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  1. illinoisredsox
    Second time this season they've scored 3 in extras in a game he started (the 3-0 game that Leon hit the 3 run shot in the 12th was the other).
  2. illinoisredsox
    It was the right move. It just didn't work. Ends a streak of 25 straight saves for Kimbrel, and he was 5-5 this year.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Do you send Sale back out or bring in Kimbrel? 3-4-5 due up for the Jays.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Are back to back hits legal?
  5. illinoisredsox
    You just know how this will end, Jays will win 1-0 on a bleeder, a sac bunt and a bloop that lands in no man's land.
  6. illinoisredsox
    16 straight scoreless innings now for the Sox; Betts was the first guy to even reach 3rd in that span. They have scored a total of 3 runs in Sale's 28 innings on the mound this year.
  7. illinoisredsox
    He is indeed, inthe words of Spiro Agnew, a nattering nabob of negativism.
  8. illinoisredsox
    And he was hitting .143 before yesterday. Got to give players a couple of hundred plate appearances before really drawing some conclusions. Pablo's around 50-60 right now. His bat speed is definitely better, now whether that translates to consistency, who knows. The Sox don't need him to hit .325. .260-.275 with some power will be an improvement over the black hole that was 3rd base last year.
  9. illinoisredsox
    More concerned with the 6 walks he's allowed in 8 1/3 innings than anything else. Only 5 hits given up on the season so far, and the runs last night were the first ones he's allowed all year. K numbers (10) are good. If he has 1 bad outing every 8 times out, I think we can live with it.
  10. illinoisredsox
    And as the old Oriole PA guy Rex Barney would have said, give that fan a contract. Nice catch by the guy in left.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Agree. There's no real out pitch that I can see. He needs pinpoint control to succeed and I don't see that in him. You can get by with a mediocre fastball; see Uehara, Koji but you'd better have something else that's really good and you have to have great control.
  12. illinoisredsox
    One plus for the pen; no Tazawa. As well as he pitched against virtually every other team, the Jays were kryptonite to him, especially in Toronto.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Solo homers don't bother me all that much; some of the best pitchers in the game give up a lot of homers. But not giving up 3 and 4 run homers is key and Johnson avoided that. Let's hope the pen can do it's job Got to wonder who closes with Kimbrel having gone 3 straight days.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Well after a couple of games where the starters didn't get out if the 5th, the bullpen has to be taxed. You can't burn the pen for 7-8 innings. Modern pens don't have a real long man anymore. There were several times when I was a kid when Bob Stanley would come in in the 1st or 2nd and finish the games. I recall once when he pitched from the 1st into extra innings. This is part of the marathon, it's not the sprint portion of the season. More a hope game tonight; hope Johnson can keep it close and get some runs off a guy who can be tough at times.
  15. illinoisredsox
    And again today, Sox fielding costs the pitcher. Both runs unearned due to the Hernandez drop and it cost Wright 13 extra pitches.
  16. illinoisredsox
    If you didn't see the game, he deserved a lot better in the first. 5 of the 8 balls he walked the first two Rays hitters on could have been called strikes (and were for both sides after that half inning). An ump may not give a pitcher the border on one side of the strike zone, but Barrett wasn't giving Pomeranz any side. Even with that, if Benintendi catches the ball near the wall (which he should have), Pomeranz gets out of that inning either unscored on or maybe giving up one run.
  17. illinoisredsox
    So next time it comes on, turn the sound down so you won't be subjected to it.
  18. illinoisredsox
    I was just looking at his numbers; he's got some pretty good minor league stats. 33-17 in four years, ERA of 2.75, WHIP of 1.15. Above all, he has always thrown strikes, with roughly a 3:1 K:BB ratio. His big league numbers over 15 games haven't matched his MiLB stats, but he's continued his trend of throwing strikes and he's had some pretty good outings since he came up last July. He's also only 24, so he looks like he could be around a while as a #2-#3 type guy. In any case, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss him as a total nobody. The Bucs seem like they have a decent hurler in him.
  19. illinoisredsox
    Unfortunately, that first inning is going to end his day early; he's at 75 pitches through 4 (32 of those in the first), so this is probably his last inning.
  20. illinoisredsox
    d-money is only here when the Sox are behind.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Or what?
  22. illinoisredsox
    Going to be hard to do since they play Pittsburgh.
  23. illinoisredsox
    You can put it on the board, yeess! Actually, Kimmi, et. al. may not have the, ahem, pleasure of listening to Hawk. Ken is lousy and can be annoying, but anyone who is willing to call Joe West a joke on the air at least rates a few extra broadcast points in my book. And Hawk doesn't pretend to be anything other than what he is, a homer. Thorne, on the other hand just comes across as a total asshat.
  24. illinoisredsox
    I swear, I did not see that article before Mr. Rice linked it. But with Mookie and now Hanley back from the flu, I started wondering when Ross could come off the DL.
  25. illinoisredsox
    Robbie Ross is eligible to come off the DL on April 13. While I can see him throwing a couple of times at Pawtucket/Portland in a rehab, he likely will be back with Boston early next week at the latest. Who goes? The obvious choice would be Ben Taylor, since he has options, but one has to wonder if Abad, a guy who seems to be in witness protection, will be the one. He has yet to appear in a game; I'm not sure he has even warmed up. They used call-up Noe Ramirez against the Tigers last week instead of Abad. Thoughts?
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