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Post by jimed14 on Apr 22, 2014 19:11:23 GMT -5
Nava would have had that.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Apr 22, 2014 19:13:49 GMT -5
Paging Brain Roberts....Paging Brian Roberts.....Your career called....It's over.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Apr 22, 2014 19:15:52 GMT -5
This game pretty much validates everything Jmei said in the Lester thread.
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Post by mgoetze on Apr 22, 2014 19:18:38 GMT -5
Doesn't always lead to a .727 BABIP though. Not to bring this up again, but the contact Lester has given up so far was way harder than what Buchholz gave up yesterday, yet Lester isn't getting pillaged for it. Oh, sure, if you just look at how the balls are coming off the bat you know it's not going to be a .300 BABIP game. But JBJ almost got one, Sizemore almost got one, the "homer" YES announcers said Teixera was beat and got lucky on that fastball, and a .400 - .500 BABIP game would already be bad, so I'm just saying he's having bad luck on top of his own problems.
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Post by mgoetze on Apr 22, 2014 19:25:08 GMT -5
That's quite some rain.
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Post by ajs1994 on Apr 22, 2014 19:25:18 GMT -5
Honestly Tanaka hasn't been that impressive tonight. His splitter has been good, but not as great as it has been in some of his games. His fastball is very straight and he's left a few over the plate. Hopefully we can string some hits together soon.
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Post by ibsmith85 on Apr 22, 2014 19:32:02 GMT -5
What a shot that was.
What a rope that was.
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Post by mgoetze on Apr 22, 2014 19:32:40 GMT -5
Honestly Tanaka hasn't been that impressive tonight. Big Papi agrees.
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Post by mgoetze on Apr 22, 2014 19:33:20 GMT -5
Do they have rain in Japan?
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Post by jmei on Apr 22, 2014 19:34:42 GMT -5
This game pretty much validates everything Jmei said in the Lester thread. Appreciate the mention, but it doesn't really validate anything. It's just one game, even truly elite pitchers have bad games. Though this game does demonstrate one of my concerns with Lester. He no longer has the raw stuff to blow his fastball by hitters regularly. Even prior to this game, his in-zone contact percentage this year is a career-high 92.7%, well above the league-average of 86.6%. His recent success has been driven by his ability to get ahead in the count-- his first-strike percentage has increased three years in a row and was at a career-high 65.5% prior to this start (league-average of 60%). If he's not commanding the ball well or not getting the calls on the edges of the zone that he needs (some of the latter has definitely happened in this game), he's forced to be around in the zone with a fastball that will get hit hard if hitters are ready for it.
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Post by wcp3 on Apr 22, 2014 19:35:06 GMT -5
Yeah, Orsillo is great when he's actually calling the game, but he spends large swaths of games bantering on absurdly off-topic tangents rather than paying attention to the action on the field. I completely agree, but unfortunately that's what his employer wants from him.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 22, 2014 19:36:14 GMT -5
Honestly Tanaka hasn't been that impressive tonight. Big Papi agrees. Apparently any number of Red Sox hitters agree.
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Post by mgoetze on Apr 22, 2014 19:36:14 GMT -5
I didn't know the home run derby would be in April.
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Post by adiospaydro2005 on Apr 22, 2014 19:36:28 GMT -5
Why is a NESN sideline reporter in the Red Sox while the game is going on?
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Post by Guidas on Apr 22, 2014 19:39:42 GMT -5
Awesome fighting back but Xander, what were you looking for on strike 3? That thing was middle middle and flaaaaat.
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Post by ajs1994 on Apr 22, 2014 19:39:57 GMT -5
Apparently any number of Red Sox hitters agree. Haha. His splitter to Bogaerts was nasty, but Xander then took a straight fastball right over the middle to strike out. Glad to see some hitters jump all over those fastballs this inning though.
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Post by jmei on Apr 22, 2014 19:43:46 GMT -5
Awesome fighting back but Xander, what were you looking for on strike 3? That thing was middle middle and flaaaaat. The fastball looks just like the splitter out of his hand. That's why Tanaka has been pretty great despite the straight fastball-- hitters are always thinking about the splitter in the back of their mind, which means they end up taking some hittable fastballs for called strikes.
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Post by Guidas on Apr 22, 2014 19:46:06 GMT -5
Lester really having issues with 0-2 counts tonight.
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Post by jdb on Apr 22, 2014 19:54:12 GMT -5
That's an E for Nap.
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Post by Guidas on Apr 22, 2014 19:54:19 GMT -5
Hey look - a lead-off walk scored. Who wouldve thunk it?
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Apr 22, 2014 19:54:40 GMT -5
This game pretty much validates everything Jmei said in the Lester thread. Appreciate the mention, but it doesn't really validate anything. It's just one game, even truly elite pitchers have bad games. Though this game does demonstrate one of my concerns with Lester. He no longer has the raw stuff to blow his fastball by hitters regularly. Even prior to this game, his in-zone contact percentage this year is a career-high 92.7%, well above the league-average of 86.6%. His recent success has been driven by his ability to get ahead in the count-- his first-strike percentage has increased three years in a row and was at a career-high 65.5% prior to this start (league-average of 60%). If he's not commanding the ball well or not getting the calls on the edges of the zone that he needs (some of the latter has definitely happened in this game), he's forced to be around in the zone with a fastball that will get hit hard if hitters are ready for it. That was all I was saying. Reading the thread, some people pretty forcefully argued for his re-signing. I have a lot of faith Ben will make the right call.
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Post by mgoetze on Apr 22, 2014 19:57:41 GMT -5
BABIP all the way.
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Post by jmei on Apr 22, 2014 19:58:12 GMT -5
Yeah, definitely left Lester in too long, though that's a little hindsight and he would have been out of the inning without the Napoli error.
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Post by wcp3 on Apr 22, 2014 19:58:28 GMT -5
It's still too early in the season/too soon after UConn's 'ship for me to be mad about the Red Sox, but my initial observation is that they kinda suck defensively.
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Post by ajs1994 on Apr 22, 2014 19:59:22 GMT -5
Farrell left Lester in too long there. We were still in the game at the start of this inning. I understand wanting to conserve the bullpen, but is getting a couple more outs worth guaranteeing a loss? Not in my mind. Either way Capuano was going to need to give us multiple innings.
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