dannycater

If you watch HanRam, you'll notice he is really not trying to do much...just keeping his bat lined in the zone..hence lots of base hits, not trying to hit out of the park with that big-butt, braids flying, helmet falling off swing we used to.

Bst, I really believe they have no idea how to pitch to Astros hitters...it's winging it along at this point. Look at Sox pitching coach. His head is down like wondering "what the f*** can we do here? ummm, well, if we can just keep 5 of their hitters from hitting bombs...Oh f*** it, Rick, just guess."

I want Leon's bat in the lineup. I'm sorry, but Sandy is swinging it well and you need all the bats you can get.

Amazing that as bad as Rick is, he is still the best Sox SP all series....that was excruciating, I'l take 1-run deficit 9,027 pitches, 1 hour first 2 innings just to give up ONLY 2.

Vasquez standing up, he wants fast balls up

This is just sick, agreed. So hard to watch Sox SP f***ing fail every game.

I called 35-pitch inning....ugh, hate being right.

Sale should be the guy up, not 58

And it's still the best start by a Sox SP all series...and it may be a 35-pitch inning still yet...argggggggggggggggggggggh

They really employed a 15-second post rule??? LMAO

yes a thumb protector

Agreed that one he did check it...not a swing.

nibble, nibble, nibble, foul ball, nibble, foul, nibble, big swing, nibble some more.

Sox now need to have a 35-pitch no run inning from Rick.

Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookie

All about the Power...Xander!!!

Betts should just lead off period.

A Xander lunge tap...Oh wait, performed by Pedroia...

He was pitching like a pussy, but last at bat was good...

The sad part of that inning is that WAS THE BEST FIRST INNING ALL SERIES BY A SOX STARTER!!! yessssssss! get in there!!! Go Sox!

Same thing in the 78 playoff. Piniella playing out of position on RF line, can't see a thing due to blinding sun, but is able to catch a ball on Lynn, then same thing on a hop on Remy base hit, stopping Burleson at 2nd when he could have easily jogged to third. Rice then hits a bomb out that would have scored Burleson for a sac fly and tying run...arggggggggggggggggggggggh

Sox are proving every baseball expert right...and that has to be the worst thing about all of this...predictability of both the Astros and the Sox. But all it takes is a home run by a Sox player early in a game and who knows. But that's the hard part---who will step up and homer? Should have happened in Houston. I would have played Holt in game 2 as a gut thing as he is a Texas boy (as is Chris Young). I also would have held on to Price but that's because I knew game 2 was over...by the time they put him in after Calvson SchiSmith, it was at best a waste of his pitching. He could have gone long on Monday with the season on the line...217 million, he should be throwing 4 to 5 innings regardless of his lack of use after injury. Fister, who know. Either he shuts them down or he gets roped in the 1st inning, something that Doug has been doing a lot of this season. You can't fall behind against the Astros. Sox are in no position to come back with the 2 hits, 1 walk and maybe scratch a run offense against the 1 swing and you are down 3-0 Astros.

hey, hey, slash...always rely on your hottie photos for avatars..time-honored tradition I still see. I'm trying to figure out if anyone remembers last year's dead-walk v. the Guardians. Well, this is dead-walk part deaux. Sox are indeed the Walking Dead.

sarcastic, illi, sarcasm

Manufacturing runs no longer matters...hitting HRs matter. So get home run hitters..agreed.