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Post by Costigan on Aug 18, 2016 12:04:11 GMT -5
I'm gonna say that Marrero makes a key play today. Just a hunch.
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Post by mattpicard on Aug 18, 2016 12:14:34 GMT -5
Why was Marrero kept over Hernandez when Ramirez was activated? No idea. With Young's return imminent, today is probably the only game Marrero/Hernandez would start, and I can't come up with any reason for why you'd prefer Marrero over Hernandez in there today.
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Post by jimed14 on Aug 18, 2016 12:18:39 GMT -5
OK Mookie, note Salty's arm.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Aug 18, 2016 12:21:44 GMT -5
Interesting to compare the current stances/box habits of Mookie and Xander. Mookie seems to calm and still - no practice swings, no extraneous movement. Xander, especially for the last month, is constantly moving - not that this necessarily means anything..just a very interesting contrast. To me, Xander hasn't seemed calm or ready in the box for some time.
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Post by Coreno on Aug 18, 2016 12:22:17 GMT -5
Yo Tigers, $uck it biatches! Best moment I have ever witnessed while in the confines of Fenway Park. I'm hesitant to call it the best game I've ever been at because of how miserable the first 2/3 of it was, but man, what a game.
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Post by jmei on Aug 18, 2016 12:27:33 GMT -5
Why was Marrero kept over Hernandez when Ramirez was activated? No idea. With Young's return imminent, today is probably the only game Marrero/Hernandez would start, and I can't come up with any reason for why you'd prefer Marrero over Hernandez in there today. I don't agree with it, but his rationale was presumably that there was a lefty on the mound.
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Post by ianrs on Aug 18, 2016 12:32:20 GMT -5
In addition to the lefty on the mound, you might also want the better defensive player in the game with Clay pitching for the Sox, who has been prone to giving up lots of contact lately.
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Post by Coreno on Aug 18, 2016 12:38:10 GMT -5
I just realized that the most surprising part of the lineup is not just that Leon is the DH today, but that it means John Farrell has the only 2 catchers on the roster in the starting lineup. He is usually so conservative with burning his catchers just in case of emergency that this seems really out of character. I realize that having them both in the lineup is better than PHing for the catcher in terms of available options, but if Leon has to catch, we become an NL team.
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Post by DesignatedKyle on Aug 18, 2016 12:50:19 GMT -5
Horrendous call
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Post by bosox81 on Aug 18, 2016 12:51:50 GMT -5
Awarding Martinez 3rd base is outrageous. You can't just assume that.
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Post by mattpicard on Aug 18, 2016 12:52:17 GMT -5
No idea. With Young's return imminent, today is probably the only game Marrero/Hernandez would start, and I can't come up with any reason for why you'd prefer Marrero over Hernandez in there today. I don't agree with it, but his rationale was presumably that there was a lefty on the mound. Hernandez is a switch-hitter with close to an .800 OPS vs. LHP this year. Marrero's is under .500.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Aug 18, 2016 12:52:21 GMT -5
This is utterly ridiculous. And a great decision to get ejected by Farrell. Fire the team up. Why not - this was always going to be a bizarro game. Whoops. check that - it is Butterfield that is gone. So weirder still!
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Post by DesignatedKyle on Aug 18, 2016 12:52:30 GMT -5
Umpshow!
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Post by Coreno on Aug 18, 2016 12:53:41 GMT -5
That run was gift-wrapped by the umpires.
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Post by nomar on Aug 18, 2016 12:54:19 GMT -5
Get out of this inning with 1 run and I'll take it as a win
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Post by bosox81 on Aug 18, 2016 12:54:43 GMT -5
I need to see the replay again, but did Martinez even look at the ump to make the decision to return to first base?
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Post by DesignatedKyle on Aug 18, 2016 12:59:38 GMT -5
the one and only Hanley Ramirez
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Post by jmei on Aug 18, 2016 13:01:25 GMT -5
I need to see the replay again, but did Martinez even look at the ump to make the decision to return to first base? That strikes me as a little bit of a red herring. Even if he didn't see the umpire make the out call, his teammates and coaches did, and they yelled at him to go back to first base. It's ultimately on the umpires to makes the right call on the no-catch initially, but once that mistake has been made, I think the outcome was a reasonable one. It's a judgment call, but the runner was off on the pitch and was past 2B by the time Jackie missed the catch, and if an immediate no-catch call was made, he almost certainly makes 3B without much of a sweat.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Aug 18, 2016 13:05:16 GMT -5
3B Aaron Hill (R) SS Xander Bogaerts (R) RF Mookie Betts (R) 1B Hanley Ramirez (R) CF Jackie Bradley (L) DH Sandy Leon (S) C Bryan Holaday (R) 2B Deven Marrero (R) LF A. Benintendi (L) Clay Buchholz (R) (4-9, 5.66) --- Starting to get Papi's replacement familiar with the DH role... That's a pretty brutal 7-8 combo before Beni. Marrero's OPS in AAA this year is below .500 against both RHP and LHP's. What a horror show at the plate it's been for him. My God, is that a spring training lineup!? Good thing the Sox put some distance between themselves and Detroit!
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Post by mattpicard on Aug 18, 2016 13:07:34 GMT -5
Xander should be the #9 hitter when we have our regular lineup out there.
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Post by nomar on Aug 18, 2016 13:17:31 GMT -5
Crazy how good our offense is without hitting well with the bases loaded.
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Post by Gwell55 on Aug 18, 2016 13:20:46 GMT -5
Xander should be the #9 hitter when we have our regular lineup out there. And if he would learn to bunt than Mookie woulda coulda shoulda been an rbi machine there...
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Post by nomar on Aug 18, 2016 13:26:18 GMT -5
Oh my lord
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Post by ramireja on Aug 18, 2016 13:27:02 GMT -5
Its pretty sweet that we won't need Encarnacion next year!
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Post by DesignatedKyle on Aug 18, 2016 13:27:10 GMT -5
This is the reincarnation of Babe Ruth we're watching
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