hankchifan

Burke has only thrown 68 pitches, and he is a starter, with two more innings to go. Let’s ride with him unless he collapses.

Right. It’s never over until it’s over. Don’t get complacent.

Need to ride Burke as long as he is effective.

Colson could cut down his Ks, if he cuts back on his swinging for the fences on every pitch. He will never be a small ball player regardless.

Colson is the anti thesis of small ball.

He will be swinging for the fences as usual.

Braden bailing out Pham and the Sox. MERCY!

Great, we got Williams out in the 6 th. We have a better chance now. We need to get to their bullpen before Cade Smith time.

Well, numbers were wrong this time.

Beats me. He is our best starter.

Will tends to over manage and not keeping it simple, like not using an opener like Kay.

Right. We need to ride Burke now.

Sam and Teele swung at balls to strike out. Williams throwing mostly breaking pitches now. Need more patience. Maybe try to play some small ball, rather than strike out…

But don’t forget Will is still an analytics split orthodox guy.

Can Benintendi bunt? That was the right play in hindsight.

Too bad Brden swung at ball four. At least we got Williams pitch count to 75 thru four innings

They apparently don’t want to get their uniforms dirty on national TV.

But not on a Williams fast ball

Unexplainable. The ball had the whole plate as well. Wish they had tried a hit and run, we are hitting into many double plays lately.

And got Williams pitch count up in the process!

We also need to get Williams out as early as possible. We cannot afford a Williams to Cade Smith game. That’s why this Kay opener failure really hurt, runs may be at a premium today. IMO.

And the home base ump is bad, and we were reluctant to challenge two clear balls, called strikes. Don’t blame them though, as our recent challenge record has been terrible.

Unfortunately we have to come back against Gavin Williams, #2 in strike outs in MLB behind Misiorowski and #1 in AL, with the Sox having a strike out prone team.

These opener games are a crap shoot. Kay just crapped out.

There were really no hard hit balls by the Guardians. Our pitching and D was not the best.