GAME #82 - WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2022 - TAMPA BAY RAYS @ BOSTON RED SOX

[markj]

7:10PM Eastern

Red Sox

Brayan Bello (R)

1. Jarren Duran (L) CF
2. Christian Vazquez (R) C
3. J.D. Martinez (R) DH
4. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS
5. Alex Verdugo (L) LF
6. Trevor Story (R) 2B
7. Franchy Cordero (L) 1B
8. Christian Arroyo (R) 3B
9. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) RF

Rays

Corey Kluber (R)

1. Josh Lowe (L) RF
2. Yandy Diaz (R) DH
3. Wander Franco (S) SS
4. Ji-Man Choi (L) 1B
5. Randy Arozarena (R) LF
6. Taylor Walls (S) 3B
7. Kevin Kiermaier (L) CF
8. Francisco Mejia (S) C
9. Vidal Brujan (S) 2B

Gametime Temp: 76°F
Chance of Precip: 0%

[BoSoxFanNY]

Thankfully Robles has been DFA'd.

[longgame]

Great idea going with the regular lineup against a division rival.  No more days off until the ASB except for JBJ. 

[MongoLikeSox]

Maybe batting 2nd will cool Vasquez's jets a little bit and have some of the plate appearances like he's had the past month and a half. Last night was a little silly. 

[elktonnick]

Great idea going with the regular lineup against a division rival.  No more days off until the ASB except for JBJ.

Is Devers injured?

[longgame]

Great idea going with the regular lineup against a division rival.  No more days off until the ASB except for JBJ.

Is Devers injured?

I guess I read what I wanted to see.  Not sure what happened there!  I have no idea.

[longgame]

Great idea going with the regular lineup against a division rival.  No more days off until the ASB except for JBJ.

Is Devers injured?

Apparently he asked for a day off yesterday,  but no reason was specified.

[Schloicka]

Hopefully Brayan Bello pitches well win or lose. Sox can use a shot in the arm in the rotation.

[Sea Dog 23]

Sale was clocked at 97 on first pitch for Wooster tonight.  It will probably be the Mon-Tues Rays series next week before he’s ready.

[BoSoxFanNY]

The month of July is not going well, so far for the Sox offense.
Tampa Bay 4 - Sox 0 in the bottom of the 3rd inning . . .
AND, they have had some chances.

[MongoLikeSox]

Great idea going with the regular lineup against a division rival.  No more days off until the ASB except for JBJ.

Is Devers injured?

Apparently he asked for a day off yesterday,  but no reason was specified.

I read somewhere that Cora was on some radio show and said Devers was feeling sore.

[BoSoxFanNY]

Where is our OFFENSE?

This team has reverted back to April.

CRAP!

And the Yankees are coming to town tomorrow for 4 games.

[MongoLikeSox]

Well, that was a twitchy version of Bello. Sort of like Winckowski on his first start? We saw some of what he can do, but certainly not nasty like I've seen in MiLBTV.

Sale was short-arming some pitches tonight. He did a bit of that in Portland last week, but it was just the one inning.

What they didn't mention was that Josh Taylor pitched a clean inning striking out all 3. I missed it, though.

[elktonnick]

Once Taylor is healthy, we may say sayonara to Sawamura

[MongoLikeSox]

So, did you guys hear them talking about this power outage? Cora said they were not too concerned, but they were "talking about it". Why in the heck would you be talking to hitters about changing a damned thing when a few of them were batting .330-.350. Even the rest of them added up to top line offensive, scoring and hitting doubles by the bushel. They were dialed in since May 10th or so. Sure thing. change what you were doing well. What's that parable about the goose and golden egg thing?