hankchifan

Sheets can’t play RF in a big outfield stadium like Oakland. He enabled some triples.

Pedro loves to pinch run late and this comes back to haunt us again. Vaughn at first makes a quicker throw home in the10 th. We are not a small ball team and pinch runners are not being making a great difference. Taking out Eloy and Vaughn two of our better hitters out in a close game late was not wise. Managers have been fired for less than Grifols screwups. Grifol and Hahn should be accountable for this embarrassment and shown the door ASAP.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

I take Yoan over Burger and Andrus any day, any time.

They play small ball and the Sox don’t.

Bad defense vs small ball not a formula for success. Sheets has not been playing first very often and reacted too slow. Andrus has to make that play. Total embarrassment of a team and manager.

This answer is an embarrassment itself. Grifol can show respect by leaving him in the lineup, but certainly not hitting second. TA gets paid big money to perform well now, not for what he has done in the past. Should be hitting in the bottom third of the lineup, until he comes back to form.

The .100 batting line will be named the Tim Anderson line, joining Mendoza in infamy.

Sox going against a pitcher with an ERA over 8. Normally means nothing. We play down to competition often.

Deer in the head lights material in the dugout

And this is against the worst pitching staff in MLB.

TA hitting second hurts us again. 4 Ks tonight so far. How can Pedro be so dumb doubling down on TA hitting 2 nd.?

Our guys must have dinner reservations at a nice restaurant, as everyone is impatient, and not working any counts.

The heart of our lineup couldn’t do anything against a pitcher with a 10.5 ERA.

Tim avoided the Golden Sombrero.

Andrus probably would do a better job than Pedro. He has a lot of MLB experience…

Sox are a ground ball machine. Tonight was the first time I saw our hitting coach when he got ejected. Do we have an effective hitting coach..I wonder. I presume he is a crony of Pedro.

Remi is the only guy refusing to be embarrassed by the As.

Sounds like a good song for a Broadway show.

I am not implying anything. I am just stating my opinion of why the Sox management seem reluctant to confront or challenge TA. I am seeing TA in ads promoting baseball to kids all the time.

TA is 3/4 of the way to the Golden Sombrero.

Sheets is a triple enabler machine.

We are getting embarrassed so far by the lowly As,

They tried to make him the face of baseball to attract more African Americans to the game. So they are reluctant to admit they screwed up and are doubling down waiting for him to improve, but he is regressing. IMO. We brought our manager from the Royals. What do you expect?

We generally suck with the bases loaded. We are too impatient at the plate, and seem unwilling to work the count to wait for a good pitch to hit.