hankchifan

You mean TLR didn’t believe we could come back. He showed it by not pinch hitting for our two scrubs batting 8 th and 9th in a one run game.

Hit some cheapie Crawford box home runs ourselves. It’s hard to come back in games without hitting home runs.

They should have pinch hit Zabala for Hasely. Zabala is a veteran and has some pop and can reach the Crawford boxes while Hasely is a rookie and a lefty. We can’t win with TLR at the helm in close games. How can you expect to start the 9 th one run back and start the inning with Harrison and the rookie Hasely.

Zavala has some pop and can reach the Crawford boxes.

TLR not pinch hitting for Harrison in a one run game in the 9th would be managerial malpractice.

OK thanks.

Not worse than Harrison. Our 8th and 9th hitters today have been brutal.

BIG ENERGY = rally killer.

You are right. Has he even had a hit?

The team has not been able to take advantage of the Crawford boxes. The Astros are peppering those boxes and killing us with homers. Sox have the fourth lowest homer count in the majors.

He has been a rally killer tonight. Unfortunate that he had to come up with RISP twice and pop up both times. We can’t play guys like this against good teams like the Astros. When TA7 is back, Josh should be disappeared from the roster.

Yes, at least look for a ball to hit in the air, and not the usual ground ball to short. What are you referring to?

I guess in this case we had a slow runner at 3 rd n Burger which made the squeeze choice more difficult.

Failure to get a runner in from 3 rd with less than 2 outs. It’s been a curse for the Sox this season. Harrison did not deliver.

Reese has been one of our better throwing catchers of the last few years.

Heseley looked like a minor leaguer in his first at bat, and so did Harrison. Big wasted opportunity.

The Apple TV Friday night announcers were worse.

Was stupid throw to third. Have to keep double play in order. Not much of a chance of throwing Bergman at third, and even less with Burger playing 3 rd.

We better have a big lead going into 6 th -7 th if Sousa/ruizFoster have to hold the fort.

Enough of hitting Leury in the first three spots for starters.

Particularly when the handedness involved Sheets, Leury, Moncada, Yaz..

Particularly with Kate Upton at home.

Cueto did a great job. He is fun to watch. Like a mini Luis Tiant. Great signing.

Credit where credit is due. Signing Johnny Cueto was a good deal.

This embarrassing game is finally and mercifully ovah!