RED SOX V TWINS
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 8:10PM AT TARGET FIELD
TV: NESN, MLBN (OUT OF MARKET ONLY) FSNO
BOSTON (15-3)............................................................................MINNESOTA (14-12)
BOSTON:
EDUARDO RODRIGUEZ, LHP, 1-1, 2.70ERA, 31K
The lefty has dazzled in his last two starts, allowing one run over 12 innings,
while notching 16 strikeouts. Opponents are hitting just .185 against Rodriguez
this season.
MINNESOTA:
PHIL HUGHES, RHP, 4-1, 5.06ERA, 17K
Hughes struggled a bit against the Royals last time out, but still picked up
the win. The right-hander allowed four runs on 10 hits over 5 2/3 innings.
Hughes, Twins host Rodriguez, Red Sox
Rhett Bollinger
The Twins are off to a surprisingly strong start this season, but will get a test with the Red Sox coming to town for a three-game series that begins Friday night at Target Field. Veteran right-hander Phil Hughes gets the nod for Minnesota and will start opposite Red Sox lefty Eduardo Rodriguez.
Rodriguez could be on the verge of a breakout season, judging by his last two starts, in which he's allowed one earned run over 12 innings.
The Red Sox went 4-3 against the Twins last year, including winning two out of three at Target Field.
THREE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS GAME
• Hughes, who pitched with the Yankees from 2007-13, is plenty familiar with Boston, and is 6-9 with a career 5.36 ERA against the Red Sox. He's had trouble against second baseman Dustin Pedroia, who is a career .390/.419/.829 hitter against him, going 16-for-41 with five homers and 15 RBIs.
• Lifetime against the Twins, Rodriguez is 1-1 with a 3.71 ERA. But second baseman Brian Dozier has hit him hard, going 4-for-6 with two homers.
• Batters have put 21.7 percent of Hughes' pitches in play this season, tied for the 11th-highest rate in the Majors (minimum 300 pitches). They have averaged an exit velocity of 90.5 mph against him, third highest with a minimum of 50 batted balls. Those factors help explain why he has the fourth-highest rate of barrels allowed per plate appearance (10.3 percent).
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/20170504228278042/hughes-twins-host-rodriguez-red-sox/?game_pk=490530
Here are the lineups for Friday night’s Red Sox vs. Twins game.
RED SOX (15-13)
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
Andrew Benintendi, LF
Mookie Betts, RF
Hanley Ramirez, DH
Xander Bogaerts, SS
Mitch Moreland, 1B
Josh Rutledge, 3B
Jackie Bradley Jr., CF
Christian Vazquez, C
Eduardo Rodriguez, LHP (1-1, 2.70 ERA)
TWINS (14-12)
Brian Dozier, 2B
Joe Mauer, 1B
Miguel Sano, 3B
Robbie Grossman, RF
Max Kepler, CF
Eduardo Escobar, DH
Jason Castro, C
Jorge Polanco, SS
Eddie Rosario, LF
Phil Hughes, RHP (4-1, 5.06 ERA)
Read more at: http://nesn.com/2017/05/red-sox-vs-twins-lineups-eduardo-rodriguez-starts-in-series-opener/
I sent away for the 2017 Red Sox Yearbook today (rather my wife did), but before you think that I did so in anticipation of a terrific 2017 season ahead let me put some new colors in your paintbox comrades. No, I did it because there will be pictures in there from our 2016 season and that AL East Title we won. I made a little room in my Red Sox room for that and hope to fill the area in because as sure as God made little green apples that is all I'm going to have going for me in there this season because we are not getting crap this year. The team is comatose, the leadership non-existent, a manager who has his head up his rectum and an owner, well, don't get me started on him. Now we're on the road and if any of you are thinking a revival on this away-from-home trip you are either way over optimistic or a glutten for punishment. A hopeful season of promise turning into cat shit as we speak.
And we all had better watch out for the Yankees because they are not going away. They are playing the type of ball we should be playing if we had a team with balls and guts as the Yankees do. Of course they have a decent manager while we have a dog shit one. Today, trailing 2-0 in the top of the ninth with two out and two on, Gardner hit a three run homer and won the game for his team Think our shitty team could do something like that? I saw Dombrowski sitting in his box yesterday looking confused as hell. Let me un-confuse you flunky man. Tell Prune Face that to save this season you've decided to make a managing chance because this season hinges on it. Right now we have a totally uninspired gutless team with no direction, no leadership and no hope unless you bring the hammer down.
We never had a chance Fred.
3rd base is a nightmare...... Thinking that they can hit thru the shift is the "NEW MODERN DAY DEFFINATION OF INSANITY" !!
Typical Sox game. Digging a hole in the first inning.
Same crap again. Game over in the 1st because the Sox will be incapable of producing 3 runs.
Funniest line of the night. Bases are juiced in the 7th with 2 outs and Rutledge batting:
O'Brien: No place to put him.
How about back in the dugout? Which actually happened. 0 runs.
Quote from: ipot on May 05, 2017, 09:04:25 PM
Funniest line of the night. Bases are juiced in the 7th with 2 outs and Rutledge batting:
O'Brien: No place to put him.
How about back in the dugout? Which actually happened. 0 runs.
He can sit next to the other 5-6 guys who aren't hitting.
So many games of 2 runs or less already this season.
Long game for such a low score.
Wow, they tied it up.
How about that....they tie it up :o Just like they drew it up. Start scoring runs from the 7th inning on...
How about winning?
Quote from: Schloicka on May 05, 2017, 09:44:47 PM
Quote from: ipot on May 05, 2017, 09:04:25 PM
Funniest line of the night. Bases are juiced in the 7th with 2 outs and Rutledge batting:
O'Brien: No place to put him.
How about back in the dugout? Which actually happened. 0 runs.
He can sit next to the other 5-6 guys who aren't hitting.
I would've said that for any of those 5-6 guys. It's infectious in that dugout.
Not Meatball's fault that this team can't put up runs.
Farrell's Team 500.
So they come back and then blow it. Perfect.
THE yANKEES COMES BACK FROM A TWO RUN DEFICIT IN THE NINTH INNING AND win. tHE rED sOX COME BACK FROM A TWO RUN DEFICIT IN THE NINTH INNING AND LOSE. That prety much tells the story about our totally shitty team, and I mean shitty. I think we may even start that old 2014 trend about coming back to tie and then losing, but with the meatball out there in the ninth did anyone think it would come out either way. Face it guys and gals, this horse shit team is going nowhere and is getting there fast, and it is going to get worse before it gets better. We don't hit, we don't f ield, we don't score, and we have a totally worthless POS managing this team. Again, for the umpteenth time, unless Farrell is replaced and soon this team is lost. What the @#$% is Dombrowski waiting for? Get rid of that guy.
And one more thing before I turn in and toss and turn all night. What kind of crappy announcer do we have anyway. I hate hearing O'Brien. He is dull, uninformative and come out with some of the most ridiculous lines I've ever heard. He fits in perfectly with our crappy manager, our pathetic team, our gutless GM and moronic owner.........a total barf pile of losers.
J F can't last much longer... & what's going on with J B J's bat ??
E-Rod has pitched well this season, but that offense is killing the staff.
Quote from: Bill-806 on May 06, 2017, 07:11:54 AM
J F can't last much longer... & what's going on with J B J's bat ??
JBJ is back to his old habits. He seems to have a real problem recognizing a strike.
Trying to say what I really feel about this underachieving team but I can't find the right words without being thrown off this board.
Quote from: ojdidit on May 06, 2017, 07:35:58 AM
E-Rod has pitched well this season, but that offense is killing the staff.
WHAT OFFENSE?
Time for a shakeup of players & manager........ Bogy, J B J, E-rod, .....BLOCKBUSTER !!! thumb_u
Quote from: Rob from Mass on May 06, 2017, 07:50:05 AM
Trying to say what I really feel about this underachieving team but I can't find the right words without being thrown off this board.
Rob---@#$%?, these could serve as substitutes for what you really want to say and we'd all know where you're coming from. I'm so angry at the team right now that I want to start breaking things but my wife would throw me out of our house. The team needs a shakeup but it needs a smart hand to do this. Remember we tried that in 2014 when brainless Farrell and disgraced GM Cherington moved then choker Bogaerts to third and resigned FA Drew after no team signed him and after two months of inactivity. The moves both sucked. This time the moves must be made with some forethought and not panic.....BUT MOVES HAVE TO BE MADE because the team is sinking like a stone with no commitment, no leadership, no fire, no nothing. Dombrowski needs to start earning his money and if Prune Face is holding him back from doing what needs to be done, as I have suspected all along with Farrell still being on the job, well he has to stand up to him even at the risk of his job and try to save this season----and if we have to bench sacred cow Bradley who right now stinks to high heaven, so be it. And someone needs to give Xander a kick in the ass. He looks like he's constipated out there. What a crappy season this is shaping up as. This team makes me sick.
I can't blame Barnes at all for the HR pitch
At the letters and away was a good pitch .
Just another repeat performance. There are just a couple of scripts, nearly all of them involve a good start and no offense. Last night's had the patented "almost enough" late inning come back. It describes the offense of the Sox to a tee. Those that can actually make contact seem to have warning track power. Others like Bradley aren't even approaching a major league level.
I know Farrell likes to do as much left-right-left hitting as he can, but right now he has 4 righties and one lefty that can hit. Bogey needs to hit higher in the order, maybe 3rd with Betts moving to fourth and Hanley behind them. After that, you can hope Moreland gets an out just so you can get the last 3 guys all in one inning so as not to destroy more than one inning in a row.
The DPs are killing them and if I watch one more guy with his hands coming over the top to hit a weak ground ball I may break my TV. Can some of these guys at least maybe hit a fly ball to right with a runner on second or third?
This offense is below pathetic. I can "tip my cap" to a guy every now and then, but they are getting shut down night after night.