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ding, ding, ding. Winner.
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Sox Pitching Staff Discussion
illinoisredsox replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Bring that one up to the catchers. My guess is after you present it to Messrs. Hanigan, Leon and Vazquez, the site would be looking for a new moderator. -
First strike was debatable but possible. The last one was a joke.
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Agree. You have to swing the bat. I've seen Bradley try to bunt; he can't so that was never an option.
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Be a lot more impressive had you joined JasonBay and my posts about this LAST inning.
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I'm in the Central Time Zone. I got 45 more minutes. Edit: maybe not any more. Damn wind
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This guy looks to be very tough on right handed hitters
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Got to be Price's last inning. There's no put away pitch right now.
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If they walk CV you let Price bunt and give Mookie a shot to drive him in. If they walk Mookie you have Pedroia.
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Personally I would have saved Shaw for later and had Rutledge lay one down to advance Young to second.
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You do realize Bumgarner is one of the best in the game, right?
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They should never have hit for Willoughby in the 8th.
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If Vazquez goes out do you hit for Price? I say no.
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True but moreso for an AL guy. An NL guy figures to get a few ABs a week pinch hitting for pitchers or as a result of double switches.
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Got to feel for Rutledge. 1 AB since May 29 (against a guy throwing 98) and then a start against one of the best in the game. The life of an AL bench player.
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Home runs don't bother me. It's what damage is done with those home runs that matters. Porcello has allowed 148 home runs in his career. 86 have been solo, 44 have been with 1 on, 17 with 2 on and 1 grand slam. That ratio really hasn't changed with Boston. For Boston, he's allowed 37 total, 22 solo, 13 2 run and 2 3 run. Solo homers don't mean much and 2 run homers normally don't kill you. Of course, you can't give up 3 or 4 of them in a game. Put another way, a solo homer is 4 total bases and 1 run. 4 singles is also 4 total bases, but would normally score 2 runs and there's still 2 men on base.
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One could also say he was unlucky in the fourth. Two very soft hit singles followed by the sharp grounder through the hole set the whole inning up. The walk to force the run in was not good, but better that than giving up a big fly ala Buchholz, and he minimized the damage with the DP ball. I'm not sure what people are expecting. He's not a Cy Young candidate. He's a #3-4 starter. He's durable, he'll give you 6 or so innings most times out. He's going to give up 3-4 runs most games. Those types of pitchers are going to look great when everything is in sync, but they don't keep it in sync for more than a few games at a time. Realistically, if before last night you were told Porcello would give you 6 innings and 3 runs, how many would have taken it? Be honest. I know I would have.
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All I'll say is the guy behind the plate last night was excellent. Nice and consistent the entire game, which is all the players ask for. Sure, he appeared to miss a few pitches, but the "misses" were always borderline on the black type pitches. No down the middle balls or strikes on pitches 4 inches out of the zone.
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Sox Pitching Staff Discussion
illinoisredsox replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Those slumps always seemed to coincide with visits to Kansas City. The Sox just could not seem to hit there in those days. -
Sox Pitching Staff Discussion
illinoisredsox replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Nah, at least when Kelly gets hurt it's baseball related. Pulling a groin running happens. An arm injury while actually throwing a pitch happens. And he comes back in "normal" time frames. Buchholz missing half a season because he slept wrong holding his daughter not so much. (Now to be fair, I have always believed that Buchholz hurt his shoulder a couple of weeks before the sleeping incident in a game against Toronto when he awkwardly fielded a chopper near the first base line and fell on his right shoulder. The sleeping thing may have further aggravated it, but I think the fall was the actual cause. His velocity has not been the same since.) -
No max, you are right on Shaw. Hard stuff away, and especially up, is giving him fits right now and for the past few weeks. He needs stay on those pitches and even think left field on them. He may need a day or 2 off to clear his head (frankly, tonight would not be the worst time for that with a very tough lefty going for the Giants). He has been in every game so far, and I think maybe started all but 1.
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Sometimes pitches down the middle get popped up, sometimes good pitches get hammered. Betts nails a ball up the middle that was caught by the pitcher. Bogie bloops one into no mans land that score 2 runs to win the game. It's baseball.
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He made the play of the night last night when he slid under that tag avoiding the double play on Big Papi's chopper that tied up the game. Great base running.
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The homer wasn't even a bad pitch. Down and away; yeah it could have been a little more down and away, but it was the kind of pitch that a left handed hitter will often roll over and hit a grounder to second with.
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Sox Pitching Staff Discussion
illinoisredsox replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Rather than eliminating data points, just cap the number of runs that you use at some number (11, 13, 15, whatever). Above a certain level, it really doesn't matter. You could probably adapt something like what the USGA does with equitable stroke control (ESC). ESC basically means that for the purposes of determining handicaps, your score on a given hole is capped at a certain level. You still write down what you made on the scorecard, but when you report it afterwards, it gets adjusted. Right now, my max score n most courses is an 8. So If I shoot 90 but on one hole I had a 9, the handicap formula uses ESC and records it as an 89. Obviously in baseball, you wouldn't weight the adjustment, but you could still cap it.