ORIOLES V RED SOX
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017, 7:10 PM AT FENWAY PARK
TV: NESN, MASN2
BALTIMORE, 4-1..............................................................................BOSTON, 3-3
BALTIMORE:
DYLAN BUNDY, RHP, 1-0, 1.29 ERA
The righty was fantastic in his debut, stifling Toronto over seven innngs on Wednesday
night. Bundy allowed just one run and had first-pitch strikes to the first 13 batters.
BOSTON:
DREW POMERANZ, LHP, 0-0, -.- ERA
The lefty will come off the disable list to open his first full season with the Red Sox.
Pomeranz is coming from a left arm injury that he pitched through last season.
Pomeranz was 0-2 with a 6.43 ERA at Fenway last year.
Pomeranz set for 2017 debut vs. Bundy, O's
Brittany Ghiroli
Dylan Bundy was fantastic in his season debut for the Orioles on Wednesday. Come Tuesday night, he'll need to be just as good as Bundy and the O's open a two-game series against a formidable Boston team at Fenway Park.
The Red Sox, picked by many as the preseason favorites to win the American League East, will play an Orioles club that not many saw taking an early division lead. Though they dropped their series finale to the Yankees on Sunday, the O's will start the series with at least a share of first place.
This marks the start of a seven-game homestand against three different teams for a Boston team that has been dealing with widespread flu.
The Red Sox will send lefty Drew Pomeranz to the mound for his first start this season. Pomeranz comes off the disabled list to open his first full season for the team that acquired him from the Padres last July. Pomeranz is coming back from a left forearm injury that he pitched through last season, and was brought along slowly this spring.
"I feel pretty good," Pomeranz said. "You can only do so much in practice. What gets you better is getting out there in games, and getting in that rhythm and routine, so I'm looking forward to getting that started."
THREE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS GAME
• The Red Sox should finally be close to full strength in their starting lineup. Shortstop Xander Bogaerts should return from the bereavement list after his flight to Detroit for Monday's game was canceled. DH Hanley Ramirez, who has missed the last four games with the flu, could also be back in the lineup.
• Bundy was able to ambush a Toronto team that hadn't seen him much, and will look to do the same against the Sox. The young righty allowed one run over seven innings against the Jays, and recorded first-pitch strikes to the first 13 batters
.
• Red Sox center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr.'s availability for the series against the O's is in question after he sprained his right knee on Saturday in Detroit. Bradley is in the process of getting a full workup from Boston's medical staff.
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/20170409223245928/pomeranz-set-for-2017-debut-vs-bundy-os/?game_pk=490205
GAME #7, ORIOLES V RED SOX
RED SOX (3-3)
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
Andrew Benintendi, CF
Mookie Betts, RF
Hanley Ramirez, DH
Mitch Moreland, 1B
Xander Bogaerts, SS
Pablo Sandoval, 3B
Chris Young, LF
Christian Vazquez, C
Drew Pomeranz, LHP (2016 stats: 11-12, 3.32 ERA)
ORIOLES (4-1) Craig Gentry, RF
Adam Jones, CF
Manny Machado, 3B
Mark Trumbo, DH
Chris Davis, 1B
Welington Castillo, C
Trey Mancini, LF
Jonathan Schoop, 2B
J.J. Hardy, SS
Dylan Bundy, RHP (1-0, 1.29 ERA)
Read more at: http://nesn.com/2017/04/red-sox-vs-orioles-lineup-key-hitters-return-for-drew-pomeranzs-first-start/
Quote from: Bear on April 11, 2017, 02:08:25 AM
ORIOLES V RED SOX
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017, 7:10 PM AT FENWAY PARK
TV: NESN, MASN2
BALTIMORE, 4-1..............................................................................BOSTON, 3-3
BALTIMORE:
DYLAN BUNDY, RHP, 1-0, 1.29 ERA
The righty was fantastic in his debut, stifling Toronto over seven innngs on Wednesday
night. Bundy allowed just one run and had first-pitch strikes to the first 13 batters.
BOSTON:
DREW POMERANZ, LHP, 0-0, -.- ERA
The lefty will come off the disable list to open his first full season with the Red Sox.
Pomeranz is coming from a left arm injury that he pitched through last season.
Pomeranz was 0-2 with a 6.43 ERA at Fenway last year.
Pomeranz set for 2017 debut vs. Bundy, O's
Brittany Ghiroli
Dylan Bundy was fantastic in his season debut for the Orioles on Wednesday. Come Tuesday night, he'll need to be just as good as Bundy and the O's open a two-game series against a formidable Boston team at Fenway Park.
The Red Sox, picked by many as the preseason favorites to win the American League East, will play an Orioles club that not many saw taking an early division lead. Though they dropped their series finale to the Yankees on Sunday, the O's will start the series with at least a share of first place.
This marks the start of a seven-game homestand against three different teams for a Boston team that has been dealing with widespread flu.
The Red Sox will send lefty Drew Pomeranz to the mound for his first start this season. Pomeranz comes off the disabled list to open his first full season for the team that acquired him from the Padres last July. Pomeranz is coming back from a left forearm injury that he pitched through last season, and was brought along slowly this spring.
"I feel pretty good," Pomeranz said. "You can only do so much in practice. What gets you better is getting out there in games, and getting in that rhythm and routine, so I'm looking forward to getting that started."
THREE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS GAME
• The Red Sox should finally be close to full strength in their starting lineup. Shortstop Xander Bogaerts should return from the bereavement list after his flight to Detroit for Monday's game was canceled. DH Hanley Ramirez, who has missed the last four games with the flu, could also be back in the lineup.
• Bundy was able to ambush a Toronto team that hadn't seen him much, and will look to do the same against the Sox. The young righty allowed one run over seven innings against the Jays, and recorded first-pitch strikes to the first 13 batters
.
• Red Sox center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr.'s availability for the series against the O's is in question after he sprained his right knee on Saturday in Detroit. Bradley is in the process of getting a full workup from Boston's medical staff.
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/20170409223245928/pomeranz-set-for-2017-debut-vs-bundy-os/?game_pk=490205
Drew Pomeranz, alias poopie pants??????? Are you kidding me? Really guys and gals, have you ever hear of someone with less promise for success than Drew Pomeranz? Well, we'll see.
Considering it's looking like two months before we see Price, so we better get used to this guy. All I know is they need to start hitting!
Good to see Hanley back, at least.
Moreland with another double. 6 on the season so far. Amazing.
Hanley tags up for the 1st run.
Pom-Pom's done ok. Through 6 with no runs. He might be done. But I'd like to see him go a little deeper into the game.
So he came back out for one hitter and gave up a single. But at least this way he got a nice ovation when walking off.
And now the predictable is happening. Too many missed opportunities may hurt them.
So Pomeranz ends up with 1 ER. Might not have been worth it coming out for the start of the inning. Sox still lead 2-1.
Orioles fumbling balls right and left. Unbelievable. Sox get 2 runs out of it so far.
Sox keep rolling on. Up 5-1 now.
Vaz still hitting well. Another 2 RBIs for him. Sox up 7-1.
More Keystone Kops play by the O's. Sox up 8 - 1 now.
Even Vazquez wants to keep Swihart at AAA.
Really. Vaz with a 4-for-4 night, a triple, a stolen base, and 3 RBI. Impressive.
Enjoyable game. Not a single nit to pick with the Sox tonight. Well pitched, well played. Great, timely hitting. And a Big Thanks to the O's for all the gifts.
With only JBJ missing from the starters the team looked like what they should.Tough losing 3of 4 with a make shift bunch of subs but they came to play and fight tonight and looked
damn good .
Quote from: markj on April 11, 2017, 08:00:53 PM
Pom-Pom's done ok. Through 6 with no runs. He might be done. But I'd like to see him go a little deeper into the game.
Well he surprised me, that's for sure. After the way he pooped out for us last summer I was expecting the worst. He did a good job tonight and got into the seventh inning. Normally that would be fine but with our bullpen it's a constant worry when our starters don't do deep into the game. Still the bullpen did ok too. Now can we win more than one in a row? Tomorrow will tell but good to see the team start to hit this evening. How about Vazquez? Was that a flash in the pan or is he really learning to hit?
Quote from: markj on April 11, 2017, 09:27:41 PM
Enjoyable game. Not a single nit to pick with the Sox tonight. Well pitched, well played. Great, timely hitting. And a Big Thanks to the O's for all the gifts.
Can't complain at all about tonight unless we want to say it took a little long for us to explode, but my question is can we sustain this and be on our way? But as you said markj, very little if anything to complain about.
Quote from: Rob from Mass on April 11, 2017, 09:17:07 PM
Even Vazquez wants to keep Swihart at AAA.
Ha! Nice one. :D Indeed. Great game by Vazquez.
Sometimes you just need the other team to fumble a few balls to wake up your offense. Hopefully, this was the light switch.
Props to Pomeranz.
Props to Vazquez.
And props to Chili Davis who's making a name for himself turning weak hitting catchers into hitting machines thumb_u
A pleasant surprise for sure. Let's hope this turns things around in the health department.
Nice to score some runs, again !!! thumb_u
I was glad I was wrong when it looked like it was going to fall apart. I don't get the thinking on bringing Pomeranz back out - is it a defeatist thing? (Ok, the game is close but I'm going to let you give up a hit first before I pull you?) There's no upside at that point if your plan is to let him give up a hit basically. I was very worried when Hembree came in and let the run in, but he settled down and the pen took care of business for a change.
The big thing was the offense finally lighting up.
I guess Vazquez isn't ceding the catcher's job to Leon. Whatever those guys are doing, they ought to share it with Sandoval.
I must say this wasn't the Pomerantz that I saw last month in Ft Myers. For one thing which I noticed he was pushing off stronger with his left leg.
So he was hitting 93 regularly in the first three innings. Pomerantz admitted that after his Ft Myers start that he hadn't be pushing off strongly with his left leg. (I noticed that he had a slight limp when I saw him) In the spring he wasn't hitting 90 with his fastball.
On the down side, he started to lose velocity on the fastball by the fifth inning. Jim Palmer who was doing the Orioles broadcast commented on the drop in velocity. He questioned Pomerantz mechanics as the reason. Quite frankly, I was surprised that he made it through the sixth. But, he did with some outstanding offspeed pitches.
The other take away from last night's game besides Valsequez outstanding night at the plate, was that Sandoval finally lifted the ball for a sac fly with a man on third with less than two outs.
Let's face it, this rout had more to do with Orioles defensive incompetence so while I welcome the win I still see areas of concern with Pomerantz, Sandoval and the bullpen.
Quote from: elktonnick on April 12, 2017, 08:11:16 AM
Let's face it, this rout had more to do with Orioles defensive incompetence...
Was thinking the same thing. O's gave this one away. But at least the Sox took advantage. There have been times in the past where they would not have done so.
Quote from: markj on April 12, 2017, 11:09:29 AM
Quote from: elktonnick on April 12, 2017, 08:11:16 AM
Let's face it, this rout had more to do with Orioles defensive incompetence...
Was thinking the same thing. O's gave this one away. But at least the Sox took advantage. There have been times in the past where they would not have done so.
Fine and dandy guys. We won and we took full advantages of what came our way. We're all happy with that, but let's see if we can sustain something for a change...like winning tonight and tomorrow for instance. That might tell us whether we have what it takes to get it together and make our presence known. The jury is still out as far as many of us are concerned from what I've been reading.
Quote from: elktonnick on April 12, 2017, 08:11:16 AM
I must say this wasn't the Pomerantz that I saw last month in Ft Myers. For one thing which I noticed he was pushing off stronger with his left leg.
So he was hitting 93 regularly in the first three innings. Pomerantz admitted that after his Ft Myers start that he hadn't be pushing off strongly with his left leg. (I noticed that he had a slight limp when I saw him) In the spring he wasn't hitting 90 with his fastball.
On the down side, he started to lose velocity on the fastball by the fifth inning. Jim Palmer who was doing the Orioles broadcast commented on the drop in velocity. He questioned Pomerantz mechanics as the reason. Quite frankly, I was surprised that he made it through the sixth. But, he did with some outstanding offspeed pitches.
The other take away from last night's game besides Valsequez outstanding night at the plate, was that Sandoval finally lifted the ball for a sac fly with a man on third with less than two outs.
Let's face it, this rout had more to do with Orioles defensive incompetence so while I welcome the win I still see areas of concern with Pomerantz, Sandoval and the bullpen.
I get the O's broadcast too. I like when Palmer is on.
Pomeranz always seems to be good for about 5 at most.