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Nervous about using Chapman here; he threw a lot of pitches last night. Edit - posted as Butler hit that double.
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The second worst thing about that inning was now the Sox will have 7-8-9 to try and score the ghost runner should it get to the 10th.
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Asking for a 4 game sweep at any time is foolish, even moreso on the road and even moreso when it involves a trip to the coast. 4-3 or 3-4 on this trip would be just fine.
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It may not be all on that, but it’s a definitely a factor.
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You could tell on the second strike it wasn’t going to happen. He was in last year’s swing mode, not this year’s more disciplined Cedanne.
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There’s something called an occult fracture that doesn’t show up on initial x-rays but does show up in later tests (follow on x-rays or MRI). The wrist is apparently one of the areas susceptible to them. Lord knows the Sox medical staff has been less than good, but I could even see a case here where a Sacramento area specialist had to read it to find it. It really doesn’t matter; the injury is what it is and I doubt the treatment for the first 24 hours has adversely affected anything as far as recovery.
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Then you’d complain that he took a hittable pitch. He’s gotten the job done almost every time this year. Contrary to expectations, sometimes these guys fail.
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He got hit in the hand in his second AB. Stayed in to run but it swelled up big time. Did not look good. How’s the heat in St. L? I know the heat index was 124 yesterday and in the 110s today. Kinda hot to go to a game, but then I played golf today and the heat index was 112 here in the Quad Cities.
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He’s got 4 sacs this season, second on the team. He’s normally gets them down.. A 100+ mph fastball is a tough pitch to bunt.
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Might have gotten tagged on the elbow. Too close to overturn the call.
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Very poor AB; all he needed to do was roll one over
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Uh oh.
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Cease is fully capable of being that dominant multiple times a season. This kid is not, but any pitcher at the major league level is capable of doing it. How often they do it is what separates the great from the good from the average from the poor.
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He took care of it at the cost of 5 pitches.
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Doesn’t matter what his ERA is up to tonight. What matters is how he’s throwing tonight, and that sweeper has had a ton of movement on it. This is an abnormal game from him but those can happen.
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Or projectile defecation
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Or maybe the Cardinals could have taught Darrell Porter or Jack Clark how to catch a foul pop up for what would have been the first out; that changed the inning as well. The Cards also still had a game 7 they could have won. They didn't even show up. A year later, the Sox lost a World Series game 6 in horrific fashion but managed to play a competitive 7th game.
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Sox now with 22 sac bunts on the season. That’s 2 more than 2024 and 2025 combined.
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Red Sox Acquire Curtis Mead for Connelly Early
illinoisredsox replied to TriplePlay8's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Seigler for now. Longer term , perhaps they have had it with Mayer? -
Ah yes, virtue signaling.
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Who cares, and that question covers many levels.
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The streak was going to end sometime. We can complain about Rivera’s start (and it was bad) but the Sox have 1 run on 4 hits. Not going to win many like that. Most likely going to go .500 or so for a while.
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Real question, which would be worse? a) the period from 1949-2003 where you were very close a lot with some truly bad years in the early 60’s or b) the period from 1919-1933 with 15 straight losing seasons, 9 of those below .400, one of which they went 43-111 I say b, but that’s just my opinion.
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Magic number for a playoff spot is 63. The Sox lose a tie break to the Twins, they are 2-1 vs. the Mariners with a series to play.
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From what I have read about, he was. He was an average at best fielder, had an average arm and was below average speed wise. He probably could have been a better fielder; he just didn’t care about that side of the game. Not much you can do about arm and speed; you are what you were given in those categories.
