hankchifan

Our big chance was last night. One strike away from a win, and we throw a hittable pitch to Rocchio on a 0-2 count , and we had a second baseman Ant in LF who couldn’t catch a fly ball, and had taken two time gold glover Doyle out of the game. A complete screw up. This turned our season around for the worse.

Agree. Too many walks by our pitchers, and two many strike outs from our hitters have been killing us.

We stopped hitting the home runs that were driving the wins in the first half.

And Venable getting progressively worse.

Walks have been killing the Sox. Killed us last night and is killing us today. Newcomb threw a meatball on 3-1 to avoid another walk, and we got the Earl Weaver special 3 run homer. Very frustrating. In hindsight, it would have been better to leave Smith in. Newcombe pitching to Ramirez was also dumb.

If we have to depend on Acuna to come thru with the bases loaded, we are doomed. He was completely overmatched, and could have walked by taking a few pitches. Pham hitting clean up is just as bad as Murakami. We need a contact hitter hitting cleanup.

The issue here is not Antonacci’s hitting. The issue is his defense on the bottom of the ninth in a one run game. We needed a real outfielder out there for defense, not a second baseman baseman Excellent comment. Venable is also providing awful explanations of his bad decisions, and doubling down on them. He has now cost us a few games with his bad in game decisions and bad roster construction.

How do you say Golden Sombrero in Japanese? He can also be respected be respected batting 8 th instead of cleanup stopping rallies and getting an extra at bat,.

Agree with you. Will has no sense of urgency. He manages a critical pennant chasing game like it was in the middle of the season. Would also like for Will to show more energy. His dugout zombiE like look is not good. Good luck getting by Will’s split orthodoxy.

With Romo or Quero not catching, it was feasible to throw one on the dirt on the 0-2 count.

The walk to the .207 hitting catcher was a dagger.

We were doomed once again by Venable being addicted to splits, regardless of the players involved and situation. You don’t takeout a two time gold glover leading by one run late, and leave behind instead a second baseman playing LF.

Will is wrongly obsessed with splits.

If we don’t make the post season, venable should be fired, along with the 3 rd base coach and hitting coach at least. Venable is proving that he is not a prime time manager for a pennant race. IMO.

This loss was on Will. Starting Murphy instead of Davis and gifting 3 runs to the Guardians in the 1st inning.

Doyle would have gotten that.

It did. Also the 3 run gift from Murphy bit us at the ends also. Maybe they should have intentionally walk Rocchio?

It got that far.

Have to give credit to Will on this one. Taylor was the right move. We needed a fire baller there.

He is in the Pedro Grifol /TLR 2 twilight zone.

Not the only one. Sox have 10 strike outs and Cleveland none thru 7 innings. We are giving too many strokes to these guys. .

Bears should try Braden for tight end or even running back, with those big thighs.

Dodged a big bullet with Davis facing four lefties and only giving up the one homer in a one run game. the Boys bats in the 6 th bailed out Venable and Murphy so far. Don’t stop now boys.

It did not help that we started the game three runs down wth the stupid Murphy move.

Still Doyle hitting 5 th is also a major push. He is a 7 th hitter nowadays.