hankchifan

I don’t either. Sox seem to be hit and run and base steal averse. But also frequently hitting into rally killing double plays, which come hand n hand.

Glad Cesar got the ball up in the air in a potential double play situation and drove in a run.

We had McCann. Anderson will not take walks and is not setting the table. I would hit him second.

He has sucked lately. Too many passed balls.

Not at all. I am sure we have one of the most double plays hit into as well, as they come hand in hand.

I also take Cease over Keuchel at this time. Heck, even ReyLo.

This why we needed to go all out to win at the Twins, before we ran into the better teams. We have been punting many games lately.

It was a 3-2 count. Didn’t need to swing at a ball to protect. Just take the walk.

Because he is a switch hitter and TLR loves match ups.

Bad news on Engel. Will get stuck with more Goodwin bad D. Wished Foster would have been optioned two days ago.

There were no challenging during TLR previous managerial stints. Hope he has learnt his lesson. He was exposed on the TBS nationally broadcast game yesterday, and he was called out and embarrassed by the TBS announcers.

Ask for first base coaches and runners feedback to help in deciding. Err on the side of challenging in critical/game situations.

OK, but in the 7th we had nothing to lose by challenging and maybe we could have gotten lucky.

Contrary to Stoney the TBS broadcast team said that runner was safe both times, and were surprised Sox did not challenge, particularly in the 7 th where we had nothing to lose by challenging. Something needs to change on current replay process.

Right on. Our top coaches are on Medicare or close to it. We have a 20th century manager in a fast paced, metrics based game where you need to create and adjust, and not depend on old formulaic plans like matchups, little shifting, worrying about respect for the game, etc.

TLR should delegate challenges to someone else on the bench or to a group of coaches on the bench to get a different perspective. We should err on the side of being aggressive. TLR said that in one of the plays it was a tie and that normally is not overturned from out to safe. This is BS, a tie normally goes to the runner.

You are right. They were safe both times. Sox video replay and the coaching staff including TLR get an F here. Didn’t anyone in the Sox dugout see that they were safe or didn’t the runners tell TLR to review? This was a collective failure.

I am not a troll. But yes I have issues with some TLR managerial decisions, which I vent out in Soxtalk. Apologize to those who disagree but there is freedom of speech in the good ole USA.

A tie is normally to the runner. The second challenge was after the 7th inning and it was free and had nothing to lose. Both plays showed safe in TBS replays. Maybe the Sox should replace our video person then. The lack of a challenge particularly in the first inning probably cost us oneortwo runs with Abreu and Eloy connecting afterwards.

I thought ties went to the runner.

These replays move too fast for TLR. He should delegate these decisions to Cairo. Someone should also be responsible to tell TLR what the rules are. He was criticized in the TBS broadcast for not challenging both plays at first when the runner was called out, and replays showed they were safe. TLR continues to cost us games.

Yes and I quote: “ There is only one of the two that came close to being banged, and it’s close enough to where I was told it was like a tie. The call in that situation is rarely overturned in your favor”. Then he pivoted away and said “we had a heck of a lot of opportunities to make plays, get hits, make pitches than one replay”. Needless to say I am not in agreement with TLR, a tie is normally safe. He screwed up once more.

It was an awful move. Foster apparently wasn’t watching previous games with the Yankees hitting homers on fastballs in the zone. The pitch to Voit was a fastball cookie right down the middle.

Sox need to adjust to several double plays a game. That is hit and run, particularly with Anderson at first.