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Congrats Ventura on just a terrible inning of managing. It's bad when Roenicke kicks your ass.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:59 AM) Dylan, good luck in your career minor leaguer goals in 2012 He's at Yankees next week....yikes. Hopefully we can get him the win here.

Well, that has to be it. Nice to see Axelrod gets more rope than Quintana does. Bad, bad managing this inning, as it looks like Ventura was more scared about having Jones have to face a lefty than anything else.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:58 AM) Lazy defense by AJ Just awful

Another deep fly ball....hanging by a thread

Come on Ventura, take him out!!

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:51 AM) Upto the pen now to hold this thing down You sure Ventura took Axelrod out?

Goodness, PK with no bat speed these days

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 01:46 AM) That is huge that most of our guys refuse to walk. Shows again that hitting coaches don't matter. They didn't walk for Walk, either. Certain guys just aren't going to draw walks (ie: AJ)

No clue how Dunn missed those pitches. He's in a mini-slump right now, and getting him a day off soon wouldn't be awful.

QUOTE (kapzk @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:39 AM) So what's his overall pitching line for the night? 5-3, 7 hits, 2k Danny Valencia with most of the damage off of him

Nice job getting Braun at least! Should be it for him, as next few innings match up well for Jones

Castro with a good inning, gone 5-3 now

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 01:37 AM) Simon Castro pl0x He was giving up a ton of hits in his AAA game in the 4th.

Nate Jones please. He's not fooling anyone

Gotta get Morgan here, as Axelrod is throwing meatballs up to the plate. Really don't want to see him face Braun.

LILLI! Wow, way to get him back for the first inning.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 01:27 AM) That was pure f***ing power. Indeed, it's crazy how much opposite field power he has. He barely hit that offspeed pitch, and got it out. Rios cranked that fastball to right field, and couldn't even reach the warning track.

TANK! Like I said, perfect pitcher for him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:16 AM) I'll bet if I really looked I could find plenty of posts by you saying that Morel's D was killing us. Because it was. He couldn't make the simple plays. I can't recall specific game-changing plays though. I'm sure I'm forgetting some though, as his offense overshadowed his defense

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:13 AM) Making pitchers have to throw strikes to our 9 hitter had to be worth something. I also think Brent's defense was about a net equal to Hudson's. Hudson's failures look a bit more spectacular but Morel wasn't making any plays at all in addition to some easy errors. Trust me, I would have been pointing out if Morel's poor defense cost us 3 wins like I believe Hudson's defense has. Morel's D was mediocre, but I still believe Hudson's defense has killed this team at times. It is frustrating that Escobar didn't get another start after being a catalyst in his last game.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:12 AM) Getting a professional at bat out of the 9 hole and suddenly having a 3b who was getting to balls made a big difference too. And couldn't you also point to Hudson's defense though as helping to put this team in a slump? Also, I don't believe the Sox have won a series since the banner was changed

QUOTE (TitoMB @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:11 AM) So, can we expect Thome to sign with the Sox next season? Hopefully Ventura doesn't believe in a DH by committee

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:10 AM) Dunn needs to recalibrate When's the last time PK pulled a ball with authority? Seems like he just can't get the barrel on it these days when he tries to pull it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 12:10 AM) And coming from this site's biggest Morel defender...there's a reason this team got hot right when Morel hit the DL. Hudson's D has hurt, but Morel wasn't helping on D either. Morel didn't make the bonehead plays, but he was also struggling with the regular plays he should make. And he was hitting worse/having worse at bats. Wouldn't that be because 7 of the 9 hitters in the everyday lineup got hot at the same time (besides Alexei and Hudson)