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Should try extending him now. Won’t be easy.

Need to win today. A comeback win by the Astros would be devastating. Worry about the weaker Twins tomorrow.

David Adler of MLB.com is comparing Rodon to de Grom. Carlos being the left handed version with devastating fastballs/slider combination. With de Grom out with forearm tightness, Carlos is probably #1 dominating pitcher in baseball active today.

I think is because Leury is a switch hitter and TLR loves lefty-righty: righty-lefty match ups.

Great pitching by Lucas and a power surge is a formula for victory against any team. Glad to see the guys getting more balls up the air including several big flys,rather than a lot of ground balls. Don’t stop now boys.

He is dealing more than a Vegas croupier.

When you have guys like Ruiz lurking in the bullpen you can never relax.

Because he is hitting left handed and TLR is obsessive at having lefties hitting righties.

Another base running blunder. Leury has not been playing well lately.. He is a utility player playing every day having his brain farts. What about our first base coach yelling to Leury to not tag on that play...

Great news. Would we have enough left to sign Rodon as well?

Abreu kept hitting ground balls to third. Didn’t move the runner in the 1stinning and hit into a double play later. We need to hit and run more, we are mostly a ground ball hitting team. Need to press the defense more and open holes with the hit and run.

OK. Thanks for your feedback.

Would have pitched Rodon tonight to have a better chance before the big crowd.

Like someone said earlier it is time to stop theGoodwin batting 4th experiment.

Just curious, does anyone know why we didn’t pitch Rodon tonight. He did not pitch in the all star game, and he is, along with Lynn, our best and toughest pitcher. A win tonight would have give us momentum going forward in the series.

Sox have the starting pitching to compete in the playoffs, just need to improve offense and defense and 8th inning pitching.

I read h had been pitching better lately.

Maybe Reylo is related to JLo.

We would need a great pitching effort from Rodon orLynn to beat the Astros in a game nowadays.

Sox cannot be sellers when we have a big post season chance with our starting pitching and Eloy and a robert coming back.

Fair enough,but Ruiz is our worse clutch pitcher, and he just kills any chance of coming back and kills any momentum to start the series. Bring Kopech for one batter with bases loaded.

Goodwin has no chance whatsoever against McCullers. Why is he batting cleanup?

Anybody but Ruiz, even Foster has been better lately.

Why was Ruiz in the game? He is our worst clutch pitcher.. Our bullpen should have been rested. Where was Kopech, Crochet, COdy?

Leury’s play tonight has been awful. Reinforces the case that we need a second baseman even if it is a rental. Story, Escobar?