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This Sox charity interruptions are overdone and annoying. This is an important game. That Melissa’s voice is also annoying.

Harrison has to hit 9 th. He failed three times with runners on hitting 8 th ahead of Mendick. TLR thinking he is a genius with unconventional lineups.

I guess she is not Australian. No accent there. Is she gothic?

Would have preferred Mendick hitting ahead of Harrison. Danny is hitting like .70 points higher. Harrison has come up with men twice in this game and failed.

Burger needs to get in front of ground balls instead of trying to catch them on the side backhanded. This has been at least half of his errors.

We keep hitting ground balls in the infield with RISP. Our inability to hit sacrifice flies with men on 3rd and less than 2 outs also hurts.

Twins, Guardians.

It proves once again the need to pile on runs, we needed every one of the 8 runs scored. We have not been good this year in piling up runs after an early lead. Need a killer instinct. No unwritten rules.

No sense of urgency and no accountability has been a mark of this team. Sox should give out Five Hour Energy instead of Gatorade.

Abreu led the majors last season in hitting into double plays. Need to use the hit and run and steals whenever feasible with Abreu at bat. Sometimes it’s better for us for Abreuto strike out rather than the rally killing DP.

The issue was that the runner moved to third and scored on a ground ball.

TLR has been extending all his starting pitchers too long. ReyLo should have been in after the ump screwed up the strike call on Guerrero.

TLR will justify thru Leury being a switch hitter that can play the outfield.

Josh has sent the message that he doesn’t want to be DFA.

The Sox should continue using the black Southside uniforms until they lose again at home.

But if he takes the pitch is at worse 0-1!

The main problem with Burger 3B defense has been his inability or unwillingness to get behind the ball, trying to field balls back handed and to the side.

Can he play third and Burger second? Burger is just awful defensively at 3rd. We are already handicapped enough by not having a decent lefty position player and a terrible manager.

But Robert should not be pulling the ball in the first place. Not a productive out, didn’t move the runner over to third with no outs.

No way you send Mendick down. He has been one of our hottest hitters and playing great defense. Put him at 2 nd and get rid of Harrison.

We could have won this game if we used our available resources better. We needed to pinch hit for Harrison and /or Hasely in the 9 th trailing by one. Zavala had to pinch hit, he has been hot and can hit the Crawford boxes easier than those two. TLR just doesn’t like to pinch hit and invariably lets our scrubs hit late in close games.

His base hit was an infield hit high chopper to third. He had no business hitting in the 9th.

Would take my chances with Zavala over Hasely particularly when we need a homer to tie in the 9th. TLR should know this as well.

It was a Crawford box homer , not a homer in most other parks. Guys like Abreu, Robert, Vaughn, Burger, zpollock can reach the Crawford boxes but none did. It’s like hitting the Monster at Fenway.

At least Pollock trade is looking better. Pollock starting to hit. Tonight Kimbrel gave up two runs late to Cleveland in a tied game, and the Dodgers lost. Kimbrel ERA is over 4.