SoxBlanco

When is the last time our offense started an inning with the lead? Much easier to stay loose and hit well when you have a lead.

Yep. Don’t mind the lineup at all. And we’ll have Antonacci, Benintendi, Mune, Peters, and Teel as options off the bench against their right handed relievers.

Gotta try something here. We’re desperate.

Grickuk could bat again, and I certainly wouldn’t want Acuna or Doyle up in that spot. And we needed more than one run. If that run was tying run, I might pinch run.

What if Cleveland plays a long game tomorrow and loses while the Sox play a quick game and win, and both games end at the exact same time?

Let’s go Baltimore. With this few amount of games remaining, 3 games up seems so much better than 2 games up.

I watch every game on CHSN, but I’m far from a tech guy. What do you mean by this?

I don’t believe the Tigers threw a single pitch the entire series while trailing. That’s absolutely insane to lose 3 of 4.

I looked into this a little bit, and I don’t believe catchers can challenge strike calls.

Can the catcher challenge a pitch that was called a strike? Thinking back to Colson’s at bat, if a ball is called a strike and it allows the batter to reach base via dropped third, can the catcher challenge? That scenario wasn’t in play for Colson’s at bat because there were 3 balls, so he would be on first either way, but it got me wondering what the rules actually are for challenges.

If the options are leaving Newcomb in or putting in Tyler Davis with the bases loaded and two outs in the 8th inning of a 0-0 game, give me Newcomb all day long. Don’t care about the splits.

That’s what I said.

Pretty sure he went home after the SS fielded it. I think he thought Pena was going to go to second or something and tried to sneak home. Not defending it by any means. Horrible play. But I don’t think it was a matter of not knowing where the defenders were.

He just hit his 35th homer a few days ago. Surely that was after he moved to CF.

No, he took his eye off it. I think one of his teammates asked him if he dropped it on purpose as he was running in, and he said no. I’m pretty confident he did not drop it on purpose.

Upon replay, I don’t think he did it on purpose.

Cease gets a double play to get out of a mini jam in the first due to an error.

And he was ready before 8 seconds hit.

He adjusted his helmet and in the process lost eye contact for a second. He was looking up before 8 seconds hit.

Home run in only two parks.

He obviously screwed up the call, but I don’t think he “insisted” it remain a ball. There’s no way he can go back and change it once other pitches have been thrown. Pitch selection and a batter’s swing decisions are affected by the count, so I would assume once another pitch is thrown, you can’t go back and change it. Im assuming that’s why Venable didn’t argue more. There was literally nothing that could be done at that point.

Things that don’t happen often that happened twice today for the Sox: Scoring a run on a wild pitch or passed ball Catcher catching a pop up behind the plate in foul territory Double play started with the 1B stepping on the bag first

Disregard. Call overturned.

Maybe not. Reviewing whether it hit the bat or the guy.