SoxBlanco

I’m more concerned with Acuna batting.

That hurts. Even a walk there would have been huge. Then Antonacci would be the runner and Acuna could be used to bunt.

Burke, Hudson, and Taylor all pitched well tonight. Complete bad luck 8th inning, including Quero deciding to throw to third on the one pitch he needed to challenge.

I think you saw his stats on the screen and didn’t realize it was his career stats with the bases loaded.

You mean .739?

What?? That’s the third baseman’s ball every time.

Changed the entire at bat. Brutal.

Yeah, I think it’s just recency bias. If you take out these last two when Chase has been hurt, and then look at the last ten games we’ve faced a lefty before that, my guess is that he has sat more than started in those. But I think he got more starts against them earlier in the year.

Sam getting the start against a lefty! (But only because Chase is hurt)

Sean Burke hasn’t been a bright spot?

Urquidy only went 2 innings today on 27 pitches. Should we be reading into that? Will he be making a start for the Sox this week?

Twins face Misiorowski today and Tigers face Logan Webb. Let’s gain a game on all three teams.

Agreed. I think people are considering him a top prospect (maybe subconsciously) because of the heater he has been on at the plate. I don’t think enough people are considering where he will play defensively.

It was much more fun when Martin pitching at home was pretty much a guaranteed win.

Here’s the video of Bonemer’s HR from last night.

Bonemer homers again.

I was referring to this year. I would have said Castillo is good if talking about past years.

I figured they threw in Smith because Castillo is decent and Dominguez sucks.

So should we accept what he’s saying as true or not? Seems like you are saying both in this thread. Look, the whole thing is really strange. I don’t know what to believe. I’m not even trying to argue one way or another. But I do think an appeal is a strange thing pull out of your ass. My feeling is that there’s some truth in that. What do you think the purpose was of Venable coming out of the dugout? He doesn’t make mound visits unless he’s changing pitchers. That’s what makes the whole thing so weird.

What appeal was he trying to execute?

Got ourselves a little game thread controversy. Bumping the one that was created first.

What appeal was he trying to execute? He said he walked out there to execute an appeal and forgot they had already used one mound visit.

Well he pitched a solid 1 through 4, then got bombed in the 5th. Oh well. Here’s some positive stuff: Bonemer is 2-4 with a 2B, HR, and BB

What part of my post are you saying “no chance” to? EDIT: Ah, it must be the “secretly a genius” part. I was genuinely confused what happened, because nothing made sense. Glad we got an explanation with Will trying to execute and appeal. There had to be some reason he came out there.

My thoughts exactly. What happened there? Hopefully Sandlin goes 6 innings, we win the game, and Will is secretly a genius.