dannycater

When he was 8-4, all I heard from one clown in here was how he hates watching EROD pitch and he's inconsistent and wild, etc. I'm like, the guy is outpitching all the big names on the staff, and has gotten better and better when some of the big names are simply s***ing the bed.

EROD has been outstanding and continues to be pretty much the most reliable SP in the rotation. Great job in a big game, they are all becoming big games, but when you face a team in the WC race, every win is a big deal. Go Sox!

I find it way too much to play teams 19 teams or so a year. It's too many games same opponent.

Devers, Holt, Bogie, Betts all swinging the bat well and Workman mostly been lights out of pen. Sale was due, overdue, and past due. Good for him, better for the Sox.

146 transactions or reported moves by Red Sox since April 3. The Clown Car has officially run out of gas.

The only band that mattered. :-)

f*** Cora abused Brasier, talk about knee-jerk reactions

Last year if they averaged 7 runs a game over a 25-game span, the team probably would have gone 22-3

I can't believe I'm saying this but if Rock the Cashner doesn't get 18 outs, I almost half-expect the fans to boo him if he gets shelled early.

Great post about connecting bad bullpen to offense not clutching up. That's also been a signature problem. At least in the Toronto win, the SP and the bullpen were in essence bailed out by the offense. So mark that one for the offense doing their job, maybe more so than it should have.

Really to expand on my last post, a lot of good innings by the bullpen in a lot of games, it's just they play Russian Roulette by having to throw a 4th reliever because the f***ing Starting Staff collectively can't go enough outs.

You ever notice on the Sox pen that it's usually just one guy who implodes when it's a string of 3 or 4 relievers (save for the Yankee debacle in London where it seemed everyone got hit). And it's almost always a different guy. One game it's Barnes, then it's Brasier, then it's Walden, etc.

HanRam, then Nunez, oh the humanity.

Should Wright make a joint apology to 1. his teammates, 2. his wife, 3. the game of baseball, 4. the organization, 5. Red Sox fans....he's running out of excuses

I don't know when it happened--maybe it was when he was sent in to pinch run in a harmless rout at LA Dodgers in a regular season game--but everything since that freak injury has been a Steven Wright Nightmare. He is a car wreck. A running joke who has done so many things to prematurely end his career off the field, and can't stay healthy on the field. Tim Wakefield pitched countless innings throwing the knuckler and never seemed to get hurt. Wright can't go 10 pitches without something happening to him. Yes, I know he got hit by a line drive, as he was batting practice v. Dodgers, but this guy was supposed to be a mainstay innings-eating SP, then an innings-eating reliever, and now he's a f***ing joke. I'm sick of him. Please end his run as a Sox. Waiting for him to either get healthy, get off of a self-enduced suspension, or pitch adequately is too much. Sick of watching him. He was fun to watch during the Farrell final season, but those days are over.

Bill Stoneman threw 2 no hitters too. And no one cared for his 54-85 career record.

Interesting that both '76 and this year were coming off of World Series Hangovers.

great post. nice fans out there, let's quit in July in a crappy AL where the wild card is right there for the taking.

More remarkable on JBJR's split is even with that he is hitting with a lousy overall batting average. It's like he is either 1.009 or .601 with no in between.

Ok, it's fun too.

I was a pitcher in college, yes the game is not quite baseball anymore. It's evolved into some sort of home run derby and let's see who can make the best highlight reel dive, leap, throw--which is great, but you wonder what happened to pitching in general and hitting for average too.

Like moon said, you just congratulate guys in general, it's part of the game and part of being a good teammate, and frankly good sportsmanship too.

denny, he knocked in a run, what does it matter that it was down 6, or up 6, or down 15. You can be personally mad at yourself, you can be happy to drive a ball, you can be whatever you want, but your teammates have your back, and the way we were all taught as teammates is congratulate your teammate regardless of outcome. You strike out, you still pat the guy on the back, get them next time. If you knock in a run, you high five him. It's all good.

I can't argue with the way the game has changed. Pitchers and the mentality of pitching has changed more so because SPs are expected to only get 15-18 outs when for more than a century they were give me a good 7, and if you throw a CG thank you very much. Relivers are now all throwing in the 90s. Hitters mentality changed to drive it out of the park when ever possible rather than hit a line drive, put the ball in play, or hit and run, etc. Hitters bat speeds are faster than ever and that's why if you do through a fastball down the middle, and now even a good curve, in all likelihood it could go out of the park against 9th hitters. Fooling hitters with breaking balls is not as easy as it was, and throwing a hard fastball better be on the corner or down at the low knees to be effective. Anyway, it's a different game today and it's become a strikeout, home run game and ESPN highlight reel for defense making more remarkable plays because players are more athletic than ever. The game has changed, the mentality, the coaching, the instruction, the video, the analytics, the scouting, the shifts. It's all check your index card in your pocket. Used to be hey move to the gap because want to prevent an extra base hit. Not anymore, you are scouted and thoroughly so to the point where the shift works more often than not. Guys are catching balls in what before would be considered outlandish areas to field a ball (shortstop 5 feet to his right of the 2nd base bag has to go to his left up the middle and makes play, and you go but he's the shortstop not the 2b??...all works). Tendencies of hitters, tendencies of pitchers, etc.

The last thing you need to criticize in sports is how you react after your team does a successful thing, in this case scoring a run. It's the goal of the game, score runs. Celebrating and how you go about it in your own dugout is not my concern and not a disrespectful thing unless you are taunting someone up 10 runs and you point scoreboard to the other dugout. Celebrate goals, touchdowns, baskets, great saves, diving stops, great throws and if you are down by 3 touchdowns, or 10 runs or 25 points, so what. Part of the game.