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Two bad base running plays. They got lucky there.

Nice AB.

Lopez needs to work on consistency with location, but his pitches are lively today. A promising start considering how poorly the season started for him.

Took his eye off the ball at the last second.

Lopez has looked better his last two starts. Hopefully keeps improving.

Rodon looks sharp.

Holy shit, Yoan.

Cussed, threw his helmet, and started charging the ump.

Tim suspended one game for language. Keller suspended 5 games

Indeed. My son and I talk a lot about how much better Anderson is. He's made some great adjustments, and he's smoking the baseball. That homerun WAS an absolute bomb. I saw it on Twitter and sent the link to my son (in school) and said "Anderson just put a baseball on the moon." He is a very exciting player to watch right now, and the energy he brings makes it even better.

There's a lot of downtime in a baseball game, and Benetti does a good job of filling that time. He can get a bit silly at times, but he's getting better about asking Stone questions to engage a conversation. Hawk got really bad toward the end with leaving the dead air out there, especially when the team was playing bad.

I'd like to see Martinez as the DH, as well. I could see the Sox at least pursuing Grandal. I like Cordell, but I'm not sure he's the starting RF. Maybe as the 4th OF. Hopefully we'll get a long look at him this season and see what's what. Is this proposed lineup for 2020 or 2021 and beyond? If they draft Vaughn, is there any chance he's playing at the ML level in 2020?

Yeah, and I'm okay with it. If they draft Vaughn, he'd, most likely be up in 2021...if he's as potentially good as thought to be. If Abreu doesn't start turning it around soon, I don't see the Sox bringing him back. He's been a slow starter, but he looks especially bad this year. As someone mentioned during the game thread, he looks broken.

At this point I don't see him NOT reaching the required PAs. With Abreu struggling, he'll continue to see time in the field and as a DH. And frankly, the Sox don't have better options right now.

Time to send Cordell down again.

Good. He needs an extended look out there.

Jason and Steve hit it on the head yesterday. What to keep Anderson from celebrating? Keep him off the base paths. Just like in football. Don't want to see a celebration? Don't let them score.

Football players celebrate all the time with TDs, big tackles, big runs, etc. Tim celebrated his massive 50th career HR with his teammates. He clearly directed his enthusiasm at his own bench. The Royals took exception to it and retaliated. It should have ended there. With new rules about the "third man in", the benches clearing wouldn't have happened. It was pretty clear that Tim wasn't going to charge the mound. Keep it up, Tim. I love it.

Cordell's getting the start, and Moncada is back in the lineup. Nice.

I agree. Fulmer actually looked good in the relief appearance earlier. That should be where he is used and let Banuelos start.

I think one of the biggest thing lost in all of this was Tim's reaction. He seemed to take it well and was talking to Maldanado like "I get it, we're cool". It was after the benches emptied that things spun out of control. As for Tim, I love it. This team has needed an attitude and he brings it. Yeah, they suck right now, but he's going to be a big part of the future. When (hopefully) his team gets good, they're going to need to bring that type of attitude. As someone else posted earlier, we saw yesterday who the leader of this team is.

Good for Cordell. Hopefully Giolito will be okay after returning. He looked really good yesterday.

I've liked Jason since he started with the Sox, but now I have a deeper respect for him. I love his commentary about being better and just getting the guy out. And now he's probably the newest member of the "Joe West is a Moron Club".

I was really surprised he made the team out of spring training.

Yonder is not a great hitter, but he's not a .180 hitter either. He'll have games like last night, and he'll have stretches where he doesn't touch the baseball. He'll most likely end up where he typically is, which is .250 with 20+ HRs. Nothing exciting, but I still like his presence in the lineup and on the field. He's a decent 1B and is a HR threat from the left side.