Anxiety is Good for You
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Time for a bloop and a blast.
Also, if it's 1-2-3, the top of the order comes up for the Sox in the 9th.
So - not quite dead yet.
Also, if it's 1-2-3, the top of the order comes up for the Sox in the 9th.
So - not quite dead yet.
Compare Williams's bunting skills to anyone on the current roster, and Ted comes out a head.
Alright, just need 2+ off a guy who throws triple digit cutters. They got this.
Solid work by the pen today, regardless.
Solid work by the pen today, regardless.
If the Red Sox have ever gotten a hit off Clase, I don't remember it. I do remember lots of feeble swings and easy outs though.
Baseball reference claims we have had 6 hits off him in 11.2 IP before today, but I still don't believe it.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=claseem01&year=Career&t=p
Baseball reference claims we have had 6 hits off him in 11.2 IP before today, but I still don't believe it.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=claseem01&year=Career&t=p
I wish Duran would use his skills to make pitchers work a little more. Try to get ahead in the count and sit on a fat pitch now and then.
So the Red Sox are falling into a somewhat predictable pattern. They mostly beat the bad teams and they mostly lose to the good teams.
With all the injuries and stuff, the truth is that it could be a whole lot worse. If it can stay that way all summer, I'd take it.
With all the injuries and stuff, the truth is that it could be a whole lot worse. If it can stay that way all summer, I'd take it.
Reese was just too terrible today. Also the Bello injury of course.
Good road trip still (4-2).
Good road trip still (4-2).
They don't face any of Toronto or New York until June, but I can see a collective sub .400 winning percentage against these teams coming.
Likely, but in general, I think it would be a good approach for him to be peskier up there. Who knows?
Scrappy team. Didn't bounce their way today (Thanks to some strikes that bounced out of gloves.)
Lets hope for a solid home stand and some reinforcements soon.
Who is expected back and when? For example: Pivetta? Grissom? Whitlock? Gonzalez?
Well, the team isn't static. And right now, it's probably OK to be in this pattern. You don't get more games against weak teams later to make up for the early-season ones you screw up on.
Pivetta May 7
Bello May 7
Whitlock Mid May
Grissom Mid May
Casas TBD
Campbell TBD
Romy TBD
https://www.mlb.com/redsox/news/red-sox-injuries-and-roster-moves
That was the attempted bad joke.
Which made me feel guilty typing it as he is my fav player ever.
Not to be a nitpick but that says late April/early May for Grissom. His rehab stint expires May 1st. So not everybody is so far off!
Getting Grissom back a week sooner is not a nitpick.
His game logs are trending in the right direction. https://www.milb.com/player/vaughn-grissom-687093?season=2024&team=533&stats=gamelogs-r-hitting-mlb&year=2024
Given the leg/groin injury, the two stolen bases suggest he's physically recovered.
Ted is credited with 5 sacrifices while playing and 5 years sacrificed while not playing
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I suppose he sac bunted with Jimmy Foxx coming up. Can’t imagine it otherwise. Did you know that sacrifice flies were not counted as no AB in 1941? He would have hit .409 or something if they were.
.419… probably unreachable. Well, .406 probably is also.
My favorite rest of that story about Ted hitting .3995 before the last day of the season was that manager Joe Cronin told Ted he could sit out the doubleheader and they’d round it off to .400. Ted said something like expletive, expletive, expletive, if you’re gonna hit .400, you have to hit .400 for the whole season, not the whole season -2 games. He then went 4 for 5 and 2 for 3 in the doubleheader.
Can't totally remember, but wasn't Nomar hitting .400 into early August in 2000 when he got hit on the wrist, then predictably struggled the rest of the way?
Nomar touched on .400 a couple of times in July that year, but “fell off” and finished at a league leading .372. I thought the wrist injury was at the beginning of the postseason, wasn’t it?
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=garcino01&t=b&year=2000
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=garcino01&t=b&year=2000
We need a gamethread for today, and hopefully the next 10 games. You up for it?
If not, anybody?
Not going to be around (going to Half Moon Bay for the day) and I like to start game threads when I can watch the game and participate. Someone else today, please?
Thanks for thinking of me though.
