SoxBlanco

Gotta put Engel in now for defense since you'll want him to start on second base anyway.

Great time for Mazara to hit his first bomb with the Sox. If he doesn't bat this inning, that would be fine, too.

Eh, not lately. CWS is correct.

No...Moncada was on first.

Huh? We have an extra half inning and the home team should have an advantage in extras with the new rules.

I'm going to guess 74.3 and 82.9, respectively.

I read at least two posts asking to pull him or put somebody else in. But even if nobody asked for that, my point remains that there is so much hindsight bias on around here, it's ridiculous.

Guarantee if Lucas gave up a couple runs there, everybody would have been blaming RR for trying to extend him one more inning.

Agreed. But that's a product of Yoan and Yaz being able to lay off the breaking balls down. Great at bats by both.

Two absolutely phenomenal at-bats by McCann tonight.

Left bicep soreness.

As frustrating as this game has been, it could be worse...it's even more frustrating for Cleveland fans.

So this is much better news than a dislocation, right?

It just means they’ve been pleased with his play from the time he arrived to when he got injured. I don’t think it was a knock on his base running on that play.

We don’t play Cleveland on Sunday?

True (like just now), but there have also been times when people have posted a screen shot that wasn’t from Twitter. And there’s been times when that screen shot gets posted here before Twitter has the lineup posted. It’s a screen shot with a black background.

Where does the Sox lineup get posted first? Somebody usually posts it here before their official Twitter account posts it.

This is almost exactly what went through my head when I first read it.

Very true. Need another long outing from Giolito tonight...and then one from Dallas would be nice.

I might just go with a bullpen day for that slot in the rotation. That’s basically what yesterday ended up being. Let Foster throw the first couple of innings.

Detwiler faced only 21 batters in his first 7.1 innings pitched of the season. He’s probably the only pitcher in the history of MLB to do that.

Most people wanted Cordero to come in with two outs, so Ross says “F*** You, I’ll just strike out two more guys this inning.”

Do you think this is the first time in major league history that a guy (Detwiler) has faced only 21 batters through his first 7.1 innings pitched in a season?

Does that mean Detwiler has now faced one less than the minimum through 7 and a third this year?

I hope we get to see Dunning in the rotation. This could be a great opportunity for him that he might not have otherwise gotten.