4/16 - vs Cleveland - in which Dalbec finally gets a hit

[JOBU]

LONG GONE WONG DONG

 

[Sprowl]

Love the HR, hate the light show.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

HR with a man on!

 

[E5 Yaz]

Whoa, it's a game

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Ok!

 

[BornToRun]

That’s a pretty sweet dong right there

 

[mauidano]

Cool and all but can we hit one with a couple guys on please?

Baby steps! We're back in the game.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

That was one of those balls that seemed like it was crushed, fools everyone, and is not crushed at all.

Except this one went out of the park!

 

[Rovin Romine]

Cool and all but can we hit one with a couple guys on please?

Would you continue to ask for things nicely? Please?

 

[strek1]

Nice to see some fight in the offense tonight.

 

[CR67dream]

WONGERS!

 

[mikeford]

Casas, Devers, Yoshida, Story, O'Neill. Duran was a bit of a question mark, but he's shown he stuck. Grissom seems like a solid prospect bat as well.

What you're seeing is injury and underperformance/cold starts. Valdez, Yoshida, and Abreu in particular.

And it's resulted in them being a notch below average in terms of their offensive production. They could easily be better.

Or to put it another way, it's not like these guys are maxing out and getting beat.

Story is gone, O'Neill isn't in the lineup and Yoshida hasn't been an MLB caliber bat since about June of '23.

I just don't know why anyone expected anything different than this.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

So, the Wonger might actually be pretty good.

 

[LesterFan]

Beede is a Worcester native and was one of the names linked to the Red Sox with the 19th pick in the 2011 draft. Sox ultimately went with Matt Barnes instead (Beede went 21st to Blue Jays).

 

[YTF]

WONGERS!

 

[Rovin Romine]

Story is gone, O'Neill isn't in the lineup and Yoshida hasn't been an MLB caliber bat since about June of '23.

I just don't know why anyone expected anything different than this.

You said the lineup was weak as constructed. It wasn't.

People expected different than this because this isn't the lineup they opened the season with.

As to the team today - the supporting guys don't have to be stars to compete, they have to be adequate. And they have the ability to be.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Rafaela is starting to look better.

 

[simplicio]

Rafa looks so good when he hits, why can't he hit more often?

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

How about a homer into the bullpen please.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

How about a homer into the bullpen please.

Your lips to god’s ears.

 

[mauidano]

Raffy is gonna get his moneys worth on swings in the AB.

 

[RS2004foreever]

As I said nearly a week ago - you cannot stop Connor Wong you can only hope to contain.
There fools just never learn.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

That’ll do.

 

[JOBU]

I was not expecting this

 

[Mantush]

I just started watching. You are welcome SOSH

 

[Sprowl]

Big Raffy gets over that shoulder business.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

This is fun

 

[strek1]

Excellent comeback. Glad that was Duran running.

 

[mauidano]

Money's worth. That was a rocket.

 

[BornToRun]

The 300 million dollar man gets it done!

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

That was EASY power to dead center.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Yoshida lol

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

I just started watching. You are welcome SOSH

You did it!

 

[E5 Yaz]

Why wouldn't they IBB Devers and pitch to Yoshida?

 

[simplicio]

No idea why that was all fastballs in the zone to Raffy but I'll take it!

 

[Rovin Romine]

I just started watching. You are welcome SOSH

Much obliged.

 

[YTF]

Big Raffy gets over that shoulder business.

I'll be honest, a swing or two prior to that I thought "that shoulder business" might return.

 

[YTF]

Much obliged.

He's got leg issues too?

 

[patinorange]

Why wouldn't they IBB Devers and pitch to Yoshida?

At the very least you would think they would have pitched around him.

 

[Rovin Romine]

Bernardino is such an easy guy to root for.

 

[mauidano]

Why wouldn't they IBB Devers and pitch to Yoshida?

That's okay. You would pinch hit Bobby for Masa and Bobby is due. Bobby D will save us.

 

[Rovin Romine]

He's got leg issues too?

Nasal issues. It's holistic man.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

Oooh that was close

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

Good call, Alex.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

This gamethread is dead for a game in mid April. I wish I could quit it.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

Love it. Nice work. More runs.

 

[mauidano]

HUGE K

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Good thing the quarter came up heads and Cora walked Ramirez.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

This gamethread is dead for a game in mid April. I wish I could quit it.

You can't quit. We won't let you.