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5/19-5/22 Red Sox vs. Mariners Series Thread
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 19, 2022 23:16:39 GMT -5
Well, Trevor was the story of the game. Nice to see him mash. They need a lot more of that. Others need to pick up the slack as well. Must we? Must we what?
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Post by incandenza on May 19, 2022 23:20:18 GMT -5
Storyâs wRC+ went from 80 â> 112 in one game. Even for late May, thatâs crazy. He is clearly feeling it and this should take a lot of pressure off of him (both from himself and fans). By gosh and golly, we have ourselves a fourth above average starter!
Just need to throw the rope down to Verdugo and Kiké and we're good to go.
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Post by cdj on May 19, 2022 23:32:16 GMT -5
Storyâs wRC+ went from 80 â> 112 in one game. Even for late May, thatâs crazy. He is clearly feeling it and this should take a lot of pressure off of him (both from himself and fans). By gosh and golly, we have ourselves a fourth above average starter!
Just need to throw the rope down to Verdugo and Kiké and we're good to go.
Hopefully today will Verdugo get going, 3 hits himself
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Post by manfred on May 20, 2022 0:36:47 GMT -5
Gunna run out of Story puns if we don’t spread ‘em out.
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Post by ericmvan on May 20, 2022 1:00:25 GMT -5
insert code here Story is the first player in MLB history with 3 HR, 5 R, 7 RBI, 4 H, no outs made, and a SB. In fact, this is the greatest 3 HR, 1 SB game in MLB history.
Even without the SB, that batting line has been matched or bettered just by Joe Adcock and Shawn Green in their 4-homer games, and Anthony Rendon in 2017.
With a SB ...
Willie Stargell did it in '68 scoring only 4 runs. He's the only other guy with 3 HR, 4 R, 4 hits, 0 outs made, and 1 SB regardless of RBI total (he had 7 as well). But Stargell had rather less defensive value.
In fact, there have been only four MLB games with 3 HR, 1 SB, and 0 outs made.
Dusty Rhodes in '54 went 3/3, BB, 4 R, 7 RBI. And Jose Valentin in '98 had the same line but with just 5 RBIs'.
There are another 15 3 HR, 1 SB games but all of them had an out hitting.
This is just the 3rd 3 HR 1, SB game by a player on the defensive side of the spectrum, 2B, SS, or C. Valentin was at SS, and Barry Larkin had a 3 H, 1 BB, 3 R scored, 6 RBI game in 1991.
Without the SB, how many skill defenders have had 3 HR with 5 PA and no outs made? Just 11. Sox are the only franchise who have done it more than once, and we've done it three times: John Valentin '95 vs. Seattle with 5/5, 2B, and 3 solo homers in a 6-5 victory, and Pedey in Colorado in 2010.
Addition: Another cool one, the five skill defenders with 3 HR, no outs, and WPA of .5 or better:
.943. Travis d'Arnaud, 7/15/19, Tampa at Yamkees. Led off the game with a solo HR off of Paxton, made ir 2-0 with another in the 3rd. Walked in the 5th and 7th. Faced Chapman in the 9th, 2 on, 2 out, trailing 4-2, and went yard again.
.903 Pedey in Colarado
.757, Roy Campanella., 8/26/50, Brooklyn at Cinci. 2-run game-tying homer in the 2nd, ditto in the 4th. Walked in the 6th, 2-run tie-breaking homer (now 6-4) in the 8th.
.566, Valentin. Opened the scoring with a solo HR in the bottom of the 1st. Broke a 1-1 tie with a solo shot in the 3rd. Singled to lead off the 6th and got knocked in by Reggie Jefferson, cutting the deficit to 5-3 after Clemens had given up 4 more runs in the 5th. Solo HR leading off the 8th cuts it to 5-4. Sox tie it in the 9th on a solo HR by C Mike Macfarlane. Valentin leads off 10th with a double; they walk Mo Vaughn, but pinch-bunter Steve Rodriguez (9 PA after putting up a .618 OPS at Pawtucket) gets Valentin forced at 3B. Vaughn scores the winning run on Mike Greenwell's walk-off single. (I had completely forgotten this game, and that Macrarlane was the starting C on that team and Luis Alicea the starting ... but I did remember Tuffy Rhodes who started at CF while played just 10 games after a late-May trade, and backup C Bill Hasselman who hit for Jefferson and got hit for by Rodriguez. Very strange!)
.503, Story.
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Post by soxfanatic on May 20, 2022 2:13:43 GMT -5
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Post by ancientsoxfogey on May 20, 2022 5:19:52 GMT -5
Bet it's unusual for 12 runs to be scored with only 3 players crossing the plate.
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Post by ancientsoxfogey on May 20, 2022 5:24:03 GMT -5
Gunna run out of Story puns if we don’t spread ‘em out. Too bad he didn't do this in the Patriot's Day [bastardized] game. "What's the Story, morning glory, what's the tale, nightingale?"
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Post by Chris Hatfield on May 20, 2022 6:26:16 GMT -5
Gunna run out of Story puns if we don’t spread ‘em out. Too bad he didn't do this in the Patriot's Day [bastardized] game. "What's the Story, morning glory, what's the tale, nightingale?" You've now made me remember that fateful day a good 15 years after the album came out when I was listening to the title track on Oasis's What's the Story, Morning Glory and heard the lyric "all your dreams are made / when you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade" and realized what the song was about, my mind blown mostly at how nobody had pointed this out to me as a kid.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 20, 2022 7:39:06 GMT -5
Gunna run out of Story puns if we don’t spread ‘em out. If I can't use one during the one great game he has over a quarter of the season, then when can one be used?
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Post by benzinger on May 20, 2022 7:54:47 GMT -5
Gunna run out of Story puns if we don’t spread ‘em out. If I can't use one during the one great game he has over a quarter of the season, then when can one be used? You’re fine. As long as you don’t say anything about “feeling a homer from Bobby tonight”, we are all good.
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Post by stevedillard on May 20, 2022 8:18:29 GMT -5
Gunna run out of Story puns if we don’t spread ‘em out. Don't worry, its the neverending Story.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 20, 2022 9:06:37 GMT -5
If I can't use one during the one great game he has over a quarter of the season, then when can one be used? You’re fine. As long as you don’t say anything about “feeling a homer from Bobby tonight”, we are all good. Yeah...I don't get those feelings unless the pitcher is left handed with a pedestrian fastball. Lol
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Post by cdj on May 20, 2022 9:34:59 GMT -5
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Post by manfred on May 20, 2022 9:41:09 GMT -5
Whatever else, the Sox have at least decided not to be boring. Story makes history* right after Eovaldi makes history. I’ll take the good with the bad… better than the snooze.
*(n.b. I did not say “Trevor writes himself into the storybooks” in keeping with my policy against cheap puns.)
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Post by incandenza on May 20, 2022 10:36:30 GMT -5
Red Sox are up to 21st in team wRC+, at 93. Look out Cubbies and Nats, we're coming for you!
(We're actually 8th in May, at 120. But the turnaround really happened May 10th against Atlanta; 6.4 runs scored per game since then.)
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Post by DesignatedForAssignment on May 20, 2022 10:43:40 GMT -5
Brasier, about to turn 35, has one option year remaining. With 4 years 150 days of MLB service ... three more weeks in MLB & he can't go back down.
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Post by costpet on May 20, 2022 11:12:10 GMT -5
Have the Sox finally broken out their bats or is this a false positive?
Starting pitching has kept them almost in every game But the silent bats led them to this position.
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Post by art on May 20, 2022 11:17:21 GMT -5
Any further info on the TBD for tonight?
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Post by julyanmorley on May 20, 2022 11:18:04 GMT -5
Any further info on the TBD for tonight? Wacha
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2022 11:39:37 GMT -5
Brasier, about to turn 35, has one option year remaining. With 4 years 150 days of MLB service ... three more weeks in MLB & he can't go back down. He is lucky then, as after that it would be a DFA. I absolutely do not see him returning with all excellent options the Red Sox have in AAA
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Post by Underwater Johnson on May 20, 2022 12:20:21 GMT -5
Too bad he didn't do this in the Patriot's Day [bastardized] game. "What's the Story, morning glory, what's the tale, nightingale?" You've now made me remember that fateful day a good 15 years after the album came out when I was listening to the title track on Oasis's What's the Story, Morning Glory and heard the lyric "all your dreams are made / when you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade" and realized what the song was about, my mind blown mostly at how nobody had pointed this out to me as a kid. My old man played the Hotel California album on repeat (i.e. get up, flip it over, drop the needle again, repeat) when it came out and it wasn't until many years later that I got lines like "Lines on the mirror, lines on her face" or even "They had one thing in common: they were good in bed." I thought it was "they were good and bad," like it was some kind of poetic license. It's funny how nervous you can get about listening to those things around kids when really everything is just flying over their heads.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on May 20, 2022 12:26:28 GMT -5
Brasier, about to turn 35, has one option year remaining. With 4 years 150 days of MLB service ... three more weeks in MLB & he can't go back down. We'll always have "Get the f*** in the box!"
Hardly knew ye.
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Post by ericmvan on May 20, 2022 12:29:12 GMT -5
Red Sox are up to 21st in team wRC+, at 93. Look out Cubbies and Nats, we're coming for you! (We're actually 8th in May, at 120. But the turnaround really happened May 10th against Atlanta; 6.4 runs scored per game since then.) After a stretch of 22 games where they scored 6 runs or more just once.
Third worst wRC+ in MLB as of 5/9, 3rd best since. 77 to 142.
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Post by ericmvan on May 20, 2022 12:43:12 GMT -5
449 people have pitched in relief this year. Brasier ranks 449th in raw Win Probability Added (a/k/a "dead last").
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