him pretty well in Babe Ruth, he was skinny and basically had a curve ball (I could hit those, mostly because my swing was so slow). Two years later, we became teammates on a Legion squad; he had grown about 6 inches, added about 30 pounds and was now throwing in the mid 80s (still had the curve). I couldn't touch him in BP, let alone a game. He played, I mostly sat.
  25. illinoisredsox
    I think that was one of my rare birdies (I'm usually good for 2 or 3 a year).
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