7:10PM Eastern
Red Sox
Nathan Eovaldi (R)
1. Jarren Duran (L) CF
2. Alex Verdugo (L) LF
3. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS
4. J.D. Martinez (R) DH
5. Christian Vazquez (R) C
6. Franchy Cordero (L) 1B
7. Bobby Dalbec (R) 3B
8. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) RF
9. Yolmer Sanchez (S) 2B
Guardians
Cal Quantrill (R)
1. Steven Kwan (L) LF
2. Amed Rosario (R) SS
3. Jose Ramirez (S) 3B
4. Josh Naylor (L) 1B
5. Franmil Reyes (R) DH
6. Owen Miller (R) 2B
7. Nolan Jones (L) RF
8. Austin Hedges (R) C
9. Myles Straw (R) CF
Gametime Temp: 77°F
Chance of Precip: 0%
I think Cordero made 2 errors on that play. Duran continues to look lost in centerfield.
This game is heading south already. Poor fielding and Eovaldi scuffling.
Dalbec with a 2-run dinger, but then JBJ gets caught trying to steal 2B. Can't have something good happen without someone screwing things up right after.
Eovaldi just doesn't have it tonight.
I’d love to see more of this out of Dalbec, what a night.
Wow, I should go out for a walk more often. Nice coming back to see them leading. What's Dalbec been shooting up?
NESN can jinx a game like no one else. No sooner do they show a graphic saying Naylor is 0-2 against Houck and he launches one into the Monster seats.
CRAP!
Sox lose 7 - 6.
An a lighter note, the METS beat the Yankees again.
Walk off win in the bottom of the 9th inning.
SWEEP the Subway Series.
Just learned that Andrew Benintendi is going to the Yankees.
Quote from: markj on July 27, 2022, 09:06:57 PM
NESN can jinx a game like no one else. No sooner do they show a graphic saying Naylor is 0-2 against Houck and he launches one into the Monster seats.
Markj, everyone connected with the Red Sox shit show is capable of screwing up royally with everything they touch, say or do. No surprise there for me at all. Then again, I didn't think we would hold that Bobby Dalbec lead he gave us. Be honest, did you or anyone think we would hang on to win or extend the lead. We are what I have suddenly labeled a total SHIT SHOW. This will wind up being our fifth last place finish in the past 11 season, something that should make all of us want to gag up our supper and wrap our hands around Bloom, Cora and Prune Face's collective necks.
Of course I will never ditch the Red Sox----NEVER. They are too deep imbedded in my psyche and in my bones, but I am not going to upset myself anymore with a team that the owner, GM, Baseball Ops Director and manager have driven into a ditch. What I hope for now is a Mets-Yankees World Series which would give me a chance to come to my long ago abandoned native city and see two teams that really want to battle and destroy one another. The Mets were my team before I found the Red Sox almost 22 years ago and I am hooked on them until I die, but I need something to keep my interest in baseball and a friend I made at Cooperstown on my trip wants me to join him for the World Series. It should be money well spent IF those two teams meet. Otherwise, I will pray that Cora, the filthy rotten cheater, is cashiered, that Bloomer Boy is shown the door and kicked out of it, and that Prune Face Henry sells the team and gets the hell out of Dodge.
There's word afoot that Sox and Bloom will end their relationship end of this year. Oops, sorry guys, I read that wrong, it is John Hancock departing. I didn't like him either.
This Franchy - 1B thing has got to go into the never again category. Nobody's talking about the double hit doesn't the line that almost hit his ankle.
Can this staff hang some sliders or what? Houck's HR pitch to Naylor must have looked like a grapefruit. That's the one pitch Houck has to figure out something on. He's been messing with two variations of sliders, too. Makes you wonder if one of them isn't as consistent as the other one?
Why is it we never seem to hit those pitches and the opposition never seems to miss? Rhetorical, of course, and probably isn't the case. It's up there with when we were kids playing football and watching the other team get off the bus and they all looked like giants. That lasted until we were up 38-0 or something.
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 28, 2022, 06:56:31 AM
This Franchy - 1B thing has got to go into the never again category. Nobody's talking about the double hit doesn't the line that almost hit his ankle.
Can this staff hang some sliders or what? Houck's HR pitch to Naylor must have looked like a grapefruit. That's the one pitch Houck has to figure out something on. He's been messing with two variations of sliders, too. Makes you wonder if one of them isn't as consistent as the other one?
Why is it we never seem to hit those pitches and the opposition never seems to miss? Rhetorical, of course, and probably isn't the case. It's up there with when we were kids playing football and watching the other team get off the bus and they all looked like giants. That lasted until we were up 38-0 or something.
Franchy - 2 errors on one play plus another for good measure and he was on the other side of the Indians' errors. The guy is an error machine.
It's hard to imagine these two teams were fighting it out for a wild card spot a month ago and are now trying to stay relevant. But the Indians have as many young guys as the Sox but their guys can actually play baseball.
Quote from: longgame on July 28, 2022, 07:37:21 AM
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 28, 2022, 06:56:31 AM
This Franchy - 1B thing has got to go into the never again category. Nobody's talking about the double hit doesn't the line that almost hit his ankle.
Can this staff hang some sliders or what? Houck's HR pitch to Naylor must have looked like a grapefruit. That's the one pitch Houck has to figure out something on. He's been messing with two variations of sliders, too. Makes you wonder if one of them isn't as consistent as the other one?
Why is it we never seem to hit those pitches and the opposition never seems to miss? Rhetorical, of course, and probably isn't the case. It's up there with when we were kids playing football and watching the other team get off the bus and they all looked like giants. That lasted until we were up 38-0 or something.
Franchy - 2 errors on one play plus another for good measure and he was on the other side of the Indians' errors. The guy is an error machine.
It's hard to imagine these two teams were fighting it out for a wild card spot a month ago and are now trying to stay relevant. But the Indians have as many young guys as the Sox but their guys can actually play baseball.
I was thinking about something similar just the other day. Remember that Yankees' team in, I think 2019 that had all those injuries? One thing after another. They used something like 57 players that year. Just 2 regulars played in 130 or more games, and that doesn't include losing the previous year's rookie of the year runner-up a week or two in. That teams was a MASH unit. They lost their up and coming 1B (Bird) to some injury I don't think he ever recovered from. They had their top prospect come up and sustain a year ending injury shagging flies or some stupid thing like that. They lost Severerino early, and Montgomery might have been toast from the year before. They used 54 players.
That team won 103 games. They didn't break the bank, either. $203M.
Makes you wonder how, right? Boone and Cashman sure did a great job that year. They played loose, and I'm betting they cut their losses on a bust of a player when the time came. That, and their bullpen was well constructed per their MO or DNA.
I'm sure there were still the traditional laundry-list of personality defects and body odor problems. Just sayin.....
Thursdays game, Francona cant believe how stupid the Sox can be. Terry throws a righty again knowing Cora, stubborn to a fault, will bat Franchy again and play 1B. About as stubborn as Bloom saying yesterday, 'we're in last place, but that is a very talented team out there'.
Bloom strikes again - signs Danny Santana who hasn't played all year. Great job Chaim, you keep loading us up with guys who suck worse than the guys we already have. This is just freaking unbelievable.
That is just swimming for bottom feeders. The sports guys in LA said JD is at the top of LAD’s list for a trade next few days. What can we get in return for a rental, a AAA pitcher?
He is moving the deck chairs on the Titanic again.
None of it makes sense. He'll need a month to be ready and then what? Plus it's not like he has trade value. Take him, JBJ and Dalbec and a few millions dollars and you may be able to give them away to someone.
Isn't Santana fresh off a PED suspension?
If Arroyo was any young, Santana might have been coming off a ped-aphile suspension the way he ran through him. (or was that someone else?)
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on July 28, 2022, 09:22:37 AM
Thursdays game, Francona cant believe how stupid the Sox can be. Terry throws a righty again knowing Cora, stubborn to a fault, will bat Franchy again and play 1B. About as stubborn as Bloom saying yesterday, 'we're in last place, but that is a very talented team out there'.
I really hope 1B thing for tonight's game is just a joke. I'm buying and selling my house(s) with a lazy, defeatist real estate agent who I found out is a Yankees' fan after signing exclusive type docs. Franchy starting 1B again tonight might just do me in.
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 28, 2022, 11:42:02 AM
Isn't Santana fresh off a PED suspension?
If Arroyo was any young, Santana might have been coming off a ped-aphile suspension the way he ran through him. (or was that someone else?)
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on July 28, 2022, 09:22:37 AM
Thursdays game, Francona cant believe how stupid the Sox can be. Terry throws a righty again knowing Cora, stubborn to a fault, will bat Franchy again and play 1B. About as stubborn as Bloom saying yesterday, 'we're in last place, but that is a very talented team out there'.
I really hope 1B thing for tonight's game is just a joke. I'm buying and selling my house(s) with a lazy, defeatist real estate agent who I found out is a Yankees' fan after signing exclusive type docs. Franchy starting 1B again tonight might just do me in.
Not sure if rhetorical, but Santana did serve a 80 game PED suspension. I wonder if it took Bloom a couple weeks to do the paperwork, wanting him all that time.
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 28, 2022, 06:56:31 AM
This Franchy - 1B thing has got to go into the never again category. Nobody's talking about the double hit doesn't the line that almost hit his ankle.
Can this staff hang some sliders or what? Houck's HR pitch to Naylor must have looked like a grapefruit. That's the one pitch Houck has to figure out something on. He's been messing with two variations of sliders, too. Makes you wonder if one of them isn't as consistent as the other one?
Why is it we never seem to hit those pitches and the opposition never seems to miss? Rhetorical, of course, and probably isn't the case. It's up there with when we were kids playing football and watching the other team get off the bus and they all looked like giants. That lasted until we were up 38-0 or something.
Ask Elk. He is right on and succinctly says the cu tter and slider are horseshit pitches and should be sent to the glue factory. How is it that our horsedung pitching coaches never try to teach the split finger that has become the rage of baseball and very successful for a lot of pitchers. Then again we must have the shittiest bunch of pi tching coaches and scouts around because we never seem to be able to draft good pitchers. So either the pitchers stink who we draft or the pitching coaches stink. It has to be one or the o ther, so I split the difference. BOTH SUCK!!!!!
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on July 28, 2022, 01:44:43 PM
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 28, 2022, 11:42:02 AM
Isn't Santana fresh off a PED suspension?
If Arroyo was any young, Santana might have been coming off a ped-aphile suspension the way he ran through him. (or was that someone else?)
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on July 28, 2022, 09:22:37 AM
Thursdays game, Francona cant believe how stupid the Sox can be. Terry throws a righty again knowing Cora, stubborn to a fault, will bat Franchy again and play 1B. About as stubborn as Bloom saying yesterday, 'we're in last place, but that is a very talented team out there'.
I really hope 1B thing for tonight's game is just a joke. I'm buying and selling my house(s) with a lazy, defeatist real estate agent who I found out is a Yankees' fan after signing exclusive type docs. Franchy starting 1B again tonight might just do me in.
Not sure if rhetorical, but Santana did serve a 80 game PED suspension. I wonder if it took Bloom a couple weeks to do the paperwork, wanting him all that time.
Santana stunk to high heaven last season until we finally unloaded him----and now Bloomer Bum signs him. That does it!!!!! That shithead needs to be fired right after the season ends. He is a total horse dung incompetent. We now can team up Santana with French Fry---the worst of everything. I never thought I would see the day when Jackie Bradley would look good next to another Red Sox player but he has---two of them.
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on July 28, 2022, 01:44:43 PM
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 28, 2022, 11:42:02 AM
Isn't Santana fresh off a PED suspension?
If Arroyo was any young, Santana might have been coming off a ped-aphile suspension the way he ran through him. (or was that someone else?)
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on July 28, 2022, 09:22:37 AM
Thursdays game, Francona cant believe how stupid the Sox can be. Terry throws a righty again knowing Cora, stubborn to a fault, will bat Franchy again and play 1B. About as stubborn as Bloom saying yesterday, 'we're in last place, but that is a very talented team out there'.
I really hope 1B thing for tonight's game is just a joke. I'm buying and selling my house(s) with a lazy, defeatist real estate agent who I found out is a Yankees' fan after signing exclusive type docs. Franchy starting 1B again tonight might just do me in.
Not sure if rhetorical, but Santana did serve a 80 game PED suspension. I wonder if it took Bloom a couple weeks to do the paperwork, wanting him all that time.
Not rhetorical at all. I'm willing to turn my head a little here and there at an era, but this is 2022. Enough already.
I agree Fred. It's just rotten. To me, it's just like Cora bringing in that d-bag Marwin, knowing full well that he was one of the biggest benefactors of the trash can thing and that his ONE good season was a fluke.
I'm grumpy today. I better get offline.