BOSTON RED SOX V OAKLAND A'S
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2019, 10:08 PM EDT,
OAKLAND COLISEUM, OAKLAND, CA
NESN, NBCSCA
BOSTON, (1-4)...OAKLAND, (4-3)
BOSTON:
CHRIS SALE, LHP, 0-1, 21:00 ERA, 4K
The ace looks to recover from a rough Opening Day, when he was shelled for seven runs --
including three homers--in just three innings against the Mariners in five career starts at
Oakland. Sale has a 2.33 ERA
OAKLAND:
MIKE FIERS, RHP, 1-1, 5.00 ERA, 5K
In his most recent outing last Thursday, Fiers pitched like the ace that the A's hoped he
would be, yielding one hit in six shutout inning against the Angels. He's 2-0 with a 1.99 ERA
in four career appearances against Boston.
https://www.mlb.com/gameday/red-sox-vs-athletics/2019/04/02/566091#game_state=preview,game_tab=,game=566091
Red Sox
Chris Sale (L)
1. Mookie Betts (R) RF
2. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF
3. Rafael Devers (L) 3B
4. J.D. Martinez (R) DH
5. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS
6. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B
7. Brock Holt (L) 2B
8. Christian Vazquez (R) C
9. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF
Athletics
Mike Fiers (R)
1. Marcus Semien (R) SS
2. Matt Chapman (R) 3B
3. Stephen Piscotty (R) RF
4. Khris Davis (R) DH
5. Kendrys Morales (S) 1B
6. Mark Canha (R) LF
7. Jurickson Profar (S) 2B
8. Ramon Laureano (R) CF
9. Josh Phegley (R) C
WHAT is it with our pitchers and home runs????
Sale gave up a solo shot to the second batter he faced.
A's 1 - Sox 0
Bottom of the first inning . . .
SIGH
C'mon SOX - NEED TO SCORE RUNS!!
To the top of the 5th inning
A's 1 - Sox 0
Xander swinging at crap again. 15 innings without a single run. I'm going to bed.
Xander strands Benni at 3rd base.
STILL
A's 1 - Sox 0
Going to the bottom of the 6th inning.
15 innings with NO runs against the A's
SAD, really sad.
Sale has pitched well for 5 innings, he NEEDS run support.
Let's GO Sox.
Chris Sale thru 6 innings - 87 pitches, 1 run allowed in the first inning.
Top of the 7th inning
NEW pitcher for the A's
WE NEED TO SCORE RUNS!!!
6 hits = NO RUNS.
DANG IT!
Going towards another shut-out.
DANG IT,
SHUT OUT AGAIN.
18 inning without a run.
DAMN!
Sox LOSE 1 - 0.
Sale pitched a gem, 1 run.
Bullpen pitched well.
WHAT happened to our bats??????
SALE deserved better.
SOX fans deserve better.
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
SOX had 7 hits = 0 runs
A's had 3 hits = 1 run
and that 1 run was a home run.
SO VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THIS TEAM.
What I saw in Spring Training is happening in the early part of this season.
AND the teams that played well in Spring Training have continued on in the regular season.
Sale did his job.
Sox cannot win if they don't score runs.
THIS LOSS is on the batters.
I have no idea, but it looks like a bunch of guys thinking more about their contracts than winning baseball. But like you guys say, maybe just a long WS hangover. Alex said he can sleep now because "we're competing." sigh
They hadn't loss 4 in a row all last year. I'm not sure they were shutout two in a row either. Bogey gets thrown out at home and at third so far. Nobody else is hitting.
Saw Sale on NESN this morning and he was saying he couldn't throw a fastball without them hitting it. Not sure what it is up with these guys, but I will point out that both Seattle and the A's appear to be unbeatable and I'll attribute that to being at least a week ahead of anyone else. Something for MLB to think about before they schedule another pre-season series like that.
I guess we're going to have to wait for the Rays and O's to slug it out! iono
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on April 03, 2019, 05:46:14 AM
I have no idea, but it looks like a bunch of guys thinking more about their contracts than winning baseball. But like you guys say, maybe just a long WS hangover. Alex said he can sleep now because "we're competing." sigh
Seriously!!!!
I do hope you meant that to be comical.
Another thing to remember is that Pedey and Pearce have not yet made their appearances either. We know they're weak at 2B with Nunez and Holt and Holt, by the way, looks horrible. So plug up that hole and add to right handed bats to the lineup and that will help. There was one inning, I think right after Fiers came out, that they sent in a lefty and we faced him with three lefties who were quickly retired. Would have been nice to have a righty to put up in that situation, but it's one thing to send up Pearce and quite another to insert Travis into that situation.
Just an educated guess that Xander won`t be running on Ramón Laureano .2 tries 2 throwouts.
Quote from: BoSoxFanNY on April 02, 2019, 10:53:09 PM
Xander strands Benni at 3rd base.
STILL
A's 1 - Sox 0
Going to the bottom of the 6th inning.
15 innings with NO runs against the A's
SAD, really sad.
Sale has pitched well for 5 innings, he NEEDS run support.
Let's GO Sox.
What did you expect. Bogaerts is absolutely horse dung in a close one or two run game with runners on base. With no one on and two outs you can expect a hit like in the ninth inning, but never never when we need a hit in a close game. He is the last man I want up there in such a situation and I have repeatedly said that since 2014. And no tice when he got that hit in the ninth inning? He not only hesitated rounding second base, which what everyone was talking about, but how about the way he jogged to first base? He efen loafed to first base.
WOW, now 1 & 5 …… How much longer will this last ….. ??????? iono iono iono