Look at Ray Ray Run

Leury killed that ball. Tlr a genius

The Sox only have 3 runs because leury garcia is hitting 2nd and has non competive ab's with guys on base. You celebrating him starting leury and batting him second is honestly amazing. Please keep it coming

He might be good. You and Jason were samesies on the nasty comment, you'll be doing the nationwide jingle in no time!

If you're not trolling at this point, you should legit check yourself into a psychward. What a genius TLR was starting Vaughn and Yoan! Guy should be given his PhD after this game.

Yeah, garcia, mendick and Billy are killing it! Great points!

Lol Vaughn was shocked that guy threw him a fastball there.

They'd have won both trades easily in that case. But the q trade will feel a little sweeter since he sucked with the Cubs and screwed them in the process of helping us lol

The Vaughn show has arrived gents. Just sit back and enjoy it. It's an 8+ year ride of Neverending greatness with the stick

Big yoan guy, but also a big eloy guy. The difference between Cease and kopech needs to be big (I think and hope it will be) to make up for the difference between sale and Quintana

I caught it quick and edited but not quick enough. You're good, Jack!

Yeah, I need to see more from kop. My feeling is we gave up much more when we gave up sale so we should have gotten much more.

Leury has started every game of the DHs this year I feel like. It's amazing stuff

I'm actually shocked Tony hasn't been ejected yet, gives him an excuse to take an early nap

Incredible at bat and the ump fucks him. I hate umpires so much.

Id say Q because sale will always be my guy and he won a WS. I am still rooting for Chris to come back healthy this year, he's just so much fun to watch and Boston got Dave d'ed but they also got that title with Chris.

Offends me almost as much as benetti comparing junis to Lance lynn.

Games where Tim doesn't play just feel wrong. Probably get caught up on the new mighty ducks once kopech is out. Leury garcia batting 2nd legit offends me

I love how he seemed angry at himself for throwing extra pitches

I've actually been disappointed in this all year from LaRussa. When has he ever backed his guys. I know it's entirely meaningless so I'm not upset about it W/L wise so no point in being critical of it, but the meatball fan in me and former "defend me skip" is bothered by it.

If you can't laugh at this, you can't laugh at anything!

What the fuck is Dozier doing.

And I'm happy for your Happiness! Yay! Objectiveness = Childish. Got it!

I'm happy; real people can be upset with a manager while enjoying the game and the team. I don't know about you, but I watch baseball for the players and they provide me with enjoyment. If you find yourself applauding the stumbling fumbling Tony LaRussa as he walks out of the dugout, by all means go all out. I'm sorry that you appear to be an all or nothing person; I hope you get those issues resolved and can be honest with a singular evaluation without it effecting your overall happiness with something. Good luck to you!

I've been about as transparent as possible on this in my tenure at Soxtalk. A managers impact on a game is minuscule and only becomes slightly meaningful when he deliberately makes moves that cause the team themselves to doubt his actions (which has obviously happened even though the TLR stans pretend the reports are all fake for some reason), and consistently makes decision that decrease the run expectancy of the team (starting worse players consistently, and leaving terrible players in to hit in big spots). LaRussa has had 5ish games where he has made decisions late in games or lineup wise so egregious that it legitimately lowered their expected runs scored. Does that mean they would have won those games? No, but it does mean he gave them a lesser chance to win them. Any manager can be expected to put their better players in the game to start, and use their better relievers late in a game; that's really easy stuff that you could do. Managers shouldn't be expected to do the exact opposite of that, which LaRussa has done multiple times. Very rarely will I ever blame a manager for a reliever blowing a game or etc. I thought him leaving Giolito in the game was egregious and the Foster thing was just flat out strange but besides that, bullpen management is pretty luck-of-the-draw driven. I thought the Ruiz idea wasn't a bad one, for example, yesterday. See what he has in a high leverage spot without letting him blow the game. I'll say it for the last time. If you are going to use Billy Hamilton as a defensive replacement to preserve leads, then you should have an offensive replacement for him when trailing. This isn't complicated stuff. Garcia and Hamilton should not take another big at bat late in a game with guys on the bench available.

Tony throwing a heck of a breaking ball these days! How about them clutch hits Tony! I bet, if Tony didn't bench Yermin Mercedes for being late, he would be so late everyday he'd just miss the games all together by now. Thank god for Tony LaRussa. The pep in his step is so lively Tim Anderson and Yoan Moncada think baseball is fun now... and Andrew Vaughn was able to take studious notes on breaking ball spins rates from his observational post in the dugout early season, so all-star Nick Williams could play, so now... man, he's analyzing that spin with his notebook in his back pocket at the dish. He said the other day, "without learning from Nick Williams by watching him teach me how to maintain a long MLB career, I may not be playing right now." I wonder if Vaughn would even be playing if Engel had no set-backs; if he wouldn't be, we all know he'd be the benches Einstein, learning and evolving his swing without even playing. A truly magical experience! All because of TLR. And Tony let Leury Garcia and Hamilton hit in countless big plate appearances early in the season just to teach his guys they have to score MORE runs EARLY in the game, otherwise he'll take their chances away late in the game to teach them a lesson. A true 4d chess master.