ROYALS V RED SOX
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2018, 7:07 PM AT FENWAY PARK
TV: NESN, FSKC
KANSAS, (7-21)........................................................................................BOSTON, (21-7)
KANSAS:
JACOB JUNIS, RHP, 3-2, 3.34 ERA, 25K
Junis takes the mound in the middle game against the Red sox. Junis will be
looking to bounce back after a rough outing Thursday against the White Sox in
which he gave up six hits, including a career-high five home runs in 5 2/3 innings.
BOSTON:
CHRIS SALE, LHP, 2-1, 2.31 ERA, 45K
The ace wasn't at his best in his last start but still got the win in Toronto, giving
up four hits and three runs in six innings while striking out four. Opponents are hitting
.203 against Sale this season.
https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-vs-red-sox/2018/05/01/529845#game_state=preview,game_tab=,game=529845
RedSox lineup:
Benintendi CF,
Ramirez DH,
Martinez LF,
Moreland 1B,
Bogaerts SS,
Devers 3B,
Bradley Jr. RF,
Vázquez C,
Lin 2B,
Sale P
TWITTER
DO NOT POST UNTILL GAME STARTS
Quick 11 pitch inning for Sale.
Maybe once Vazquez gets under.100 Cora will give Swihart a chance
Sale is just bad luck for this team. They can't seem to score a damn run when he's on the mound. Even Xander K'd with bases loaded. Ugh.
Raffy now has 6 of the 9 Sox errors.Huge work in progress in the field.
Vaz blows an out at the plate.
2 HBP and a E plus a sac fly gets in a run .Go figure.
Sale having control issues tonight. Almost plunked another one.
Bats are snoozing so far.
Royals playing small ball and scoring runs. Sox look an awful lot like last year's team.
Moreland with a solo dinger. Sox finally on the board.
Raffy wanted to stand there admiring his "homer" I think. Not quite deep enough.
Wow, JBJ with a hit and RBI. What do you know.
Big run on 2nd .Who gets him home?
Nice to see the Sox get some freebie runs for once.
Sloppy play by Nunez and Moreland. Nunez had time to throw and rushed it and Moreland muffed the scoop on the bounce. Now they have a runner in scoring position.
Bad play by Nunez. Had time to set and throw. Moreland should of picked it easily.
DP ball needed here.
Now Xander with a screw up. No harm done, thought. Barnes gets out of it.
Ugly inning but no runs.
Couple insurance runs would help.
Glad that 1/2 inning is over. They tried like hell to give KC a run. Let's score a run now for some insurance and then Kimbrel time.
Let's go Kimbrel.No room for any drama tonight.
Kimbrel with another blown save.
OH NO - a solo shot by Gordon, his first home run of the season.
3 - 3
DANG IT
1st blown save of the year by Kimbrel. Let's go offense. Get us a run.
First blown save, but he gave up that walkoff homer earlier. I guess that wasn't a save situation.
Now Carson Smith? Egad.
Dammit. Hanley almost ended it. Not quite enough.
It just didn't have enough.
TOO BAD.
THAT would have been an amazing way to end the game.
On to the 11th inning . . .
Hembree gets them through another inning. Time for the blasted offense to do something.
Well that was a quick bunch of nothing.
Tough jam to get out of here.
KC is good at small ball. Now up 4-3.
On we go. Tied up again.
Sox with 4 errors tonight. FOUR! Ridiculous.
Way to go, Johnson. That's it. Game over. Sox will never get 3 runs back. Johnson has not been dependable as of late.
DAMN -
And the Yankees came back to score 4 runs in the top of the 9th inning
once Verlander was out of there.
Yankees 4 - Astros 0.
DAMN.
THIS loss is on Kimbrel though.
One bad pitch.
DANG IT.
JBJ with another RBI. Still need two more runs.
Well there's one. Now 7-6. Still need to get Vaz home now.
This team is battling back.
Royals 7 - Sox 6
Two outs in the bottom of the 13th inning . . .
Thought I smelled crow cooking for a minute there. No such luck.
DANG IT -
well, this team fought a good fight.
STILL, this loss was on Kimbrel
and then Johnson.
(Guess we are missing Kelly.)
DANG IT.
Why do we seem to lose on Sale Day more often than win?
AND 4 errors . . .
For a time there in April, the team had no errors.
Frustrating to lose a Sale game day.
AND this game was cruising along time wise -
until Kimbrel blew the save in the 9th inning.
Game was almost over in less than 3 hours.
Went an extra hour and a half.
Tomorrow is an afternoon game.
Quote from: BoSoxFanNY on May 01, 2018, 10:39:44 PM
DANG IT -
well, this team fought a good fight.
STILL, this loss was on Kimbrel
and then Johnson.
(Guess we are missing Kelly.)
DANG IT.
Why do we seem to lose on Sale Day more often than win?
When Nunez' drive was flagged up against the CF wall just inches out of reach for the Royal CF, I think it was the gods of fate giving Cora a BIG MIDDLE FINGER. Look at the bottom of the order, all three guys hitting under 200 or near it and Mookie kept out of the lineup. Cora looks like he is out of sorts in the dugout with that stupid look on his face and we n ow have a good chance of losing this series with Pomeranz on the mound tomorrow. He has looked shittier than shit and he must step up. And Cora, you stupid son of a bitch, keep Lin out of the lineup and give Swihart a chance to play for God's sake. But that little shit manager will say JBJ got two RBI's tonight. It was still one for six and he is still under 200. What the hell does he have on the Red Sox that he can do no wrong in their eyes. And Vazquez' hit means nothing since he once again did nothing until his last at-bat and hasn't been worth a damn all season with a piece of wood in his hand.
And we lost the game we gained on the Yankees b ecause they won their game and went toe to toe with Verlander until they took him out. You can talk all you want about coming back but it me ans shit if you lose AND WE LOST and that's all that counts.
I understand your frustration Fred.
I had hoped we had this game won with a 3 - 2 lead
and Kimbrel coming in to pitch.
AND the Yankees are hitting their stride ( DANG IT!)
THESE games against the Royals are games we are supposed to win.
4-6 in our last 10. Sale, once again, can't get the W. Look, Kimbrel's gonna blow a save at some point. But to KC?!
Our offense was kept under check by Junis long enough. In extras anything can happen and...well...they lost.
No ice cream tonight..... A tough ugly way to go.... thumb_d