7:05pm Eastern
RED SOX
Chris Sale (L)
1. Mookie Betts (R) RF
2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B
3. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS
4. J.D. Martinez (R) DH
5. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF
6. Brock Holt (L) 2B
7. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B
8. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF
9. Sandy Leon (S) C
Yankees
Domingo German (R)
1. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Edwin Encarnacion (R) DH
4. Luke Voit (R) 1B
5. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
6. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
7. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
8. Cameron Maybin (R) LF
9. Austin Romine (R) C
Gametime Temp: 86°F
Chance of Precip: 1%
Have you noticed ? I mean, have you NOTICED ???? The SOX OFFENSE has returned to 2018, aggressive bats/counts and attack, RUN , RUN, RUN !!!! Pitching/B P getting better with HERNANDEZ & EVOLDI , getting a GRIP on fresh arms as needed !!!! TONIGHT, could/should be TELLING !! thumb_u thumb_u rofl rofl rofl
Sunday night ESPN games don't always go well for the Sox.
Quote from: markj on July 28, 2019, 02:18:53 PM
Sunday night ESPN games don't always go well for the Sox.
Fingers crossed that OUR RED SOX can quiet the obnoxious constant CHATTER of A/ROD & that non stop gal in the booth !! iono iono rofl rofl rofl
Quote from: markj on July 28, 2019, 02:18:53 PM
Sunday night ESPN games don't always go well for the Sox.
True!
AND taking 3 out of 4 from the Yankees,
considering BEFORE this series began the record was 1 - 6,
SO even thought I would love to sweep the Yankees. I am
happy with our offense and the way this team is playing.
The war doesn't end, we have a 4 game set beginning in NY on Friday. We could really get their attention.
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on July 28, 2019, 03:11:52 PM
The war doesn't end, we have a 4 game set beginning in NY on Friday. We could really get their attention.
YES, & as COL. JIMMY DOLITTLE once said "VICTORY GOES TO THOSE WHO WANT IT THE MOST, BELIEVE IN IT THE LONGEST" !!!! Go SOX, make us PROUD !!!! thumb_u 8) 8) rofl rofl
Left handed BATS MITCHY 2/BAGS & SPLASHER HOLT in, CHAVIS & COL. TRAVIS, sit !!! rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
Quote from: Bill-806 on July 28, 2019, 10:48:19 AM
Have you noticed ? I mean, have you NOTICED ???? The SOX OFFENSE has returned to 2018, aggressive bats/counts and attack, RUN , RUN, RUN !!!! Pitching/B P getting better with HERNANDEZ & EVOLDI , getting a GRIP on fresh arms as needed !!!! TONIGHT, could/should be TELLING !! thumb_u thumb_u rofl rofl rofl
Hernadanez yeah Eovaldi so far simply sucks. Maybe 3 or 4 more outings .But no one knows how he will handle the late inning pressure. My guess not so good.
Quote from: Murph on July 28, 2019, 05:03:21 PM
Quote from: Bill-806 on July 28, 2019, 10:48:19 AM
Have you noticed ? I mean, have you NOTICED ???? The SOX OFFENSE has returned to 2018, aggressive bats/counts and attack, RUN , RUN, RUN !!!! Pitching/B P getting better with HERNANDEZ & EVOLDI , getting a GRIP on fresh arms as needed !!!! TONIGHT, could/should be TELLING !! thumb_u thumb_u rofl rofl rofl
Hernadanez yeah Eovaldi so far simply sucks. Maybe 3 or 4 more outings .But no one knows how he will handle the late inning pressure. My guess not so good.
Nathan has only pitched 2 and 2/3 of innings since his return. Except for his fastball command he has not pitched that poorly considering the layoff. Unlike Barnes, I think Eovoldi has closer temperament. He just needs to work out the cobwebs from his long stretch on the IL
Oh well, now the Sox need to find the offense again. It seems they love to lose when the audience is big.
Sale our 129m so called ACE for 5 more stupid years.
#1. 1 reason not to extend Mookie.
Game is going south fast. Sox just suck on Sunday night ESPN games.
Beni closes the gap with a 2-run dinger.
C'mon Mark the bats are bad but Sale simply sucks anymore in big games.5 more years.
Yeah, another poor showing by Sale. And now Xander blows a play he should have had. They just can't handle nationally broadcast game pressure, it seems. Still, I'll take 3 out of 4 in this series. Much better than I thought they'd do.
Sale 5 ip and 100 pitches.Wonderful for a #5.WTF was the FO thinking.?
Nice throw by JBJ to the Yankee 1st base coach. Cost 2 runs.
Back to the team we've seen most of this season. Just odd how they can pull it all together for a few games and then revert to minor league bums overnight.
What's with ESPN? Are on screen graphics too techie for them?
No they're giving away runs. How many runs tonight due to errors?
And another blown out. WTF is with these guys?
Bases juiced, nothing out of it.
Those runs allowed due to sloppy play are looming large now.
My god, ESPN announcers are horrible. What a load of drivel.
Quote from: Schloicka on July 28, 2019, 08:23:12 PM
Nice throw by JBJ to the Yankee 1st base coach. Cost 2 runs.
That was bad and he does make a fluke error like that sometime, but that catch he made in the second inning was another gem. Jack's problem is and always will be his hitting. He is srikeout machine that only hits between 220-235 and again I say that is not going to cut it. After 2020, unless sooner, we have to cut bait with him and put someone out there who can hit a lot more consistently.
I'll gladly take the three our of four from the Yankees---any day. But I have to worry some because tonight they loked like the team that could show up uninterested, bored and flat as a pancake. Hope it doesn't carry over to this coming week.
Not the results that we were looking for …….. Can't make mistakes against good teams ….. YANKS starter is going to be a great one , he made the SOX work & did not hurt himself with WALKS ….. OFF today, REST up boys, another action packed week ahead !!! iono iono
I listened to the first half of the game in the car. O'Brien was actually on with Sean McDonough and said at the beginning that this was the biggest game of the year so far for the Sox. I tend to agree. They were all set to take a 4 game series with their ace on the mound. Once again, the "ace" lost his concentration and threw some stinkers. Not sure what the hell is going on there, but we need a pitching coach who can fix these problems, not let them last all year long. As for the overall state of play in last night's game, it was as poor as the announcing. The end where A-Rod was asking the softball player who she would trade, etc. was uncomfortable as she didn't have a clue. It's clear she doesn't really follow the sport unlike A-Rod who comes up with some good points at time but delivers them poorly. I think I mentioned the last time they were on Sunday night that A-Rod has developed this speech pattern where he makes a point, then a counterpoint followed by a pause and then a "dramatic" (not) delivery of the final three or four words.
Anyhow back to the game, the JBJ error was strange - but they pointed out that Moreland was in place to back up the cutoff and not at 1B where JBJ was expecting him. Both teams played fairly poorly but we had Sale so it was almost like you expect a loss.
Speaking of the mediocre broadcasting, I think it was our game with the Rays last week on MLB, the cameras left the game and had a segment in the booth. All three announcers were playing rock-paper-scissors. I forgot what their segweigh was, maybe didn't have one. Really a clown show.
Dog you nailed it on a clown show.
I was surprised that O'Brien is actually much better on radio than on TV. I think it helps that he's not trying to suck up to his broadcast partner. I always laugh when he asks a question of Remy in particular and Remy politely says "not really...". The ESPN team is about as awful as it gets although I really can't stand Joe Buck at Fox either. He and O'Brien are cut from the same cloth. Listen when he does football, you'd think Aikman has it in his contract that he is to be referred to only as "The Hall of Famer Troy Aikman".
The female softball players sounds so contrived trying to convince her audience that she is as expert as A-Rod. It is a joke. The play by play guy Matt V is equally as bad. Makes me wish that Jon Miller and Joe Morgan were back on ESPN.
A few things I picked up last night that some of your made light of. That Jessica what's her name has no business being on that ESPN Sunday Night broadcast. To me blunt, she doesn't know shit about baseball and it seems to be that as the weeks drag on she prepares less and less. This was not the firs time A-Rod posed a question to her that sounded to here like it came from Mars. Fine to be gender neutral---as it should be, but by God you have to have a lady who knows what the hell she is talking about.
A second point about the game last night......despite the loss it should have ended any dream any of you had out there that we have any chance for another AL East Title this season. We don't and haven't since the middle of May when we flattened out with too many hot and cold performances. As hard it is going to be a Wild Card is our best venue into the post season, and that only happens if we can finally shake the continuous flat performances for our team and to see them play every game as it might their last. They put themselves into this unsavory position and it is up to them to extricate themselves from it by winning about 65-70 percent o their remaining games so they make the playoffs. They can start by winning at least two of the three against Tampa Bay and then invading Yankee Stadium and winning two of the four games there.
Probably right about the AL East. It will take a Yankee collapse. Still, they have 7 games remaining in this stretch and I've thought all along that 10-4 would be a very good mark over those games. They're tracking to that, but can't let up.
We've got a good shot against the Rays as Sale isn't pitching in this series. That's the real shame. Even if they get hot, they can't win without the old Chris Sale at the top of the rotation.
Surprisingly the weekend series led me to believe that the Yankees starting pitching isn't strong enough to get them to the world series much less win it all.
Quote from: elktonnick on July 30, 2019, 08:28:11 AM
Surprisingly the weekend series led me to believe that the Yankees starting pitching isn't strong enough to get them to the world series much less win it all.
Unless they get hot all of a sudden, but keep in mind Elk that the Yankees have a lot of surplus talent they can trade for pitching and it wouldn't surprise me on twit to see them go in big in the next 36 hours. And we need to shitcan this closer by committee like yesterday.