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I loved having Thome, but it's nice not seeing him hit into the shift for us any more. The defense on Dunn also means a big shift, right?

Freddy the magician. If we don't score a few off the hack this inning ... I don't know what to say.

Anybody on Soxtalk wanna pick up a bat vs. Freddy? Wow, meaty stuff.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:39 PM) We've scored 8, 4, and 2 runs in the 3 games since we came back. I'll grant we needed a better approach against Pavano yesterday, but that's 14 runs in 3 games, which isn't bad for how this team is built. Yeah but predictable the 4 and 2 resulted in losses.

Mauer is licking his chops at the meat Freddy is throwing him. Great DP, though.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:35 PM) The big difference so far is the "one bad inning" that 3 of our starters have had. True. At some point we need to outlast these bums in a game. Even in Game One, we were gasping at the end but at least won.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:32 PM) This is a COMPLETELY different team than the one before the AS Break.... It's obvious the break came at a bad time for us. We did great in Game One, since then it's been the s***s. We need a split badly.

Now our other punch n Judy hitter. Though he got that nice double in the ninth yesterday.

That's about as good as we could have hoped for from Juan, who now has 17 RBIs.

Damn, slash that 3-1 pitch.

I have a feeling we don't want to see him pull the ball. How bout a flare to left?

Nice hit, no time for a Juan roller to second.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:25 PM) They have a great approch against Garcia, who is leaving far too many pitches up in the zone. As for the offense, Blackburn has get burned by the long ball this season, but outside of our 3-4-5, we don't have enough powerful hitters in this gigantic stadium. Yeah, that makes sense. If Castro wanted to go to with the pitch, that first pitch was meaty.

Ouch. You could hear Lexi scream. He's a likeable player.

How come we can't abuse their total hack of a pitcher and they are hitting our No. 5?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:17 PM) Good pitch to Young. Good pitch. Exactly he's mad the umps won't give them the full allotment time for commercials and telling the viewers the umps are screwing them.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:15 PM) Absolutely, but we're already hearing excuses for why Jones/Kotsay are going to stay on the roster. I'm definitely of the opinion that it's time to move Beckham back into the 2nd spot. If Kenny's going to go for a big bat and trade our favorite minor leaguers he might as well do it sooner rather than later. Ease the sting and give the bat some time to get acclimated.

I hate series where eventually you are just happy to get out of town and move on to the next stop. We're not there, yet, but the start of this game has sucked majorly.

He takes that pitch instead of serving it into right field and Alex is out by a mile.

Does CQ always swing at everything like Dayan? I don't get to see all the games.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 18, 2010 -> 07:05 PM) BTW, talk about pitching away from your defense. Rios was shading Cuddyer to right center, and Garcia threw a fastball. It's those little things that hurt us when we play the Twins. Yep. Alex on base, pulling a Twins move and going with the pitch.

We've seen this before. I thought after winning game one we had their soul.

I wonder if Earl Weaver, who hated the bunt, ever cared about guys hitting the other way and moving them over. I'm just making conversation. I realize it's what you are suppposed to do and all that. But if you slam a double off the left field wall, nobody's caring you didn't move the runner over. Don't freak, I'm just asking.

Beckham survives the sophomore slump (jinx). He is back. To his credit he never sulked and the organization didn't give up on him and send him down.

Good stuff. I've heard the postgame show on the Internet and I especially love the calls where they want the Sox to acquire something incredible for Linebrink or the package of Linebrink/Teahen. Les also has gotten that call on the late late show.