hankchifan

I am livid with this line up today, and have been critical of Will roster constructions, and his inflexible split approaches.

Grichuk should have been in the lineup instead.

Agree. Or Mune should not have been hitting cleanup. He sure is not protecting Vargas.

That was due to Doyle refusing to take a walk, swinging at two balls out of the zone and striking out in a critical situation. Strike outs have been our Achilles heel in these last three games, and many more before.

We finally got Williams out of the game at 94 pitches. We now have a chance. A Doyle walk would have helped a lot.

He is our best hitter nowadays. Doesn’t K as much as others.

And against the Sox. Absolutely. He refused to take a walk when we needed the base runner as the tying run. The last ball he swung at was over his head. The worst at bat tonight amongst many bad at bats.

Hey let’s be patient, we still have 4 innings to go and Williams may start tiring soon.

It was predictable the way Beni has been swinging lately.

But it was middle in. Middle out would have been a fly ball to LF. Note that I wrote out of the zone OR middle in not AND middle in.

Not throw him anything in the zone. Or middle in that he could pull. Lefties love those low balls middle in that they can pull. It was not a bad pitch, but Ramirez is dialed in now.

Hope not. There is no tomorrow to save his arm for.

I guess that we ignored the memo of not letting Ramirez beat us. Ramirez has been very hot the last three games. He is a Sox killer. We need someone to duplicate his feat now, and hit some balls out of the park.

Particularly to the bottom of the line up rotating their line up to Kwan and Ramirez.

What about all the Ks, undisciplined swings, not going the other way when needed,impatient at bats? Can that not be helped with a more efficient hitting coach?

Need to stop swinging at balls out of the zone.

Maybe we need a new hitting coach as well.

We need to bring in some patient good contact hitters in the off season. We cannot continue with some many K prone hitters hitting back to back…

You are right. We need to sprinkle small ball here and there.

Couldn’t have said it better.

Will split orthodoxy. Will split orthodoxy.

According to latest ESPN analysis, the Sox will need 5-6 good innings from Burke combined with better disciplined at bats. Sox were “antsy” and with uncontrolled swings with RISP in the last 2 games.. Guardians need to keep the Sox in the yard as they cannot keep up in a shoot out. I agree with the analysis, and would add to not let Ramirez beat us, and we need to reduce our strikeouts and issue less walks.

And don’t let Porky Ramirez beat us.

That should be the plan.

Will needs to play Sam regardless of splits. We need more contact hitters in the lineup. We can’t hit the Montgomery back to back. It’s a K daily double.