GAME #23, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2019, TIGERS @ BOSTON RED SOX

[markj]

1:10PM Eastern

Red Sox

Chris Sale (L)

1. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF
2. Mookie Betts (R) CF
3. J.D. Martinez (R) RF
4. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS
5. Steve Pearce (R) 1B
6. Michael Chavis (R) 3B
7. Christian Vazquez (R) DH
8. Tzu-Wei Lin (L) 2B
9. Sandy Leon (S) C

Tigers

Matthew Boyd (L)

1. Jeimer Candelario (S) 3B
2. Nicholas Castellanos (R) RF
3. Miguel Cabrera (R) DH
4. Niko Goodrum (S) 1B
5. Dustin Peterson (R) LF
6. Ronny Rodriguez (R) SS
7. Josh Harrison (R) 2B
8. Grayson Greiner (R) C
9. JaCoby Jones (R) CF

[Bill-806]

CHAVIS @ 3rd, LIN @ 2nd...…  Did the infield just get a little more LEATHER ???? iono iono

[Murph]

Sox -Tigers postponed. Tonight’s game was rescheduled as the first game of a day-night doubleheader on Tuesday

[Bill-806]

Sox -Tigers postponed. Tonight’s game was rescheduled as the first game of a day-night doubleheader on Tuesday

GLOBAL WARMING is now SCREWING with our BASEBALL !!!!…… OH well, an early night after EASTER weekend may be beneficial !! iono iono iono iono

[Sea Dog 23]

The extra hours might give Cora some time to decipher his moves from a wipeout to the O's on Patriot Day, two downers in NY, then rebounding to sweep the young upstarts of the AL.   iono  iono  iono

[longgame]

Crappy bullpen, no offense, not even any patience to try to get at the bullpen.   Poor game all around for the Sox.

[Bill-806]

Crappy bullpen, no offense, not even any patience to try to get at the bullpen.   Poor game all around for the Sox.

Got to win these games...…  The hitters need to get 3, 4 runs early to give our  pitchers a chance !!  iono iono iono iono

[Sea Dog 23]

DD is gonna have to move for another pitching piece, that's just my opinion.  This grab bag bunch of bull pen arms is ridiculous.  There are some solid arms available for a couple mil.  The injuries to the staff are going to take a toll regardless.  If we're KC or Det ride it out.  But I think the Sox are serious about contending.

[SeaBeachFred]

The extra hours might give Cora some time to decipher his moves from a wipeout to the O's on Patriot Day, two downers in NY, then rebounding to sweep the young upstarts of the AL.   iono  iono  iono

I hope you didn't count on Cora doing that because it didn't happen.  His work in Tampa was admittedly an improvement from some of the weird  and to tally bizarre moves he has made  this season, but when you have our hitters down to five hits and the bullpen get rocked again you get the impression that Dombrowski's assertion that our pen would be good enough this year to sound like a pile of dog shit that DD should swallow for his health.

[SeaBeachFred]

DD is gonna have to move for another pitching piece, that's just my opinion.  This grab bag bunch of bull pen arms is ridiculous.  There are some solid arms available for a couple mil.  The injuries to the staff are going to take a toll regardless.  If we're KC or Det ride it out.  But I think the Sox are serious about contending.

This is no way to fight a cough and a cold that has done me in the past few days, and I didn't get better watching that farce of a game on my TV.  Our bullpen simply sucks.....whether it is Poyner, Brewer, Barnes, Thornbugh, Hembree or whoever, they are a pack of turds----all of them.  We bring one up, send one down, up and down and up and sown some more and the results are the same. For some reason the team simply cannot develop pi tchers in our farm system---AT ALL.  The last good prospect in that regard was John Lester over 15 years ago.  An our hitting isn't so hot either.

[Murph]

DD is gonna have to move for another pitching piece, that's just my opinion.  This grab bag bunch of bull pen arms is ridiculous.  There are some solid arms available for a couple mil.  The injuries to the staff are going to take a toll regardless.  If we're KC or Det ride it out.  But I think the Sox are serious about contending.

The biggest question to DD is why the hell did he give Sale that contract extension before the season started considering how TERRIBLE he pitched the last 3 months of 2018. Hopefully, he didn`t listen to the MANY FANS  wanting the early EXT signing. Just my opinion but the early extension was  BRAINLESS and uncalled for. Its been 5 starts so ST IMO has no barring on his performance.

[longgame]

DD is gonna have to move for another pitching piece, that's just my opinion.  This grab bag bunch of bull pen arms is ridiculous.  There are some solid arms available for a couple mil.  The injuries to the staff are going to take a toll regardless.  If we're KC or Det ride it out.  But I think the Sox are serious about contending.

The biggest question to DD is why the hell did he give Sale that contract extension before the season started considering how TERRIBLE he pitched the last 3 months of 2018. Hopefully, he didn`t listen to the MANY FANS  wanting the early EXT signing. Just my opinion but the early extension was  BRAINLESS and uncalled for. Its been 5 starts so ST IMO has no barring on his performance.

That and Eovaldi may end up being huge liabilities but I think we'll be okay.  But the pen is just awful.

Also, how bad is Leon that, when facing a lefty, he gets pulled for a lefty and we lose the DH?   This guy is another liability, not financially, just on the field.  Every time he plays it's a step down from an NL pitcher at the plate.