SoxBlanco

You are completely using hindsight to form your opinion. If Goodwin strikes out there and Engel is safe at second, I guarantee you don’t say anything about how it was dumb to send him.

Huh? The right order? It wasn’t a hit and run and it wasn’t a run and hit. It was sending the runner on a full count to avoid a double play. It happens a lot in baseball. If you’re not going to do it just because it’s the 9th inning, then you shouldn’t do it in any inning. A strike out and a line out are what you are hoping doesn’t happen. It was unlucky. It happens.

The fact that you called it a “hit and run” automatically means your opinion is worthless. I would have ran Engel there also. I said as much before the pitch.

He doesn’t have 250 at bats. He has only 181.

That lineup looks great. Now imagine replacing Hamilton, Zavala, and Mendick with Robert, Grandal, and Escobar.

Do you remember how much Grandal was carrying the team before he got hurt? Also, batting average and extra base hits are made up stats as well. Somebody just made them up long before somebody made up wRC+.

And then our bullpen is even worse with no Hendriks.

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Pretty crazy that this play happened yesterday, because a similar situation happened in my softball game over the weekend. Man on second, one out. Line drive up the middle deflects off the pitcher and hits the runner. The ump immediately calls the runner out for being hit by a batted ball. The batter stops (thinking it’s a dead ball, because that’s what the ump incorrectly called), but then realizes the SS is picking up the ball, so he continues running and is out at first. Then the umps get together and put the runner back on second because you’re not out if the ball first deflects off a defender. So they got that part of the call right. However, I believe the batter should have been given first base. He stopped running at first because the umps screwed up and incorrectly called a dead ball. It made me think of an inadvertent whistle in football.

How exactly did he give up his identity?

I’m mad that I missed it. Trying to find video of it, but I’m not seeing anything on Twitter yet.

Actually, there is a deadline for him to return. (Yes, I am being an a** by picking apart the word choice.)

I’m seeing Dalquist as giving up only 1ER (two unearned).

Anderson SS Moncada 3B Cruz DH Abreu 1B Grandal C Eloy LF Robert CF Vaughn RF Escobar 2B Good lord. That’s some kind of lineup.

Just a guess? Or is this based on some insider chit chat?

So Bummer/Lopez are replacing Fry/Foster.

Thanks, BB. If we can grab one of them and if Bummer returns to form, I’ll be very confident in the bullpen come playoff time.

Other than Kimbrel (who was mentioned in the post above), who are some bullpen arms we can go after?

This is a very important point. They have crushed his expectations with a completely depleted team.

Good point. The Sox are 3rd in triples and 6th in doubles in all of MLB.

That’s a bummer. Wish he could have kept the lead.

This would be true of any manager in the history of the game. Sure, you wouldn’t have to “come around” on some guys because you might like them from the beginning, but every single manager would make decisions that are head scratchers.

I was actually relieved when I read 4-6 weeks. Get everybody back by September 1 and then roll into the playoffs.