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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe, but sometimes you just gotta ride the hot hand -- like in the first century of organized baseball before Earl Weaver invented analytics (he kept track of individual stats vs. each pitcher and team). I won't get into concepts like "crunch-time" or "rising to the occasion", but managers have been sticking with guys on hot streaks (until they cool off) forever. There's never an uproar when they leave a hot batter up in a statistically "bad" match-up... but how many of us just hate it when a skipper benches someone who only the day before went 4-for-4 or slugged 2 HRs?
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    BB-ref doesn't differentiate arms in 2 Outs, RISP (at least, I couldn't find it)... but here are Verdugo's overall career splits: .299 vs RHP, .271 vs LHP. He may be worse vs. bullpen specialists, since here are his career splits vs. starters: .285 vs. RHP, .300 vs. LHP (granted, the latter is in half as many ABs, but it's still a stat worth reconsidering as far as starting him).
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What about this weekend? This is, after all, a 2021 thread... Personally, I'd keep Houck in long relief through the playoffs. But the real guy in charge -- the one who's actually winning -- keeps taking him out earlier than I want.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... or we hope Verdugo is locked into another level, like he claimed he was after last night's swings. If JD is out, we lose our top hitter with 2 Outs, RISP: .349. Our next best batter with 2 Outs, RISP is Verdugo, at .321.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd guess the X pedigree of "winner" may now be even more attractive to his agent, in regards to opt-outs and other clubs looking soon to import championship culture. His heroics last night, however, were most likely less a recency and more just a reminder of Bogie's skills.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Here in New England, there are two TV channels that talk "sports". One features two gamblers handicapping football lines all day, while the other blabs about Brady and Beli 365 days a year. So to get any Wild Card coverage, I'm watching the Yankees channel replay their postgame wake and clubhouse interviews with the losers. I'm just wondering how ESPN, in its next Aaron Judge Special, will spin his eloquent summary: "We just got kicked in the nuts..."
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Savoring this W this morning. Didn't expect much gloating on this classy site, but there's nothing wrong with basking. I love the way Cora adapts his postseason bullpen -- even in regular-season games with "playoff" implications -- and doesn't go by the book to sink or swim with defined role-players who can no longer be trusted. I never expected the Red Sox to rebound this fast from the low point that was 2020, but I'm not fooled into thinking they're any kind of favorite for any ensuing round, either. The only thing I was sure of from the preseason on is that the Yankees weren't nearly as good as the rest of the universe predicted. That the Sox could knock them out and prove it, is the highlight of the season... so far.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sox batters had 7 hits, Yanks had 6, with 2 homers apiece. Sox batters struck out 9 times, Yanks fanned 11 times... ... but here's the key stat (for everyone who gave the visitors the edge because of pitching): New York walked 7, Boston walked 0. That's none, zilch, nada. Zer 0. No free passes.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This win made my season. Last year's last place Red Sox just eliminated The Greatest Team In The History Of Never! And the next time we play NY, all media outlets will show Bogie/Schwarber HRs, Dugo's clutch hits, and the Kike/X-man relay to nail Judge -- over and over again... no they won't; they'll just show Bucky Dent and Yaz pop out.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Start spreading the LOSE -- you dork, you dork.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ARod just made excuses for Cole gagging, blaming it on Cashman for loading up the batting order with swing-and-miss hitters.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm half-laughing... because even though he got them out 1-2-3, I still don't feel confident that he went in.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Robles? Is this really necessary?
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Leave Houck in. He is unhittable. Even when he got the loss to NY, it was because Darwinzon hit Rizzo and then gave up the salami.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I saw what you did there.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Keep showing Judge in the dugout. He has a lot to do with Gardner's three Ks. Leave. Houck. In there.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Anything but a ground ball.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That was a clutch hit.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You left off some zeros: 180,000th time they showed it.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Three innings of outs to get from Boston pitchers. Houck and Whitlock, please.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Keep showing Judge in the dugout, ESPN. He's still out.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's ok, rather have Kyle get a pitch to hit
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Gotta love seeing Yankee batters keep trying to hit four-run homers with nobody on base.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's a hit with the usual stupid shift on him.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So far, at least we know that the highest paid pitcher in the history of the world choked in the one game that everybody said was "the reason the Yankees signed him".
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