SoxBlanco

I know, none taken. I was mostly joking. I made the thread mostly for when the Sox aren’t currently playing, like after our game ends or afternoon games like Cleveland had the other day.

Cleveland loses, Houston wins, Texas loses.

Hey! There’s a new thread for that!

We’re down to the final 30ish games of the season. Every game counts, including those for the teams we are fighting against. Right now, discussions of Cleveland scores appear in various threads. Let’s keep them in one place. Obviously, Cleveland is the team we care about most, but Texas/Houston games are huge as well if we can hang on in the division. Let’s get that 2 seed.

Who will be available that fits your “younger, more impactful” description?

I wasn’t able to tune in until the last few innings. Did Burke look even worse than his last two starts? Can’t afford him to fade like Davis Martin did.

No, he snagged one in 2024.

Save

I disagree. You go as long as you can without needing to put Taylor in. Diaz was more likely to make an out there than reach base, even with Smith’s control problems, and even if he reaches, you can bring Taylor in against their 8 hitter. I would have managed it the exact same way.

It’s really sad that my reaction to reading this post was, “Wow, I’m surprised he has struck out less than 50% of the time in August. It honestly feels like 75% of the time.”

Seventh rounder Clay Burdette put one over the fence for the first time in his professional career.

Bonemer goes deep again.

I don’t think it’s ever time to panic during a player’s draft year. If he’s struggling next year, then I’ll be worried.

Wait, you want 3 up 3 down more often than not?

This might be the worst umpired game I’ve ever seen. And I don’t think I’m exaggerating.

I missed it. What did he say?

Quero 2-3 with a double and an RBI so far for Charlotte today. We have too many good catchers. Gotta trade one or two of them.

Would you be surprised if I told you that he once hit two in one game, one from the left side and one from the right side?

Has Braden failed to get a guy in from 3rd with one out on three straight at bats?

I’m not sure what kind of answer you are looking for by asking “and?” Why did you bring up McGonigle?

McGonigle had a strike out rate of like 12.6% in AA.

You wanted to put the game in Acuna’s hands to get the run in? Our best chance of scoring a run was a hit by Antonacci.

I’ve been screaming at the catchers all year for horrible challenges and non-challenges, but I’m not even that mad at Quero on that one. He made a decision to throw behind the runner before the pitch was thrown, and it was once again bad luck that it happened to be a pitch he needed to challenge. When you’re in catch and throw mode, you probably don’t even know exactly where the pitch is.

Hudson was awesome tonight.

No, he’s up second. Thats why I was saying Quero getting on base would have been huge.