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  1. I'm a little surprised Marrero isn't at third this inning.
  2. Hanley be patient wait for a hittable pitch.
  3. He is but you don't have to play along. For the record, Farrell has managed the game just about as well as he could from the pitching standpoint IMO.
  4. Fenway giveth and Fenway taketh away. Fenway took one away from him there.
  5. You might see some combination of them for 9 outs.
  6. He did back in the 2008 ALCS.
  7. Hanley's one guy who's not shy about going after the first pitch. His problem is he goes after ANY first pitch way too often.
  8. Yeah but just like JBJ, the strike 2 call set that up.
  9. 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.
  10. Kelly was warming in the first. And as I type this, here he comes.
  11. 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."
  12. Well at least they are giving Shaughnessy and his protege at the Herald, Buckley, some good material to write about.
  13. And now Betts reinjures his thumb/wrist. Is Stephen King writing this script?
  14. They are easily ignored.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. WTF are you talking about?
  18. See what happens when you are actually committed to hitting the first pitch if it's in your wheelhouse
  19. 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.
  20. That's one interpretation; there are others that are just as viable.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. They had their chances early against a good pitcher in Keuchal and didn't take advantage. He's rolling now.
  24. 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).
  25. It is patently obvious what you are doing.
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