fathom

I'm not sure what him and Lopez have to do to improve their spin rate, but I hope they work on tinkering things the rest of the way. Just continuing to go forward with what they've done this year (especially Lopez) and ignoring metrics is wasting valuable development time. With that said, Cooper doesn't strike me as someone that cares about spin rate.

It's a 92 mph fastball that had a piece of the plate. Given Giolito's spin rate, that's a bad pitch.

another garbage pitch on an 0-2 count, as well as throwing 91-92 mph in the 5th inning

There's the Petricka we all remember. Urban legend is that Bill Melton absolutely hated watching him pitch.

wtf is Yoan looking at? Swing the bat, those were meatballs.

his swing is all messed up right now. Lots of weak choppers, not a lot of line drive contact.

Much better sliders to Grichuk and Drury.

Guarantee they bring in a veteran to be one of the 5. Would it shock anyone if Shields is brought back (obviously not for the option he has)?

I've said this for a while, but they're going to have to invest in rotation pieces this offseason. You can't pencil in both Giolito and Lopez with confidence.

My god, he isn't close with his breaking pitches and serves up another meatball. So much damage done with two strikes tonight.

This ump is blind

About time for good luck. Giolito isn't pitching bad, but he's just a comfortable at bat is all hitters have to look for is fastball/change combo.

Again, that's what happens when you don't miss bats

Can't pitch in the majors with no breaking pitches and a meatball fastball. Some cheap hits but everything is up in the zone.

At least we get to see Yolmer bat 2nd and Timmy 9th

And another, holy hell

This ump sucks big time. Blown two calls badly already

The pitch to Gurriel was a high changeup. Not sure why they keep throwing fastballs to Granderson as well. Biggest issue Giolito has is command on slider/curve is so awful, the hitters aren't even tempted to swing.

2 batters, 2 hits. Cooper always has these guys ready to go.

Nice deal for both teams

He needs to check the boxes before he can become a pitcher.

He legit has good stuff

Every team's fans thinks their manager tinkers to much. Sox just have crappy hitters.

Not sure what's going on with Timmy's swing, but he's letting go with one hand real frequently. Might be nice to give him a break one of next few games to regroup.

It's where you wonder just how useful Cooper is with the new philosophy of pitching to combat the launch angle revolution.