7:10PM
Red Sox
Nick Pivetta (R)
1. Tommy Pham (R) LF
2. Alex Verdugo (L) RF
3. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS
4. Rafael Devers (L) 3B
5. J.D. Martinez (R) DH
6. Christian Arroyo (R) 2B
7. Enrique Hernandez (R) CF
8. Bobby Dalbec (R) 1B
9. Kevin Plawecki (R) C
Orioles
Dean Kremer (R)
1. Cedric Mullins (L) CF
2. Adley Rutschman (S) C
3. Anthony Santander (S) DH
4. Ryan Mountcastle (R) 1B
5. Kyle Stowers (L) LF
6. Ramon Urias (R) 3B
7. Austin Hays (R) RF
8. Rougned Odor (L) 2B
9. Jorge Mateo (R) SS
Gametime Temp: 79°F
Chance of Precip: 14%
MLB Little League Classic from Williamsport, PA. Maybe the Sox can find a way to not look like Little Leaguers. JDM's birthday today, too.
https://www.mlb.com/news/2022-mlb-little-league-classic-red-sox-orioles
Quote from: markj on August 21, 2022, 10:17:47 AM
MLB Little League Classic from Williamsport, PA. Maybe the Sox can find a way to not look like Little Leaguers. JDM's birthday today, too.
https://www.mlb.com/news/2022-mlb-little-league-classic-red-sox-orioles
It would be swell if the Red Sox could pull it off but the way they celebrated my 22nd Anniversary of Red Sox fandom with a rotten performance Friday night, well, they owe me and everyone on this board and other boards a solid ball game and a win. Let's see if they can do i t.
News ahead of Tuesdays game, Nate will miss another start suffering in his ‘trap’, as Cora calls it (trapezius). Looks like Pham will be back in the lineup.
I was thinking to myself and actually about to post that Bogey will find a way to turn a man on third into a DP. But it was too unbelievable to think it would happen. He’s gone from not clutch to totally destructive.
Was just about to post that only Mr. Clutch could screw up a man on third and one out.
Pham with a Little League error. I was worried that they'd look like amateurs playing here.
The Sox can not seem to hold onto to the ball. They have a collective case of the dropsies.
Wow, a run. Earned the old fashion way, too. Amazing.
ESPN spends way too much camera time on the talking heads and not enough on the field.
Quote from: markj on August 21, 2022, 06:45:43 PM
Wow, a run. Earned the old fashion way, too. Amazing.
ESPN spends way too much camera time on the talking heads and not enough on the field.
If it were up to me I would ban ESPN.from broadcasting baseball They are consistently horrendous.
ESPN spent 5 minutes interviewing the kids. Nice interview should have saved it for a pitching change or a break in the action on the field. ESPN does not consider the game is important enough to actually show what is happening on the field.
I am feeling fortunate I missed most of the first inning. Pivetta gave up a line drive out when I turned it on and has been good.
Arroyo with the comedy moment of the year to Odor. "Please don't hit me..." rofl
So the Bogey with a runner on 3rd. I hope that was a sac fly thrown out at the plate?
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on August 21, 2022, 07:50:32 PM
So the Bogey with a runner on 3rd. I hope that was a sac fly thrown out at the plate?
No. A line drive to the 3B who then beat Pham back to the bag. Pham wasn't that far off the base, but the line drive catch was right there.
Bogey is forgetting that he's playing in front of a bunch of Little Leaguers. That attitude after hitting a popup isn't very role model-like.
Codero homers! Pinch hit for Dalbec.
I can't remember such an awful ballplayer who has as many fun moments as Cordero. Now let's hope for 2 innings of chest high throws to 1B.
Barnes has no control tonight.
And then Schreiber comes in and plunks a guy. WTF?
Ugh, and now a walk. Bases loaded, one out. I doubt the O's GIDP here.
Great, there goes this game.
Red Sox suck. Bloom sucks
Nope. That well done got drained. Cora's been using him often and for multi-innings lately. He's tapped out and he was last night. Schreiber needs a few days off. I hope he's not toast.
Mr. Clutch hits a dinger. No one on base, of course.
16- 32 against the ALE. Horrible team.Horrible telecast! Red Sox suck! Bloom sucks! ESPN sucks.
Sox now solidly in the basement. By 3-1/2 games. Unreal.
Bloom screwed the pooch on this fix, too. How many non-errors has Pham had just in the past week that's cost us runs? At least 3. Create a hole by plugging a hole. I will never understand how he thinks that should work.
I don't know what Cora can do, but everyone of us saw Barnes getting worn out only to see him come back out for another inning. Everyone has seen Schreiber fade this past week. I think he's getting worn out. Lots of use including a could multi-inning outings recently that have been somewhat weaker the second inning. I guess I've got 3-4 pitchers that I would have been shocked to see come out yesterday. It included the two we saw combine to blow the game. Not their fault, really.
We needed the extra pitcher and was gifted that opportunity for a game, but they didn't want to put Hosmer on the IL. Enter Franchy. His HR was great and it worked, but sure could have used a fresh arm instead of a 6th OF'er and a backup 1B.
Bloom's analysis of what a team needs to be successful is seriously flawed.
Quote from: elktonnick on August 22, 2022, 07:19:40 AM
Bloom's analysis of what a team needs to be successful is seriously flawed.
All things are relative. If your owner/GM want to be the east coast Tigers or east coast Royals, the Sox have exceeded all expectations. If you expected the traditional ALEast contender … oh, that team no longer plays in Boston. At least not in the Henry/Bloom years.
Too many points of failure on this team. Something will go wrong often when you have so many broken parts.
Holy Moley. Sox will pitch Winchowski on Tuesday. The guy who was torched for 9 runs the other night. That’s pretty much running up the white flag.
Pack it in guys and the last man out please turn out the lights. In this soon to be off season, Bloom has to be fired for his total incompetence in building the 2022 team. Has he even made one decent trade the past year? Is it possible we could have been in a better way had we still had Renfroe and Schwarber instead of French Fry and Bumbling Bradley? Would spending money on a quality star ting pitcher not too long in the tooth and a reliever who could pound the strike zone on a consistent basis have helped instead of some of the trash bloomer boy stuck us with. Cora, the filthy rotten cheater, should be canned too. Just like fellow cheater AJ Hinch of Detroit, both teams are sucking wind at the bottom or near the bottom of the pile. Detroit fired their inept GM Al Avila and I will bet Hinch will walk the plank in the Fall. Will Prune Face show enough guts and smarts to do the same with Cora and Bloom? Or will having to eat a couple of contracts and hire good baseball men to run BO and the team cost too much for that cheap bastard to expend from his treasure chest. I'm betting we will see both bums back next season for another disgraceful episode of inept Red Sox baseball.
Hey Boston Press working for The Globe, how about getting a pair of balls to start giving Henry what he deserves for his malfeasance as an owner the past few years, OR ARE TOO GUTLESS TO DO THAT FOR FEAR YOU MIGHT JEOPARDIZE YOUR JOB?
At least some relief tonight as they have the night off. Winchowski should be called Timex - he takes a beating but he keeps on ticking.
Just watch them now out of habit until the point where they blow the game, which was late last night as such things go.
What worries me now is how Bloom will manage to downgrade this team further while Henry chases other sports franchises. He may end up killing the goose that laid the Golden Egg.
If you’ve been tracking Bloom the last two years, he’s mr. analytics, looking for a value-added prize on the cheap in all of his moves. As an example, he would find that Franchy had a better WAR in the month of April 2019 than Judge or Renfroe, then sell it to Henry, who would say he was brilliant.
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on August 23, 2022, 07:16:45 AM
If you’ve been tracking Bloom the last two years, he’s mr. analytics, looking for a value-added prize on the cheap in all of his moves. As an example, he would find that Franchy had a better WAR in the month of April 2019 than Judge or Renfroe, then sell it to Henry, who would say he was brilliant.
That's what Henry probably said to bloomer and probably meant it since he is a total moron on judging talent, but what he was really thinking was....Oh boy, I saved a lot of money for another yacht and trips to the Caribbean and money for a new NFL Team or a hockey team or some other shit he might have on his addled brain. In the meantime we are due to get mangled by the Jays this series starting with one of bloomer boy's horse shit trades, Winchowski, on the mound and due to get the living shit knocked out of him as he has in just about every start he has made for us. Nice going Bloom, you bum!!!!
Henry looks at the Sox as one piece of a portfolio. The purpose is to maximize the valuation of the portfolio. The way to do that may not be to put a winner out there all the time, but I think that's his fatal flaw. He takes fans for granted and he's right to do so because there's an endless supply of pink hats and now yellow shirts to be sold. If he had a good idea, he'd have found a GM that could stick around long enough, but he seems to reward success by firing the GM and dismantling the team. It's happened so often know it's a pattern. It's a hell of a way to run a business, but there's so much money in entertainment he doesn't have to be good at it.
Franchy was sent back down and then recalled. Paperwork matter. Eovaldi and Hosmer to the IL, Franchy and Winckowski up. Another day in paradise.
At least the Blue Jays have trouble hitting hangers. No, wait. I got that backwards. <gulp!!!>