Game time 7:10 PM
Orioles
Jimmy Yacabonis (R)
1. Cedric Mullins (S) CF
2. Jonathan Villar (S) SS
3. Trey Mancini (R) 1B
4. Adam Jones (R) DH
5. Renato Nunez (R) 3B
6. Joey Rickard (R) LF
7. John Andreoli (R) RF
8. Steve Wilkerson (S) 2B
9. Caleb Joseph (R) C
Red Sox
Chris Sale (L)
1. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF
2. Brock Holt (L) 3B
3. Steve Pearce (R) 1B
4. Rafael Devers (L) DH
5. Blake Swihart (S) RF
6. Brandon Phillips (R) 2B
7. Christian Vazquez (R) C
8. Sam Travis (R) LF
9. Tzu-Wei Lin (L) SS
Gametime Forecast: 74°F • Mostly Cloudy • 13% PoP
Sale a little off to start. Let's see if he can pick up the pace as the game goes on.
Quote from: Schloicka on September 26, 2018, 06:29:35 PM
Sale a little off to start. Let's see if he can pick up the pace as the game goes on.
Just shaky enough that they’re lining up at the Boston area bridges! All we needed for Sox Nation’s wariness was shaky Sale in his last regular season start!
Bases loaded, surely we do can something here? Ump isn’t helping.
Quote from: longgame on September 26, 2018, 06:41:04 PM
Bases loaded, surely we do can something here? Ump isn’t helping.
The O’s are just bad.
Bases loaded, one out. Swihart K's looking to make it two outs. Then a nice O's error saves the inning and gets us a run. Lucky.
Sale looking much sharper too.
What is with Raffy? He gets a pitch right down the pike and over the plate and just looks at it, and then seems a bit surprised that he just K'd.
Sale is done. Not his best outing for sure. 92 pitches in 4-2/3 innings.
Swihart not a right fielder.
Meatball Matt giving up the runs.
Quote from: markj on September 26, 2018, 08:51:42 PM
Meatball Matt giving up the runs.
Well markj, let's see if Alex Cora finally learned what you and I both know, not to mention most people on this board......YOU NEVER THROW THE MEATBALL TWO GAMES IN SUCCESSION, rainout or not. He has never pitched well in successive games, and you do not relieve him with inherited runners. Of course, it would be easy for me if I was running the show. I would not put the meatball on the post season roster. He cannot be trusted any more than Kelly can......and I would try and use Wright a couple of times in the Yankee series to keep his knuckler sharp and would most certainly pitch Sale a couple of three innings either Saturday or Sunday. He must not go over a week without pitching in a competitive setting.
Quote from: Schloicka on September 26, 2018, 08:45:46 PM
Swihart not a right fielder.
Well not a R F at Fenway, but he could play it elsewhere and we need to give this guy a full chance to catch or play some in the field. He can hit and Vazquez can't very well and Leon can't hit at all...….and we need to put the best nine bats in the lineup. I also concede....Phillips is not ready for post-season play. That homer in Atlanta was nice but he looks like a player whose time may be up.
Kimbrel is out of control. Looks like crap. Just what we need.
Not a good showing of our pitchers
AND not a strong lineup.
Don't like losing to the Orioles.
AT LEAST the Yankees are losing to the Rays 7 - 3
going to the top of the 9th inning.
What a pathetic effort all around. Let's hope they step it up against the Yankees.
10 - 3 Orioles over the Sox.
Sad
(KNOW this game means nothing, but the Orioles?)
CRAP - the Yankees are coming back.
NOW 8 - 7
SORRY I posted that the Rays were winning . . .
At least the Yankees lost 8 - 7.
AND truly disappointed with our Sox tonight
AFTER being so delighted with the Sox victory this afternoon.
We split the doubleheader, but I'm more than a but peeved. I didn't expect offensive fireworks in the night game, but the starting pitching situation in BOTH games has me concerned. We can say Price had 1 bad inning and bounced back. That's NOT cutting the mustard in the postseason. 1 bad inning and poof there goes the game. Same with Sale: not the sharpest pitching line either = 4.2 inns and 3 ERs. Not playoff good. These are the O's for crying out loud.
As for the pen, Meatball has been pretty reliable all season so I'll give him a pass. Now, Kimbrel? When he's bad he's throwing a lot of balls. And 3 flippin' walks! I'll even let that slide since it wasn't a save situation.....
We now have wounded starting pitchers...great.
Maybe Price and Sale need to pitch every five days???
Terrible game.
As DAD would say, "SON, ya can't win them all" !!!! ICE CREAM for ALL !!! iono iono rofl rofl rofl
Quote from: longgame on September 26, 2018, 06:32:37 PM
Quote from: Schloicka on September 26, 2018, 06:29:35 PM
Sale a little off to start. Let's see if he can pick up the pace as the game goes on.
Just shaky enough that they’re lining up at the Boston area bridges! All we needed for Sox Nation’s wariness was shaky Sale in his last regular season start!
They must let him pitch again this Sunday for three or so innings. He needs work and get his fast ball and slider up to par. We cannot afford another dipsy do from Chris in the past season this year. The Yankees are demolishing the Rays in their series and will come primed to give it to us this weekend and soar their confidence that in the ALDS they will take care of us. We must not let that happen and must prepare for a tough series with the Yankees in the ALDS and we can prepare to do that by giving them the business this weekend. This coming series is of great psychological importance and Cora must NOT be experimenting in it. He should know by now who should be on the roster and who shouldn't be.
While it makes sense to be concerned about our pitching, let's take a deep breath and say 1-0-7. Remember, this thing is salted away and for now doing things like finding out if Barnes can come out two days in a row or not is pretty important. The bigger problem is that it doesn't seem to matter who Cora throws out their to test, they fail. As for Devers, I think he's going to sit a lot if Nunez is healthy. I think the kid needs glasses. If Swihart is playing it's going to be as a pinch hitter or the game will already be over. He's the guy off the bench. On the offense I'm more worried about the Moreland, JBJ and Kinsler and have written off any hope of offense out of the catcher spot at this point - Sox really need to address that next year.
Quote from: longgame on September 27, 2018, 06:41:22 PM
While it makes sense to be concerned about our pitching, let's take a deep breath and say 1-0-7. Remember, this thing is salted away and for now doing things like finding out if Barnes can come out two days in a row or not is pretty important. The bigger problem is that it doesn't seem to matter who Cora throws out their to test, they fail. As for Devers, I think he's going to sit a lot if Nunez is healthy. I think the kid needs glasses. If Swihart is playing it's going to be as a pinch hitter or the game will already be over. He's the guy off the bench. On the offense I'm more worried about the Moreland, JBJ and Kinsler and have written off any hope of offense out of the catcher spot at this point - Sox really need to address that next year.
No Ted, they need to address their pathetic offensive catching situation now. We cannot afford to give the other team four outs a game since we know our team is capable of having a two or three game drought. Leon stinks at the plate and Vazquez isn't much better, and while Leon does handle the pitching staff well he cannot be a help unless the team hits behind him. Vaz also is weak offensively but I have also noticed that he also calls a pretty shitty game behind the plate as well...….perhaps he isn't too smart but I am confounded by his pitch calling. Again and again and again, I come back to Blake Swihart. He is not that bad a catcher and he can hit if he is kept in the lineup instead of being jerked around by Cora. With Sale maybe not at 100% full strength (hope I'm wrong about that), Porcello's penchant for giving up too many hits and sometimes too many runs, E-Rod's in an out performances and bullpen arsonists like the Meatball, Ross, Pomeranz, and Kelly, WE NEED THE BEST NINE BATS W E CAN GET IN THE LINEUP AND THAT MEANS NO VAZQUEZ (210) OR LEON (179). We will have to hit and hit well if we want to advance beyond the ALDS----for a freakin' change.