Kvetching is the Sosh-given right of every poster.Game 148
What will the Red Sox do in this final stretch?
We could get red hot, start a win streak, and etch
our name into lore, but our team is a wretch.
Will this be a fun chase like Chevy in Fletch
or one that falls flat like an SNL sketch?
We could win 6 games against teams we must catch,
but that’s not gonna happen, kinda like “fetch.”
(Yes, I have watched Mean Girls. Perhaps I’m a letch.)
Win game one tonight, so I don’t have to kvetch.
Teams that pounded out 23 hits or more in a nine-inning game got to do a lot of handshaking and high-fiving, seeing as how, after that game in 1930, they embarked on a 241-game winning streak… until the 2023 Red Sox came along last Saturday.
No team had allowed 23 hits and still won a game no matter how many innings it went in more than four decades, since Sept. 3, 1981, when Julio Cruz’s ’81 Mariners gave up 23 hits in 20 innings in yet another classic at Fenway but still beat the Red Sox, 8-7.
And since that day, teams that got 23 hits or more in games of any length, from nine innings all the way up to 25 innings, had gone a mere 137-0 in those games… until Orioles-Red Sox busted out last Saturday.
Baseball totally sucks.Teams that spin off nine hitless innings tend to win a lot. In the division-play era (1969-2023), 150 teams have pitched exactly nine innings of hit-free, run-free domination in either a regular-season or postseason game. The record of those teams is a spotless 150-0. Because when you don’t give up a hit and don’t give up any runs, it’s hard to lose!
Or 10 hitless innings is also cool… because no team in the modern era has pitched exactly 10 hitless, scoreless innings in a game and lost, either.
Hmm, anyone have any word on why Casas was in the original lineup but then got taken out?
It's Clemente Appreciation DayIs the 21 patch on Bellos uniform a new thing?
It's Clemente Appreciation DayWhy is Justin Turner wearing #21
https://news.sportslogos.net/2022/09/15/some-mlb-players-wearing-21-all-wearing-21-patches-today-for-roberto-clemente-day/baseball/Is the 21 patch on Bellos uniform a new thing?
I hope he scuffles his way onto another team this winter.The scuffling Alex Verdugo is scuffling.
Abreu takes his spot?I hope he scuffles his way onto another team this winter.
His at bats are really fun to watchWilyer Abreu is LEGIT.
Shoulder owie.Hmm, anyone have any word on why Casas was in the original lineup but then got taken out?
He did, but he was still going to be off-balanceStory had more time to make the throw.
I'm seeing some already this season.I really can't wait to see Bello next season. That's when the "young Pedro" comparisons could start to be seen
Completely agree.I really can't wait to see Bello next season. That's when the "young Pedro" comparisons could start to be seen
Now that Cora is in charge, Verdugo might not make it past Thanksgiving with BostonVerdugo really doesn't give a shit anymore.