|
Post by jimed14 on Apr 21, 2014 13:29:54 GMT -5
Can you imagine the outrage if Papi is thrown out at the plate on a single sending it to extra innings?
|
|
|
Post by jimed14 on Apr 21, 2014 13:32:40 GMT -5
Yeah, leave Papi at 2nd. wow There's two outs now, so Ortiz will be off on contact. The difference between Ortiz and Sizemore isn't enough to make it worth potentially burning your best hitter. Plus, giving Sizemore an actual day off is worth something; if he was available today, he would have pinch-hit for Ross instead of Herrera. If Sizemore isn't available to even PR, this roster is constructed even worse than I thought.
|
|
|
Post by jmei on Apr 21, 2014 13:35:35 GMT -5
There's two outs now, so Ortiz will be off on contact. The difference between Ortiz and Sizemore isn't enough to make it worth potentially burning your best hitter. Plus, giving Sizemore an actual day off is worth something; if he was available today, he would have pinch-hit for Ross instead of Herrera. If Sizemore isn't available to even PR, this roster is constructed even worse than I thought. Dude, he hasn't played baseball in three years and has had more work done than Pam Anderson. Giving him an actual day off (for an early day game after a night game) after he's played eight out of nine shouldn't be this controversial.
|
|
|
Post by jimed14 on Apr 21, 2014 13:47:24 GMT -5
If Sizemore isn't available to even PR, this roster is constructed even worse than I thought. Dude, he hasn't played baseball in three years and has had more work done than Pam Anderson. Giving him an actual day off (for an early day game after a night game) after he's played eight out of nine shouldn't be this controversial. Yes I understand that. And it easily could have cost us a game if Napoli hits a double or Carp hits a single. It's bad enough being forced to play Nava in RF against LHP game after game. But when another OF isn't even available to PR and you're forced to leave your worst baserunner in the game as the winning run in the bottom of the 9th, that's probably another indication that you're not built to win.
|
|
|
Post by jerrygarciaparra on Apr 21, 2014 13:47:39 GMT -5
We can't give up these early leads and expect to come back. This game...along with last night's..they deserved to lose. It seems as though this team wrote Murphy's Law.
Patience will, hopefully, bring a change in fortunes.
I say that....prior to tomorrow's game that everyone provide a maxim that speaks to that ability to get past the tough times. Power to the People.
|
|
|
Post by James Dunne on Apr 21, 2014 13:51:48 GMT -5
The chances that Napoli or Carp hits a ball that would have scored Sizemore but not Ortiz don't outweigh the chances that the spot in the order comes up again in extra innings and Ortiz is no longer in the lineup. When you add in the value of a full day off for Sizemore, then it was absolutely the right decision by Farrell to leave him in the game.
|
|
ericmvan
Veteran
Supposed to be working on something more important
Posts: 8,936
|
Post by ericmvan on Apr 21, 2014 13:54:57 GMT -5
When you hit .314 / .390 / .571, and hit better with runners on (.400 / .444 / .533) than with the bases empty (.250 / .348 / .600), and the other guys hit .303 / .378 / .333 and ground into three double plays (yielding an effective OBP of .297), it's really, really, really hard to lose.
|
|
|
Post by Guidas on Apr 21, 2014 14:00:07 GMT -5
Now instead of going to be crabby I'll be crabby for the rest of the day.
|
|
|
Post by jmei on Apr 21, 2014 14:04:05 GMT -5
Dude, he hasn't played baseball in three years and has had more work done than Pam Anderson. Giving him an actual day off (for an early day game after a night game) after he's played eight out of nine shouldn't be this controversial. Yes I understand that. And it easily could have cost us a game if Napoli hits a double or Carp hits a single. It's bad enough being forced to play Nava in RF against LHP game after game. But when another OF isn't even available to PR and you're forced to leave your worst baserunner in the game as the winning run in the bottom of the 9th, that's probably another indication that you're not built to win. Really? They're not "built to win" because they wanted to give a starter the day off and had used their other three bench players already? This is really melodramatic, even for a gameday thread. If anything, you should be upset about Farrell using Herrera as a pinch-hitter. If he leaves Ross in there, or even pinch-hits Pierzynski, who is a much better hitter than Herrera, even/especially versus LHP, Herrera is still available to pinch-run if necessary.
|
|
|
Post by jimed14 on Apr 21, 2014 14:04:29 GMT -5
Guess which pitch was the called strike to Napoli with the bases loaded?
|
|
|
Post by jimed14 on Apr 21, 2014 14:05:08 GMT -5
Yes I understand that. And it easily could have cost us a game if Napoli hits a double or Carp hits a single. It's bad enough being forced to play Nava in RF against LHP game after game. But when another OF isn't even available to PR and you're forced to leave your worst baserunner in the game as the winning run in the bottom of the 9th, that's probably another indication that you're not built to win. Really? They're not "built to win" because they wanted to give a starter the day off and had used their other three bench players? This is really melodramatic, even for a gameday thread. If anything, you should really be upset about Farrell using Herrera as a pinch-hitter. If he leaves Ross in there, or even pinch-hits Pierzynski, who is a much better hitter than Herrera, even/especially versus LHP, Herrera is still available to pinch-run if necessary. I was upset about that too. I'm done with my tantrum now.
|
|
|
Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 21, 2014 16:59:11 GMT -5
Guess which pitch was the called strike to Napoli with the bases loaded? Am I the only one who finds these charts completely unreadable?
|
|
|
Post by jimed14 on Apr 21, 2014 17:51:37 GMT -5
Guess which pitch was the called strike to Napoli with the bases loaded? Am I the only one who finds these charts completely unreadable? Red triangles are called strikes thrown by Baltimore. Red squares are called strikes thrown by Boston. Ditto for greens except for balls. The red triangle way off the outside of the plate was the one they called a strike on Napoli.
|
|
|
Post by soxfanatic on Apr 21, 2014 17:57:41 GMT -5
Am I the only one who finds these charts completely unreadable? Red triangles are called strikes thrown by Baltimore. Red squares are called strikes thrown by Boston. Ditto for greens except for balls. The red triangle way off the outside of the plate was the one they called a strike on Napoli. Correct, except for the fact that the graph is the umpire's point of view. So the ball to Napoli is actually inside, not outside.
|
|
|
Post by jimed14 on Apr 21, 2014 18:05:46 GMT -5
Red triangles are called strikes thrown by Baltimore. Red squares are called strikes thrown by Boston. Ditto for greens except for balls. The red triangle way off the outside of the plate was the one they called a strike on Napoli. Correct, except for the fact that the graph is the umpire's point of view. So the ball to Napoli is actually inside, not outside. Yeah, my bad... Meant to say off the plate.
|
|
|
Post by thelavarnwayguy on Apr 21, 2014 18:16:10 GMT -5
All it takes is one bad strike call at a critical moment of a game to cause at least a 10% swing in the outcome. One Ump can skew the results as to who gets in the playoffs, team A or B. They can't make a terrible team a playoff team but they can clearly tip the scales between 2 contenders.
|
|