8/15 @ Natinals
- Thread starter Curtis Pride
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I want another memorable moment like the last time we played in dc
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Porcello ended up slashing .429/.429/.714 that year (201 OPS+).
That game, though, actually ended up pretty close. Sox couldn't do much else on offense until Mookie hit a dinger that turned out to be the game winner.
Bullpen was a bit shaky -- Barnes got his three outs but not without drama. Kelly gave up a very deep HR to Harper and Kimbrell eventually needed to come in for the four-out save. I think Trea Turner came close to tying it up but Mookie made a nice play in the ninth? Might have that wrong. Bref play by play says deep RF line and I may be confusing it with a different Mookie play.
Was memorable. But the last time the sox played in DC was the butt-clenching end of the 2021 season.
His WHIP is actually higher this season than last season...... I don't really understand xFIP or advanced pitching stats, but I think I get them well enough to understand his ERA is likely deflated based on crazy luck. A 1.55 WHIP is terrible.
Gray was on the other side of the Puig and Wood trade and then the Max and Trea trade. He should have some pedigree.
No Masa
RED SOX LINEUP:
RF Alex Verdugo
DH Justin Turner
3B Rafael Devers
SS Trevor Story
1B Triston Casas
CF Adam Duvall
LF Jarren Duran
2B Pablo Reyes
C Reese McGuire
NATIONALS LINEUP:
SS C.J. Abrams
CF Lane Thomas
DH Joey Meneses
C Keibert Ruiz
1B Dominic Smith
RF Stone Garrett
2B Jake Alu
3B Ildemaro Vargas
LF Blake Rutherford
RED SOX LINEUP:
RF Alex Verdugo
DH Justin Turner
3B Rafael Devers
SS Trevor Story
1B Triston Casas
CF Adam Duvall
LF Jarren Duran
2B Pablo Reyes
C Reese McGuire
NATIONALS LINEUP:
SS C.J. Abrams
CF Lane Thomas
DH Joey Meneses
C Keibert Ruiz
1B Dominic Smith
RF Stone Garrett
2B Jake Alu
3B Ildemaro Vargas
LF Blake Rutherford
We're catching another bad team on a hot streak (7-3 over last 10). Hopefully, Pivetta cools 'em down and there's a more positive Story ending.
Yup, it always seems to happen this way. (I'm sure it doesn't, but it feels like it does!)
They've actually won 10 of their last 15, so they've playing over their heads for a couple weeks now.
Game 119
While the Bruins, Celtics, and Pats
can make us drink beer by the vats
(as if we were all rushing frats),
the Red Sox deserve our "congrats!"
They're in the Hunt. Take a look. That's
a lineup stacked with power bats!
We're on the road to face the Nats.
Let's go all out and pad our stats.
Hustle like Minnesota Fats.
Play so well that they tip their hats.
Lay down the law like bureaucrats.
Scratch and claw fierce like feral cats.
Infest their home like rabid rats.
Hit so hard that everyone scats,
hoping they'll find safe habitats
before the well-struck bullet splats.
Though we don't have to act like brats,
let's wipe our feet on these doormats.
While the Bruins, Celtics, and Pats
can make us drink beer by the vats
(as if we were all rushing frats),
the Red Sox deserve our "congrats!"
They're in the Hunt. Take a look. That's
a lineup stacked with power bats!
We're on the road to face the Nats.
Let's go all out and pad our stats.
Hustle like Minnesota Fats.
Play so well that they tip their hats.
Lay down the law like bureaucrats.
Scratch and claw fierce like feral cats.
Infest their home like rabid rats.
Hit so hard that everyone scats,
hoping they'll find safe habitats
before the well-struck bullet splats.
Though we don't have to act like brats,
let's wipe our feet on these doormats.
Their schedule hasn't exactly been tough over that time, though. Outside of the Phillies, who swept them, they have played the A's, Mets and a Reds team that is kind of falling apart lately, with the Brewers, who might be the weakest division leader, thrown in.
2 of 3 here is a must, but sweeping is preferable.
Get off on the right foot tonight.
Glad to be back in my garage and on a gamethread. Me and a good friend basically had an entire pavillion section to ourselves at Fenway on Friday night. Treehouse on Saturday, two great nights with friends old and new, a delayed flight yesterday, and a laid back day off today. I'm a Heady Topper and a Foam (Just Like Clockwork) in...Let's go! You know...in 2 hours that is.
That's funny Lou "Hard to harness that and tell him to take walks". You don't "tell" modern day established players to do anything. They have their habits and you have to live with them or dump them. And oddly enough this time Raffy DOES take a walk.
