hankchifan

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.

The Twins fortunately did not circulate the memo to not let AAron Judge beat them.

If Yoan is back he should be playing 3 rd base today. Our defense has been bad. Today Vaughn is already looked bad again now in RF, and Grandal has been bad behind the plate costing us a run.

Cairo apparently is skeptical hitting La Pantera 7 th.

In last night scenario Sox should have tried to get out of the 8 th ASAP to bring back Cease quickly, not talking walks.

Need Robert andMoncada back now and Kopech and TA as soon as possible. Then we should be OK because the Guardians and the Twins are sucking nowadays.

Mariners SS Crawford hasn’t looked too good defensively.

At least the Guardians lost and the Mariners are still in Cleveland facing a pretty long flight back to Seattle.

Mariners finally win 6-3 in 11. They had to go through all their bullpen and had to finish the game with Flexen a starting pitcher . Game finished around 10 pm central time. They are not going to be too fresh tomorrow…

Sure is. He just called a third strike on a Mariners hitter that was 6 inches inside.

Super Joe is either too aggressive or too conservative. Shouldn’t be back as 3rdbase coach next season.

These are the Indians after all.

If Robert was OK today, he should have been in the game, if not starting at least pinch hitter or runner and/or defensive replacement. We are in a tight pennant race, let’s win a game at a time.

Not pinch hitting for Leury late with RISP and not replacing Vaughn in LFin the 9 th. We’re not smart moves either.

Overall a badly managed and coached game, along with the usual defense shortcomings.