GAME #132 - SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 2021 - BOSTON RED SOX @ CLEVELAND INDIANS

markj · August 29, 2021, 05:32:47 PM

No lead is safe from this BP.

markj · August 29, 2021, 05:42:15 PM

Raffy with another solo dinger to put the Sox up by 2.

markj · August 29, 2021, 05:46:42 PM

Arroyo tests positive for COVID. Will quarantine with Kike.

markj · August 29, 2021, 05:54:41 PM

Verdugo runs into an out. ("Into an out?" Is that an oxymoron?)

markj · August 29, 2021, 06:06:10 PM

Schwarber should have had that. Maybe he's still not 100%.

markj · August 29, 2021, 06:23:00 PM

Uh-oh. Barnes sighting in the BP.

markj · August 29, 2021, 06:27:40 PM

I figured that 1-run lead wouldn't survive. sigh

longgame · August 29, 2021, 06:28:16 PM

Quote from: markj on August 29, 2021, 06:23:00 PM
Uh-oh. Barnes sighting in the BP.

His bullpen mates wont let him come in for a save, they like giving up the lead themselves.

Even if they hold this tie, anyone have confidence that Barnes would hold it.

longgame · August 29, 2021, 06:28:46 PM

So much for holding the tie.

longgame · August 29, 2021, 06:30:15 PM

Amazing propensity to make giving up leads a full team thing. Freaking interference. And now Barnes.

markj · August 29, 2021, 06:30:42 PM

Oy. Sox continue to find new ways to lose.

longgame · August 29, 2021, 06:35:37 PM

Even though it really doesnâ€™t matter, I hate when Oâ€™Brien starts going on, as he did in the 7th inning, about Â¨how if the Sox win this it will be their 6th season sweepÂ¨ Any baseball player hates the mentions of streaks and statistical anomalies. Just bad luck to mention stuff like that.

Sea Dog 23 · August 29, 2021, 06:48:53 PM

Playing Rangers, Twins, Indians to fatten the record. Playing the Rays in four will find out what kind of fight the Sox really have.

BoSoxFanNY · August 29, 2021, 07:02:32 PM

Had too many opportunities to score in the early innings
and did not get that big scoring inning.
All home runs were solo shots.

UGHHHHHH - the bullpen.
Enough said . . .

MongoLikeSox · August 29, 2021, 07:48:20 PM

Today is what happens when your manager manages the previous two games as if he had 9 good pitchers in the bullpen.
Kudos to upper management for the Robles trade.
I'm not sure I've ever seen two players screwed with so much as I have with Houck and Chavis.Then again, walk 9 times in 73 games (20/21) and, well - two way street to a large extent. Still, it's not pretty.

If Arauze is injured - Munoz (OF'er by trade), Shaw (couple years ago when the Brewers traded for Mustokas) and , um, Santana? Wong played a game there and only had 3 errors. Marwin just signed with the Astros yesterday, so he's not even available for re-hire. Santana has a couple dozen games at 2b. Duran played there in college, but no way they'd do that. Maybe they can sign Sawamura's interpreter to a deal. He's a young man (not Sawamura) and ...... kidding, of course.