YANKEES V RED SOX
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017, 4 PM AT FENWAY PARK
TV: NESN, YES
NEW YORK, (45-42)..................................................................................BOSTON, (51-39)
NEW YORK
LUIS SEVERINO, RHP, 5-4, 3.54 ERA, 124K
Fresh from his first career nod, Severino makes his first start of the second half
on Saturday. He's also coming off his fourth double-digit strikeout game of the season,
a seven-inning, three-run, 10 strikeout effort against the Brewers.
BOSTON:
CHRIS SALE, LHP, 11-4, 2.75 ERA, 178K
The power lefty was stellar throughout his first half, notching 178 strikeouts, the most
by any MLB pitcher at the AS break since Curt Schillling in 2002. At Fenway, Sale is 6-1
with a 2.34 ERA while holding opponents to a 1.87 average.
All-Stars Sale, Severino to duel at Fenway
Evan Chronis
Days after sharing the same clubhouse for the All-Star Game presented by Mastercard in Miami, Chris Sale and Luis Severino will return to being rivals Saturday. The Red Sox left-hander and Yankees righty will face off at Fenway Park in the second game of a four-game series.
Both pitchers were stellar in the first half, and they will look to carry their momentum over into the second portion of the season, including a potentially heated pennant race.
Sale, who earned the start for the American League in Tuesday's All-Star Game, started the first act of his Red Sox career off with a bang. The lanky lefty came out of the break with the third-most wins in the Majors (11) and the fourth-lowest ERA (2.75). His 178 strikeouts were the most first-half K's by a pitcher since Curt Schilling in 2002.
In his second consecutive All-Star Game start, Sale struck out two batters in two scoreless innings.
Severino is fresh off his first All-Star appearance, and he's on the hottest streak of his young career. The 23-year-old produced a 3.54 ERA in 17 starts and fanned 124 batters in the first half.
In his last appearance, Severino struck out 10 batters in a win over the Brewers, marking the fourth time this year that he's accumulated double-digit strikeouts in a game. The right-hander was available but did not appear in the Midsummer Classic.
Left-handed-hitting Andrew Benintendi should return to Boston's starting lineup on Saturday after sitting out Friday against Yankees lefty Jordan Montgomery.
THREE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS GAME
• It may be a small sample size, but so far Dustin Pedroia has gotten the better of Severino. The second baseman is 3-for-7 against the right-hander, with one home run and five RBIs.
• Sale produces his best work when his back is covered by the Green Monster. He's 6-1 at home this season with a 2.34 ERA in eight home starts. He's yet to allow more than three runs at Fenway this year, and he has pitched into the seventh inning seven times.
• Severino is 1-3 with a 4.07 ERA in five career appearances against Boston. The Red Sox may hold a special place in the righty's heart, as he made his big league debut against them in 2015. In his first start this season against the Sox on April 26, Severino earned the win after throwing seven scoreless innings and racking up six strikeouts.
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/20170714242133584/all-stars-sale-severino-to-duel-at-fenway/?game_pk=491456
Red Sox vs. NYY:
Betts RF,
Pedroia 2B,
Bogaerts SS,
Moreland 1B,
Ramirez DH,
Benintendi LF,
Bradley Jr. CF,
Leon C, Lin 3B,
Sale LHP
Sale is cruising with 8Ks and Ks the side in the 4th.
Severino got out of jams because of the Boston LOBsters, but we got 1-0 here though.
Sale is one heck of a pitcher.... Please get him some runs !! thumb_u rofl
10Ks thru 6 for Sale. Can't lose this one.
Kimbrel gets the 3rd out in the 8th. Lets get a run now to make it 2-0 for some breathing room. Hell of a pitchers game today by both sides.
Betts popup again in the infield. His specialty lately.
Farrell made the smart move and Kimbrel failed. Chapman and Kimbrel back-to-back games in which they blew it.
Quote from: ojdidit on July 15, 2017, 05:52:28 PM
Farrell made the smart move and Kimbrel failed. Chapman and Kimbrel back-to-back games in which they blew it.
1 bad pitch by Kimbrel. To bad for Sale and Kimbrel.
Again, zero offense... This would be ashamed to loose this one !! iono slap rofl
Oy, this team sux at bringing runners home. Good thing the Yanks gave them the game last night.
More bush league antics by the Yanks on the basepaths.
JE should have been called out, due to interference by Holliday.
Quote from: Leesam01 on July 15, 2017, 06:56:57 PM
More bush league antics by the Yanks on the basepaths.
JE should have been called out, due to interference by Holliday.
That was really terrible. Basically he was out and instead of returning to the dugout instead ran and blocked first base. As a retired baserunner he should be nowhere that play. I think the problem was that there's no way to call out someone else as a result. Very strange, but no harm in the end.
I sure would like to see them come up with some offense.....
Yep, need some offense badly.
Aside from the 8-3 win against the Rays, the Sox have produced diddly in the last 6 games. Last night they were basically gifted 2 of the runs. Offense has been pathetic lately.
A game and a half so far, two to play tomorrow, this could get ugly by the time tomorrow night's game ends some time after midnight.
This is where the lack of power really hurts, need a big fly to end this. But Abad is in, there are two on, none out, so this may be over soon.
Fister coming in to seal the deal ...
Quote from: Leesam01 on July 15, 2017, 08:00:47 PM
Fister coming in to seal the deal ...
Fister did the job. Lets get a damn run now!
Geez, Louise, these guys suck. :losers :losers sigh
Mookie K's on a ball way outside in the dirt. What is he thinking?
Game over. Wasted gem by Sale. Again.
Fister nad his moment of glory and now is showing why he will be a former MLB player tomorrow.
1 run in 16 innings. Only guy on offense who had a good day was Benintendi. He was 3/6. The rest of the guys could of been put out with the trash. I guess the theory is we need a 3rd baseman because no one else does their job. Will take more than another 3rd baseman to help the Sox offense!
Sale pitched great. Kimbrel threw 1 bad pitch. The Sox snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. On to Sunday.
From what I've read from markj, Schloik, Ted , Leesam and the rest of the crew I can tell you're pissed off as I am. Only I am not just pissed off. I went off on a raging torrent when the game was over and right now I can honestly say I hate many of the guys on this team. They are f@#ki%& losers, they cannot get a clutch hit to save their lives, and the way they starve Sale for runs when he pitches is a total disgrace-----and what's more they don't seem to give a damn. Each of these God damn players is looking for someone else to take the lead. No one is standing up and taking charge. Betts has become a shitty ballplayer of late, Bogaerts is a choker pure and simple and Moreland looks lost at the plate dipping and driving and hitting with his ass sticking out like some kind of circus animal. And say what you will of the catchers, neither to me is a winning ball player at all. I just hope we haven't ruined Swihart with that crappy demotion at the beginning of the year because we may have ruined one of our top prospects. This team needs a jolt because, mark my words, when they go into a slump next time it may be the beginning of a complete collapse of his club. And where the hell is Hanley when we need him. He's a veteran but shows no leadership and acts as if such a role was a live grenade. Right now my attitude is **** this team and most of the players on it. I will not tune in tomorrow to watch these candy asses make fools of themselves. To my colleagues here I apologize for ranting and further ruining your evening. It is very sad when you can almost say you hate the team you root for----the players, not what the Red Sox are supposed to represent.
Oh yea, one more thing.....Get rid of Fister. The guy ain't worth shit. He has already been dumped by two teams this season. Make is a hat trick and send this bum packing.
This was a scary game to watch. This is a bad funk. It just got worse, too. I hope they do not call devers up until this "air" has cleared.
It's the same team with the same problem as last year. No Papi now is only difference. It's the same funk as last years' funks. Same fear in their eyes. Same job security game within the game going on. This team has had the look like they are trying to survive an onslaught. These guys have been lost for a long, long time.
And now this and a DH to play tomorrow. A couple new team mates with holes in their game isn't going to fix this. I don't care how many right or wrong calls he's made. It needs a major shake up. This does not work. Air can be fixed.
They couldawouldashoulda had 3 runs on Severino. And this game wouldn't have gone this far. This is The Gang That Couldn't Hit Straight. They are pathetically uninspired. If the offense was as clutch as the pitching was this year, we'd be as good - if not better - than the Astros record-wise. They are lucky to have won yesterday.
TB will win the ALE. These dumb-asses will be K-ing or leaving RISPs during clutch moments come the last week of September.
After Kimbrel, I didn't lose my time. What a disgusting game...are these players evah
going to learn to hit the ball? Doubtful.
Dombrowski didn't seem to think the BP was a problem?
Another great game lost by Sale b/c of the BP.
Twice---in both the 10th and 11th innings---we had a runner on 2nd base and Farrell failed to bunt the runner to 3rd. Not even a friggin attempt at a sacrifice bunt in a game in which runs were almost impossible to come by. This one's on Farrell. He sucks and was exposed horribly---AGAIN!
Again this team wastes a stellar performance by Sale. And what's worse is that Fred is right---there's no one in this line up with any balls, with fire-in-the-belly enough to step up and say, "This game's mine!" Dombrowski has got to come to the realization that he's got to get an impact, tough-as-nails type player to insert into this candy-ass lineup at the deadline if we've got any chance of winning a single playoff game this year, or next. Hell, if the Blue Jays become sellers DD has got to think seriously about mortgaging the farm to go get a player like Donaldson. A player like Donaldson's intensity would have half these sissies soiling themselves in the dugout.
And to take is a step further---you watch. Beni is one of the few players playing with any intensity at all right now. And despite the fact that he had 3 hits yesterday---you watch---Farrell will sit him in Game 1 today.
While Benintendi may be the only one playing with intensity (I think Pedro's is also) Benintendi made a mental error by not going to third late in the game. If he had made it to third we'd have had a different result.
The biggest problem is this team looks terrible at the plate. Xander looks especially bad right now.
Another WASTED effort against Chris Sale.... I am calling for a SPECIAL INVESTIGATION as to why the team is so pathetic at the plate when Sale is on the mound..... This has all the looks of the other team hacking in to the RED SOX computers that have an effect on the final out come..... We need to find out WHY this continues to happen and determine if there is a there at play here !!! thumb_d :losers iono slap rofl
That was such a tough call for JF to make yesterday in the 8th. I do not envy him a bit.
Cart and horse time. Is this team at it's best when they loose, or are they only loose when they are succeeding? Rhetorical, of course.
The Bowers thing is a big blow if we lose him, in two ways. The obvious is the innings he gave us. Second is the valuable experience someone would have gotten.
Kudos to Fister for making himself available, it that is what happened. Character is a good thing. Again, if that is what happened.
Sox bring up Austin Maddox and send Blaine Boyer to the DL.
Devers 1st game at AAA.
AB 4 R 2 H 4 2B1 HR1 RBI 2
Quote from: Rob from Mass on July 16, 2017, 10:07:38 AM
Devers 1st game at AAA.
AB 4 R 2 H 4 2B1 HR1 RBI 2
I believe that kid is sending a message.
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 16, 2017, 10:22:52 AM
Quote from: Rob from Mass on July 16, 2017, 10:07:38 AM
Devers 1st game at AAA.
AB 4 R 2 H 4 2B1 HR1 RBI 2
I believe that kid is sending a message.
B I N G O DAT !!! As DAD would say, "SON, how ya going to keep that BOY down on the FARM" !!! thumb_u rofl
Quote from: Bill-806 on July 16, 2017, 10:35:30 AM
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 16, 2017, 10:22:52 AM
Quote from: Rob from Mass on July 16, 2017, 10:07:38 AM
Devers 1st game at AAA.
AB 4 R 2 H 4 2B1 HR1 RBI 2
I believe that kid is sending a message.
B I N G O DAT !!! As DAD would say, "SON, how ya going to keep that BOY down on the FARM" !!! thumb_u rofl
Do you(or anyone) know when the call up would not cost a year of eligibility? I know the rookie limits and such, but those could and should be different.
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 16, 2017, 10:57:17 AM
Quote from: Bill-806 on July 16, 2017, 10:35:30 AM
Quote from: MongoLikeSox on July 16, 2017, 10:22:52 AM
Quote from: Rob from Mass on July 16, 2017, 10:07:38 AM
Devers 1st game at AAA.
AB 4 R 2 H 4 2B1 HR1 RBI 2
I believe that kid is sending a message.
B I N G O DAT !!! As DAD would say, "SON, how ya going to keep that BOY down on the FARM" !!! thumb_u rofl
Do you(or anyone) know when the call up would not cost a year of eligibility? I know the rookie limits and such, but those could and should be different.
GOOD ??????? , Is it after July 1st ?? Or Aug 1st ??? iono
Service time is based on days the player is up on the MLB roster. If Devers was brought up now it wouldn't effect when the Sox would need to pay him. This year would be a wash like it didn't happen. Cubs did that with Bryant when he came up. They put him in the minors for a couple weeks so as not to give him a full year of service time. So the Cubs basically got Bryant for 7 years before he could become a free agent instead of 6 and 4 years instead of 3 before he would be eligible for arbitration.