8/17 Just Have Fun

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Casas lobbying hard for the Sox to make it

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

CRUSHED

 

[bosox188]

This. Kid.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

431 to left center off a lefty.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

Chavis has a nice flow but he's no Jorge Alfaro.

Tadpoleman

 

[LogansDad]

"Bottom" of the order getting it done.

 

[theheathernet]

For those not tuned: Appropriate lead up to the Casas bomb, Bradford reported that Kevin Frandsen passed along 40th birthday congrats from the Nats booth to Pedroia who, quote, “finally looks the age he looked the day he was drafted.”

 

[TFisNEXT]

IF Urias can start hitting like his last two years, the lineup gets a lot longer....and it would be nice insurance against Pablo cooling off.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Raffy needs to be reminded what plate discipline is.

 

[Fishy1]

Raffy putting together some stinkers lately

 

[Doc Zero]

Jesus Christ, dude.

 

[Doc Zero]

You can't walk Jeter Downs.

 

[derekson]

The fact that the Nats are playing Jeter Downs at SS is part of why I mentioned them as a team that might sign Mondesi to an incentive laden deal for 2024.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Sale is appropriately afraid of Jeter

 

[TFisNEXT]

Brutal walk

 

[patinorange]

That's not ideal, walking Jeter Downs.

 

[Frazee's Rope]

Ugly

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Defense. Fatal flaw.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

That's not ideal, walking Jeter Downs.

Even less ideal to throw the ball into CF so that Jeter can advance to third.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Lame

 

[S. H. Frog]

This is really unfortunate

 

[Frazee's Rope]

Uglier

 

[Doc Zero]

Brutal walk

Downs scoring this inning was a foregone conclusion.

 

[mauidano]

Oh Raffy... E5

 

[InsideTheParker]

Oh, gosh, what are the Sox going to do with all these DHs?

 

[patinorange]

Well, we went a couple of games without ridiculous defense.

 

[Fishy1]

Refsnyder should have been backing up that throw

 

[Doc Zero]

Gotta say, Raffy's first post-extension year has been a massive bummer, all things considered.

 

[mauidano]

Tadpoleman

Exceptional! I laughed!

 

[mauidano]

Let's get this double play in order, please.

 

[Frazee's Rope]

Not getting prettier

 

[shawnrbu]

Millar calls Devers solid defensively.

 

[LynnRice75]

Not getting prettier

Not a lot of fun yet either.
All these runners without a hit.

 

[Fishy1]

Millar calls Devers solid defensively.

he's probably using himself as the gold standard

 

[strek1]

That was a nicely timed DP ball!

 

[mauidano]

Let's get this double play in order, please.

Mahalo!

 

[Harry Hooper]

DP gets them in the dugout.

Hit, hit, and hit some more.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

I know that bad defense is frustrating. But we need to judge these things not by result but by whether our players were trying hard.

Get Rafy some orange slices and let's get back at 'er.

 

[trekfan55]

Let's get this double play in order, please.

There it is. Now let's get some hits and some runs to go along with them

 

[LynnRice75]

Millar calls Devers solid defensively.

Still drinking the Jack Daniel's, I guess.
Millar, I mean.
Maybe Devers, too.
Could use some myself.

 

[LogansDad]

Gotta say, Raffy's first post-extension year has been a massive bummer, all things considered.

It's not post-extension yet.

 

[strek1]

It's not a crime to take some walks you guys!

 

[Fishy1]

Story still hacking at crap.

EDIT: Duvall too

 

[LesterFan]

They've done nothing on this "easy" stretch to make me believe they'll make a run. A lot of bad offensive performances against really bad pitchers.

 

[Rovin Romine]

This one almost slipped by. I logged in to hear Millar arguing that subjective pitcher feel should determine how long guys go.

 

[Doc Zero]

It's not post-extension yet.

Whoa! you're right

 

[Rovin Romine]

They've done nothing on this "easy" stretch to make me believe they'll make a run. A lot of bad offensive performances against really bad pitchers.

Ideally they'd go into the Houston/LA stretch hot. Perhaps that will happen in the next 3 games.

But hot or not, I suspect they needed to do better in this stretch than they did.

 

[LogansDad]

They've done nothing on this "easy" stretch to make me believe they'll make a run. A lot of bad offensive performances against really bad pitchers.

The past week and a half is the most frustrated I have been with this team the entire season.

 

[trekfan55]

So Seattle may not lose again.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Stick with a lineup. Hard to be consistent when guys don’t know where they will be in the lineup the next day or even in the lineup. Enough of Refsnyder leadoff or Duvall hitting cleanup.