hankchifan

Dodged another bullet.

Was hoping that Cairo would make players more accountable than TLR.

This is minor league baseball in a pennant race. Josh opened the flood gates for the second time today, bringing JRod to the plate. Andrus should have caught that all nd Moncada should have run to pick it up once it fell. One of the ugliest defensive innings of the season.

He needs to be taken out immediately and Super Glued to the bench.

We would be leading now 2-1. There is no margin of error in these games down the stretch, need to go with our less bad players.

Cost us three runs at the end. Should grab some bench next couple of games.

Second that motion.

Harrison’s boot cost us 3 runs at the end. His D has been bad recently. Why is he in the lineup when Romy is doing better and Josh is not hitting well anyway?

Pollock screwed up. Thought it was a homer. Now Big Energy boots another. Wish Romy was at 2 nd again today. Josh D has been bad lately. Terrible defensive inning so far.

Real bad. Our guys refuse to work counts and take walks. With RISP it gets worse.

The offense did not deliver. Usual maladies: no clutch hitting, not scoring a man on 3 rd with less than two outs, refusing to take walks and swinging at pitchers way out of the zone, power outage, etc.

I think that runner would have probably scored later anyway with one out there was a deep ball hit.

Need to go all out to pass the Guardians before those 6 games with KC. If we are behind the Guardians with 6 games to go, then it’s going to be very tough.

Yes

yes

AJ outfield defense is also much better than Vaughn.

Vaughn should only be playing at 1B or DH. Can’t afford his awful defense in the outfield in a pennant race.

Good lineup. Got everybody back except TA. No Leury. Grandal finally down to hitting 8 th.

Sox make it more difficult by not adding any runs to early leads. Grandal hitting 5 th has hurt us today. He should be hitting lower in the order IMO.

But he played practically every day in the OF unlike AV.

Yes, home runs tend to minimize the defensive shortcomings damages.

I think Vaughn is our Jose Canseco Memorial Award candidate. I am always afraid on deep balls his way that one is going to hit him on the head and go over the fence.

The Royals are not pushovers. They have some very good hungry young players. They have beaten up the Sox this season. They should be able to beat the Guardians in one or two games IMO.

Andrew is the worst defensive outfielder in modern Sox history that I can recall.

Would have liked Robert hitting second instead, to also hit and run with Abreu if feasible. Two slow guys back to back takes the running game out of the equation.