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  1. illinoisredsox
    Exactly; you can't play baseball well in a rage. And even if you could, it is impossible to keep that up day after day for 6 months. It's not football, where you get to turn it on once a week. Even in football, positions such as QB and receiver cannot be played angry.
  2. illinoisredsox
    And if we look back in the archives, you will find a thread (or 2) just like this from last year. And the year before that. And ... Some of it's bad contact, some of it's bad luck. Benintendi hit a couple of balls for outs yesterday that were stuck well. Bradley smashed at least 2 bullets right at the first baseman. I am concerned about 2 guys, Bogaerts and Pedroia, who have combined for all of 2 extra base hits. These are guys (especially Bogaerts), who should be doubles machines, who should be in the 40s at least for XBH over the season (Xander should be 50+).
  3. illinoisredsox
    A lot of credit. Filthy.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Don't fall for his bait, Max
  5. illinoisredsox
    Don't fall for his bait Kimmi.
  6. illinoisredsox
    And I hate to say it but the Yankees have a real good one in Severino. He can be nasty. Best hope for the Sox is Girardi over manages and they can get to the pen. They aren't touching Severino.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Not having a good night defensively either. Two bad throws and failed to contain a pitch in the dirt that cost the 3rd Yankee run.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Which umpire? There are a few that are held in such high esteem that the players and mangers might take up a collection and give the cash to Harper (or Tejada).
  9. illinoisredsox
    And Mookie will be the one to "pay" for this. He will get thrown at by some nobody on the O's staff at some point later this year. When that happens, benches need to empty and somebody needs to make a beeline straight to Showalter and pound the snot out of him.
  10. illinoisredsox
    I think JD Drew was on the DL a couple of times with vertigo. If I remember right, Holt missed considerable time with concussions symptoms last season (I'm thinking around 6 weeks). And I think he has had more than one concussion in his short career. One has to wonder if there is relation (at least as a contributing factor if not the main one).
  11. illinoisredsox
    As I said above, it was the correct move. Kimbrel has converted 25 straight saves and was 5-5 this year; he's been very good of late and has had 2 days off. It was a move that just didn't work. Morales is a good hitter, so it's not like he gave it up to some stiff.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Kimbrel vultures the win
  13. 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).
  14. 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.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Do you send Sale back out or bring in Kimbrel? 3-4-5 due up for the Jays.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Are back to back hits legal?
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. illinoisredsox
    He is indeed, inthe words of Spiro Agnew, a nattering nabob of negativism.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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