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All very logical. But we're talking about the 2025 Red Sox, who struggle to score, even when loading the bases with no outs. Over and over... which also makes it logical at this point to call a suicide squeeze in every game down the stretch. And just so fans won't think these Left On Base LOBSTERS are a rarity in Beantown, read on: yes, the '25 Sox lead all of baseball in average LOBs per game (15.23 according to Fangraphs) -- but this is a tradition! I can't make this stuff up: the all-time American League record for most LOBs in one game is 13 by Dustin Pedroia (15 innings, 9/15/2017)... who broke by one the previous AL mark, established by Trot Nixon (13 innings, 6/12/2003)... who tied the old AL record of 12 set by David Oritz (12 innings, 5/14/2009). The all-time record for most LOBs by one team in a nine-inning game also took place at Fenway Park on September 21, 1956. That game was won by the Red Sox, 13-7, because they only left 5 on base. The Yankees left 20. -
Just trying to be realistic, since they're playing the team with the best record in the league, in Toronto, where the Jays will be fighting to clinch the AL East, the top seed, and a first-round bye. If the Sox can win one of the next three, it can set up a showdown with the Tigers at Fenway that may determine the final wild card, with loser go home. If Game #162 is a must-win for both Detroit and Boston, what are the odds that either or both Hinch and Cora start their aces, Skubal and Crochet, on short rest? At least one front office will try to forbid it -- too much invested in the future, plus we need him in a best-of-three series... and at least one manager will shrug and say, We Gotta Get There First.
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Best case scenario that will never happen is that the Tigers sweep in Cleveland, thus clinching the Central, and then rest all their regulars in Fenway to intentionally let the Sox make the playoffs as a weak opponent. Such strategy may backfire on Detroit, though, because Boston is starting half its bench every game already this month (well, at least platoon-worthy guys, besides Bregman and Story).
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Be a shame to leave them exposed to the Rule X draft -- it's a new draft where teams pick players that are original clubs are then forced to keep.
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If the Red Sox players were service vehicles, Duran would be a cement-mixer.
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Sending a guy when you have men on second and third and no outs -- and trailing by 3 runs -- can only be considered a smart risk when it's the Red Sox... .... because it's not even guaranteed the next three batters will make contact.
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If Early can shut out the Rays the rest of the game, while the Sox just score their average runs per game, Boston will win by almost 2 runs (1.92 exactly -- which probably means Hamilton slides headfirst towards home, but never reaches the plate when his oven mitt pops off)
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30 to nothing already
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getting late Early
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To quote the Pointers Sisters, "I'm so excited, and I just can't hide, I'm about to lose control and I think it's... (NOT Weissert, NOT Wilson, NOT Kelly -- wait, is that Matz or Slaten... nope...) it's TOLLE, it's TOLLE!"
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I do... in the bathtub. Dirt dogs always leave a ring. If they get in, the Sox can compete in any pitchers' duel -- as long as they keep bunting guys over and shooting liners, grounders and flies to right field. If they swing from the heels, they could get no-hitted two games in a row.
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DET can't hold a baseball, a glove or a bat right now I am answering.
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I Campbell threw the last inning, gave up 2 H, 2 BB, 2 Earned Runs. And yet, according to baseball scoring rules, he saved the game. With pitchers like that, who needs belly itchers?
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Seattle deserves to get to their first World Series because even though they already had the HR champ and three other consistent longball threats, they still swung deals at the deadline for two more -- Naylor and Suarez. That's going for it. Boston desperately needed just one of those D-back power guys to replace Devers' pop, but decided it wasn't worth it this year.
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Boston's offense may be lacking a lot of consistent contact, and longball threats, but requisite plate appearances aren't the problem. That just means the Sox' part-timers are good part of the time -- good enough, somehow, to win 15 more games than they lose.
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I think it's uh-oh for Detroit. Before the final series at Fenway, they have three in Cleveland that could decide the Central DIvision. Since the Guardians will never lose again, the Tigers could trudge into Boston facing elimination. But no matter what happens in that Cleveland series, either the Tigs or Guards will lose at least two... so the Sox could also go 1-2 in Toronto and pass one of them. Of course, all those scenarios are dependent upon today, and all three, plus Houston, remaining status whoa. Or woe... -
Just looked up the record for most times not scoring a single run with the bases loaded and no outs. The answer is 2025... if you're wondering if that is the year or the total, the answer is yes.
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Instead of hijacking a thread to spew another redundant, noxious diatribe of hatred, why not focus on the unsung hero in the title: Eaton the sparkplug kept contributing last night, especially in the big 8th inning when he ripped an RBI single, stole a base, walked, scored a run, and blasted consecutive fouls into the Atlantic Ocean. From my son's travel team coach who once played in the minors against Nate Eaton: "Great arm and wheels, but at the time there were a lot of other guys in that league we thought would make the majors before him. But Nate Eaton never stopped hustling."
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Key stat for the weekend: even after bombs given up by Crochet and Murphy last night, the Red Sox pitching staff has allowed the least home runs in the AL. The Sox may have feasted off a rookie mound debut and the Rays mailing it in on defense, but don't overlook the clutch HRs by Bregman and Duran, which surely gave the dugout a big boost in building back confidence and figuring things out. As long as either Harrison or Early keeps it in the ballpark in the next two days, gotta like the chances for another W, especially with Whitlock and Chapman rested and ready to go. -
Looks weak and tepid, maybe even doomed. But root hard for the underdogs to hang in there, and maybe give us at least another week or two to watch our favorite laundry. And it does matter if they make it, to give the future core in the dugout and the bullpen a taste of the postseason -- and a little experience to expand upon in the next half decade of Red Sox history.
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Gotta get in and see what happens this year. There's no guarantee anyone will even have a next year. Crochet could have an accident skiing or playing basketball or speed-boating at night -- all scenarios that actually took down (sometimes tragically) star MLB players in past offseasons.
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The 2026 Red Sox Foundation & One Possible Plan
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Yes. I've posted about this so much, people may think I'm homer happy -- which is far from the truth. But if the Red Sox are going to continue to be defined by infrequent contact and constant whiff, the runs have to come from somewhere. I'm actually all about making contact, and a little concerned that the Big Three rookie sluggers all had high K-rates (the latest debate at home is my son admires Nick Kurtz and is shocked I would take Jacob Wilson instead in a heartbeat). But for a team putting its money on the mound, a few longball bats can go a long way in winning more low-scoring games. If you subtract the HRs from Raleigh or Schwarber, their batting averages on hits in the ballpark are .164 and .165 -- and does anyone care? -
A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Sox need to win at least 4 of the final 9 to make it... as long as Cleveland doesn't play .700 in the last 10 (Guards go 7-3 and we're out). So Boston needs 3 wins on Crochet Days, and hopefully one from Early or Gio. I have no confidence right now in Bello-up. -
It's not their fault -- their bellies were so bloated from fried chicken battered in flour, MSG, and 11 herbs and spices, not to mention Charles River Light, that they couldn't get out of their own way.
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Might as well ask: can Crochet make three more starts? Tonight vs. Tampa, then Wednesday in Toronto on 4 days rest, then the final game of the season vs. Detroit on... 3 days rest. If it's a must-win to make the playoffs, will the front office refuse to let Cora not use their ace?
