2:15PM Eastern
Red Sox
Rick Porcello (R)
1. Mookie Betts (R) RF
2. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF
3. Steve Pearce (R) DH
4. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B
5. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS
6. Rafael Devers (L) 3B
7. Eduardo Nunez (R) 2B
8. Sandy Leon (S) C
9. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF
Royals
Jakob Junis (R)
1. Whit Merrifield (R) 2B
2. Jorge Bonifacio (R) RF
3. Mike Moustakas (L) 1B
4. Lucas Duda (L) DH
5. Alex Gordon (L) LF
6. Hunter Dozier (R) 3B
7. Abraham Almonte (S) CF
8. Adalberto Mondesi (S) SS
9. Drew Butera (R) C
Gametime Forecast: 88°F • Clear • 1% PoP
Take care of TODAY's business with ONE EYE on what the YANK$ are doing !!! thumb_u rofl rofl
Sox on the board on a sac fly by Pearce. 1-0 Sox.
KC giving away runs again. We'll take them.
Sox starting to pull away from KC. 6-3 in 7th with 2 on and no outs.
Yanks pull out a win in the 10th. Sox need to keep pace.
Sox tack on another run. Now 7-3.
Decent effort by Porcello. 111 pitches. Struggled some but got through 7 innings with the Sox leading 7-3. Up to the pen now to finish it up.
Decent enough game by Porcello.
Whoa, great minds think alike, eh Geo?
Barnes done good.
Quote from: markj on July 08, 2018, 04:15:10 PM
Barnes done good.
He even threw a couple splitters for strikes. If he can control that it would make him a much better pitcher.
5 double plays today. Surprised we got 7 runs doing that.
Can't seem to bring this game to an end.
Finally. Another sweep. They're playing well lately.
Not a thing of beauty but a win is a win. Porcello with the win & Kimbrel with the save. On to Monday we go.
SWEET sweep again!
I'll take it!
Our Sox are 62 - 29.
WOW!
We will look a lot different MONDAY as we return HOME with a few new players & BLAKE SWIHART behind the plate !!! iono iono iono iono
Nothing to complain about and that is very good for us Red Sox fans. The team is doing what it needs to do and that's win and try and sweep series after series, hard though it might be, because the Yankees are not going to go away. Fortunately we picked up two games on them the past week as they stumbled in their series openers against the Braves and Blue Jays. Next for them is the slumping Orioles while we take on a Texas team not doing all that well but who could be dangerous if we try to take them lightly. We hit well today and got a yeoman performance from Rick Porcello, though I still think he gives up too many hits, but we gets the job done so I guess that passes muster. We all should turn in tonight happy but start concerning ourselves with the next game by the time we're fully awake. But I really like the way we took on the Nationals and Royals this past week. If only Baltimore could find a way to give the Yankees a bad time.
A sweep is a good thing. Fred, you're right about Porcello - he gives up too many hits but somehow gets it done. He's looking like himself from 2 years ago. I just hope it channels into the postseason. Because Price shouldn't be anywhere near a pitching mound come october.
As DAD would say, "SON, that was a good road trip, lets go HOME" !!! YES, HOME AT LAST, HOME AT LAST !! thumb_u rofl rofl
Remember Porcello had no run support last year. It seems like this team has overcome the run support issue, at least for now. It would be good to see them take it to teams like the Yankees though when they play them. Still, have to win as many games like these as you can and they've been doing it. What's crazy is we've won 62 games already. Baltimore likely won't win 62 games this year.
Now back home but two teams that we can't sleep on as they seem to get us from time to time in Texas and Toronto. Time to make a good strong charge to the All Star Break.
Quote from: longgame on July 09, 2018, 08:43:04 AM
Remember Porcello had no run support last year. It seems like this team has overcome the run support issue, at least for now. It would be good to see them take it to teams like the Yankees though when they play them. Still, have to win as many games like these as you can and they've been doing it. What's crazy is we've won 62 games already. Baltimore likely won't win 62 games this year.
Now back home but two teams that we can't sleep on as they seem to get us from time to time in Texas and Toronto. Time to make a good strong charge to the All Star Break.
Ted, our team can't sleep on anybody. That's what got us into trouble the last five or so years. We have to win those games against the so-called sub par teams and we can't consider them sub par teams either. We have to keep playing our best baseball and hope we get a little help from Baltimore and Cleveland this week.