Bosox Board

7:10PM Eastern

Red Sox

Tanner Houck (R)

Cubs

Hayden Wesneski (R)

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Chance of Precip: 4%

Sox might have got a hometown discount in the drop of 1B Garrett Cooper from the Cubs.  Jed Hoyer and Breslow spent a lot of time togather in Chicago, and the deal only cost Red Sox some cash.  Dalbec was hitting a cool .107, and I think Cooper is a lifetime .268 guy.  Sox tried to get him when he was at Miami.

Hey Markj, a big eruption by our guys today with 17 runs a plethora of hits for a one sided 17-0 win.  Not to sound cynical but it might have been a good idea to save about nine or ten of those runs for tomorrow.  Well maybe our guys will show they can bat the ball around for two days in a row and win the series.  That would be a swell way to end the series.

Feast or famine with these guys.

What a difference a day makes.  What did Yogi say about pitching?  Winch brought his A game as did the two middle guys.  Raphaela with some key hits today.

9-0 Sox after 5 innings.

Cora has favorites only he will play them regardless of how it impacts the team.  We've seen it time and again.  In Joele's case there is no excuse.  The guy is just crapola with a capital C and has no business even being on the team, but until someone pulls the plug on Alex for malfeasance the farce will continue.  To me it is obvious and has been for the past few years that Cora needs to go.

4:10PM Eastern

Red Sox

Josh Winckowski (R)

J Duran (L) CF
R Devers (L) 3B
T O'Neill (R) LF
W Abreu (L) RF
C Wong (R) C
M Yoshida (L) DH
E Valdez (L) 2B
B Dalbec (R) 1B
C Rafaela (R) SS

Cubs

Ben Brown (R)

N Hoerner (R) 2B
M Tauchman (L) RF
I Happ (S) LF
C Morel (R) 3B
M Busch (L) 1B
D Swanson (R) SS
M Mervis (L) DH
Y Gomes (R) C
P Crow-Armstrong (L)

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Chance of Precip: 0%

Every time he's out there Joely seems to choke and lose his stuff, unless it's not in a high leverage call.  Alas he is becoming a Cora favorite like that guy Kaleb Ort.

Back at Fenway, where winning is hard.