fathom

Ricky caught sleeping there leaving Minaya in for so long. Hopefully he's still managing him for the Long Island Ducks in two years.

I hope they tear the band-aid off and let Hamilton close, but I can't see conservative Ricky doing that. Who knows, maybe Bruce Levine will get named manager and Kopech will close.

yep, he's a utility player who's being forced to play every day and doesn't get on base enough to get so many at bats early in the count. Obviously he's a great person, but I can't wait to have a legit 3rd baseman.

Reminds me of those Reds games from early July

All Avi does is hit bombs

You mean the possible closer now? The bullpen is about to get incredibly ugly.

Sounds like they're about to get Hamels for cheap. Well, at least it's not deGrom.

Yoan with two god awful at bats back to back. He's taking far too many strikes early in the count since the ASB. Makes for a very easy out for the pitcher.

the one bright spot for Covey is that at least he was solid the first time through the order

Covey's breaking pitches are not very good. For someone with a good sinker, he gets burned far too often with his mediocre offspeed stuff.

That was inexcusable defense all around there. Covey had nothing on his pitches today anyways.

I think he's more like the 6th best player on a contending team. Definitely starter material, but his contact has been weird this year. Seems like his hard hit balls have been homers and not a lot of gappers at all. Huge red flags with his inability to walk over the last 125 or so at bats, but he's getting some cheap hits of late to thankfully keep him afloat. Defense has been way better of late.

Angels have hit some monsterous homers, good god

Kopech coming up to face KC next week? Pure speculation, but could see the Sox promoting them on Monday and have Kopech go Wednesday

One would think. I also think Eloy is forcing the issue. Maybe we see both early next week?

I see him as a future reliever anyways, so maybe velocity increases. That slider alone should make him a quality LOOGY as a floor of his ability

#badlyforadley

I believe he hasn't walked in 30 straight games now

DFA time for Volstad.

It's starts like this that make it harder to proclaim the Sox won the Shields trade. With that said, I think he stays rest of year to provide innings and "leadership"

Yep really good at bats

That was some camera angle

Just a case of a manager not using his best reliever because of a made up "save" stat

Ricky is not going to be using this game for his managerial resume.

Strike 3, such bs