I always here this claim that we have one of the smartest fan bases in all of baseball.
There's a lot of fucking dumb ass shit on this thread.
Be better Sox fans. Don't live and die on every pitch.
It doesn't matter when they last pitched.
Not one single manager in the history of the games brings in their closer 1A or 1B into the 7th inning. No one.
And it's not about to start for a meaningless regular season game.
Soxtalk folks want Henricks and Kimbrell to pitch every high leverage inning of every game no matter the inning.
It's as if we just started following baseball for the first time in our lives.
It's like beating a dead horse. If other guys don't step on the pen then what's the point?
Kopech, Bummer, and others need to do their job. It's that simple.
Outside of the dropped ball which Goodwin reached over the fence for (since it's his fault Kopech allowed a 375 ft blast to begin with) , what else did I miss on his poor play tonight (which included a HR 2 walks and 3 Runs) ? Seeing that he and LaRussa (of course) are taking most of the grenades tonight by the Soxtalk faithful.
Sox need to start realizing that Keuchel outings are not only killing the pen on that night, but it sets up a huge overload going forward. It's a bad situation when you have that huge Salary hanging over his head.
He's a 5 inning pitcher, at best.
If Hahn would have struck out on the Kimbrel deal and ended up with this clown as the lone bullpen acquisition....Holly Fuck would this place be a meltdown.