9/10 O's HIT...

[YTF]

Just 20 games left to a season that is quickly circling the drain. From this point on I'd want to see the very best possible from those expected to be on next year's roster. Solid defense, smart base running, starter's finding a way to go 6 innings and the some of yesterday's offense to carry over. Is that too much to ask? Probably so, but the NFL regular season has arrived. With CBS and FOX both running double headers this team needs to give me a reason to stay tuned. @LynnRice75 and @InsideTheParker do your things!!!

 

[InsideTheParker]

Molto Bello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pitch six innings, get the good bullpen (no Jacques, Weiss, Llovera)!
Geaux, Sox! More selfless hitting, move the guy over, score runs for our best starting pitcher!
P.S. gridiron games bore me, so entertain me for the next 20 please, as I have no other games to root for.

 

[LynnRice75]

Game 143
23 hits! The Red Sox offense looked great!
You would think that scoring 12 runs would equate
to a victory, yet we dropped our 4th straight
because not enough of our guys crossed home plate.
(Chris Sale took the blame. What a noble teammate.)
In a year of weird losses, where does that rate?
The worst game of the year is hard to locate,
and, in truth, a really depressing debate.
Just a few more defeats will eliminate
the Sox from contention and thereby deflate
my last gasp of hope but will never negate
my love for the team, so I’ll watch and I’ll wait
in a strange and somewhat oblivious state
looking for the things I can like and not hate,
and writing down rhymes as I watch to create
some kind of distraction until that dark date
that I must admit that we have met our fate.
Till then, I’ll rely on my odd foolish trait -
my ridiculous, optimistic, innate
belief – that for now – it is still not too late.

 

[E5 Yaz]

1. Ceddanne Rafaela (R) CF
2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B
3. Justin Turner (R) DH
4. Triston Casas (L) 1B
5. Alex Verdugo (L) RF
6. Trevor Story (R) SS
7. Wilyer Abreu (L) LF
8. Luis Urias (R) 2B
9. Reese McGuire (L) C

Rodriguez (RHP) v Bello

 

[Ale Xander]

Me likey 1-5

 

[E5 Yaz]

@alexspeier
Nick Robertson just entered the Red Sox clubhouse. He’s expected to be added to the Sox roster, with James Paxton expected to go on the injured list.

 

[Ale Xander]

Paxton injured? What a surprise

 

[LogansDad]

Molto Bello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pitch six innings, get the good bullpen (no Jacques, Weiss, Llovera)!
Geaux, Sox! More selfless hitting, move the guy over, score runs for our best starting pitcher!
P.S. gridiron games bore me, so entertain me for the next 20 please, as I have no other games to root for.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Naturally Masa is sitting today after a three-hit night. Against a RHP , too. I don't get it.

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I don't care if they're "unailable," so long as they're unavailable. Agree?

 

[LogansDad]

Naturally Masa is sitting today after a three-hit night. Against a RHP , too. I don't get it.

I don't care if they're "unailable," so long as they're unavailable. Agree?

God damn it I suck at internetting

 

[AB in DC]

@alexspeier
Nick Robertson just entered the Red Sox clubhouse. He’s expected to be added to the Sox roster, with James Paxton expected to go on the injured list.

Oh yay. more bullpen games. Just what they need.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Nice to see Cedanne lead off.

I guess there's a reason to watch the first out of the bottom of the 1st before turning it off.

 

[E5 Yaz]

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"Jaques" is unailable today, having been sent down as Whitlock returns

 

[Fishy1]

Season is pretty much over but some good stuff here. Wilyer has certainly earned another start. Ceddane leading off. Urias with another chance to get going.

And Bello looking to show those people who say he can't pitch in a day game.

 

[E5 Yaz]

"Right knee inflammation" for Paxton, which probably means the body is worn down after his first full season in four years

 

[Dalton'sJones3]

Season is pretty much over but some good stuff here. Wilyer has certainly earned another start. Ceddane leading off. Urias with another chance to get going.

And Bello looking to show those people who say he can't pitch in a day game.

Looks like he might get a night game. It just started poring here, 3 miles from Fenway, with only short breaks likely until 8 or 9 PM

 

[E5 Yaz]

Looks like he might get a night game. It just started poring here, 3 miles from Fenway, with only short breaks likely until 8 or 9 PM

No wonder Cora put Rafaela in the starting lineup ... game might not be played

 

[E5 Yaz]

As expected, Paxton's season is over

@alexspeier
Cora said Paxton’s knee has been “barking a little bit.” His season is over. Pivetta will be a starter moving forward.

 

[Fishy1]

Looks like he might get a night game. It just started poring here, 3 miles from Fenway, with only short breaks likely until 8 or 9 PM

Cora playing 3D chess with the weather...

 

[Ale Xander]

Cora playing 3D chess with the weather...

3D is more steady than 2D in windy weather

 

[FlexFlexerson]

1. Ceddanne Rafaela (R) CF
2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B
3. Justin Turner (R) DH
4. Triston Casas (L) 1B
5. Alex Verdugo (L) RF
6. Trevor Story (R) SS
7. Wilyer Abreu (L) LF
8. Luis Urias (R) 2B
9. Reese McGuire (L) C

Rodriguez (RHP) v Bello

I keep preparing myself to pack it in and stop watching games for the season, but then I look at a lineup care like this and think "yeah, I could watch these guys for a bit." So it goes.

 

[Joe Shlabotnick]

It will be interesting to see how this lineup does against Rodriguez, who has been extremely tough since being recalled.

 

[pk1627]

They are out of the race. Players are dropping like flies. Last night was a repeat of opening day. It’ll be pretty wet when things resume.

But I’m going when this game starts up.

 

[Ale Xander]

They should cancel but I don’t think Henry is prepared to lose a gate

 

[E5 Yaz]

There's no reason to play it, unless it matters for the AL East title.

 

[absintheofmalaise]

They should cancel but I don’t think Henry is prepared to lose a gate

Plus, there's that pesky who wins the division thing going on.

 

[Ale Xander]

Plus, there's that pesky who wins the division thing going on.

Save that for the end of the season if necessary
I suspect Orioles don’t need the game

 

[Comfortably Lomb]

Jim Rice looks like he would rather be anywhere else other than interacting with Papelbon.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Is the 2:15 start time still holding?

 

[Fishy1]

Depends on if this system below skirts Fenway or not, I think

 

[Ale Xander]

Will they even have 5k in the seats at 4Pm?

People gonna be leaving to find tvs

 

[YTF]

Save that for the end of the season if necessary
I suspect Orioles don’t need the game

Sure, that and any subsequent rain outs between now and then. IIRC Baltimore sees a fair amount of rain in September.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Remember when lead-off batters tried to see a bunch of pitches so the other guys on the team could see what he has? (OB just said no one on the Sox had ever faced Rodriguez before.)

 

[Fishy1]

Remember when lead-off batters tried to see a bunch of pitches so the other guys on the team could see what he has? (OB just said no one on the Sox had ever faced Rodriguez before.)

Yeah, Ceddane will probably never be that guy

 

[Ale Xander]

They’re playing through this?

 

[E5 Yaz]

Remember when lead-off batters tried to see a bunch of pitches so the other guys on the team could see what he has? (OB just said no one on the Sox had ever faced Rodriguez before.)

Yeah, that was before video scouting

 

[Coachster]

Casas, doing what he does best.

 

[Rovin Romine]

Casas is sort of the hidden story of the season.

 

[Fishy1]

Casas is sort of the hidden story of the season.

Hard to say he's hidden when people are talking about him for ROY (even though he doesn't really deserve it)

 

[Rovin Romine]

Positives.

+ We are not being no-hit.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Yeah, that was before video scouting

I'm quite struck at times about how different a pitcher can be from one start to the next. That seems like a limitation on video scouting.

 

[Rovin Romine]

Hard to say he's hidden when people are talking about him for ROY (even though he doesn't really deserve it)

Yeah, I remember how high people were on him in June.

 

[Fishy1]

Yeah, I remember how high people were on him in June.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but a lot of us looked at his peripherals and such and thought he was going to be just fine!

 

[Joe Shlabotnick]

When did O’Hearn get good? And does he ever smile?

 

[E5 Yaz]

I'm quite struck at times about how different a pitcher can be from one start to the next. That seems like a limitation on video scouting.

You're not scouting to see the results. You're scouting to see how his pitches move, what pitches they go to in certain situations, and differential in speed.

 

[Fishy1]

Rotten luck on these ground balls. On replay not sure why Story didn't throw to first.

 

[Joe Shlabotnick]

Soxtown! God they suck. Get out the brooms.

 

[Brohamer of the Gods]

Oh, Dugie.

 

[soxin6]

This team wasn't great, but they have become completely unwatchable against good teams here in September.

 

[Harry Hooper]

Bad pitch and a misplay in RF