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Post by FenwayFanatic on Jul 16, 2016 19:53:27 GMT -5
O's win another one run game.
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Post by trotfan on Jul 16, 2016 20:26:59 GMT -5
Erod looked incredible answering the bell ...been excited about him from day 1 he obviosly tipped but if he kicks it ? We picked up 2 number twos over the break !!! Love this team love how tight they are ....when Hanigan hit his first was awesome looking at how excited the team was for him ...The team reminds me a lot of 2007 team .I really feel good about Erod now .
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Post by ericmvan on Jul 16, 2016 21:00:15 GMT -5
Lack of K's is would be obviously troubling for Gerry Davis if MLB held umpires accountable for games as putrid as that, but good to finally see Rodriguez get a good result. FIFY. That was a 4 K, 1 BB game, and the HR came on a "3-1" pitch that was a 2-2 pitch .... everywhere but on Planet Gerry Davis. Brooks has the Yankees getting squeezed 3 times and getting 2 gift strikes; the Sox, 7 squeezes and 0 gifts. I belive all 7 squeezes were with E-Rod on the mound. He appears to have thrown 69 of 97 pitches for actual strikes, 71% ... you need a lot of, cough, help to walk 2 and strike out 1 with that Strike%. He also got grounders or popups on 13 of the last 20 balls in play (8 and 5 respectively), which is an insane rate. I think that a game like this is often the result of a hitting team's plan -- if you decide your strategy is to attack early in the count and if the pitcher is painting the corners, there's just one easy out after another. Like his very good outing on 6/22, he basically did this with 2 pitches: 67 4-seamers, 25 sliders, 5 changeups. (On 6/22, it was 77 four-seamers, 21 changeups, and 4 cutters.) In fact, he's used his whole 5-pitch arsenal (the 5th being a 2-seamer) only in his bad games this year. I think that's because he was looking to see if there was anything he could command (and failing to find it). Whereas in his first start of the season plus these two subsequent good games, he seems to be simplifying consciously. Once he's comfortable with the new delivery, you can expect him to start using all 5 pitches, and he could be special.
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Post by zimmerdown on Jul 16, 2016 21:18:43 GMT -5
Hard to know what to make of Rodriguez's start; very effective (and I do consider RA important), but only 1K, 2BB and topping out at 93. Man, do the Yankees look and feel like a last place team Solid win. 2w in NY after the break when you are just hoping to keep momentum going. 6 in a row..but by all means, let's point out all of the negatives. If it's in response to all of the positives "2 number 2's in a week!" I get it. How about you both calm down? (And me too, I guess)
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jul 16, 2016 21:43:08 GMT -5
"Seems like everyone's got a good cutter these days. Thank you, Mo." -- Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira, on blaming Mariano Rivera for Rodriguez's success against the Yanks on Saturday Girardi in panic mode: "It's got to turn around tomorrow," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "This is probably as important of a game that we've had in July in a long time tomorrow."m.mlb.com/news/article/189947900/sandy-leon-eduardo-rodriguez-power-red-sox/
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Post by ericmvan on Jul 16, 2016 22:05:42 GMT -5
It makes no sense to me that E-Rod, with his historically bad numbers in day starts, will be starting on Saturday afternoon now that we've acquired Pomeranz. Move Price up and give him the Saturday start and have Pomeranz go on Sunday (the day he was scheduled to start with SD). I am not part of the fire John Farrell lynch mob, but......... Three things about his day / night splits. 1) They're greatly exaggerated because both of his 2015 pitch-tipping games happened to be day games. In the first game, he had a 4 1 0 0 1 1 line that ended up 4.2 8 9 9 3 1. In the second game, he had a 3 0 0 0 0 5 line that ended up 3.2 6 7 7 0 5. That blows up his day ERA from 4.22 to 7.88. However, he still had a big split, since he was 1.87 at night. 2) While mild day / night splits are for the most part innate (night owls will prefer night games, early birds will prefer day games), extreme splits almost always have a behavioral component. You struggle at day, you make sure you get enough sleep the night before. (If you're an ESPN Mag subscriber, you may know the story about Youkilis's girlfriend apparently keeping him up late.) You struggle at night ... well, I'm not sure exactly what you do, but Jason Varitek, an extreme early-bird, figured it out. In his career, he was always either great at day and bad at night or the other way around, and a large part of his mid-career offensive improvement came from adopting a regimen that made him good at night (when most of the games are) rather than at day. JWH hired me largely because I figured that out at SoSH -- and the one year that Varitek flipped back in April, I spotted it, e-mailed Theo a heads-up on an off-day, and he literally turned it back around the next night. So there are behavioral things you can do (changing caffeine consumption, napping, etc.) that can greatly affect those splits. In E-Rod's case, let's look at his GameScoreV2 for his 2015 day starts, the two pitch-tipping games marked by * 70 * (good) * (dominant) 57 [That's an 0.95 ERA excluding the two pitch-tipping innings] ASB -3 20 [That's a 20.24 ERA in those two starts] 43 66 [And back to 2.08] Well, the two awful games after the ASB were his only two day games on the road all year. One in L.A., and one in Miami. Hmm, trying to think of a reason why you may not have gotten enough sleep after a night in L.A. or Miami ... (OK, they were actually in Anaheim, but they got rained out on Sunday and I'd bet that some guys went to L.A. that night; E-Rod pitched Monday afternoon. The Miami game was a Wednesday get-away game.) Rookie players often have bad numbers on the road because they're partying a bit too much, and they usually learn their lessons, and sometimes pretty quickly. Pedroia implied as much when he was asked about the improvement in his home / road splits his second year; he didn't address his bad rookie road numbers, or even actually answer the question -- he just said that it was his job to play baseball and that after a game, he went back to the hotel ... 3) I was somehow unaware of this, and it definitely made his 2015 numbers less impressive than they might have been. I'm convinced more than ever that he's a potential ace.
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Post by larrycook on Jul 16, 2016 23:20:53 GMT -5
We have two 11 game winners and niether is named price. Never thought that would happen when we signed him.
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Post by ray88h66 on Jul 17, 2016 10:43:45 GMT -5
Good to see Erod get it done. Now sweep, reading the New York media will be fun after that.
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Post by bosox81 on Jul 17, 2016 10:45:35 GMT -5
Price needs to step up tonight and pitch like an ace. Tanaka will not be easy to beat.
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Post by Guidas on Jul 17, 2016 10:51:23 GMT -5
At this rate, Sandy Leon is about 2 weeks away from being a 2.0 fWAR player and about 3 weeks away from being a fully operational Death Star.
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Post by cheers on Jul 17, 2016 11:14:12 GMT -5
At this rate, Sandy Leon is about 2 weeks away from being a 2.0 fWAR player and about 3 weeks away from being a fully operational Death Star.
Morning coffee almost out my nose. Thanks.
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Post by mgoetze on Jul 17, 2016 11:58:55 GMT -5
Price needs to step up tonight and pitch like an ace. Tanaka will not be easy to beat. Good thing he only needs to beat the Yankees hitters.
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Post by bosox81 on Jul 17, 2016 12:28:26 GMT -5
Price needs to step up tonight and pitch like an ace. Tanaka will not be easy to beat. Good thing he only needs to beat the Yankees hitters. Yeah. Allowing less than 6 runs per start against these world beaters would be a good start.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Jul 17, 2016 13:40:43 GMT -5
Bundy knocked out of the box after 3 1/3
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Post by ryantoworkman on Jul 17, 2016 13:45:27 GMT -5
At this rate, Sandy Leon is about 2 weeks away from being a 2.0 fWAR player and about 3 weeks away from being a fully operational Death Star. Superb!
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Post by DesignatedForAssignment on Jul 17, 2016 14:45:31 GMT -5
At this rate, Sandy Leon is about 2 weeks away from being a 2.0 fWAR player and about 3 weeks away from being a fully operational Death Star. Superb! Ll
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Post by Don Caballero on Jul 17, 2016 14:57:15 GMT -5
O's at last lost a game. Objective tonight: Sandynation.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Jul 17, 2016 15:31:05 GMT -5
Hill removed after 5 pitches due to blisters.
Pitching prices about to skyrocket. Maybe the Espinosa deal won't be so bad after all.
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Post by Guidas on Jul 17, 2016 15:36:01 GMT -5
SOX v NYY: Betts RF; Pedroia 2B, Bogaerts SS; Ortiz DH; Ramirez 1B; Bradley Jr. CF; Shaw 3B; Leon C; Holt LF; Price P.
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Post by ianrs on Jul 17, 2016 16:28:25 GMT -5
SOX v NYY: Betts RF; Pedroia 2B, Bogaerts SS; Ortiz DH; Ramirez 1B; Bradley Jr. CF; Shaw 3B; Leon C; Holt LF; Price P. Brock Holt will be the latest beneficiary of John Farrell and Chili Davis's genius plan to make #9 hitters into offensive juggernauts (see Bradley Jr., Jackie; Leon, Sandy).
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Jul 17, 2016 19:16:28 GMT -5
Girardi is on pins and needles....the Yuck fan base is ready to revolt...Levine and Steinblubber are trustafarians way out of their league....I want this sweep so bad!!
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Jul 17, 2016 19:21:50 GMT -5
Great catch!! Not a bad pitch...up a bit...
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Post by Don Caballero on Jul 17, 2016 19:39:37 GMT -5
Another game, another solid Sandy hit. Yawn.
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Post by burk on Jul 17, 2016 20:02:27 GMT -5
I like the Xander feature that they just did. Love me some Xander. Price pitching pretty well, good velocity.
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Post by mattpicard on Jul 17, 2016 20:03:50 GMT -5
Carlos Yamazaki @masashicarlos 6m6 minutes ago Hideki Okajima made a decision to retire. He'll throw out a ceremonial first pitch before a game at Fenway on August 11, 2016
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