5/30 - Get back in contention?

[DeadlySplitter]

Four against a mediocre Tigers team (offensively terrible, pitching can be quite good)
Two against Atlanta without Acuna and one game expected to be a spot starter
Three against the horrible White Sox

Go 7-3 or better in this stretch and you're still in the WC conversation, at least before the Philly / Yankee homestand after. Keep buying time for Casas (and Yoshida?) to return.

 

[Sandy Leon Trotsky]

This is a great idea!!!

 

[LynnRice75]

Series 19: TIGERS at SOX
We lost the O’s series with the retention
of our even record. There’s no suspension
of disbelief and there is no dissention
among Die-Hard fans in any dimension
that the Red Sox can get back in contention.
Winning home games is not a new invention.
I want a pennant ‘fore I get my pension.
Attack the Tigers without apprehension.
Destroy Detroit and begin our ascension.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

A four game series vs Detroit without having to face Skubal is a nice break.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Know your Tigers

1. Matt Vierling (R) RF
2. Riley Greene (L) CF
3. Mark Canha (R) DH
4. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
5. Colt Keith (L) 2B
6. Akil Baddoo (L) LF
7. Spencer Torkelson (R) 1B
8. Javier Báez (R) SS
9. Carson Kelly (R) C

1. Jarren Duran (L) CF
2. Wilyer Abreu (L) RF
3. Rob Refsnyder (R) LF
4. Rafael Devers (L) 3B
5. Connor Wong (R) DH
6. Garrett Cooper (R) 1B
7. Reese McGuire (L) C
8. Vaughn Grissom (R) 2B
9. David Hamilton (L) SS

 

[moretsyndrome]

Know your Tigers

That's what Seigfried should have told Roy.

 

[mauidano]

That's what Seigfried should have told Roy.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Know your Tigers

1. Matt Vierling (R) RF
2. Riley Greene (L) CF
3. Mark Canha (R) DH
4. Gio Urshela (R) 3B
5. Colt Keith (L) 2B
6. Akil Baddoo (L) LF
7. Spencer Torkelson (R) 1B
8. Javier Báez (R) SS
9. Carson Kelly (R) C

1. Jarren Duran (L) CF
2. Wilyer Abreu (L) RF
3. Rob Refsnyder (R) LF
4. Rafael Devers (L) 3B
5. Connor Wong (R) DH
6. Garrett Cooper (R) 1B
7. Reese McGuire (L) C
8. Vaughn Grissom (R) 2B
9. David Hamilton (L) SS

I hope that nothing's amiss with Rafaela.
In any case, Geaux, Sox!

 

[E5 Yaz]

@IanMBrowne
Masa Yoshida has started hitting off the tee. He hopes to break 90 this summer.

 

[TrotNixonRing]

@IanMBrowne
Masa Yoshida has started hitting off the tee. He hopes to break 90 this summer.

break 90 tees?

if not tees… bats? hearts? wRC+?

 

[Ferm Sheller]

90 calories burned.

 

[Moviegoer]

This montage is nice.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Breslow looking like Nicholson in Chinatown.

 

[Dewey's 'stache]

What happened to Breslow’s schnoz?

 

[InsideTheParker]

I'm a little confused. When is the game scheduled to start?

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Pedroia!

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Dustin!

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

What happened to Breslow’s schnoz?

Papelbon headbutted him at a cocktail party last night.

 

[Dewey's 'stache]

I'm a little confused. When is the game scheduled to start?

After the LAZAH SHOW!!

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Christ, you know you are getting old when guys like Pedroia are looking old

 

[Dewey's 'stache]

Papelbon headbutted him at a cocktail party last night.

No shit, really? That’s nutty

 

[Moviegoer]

Now let's get Pedey in the MLB hall.

 

[TrotNixonRing]

Papelbon headbutted him at a cocktail party last night.

entirely plausible

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Anthem singer had some serious pipes

 

[TrotNixonRing]

Now let's get Pedey in the MLB hall.

oof. I’d put Whitaker and Grich in first. Convince me otherwise!

 

[Dewey's 'stache]

Now let's get Pedey in the MLB hall.

And Dewey Evans… he should be in for sure

 

[Moviegoer]

oof. I’d put Whitaker and Grich in first. Convince me otherwise!

Whittaker I can see, but Grich? Bobby Grich?

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

No shit, really? That’s nutty

Nah, I'm just fuggin' around.

entirely plausible

Right? ;-)

 

[TrotNixonRing]

And Dewey Evans… he should be in for sure

correct, not even close

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Christ, you know you are getting old when guys like Pedroia are looking old

Pedroia looked 47 his rookie year.

 

[TrotNixonRing]

Whittaker I can see, but Grich? Bobby Grich?

Similar players in some ways but Bobby Grich did it longer.

bWAR per 162 / bWAR:

Pedroia: 5.6 / 51.9
Grich: 5.7 / 71.1

 

[Moviegoer]

Pedroia looked 47 his rookie year.

No he didn't. Pedroia looke like nine year old with severe hirsutism. He still does when he has a hat on.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Yikes. Walks the lead-off man. I am still elated about other matters today, but that there is a bummer.

 

[Beomoose]

Wombat's kid casually roasting DoB pleases me

 

[InsideTheParker]

Wombat's kid casually roasting DoB pleases me

He rehearsed them, I promise you.

 

[S. H. Frog]

Yikes. Walks the lead-off man. I am still elated about other matters today, but that there is a bummer.

Agreed

 

[LynnRice75]

Anyone else having trouble with the nesn feed on the mlb app? My broadcast keeps rewinding to the award ceremony.

 

[S. H. Frog]

Hard to believe that was only twenty pitches

 

[Sprowl]

Pivedder is finally on point again.

 

[TrotNixonRing]

Yikes. Walks the lead-off man. I am still elated about other matters today, but that there is a bummer.

turns out your concerns were falsified

 

[Moviegoer]

Looks like Pivetter has found the fastball.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

I was at Paps first game starting at Fenway in 2005 down the RF line. He almost hit us in the stands when he was warming up in the outfield.

 

[Beomoose]

This has been Deep Thoughts with Jonathan Papelbon

 

[TrotNixonRing]

I was at Paps first game starting at Fenway in 2005 down the RF line. He almost hit us in the stands when he was warming up in the outfield.

hmmm… Twins? Went 5 innings, 2 runs? Not sure if this is an amazing memory or complete bullshit

 

[derekson]

Ah the nightly period when my NESN 360 goes into a black screen for 15-20 minutes for no reason.

 

[Steve Dillard]

I'll always remember his shoulder subluxation walking off at Fenway holding his shoulder. (Right as Lester was diagnosed with cancer). The two kids who were our future were never going to pitch again.

 

[Dewey's 'stache]

This has been Deep Thoughts with Jonathan Papelbon

Early contender for top comment of the night

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

GOT HEEM!

Pivetta is dominant.

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

Tricky Nicky Pivetta is straight-up mowing pricks DOWN!

 

[shawnrbu]

8 in a row!