hankchifan

He must be Astudillo’s brother.

Should have known better to give Collins the green light, and Robert on deck.

And with Robert on deck and 2 outs, you need to give him the specific take sign. Collins dumb and rally killer. Once, again we have at least one boneheaded play per game.

Glad he did not hit it hard enough for a double play. I was sweating that.

Right on, I think Cease is not as effective from the stretch. Collins has been our rally killer tonight so far.

Took it middle middle with 2 strikes.

Our bottom of the line up is back to its usual shitty self.

Cease looked much better in the 2 nd.

Pitó hat trick!

Right on. It is unbelievable that Sheets is not up yet. You don’t even need to get rid of Lamb.. Send down Wright. Why do we need so many relievers? Sox have scored 1 run in 2 games. We need good hitters.

Is he better than Sheets? Sheets should be brought up. Our bench now is horrible.

Nonetheless, 5-9 Goodwin, Leury,Lamb, Mendick, and Collins batting back to back is brutal. And will not even mention their D. Got to be our one of our worst overall line ups of the season. I am concerned that we may be getting used to losing.

Missing Goodwin. Don’t expect his record to be great.

Certainly not lately. Hawks averaged around 3 goals per game last season.

No. But we have a few fourth liners in our starting line up now.

Sox are looking like the Blackhawks of late. A core of stars with a minor league/ journeymen supporting cast. We need to upgrade the supporting cast.

He has to be better than Collins or Sevy.

I agree. We already had good relievers. Our principal need was a good defensive outfielder with power to play RF or a good catcher. That is where we should have spent our resources not on a reliever in my opinion.

How many losses were caused by questionable TLR decisions? How many by bad defense? Bad pitching? Lack of hitting with RISP? These are probably the major reasons?.

You pitch to Vlad on an RBI situation in a one run game with first base open does not help, like tonight. Bad bullpen management does not help. Failure to hit and run and keep hitting into double plays does not help. Bad OF and catcher defense does not help. Amongst others.....

Right on. But we also let Vlad drive the first run on a 3-0 count and first base open. And we keep hitting into double plays, and never adjust with a hit and run. If the home runs don’t come, we lose with old style station to station ball.

What are they waiting to bring Sheets back up.

You can’t, not only offensively but defensively. When you throw Goodwin, Mendick, and Zeby in the same lineup, you are too exposed and it is hard to win.

Or Joey Gallo?

Seby’s D is getting progressively worse. He has been a passed ball machine. No way he can catch theKimbrel breaking pitches. Although the 0-2 pitch byKimbrel was terrible, particularly with Seby catching. Wish we had McCann still in the team.