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Peavy's getting a lot of the plate with these fastballs. Has nasty movement today but not the velocity we saw vs Cleveland.

I'm ok with that walk. Peavy has to avoid a fastball tailing over the plate to VMart here.

That might have been a strike out on the HBP that wasn't called.

Pierre's caught stealing seemed to turn around the momentum in this game.

Alexei's defense has been really lazy this year.

What's the fastest Peavy's been clocked at?

Longest 1-2-3 inning in history?

Quentin was really off balance in that AB. Strange approach by him

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 07:54 PM) I don't understand running there with a man on 3rd and 1 out. Well I understand Ozzie's thinking there. Alexei has hit into a a lot of DP's. You have a pitcher and catcher who don't exactly strike fear into a base runners heart. But terrible jump/read by Pierre . It was a smart call there, as you have to assume Juan can steal that base against that combination. Penny does throw a lot of ground balls, so Alexei was a 5-4-3 candidate.

Juan's speed was fine on that...only reason it was close. He probably wasn't more than 5 steps off of first by the time VMart caught the ball.

Yep, that was simply a terrible jump by Pierre on that play. He needs to be smarter there and just stay if he knows he got such a bad jump.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 07:36 PM) Exactly The issues that Dunn, Rios and Beckham have/had are pretty easy to see, so I'm sure Walker is doing his best to fix them. I'm sincere with that actually.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 07:35 PM) Watch him on the side view of his swing. I don't think I've seen a Sox player since Uribe whose head was moving so far forwards during the swing. Exactly

Balta, you notice how much Dunn is having to dive across the plate to hit anything on the outer half? He really might be too far off the plate, as he used to have great power to the opposite field.

Terrible, he gets overpowered by a dancer's husband.

Lillibridge is so dangerous at the plate. One of the shortest swings from a Sox player in a while.

Terrible at bat for AJP. All we needed was his token weak grounder to 2nd.

Welcome back PK!

For non pitchers, is it safe to say Rios has one of the top 5 immovable contracts?

Can't believe I didn't think of this earlier: Ozzie just wanted to take some of the focus away from Mike Quade's decision to let Pujols beat the Cubs today. I owe you an apology Ozzie...we can't let the Cubs get the media attention, and you went out of your way to get the attention back on the Sox. Thanks!

That's 3 game winning homers by Cabrera vs the Sox in the last few years. It's really time we stop letting him beat us at the end of games.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 02:38 AM) I'd be mad about this game but I'm getting a bit numb to this crap. Rios sucks big time. Dunn, I just don't understand...I expected much better. AJ batting cleanup? Ugh. Let's just win tomorrow and at least win the f***ing series. The thing is, the Tigers should have won this game easily. We almost stole a game, but were unable to.

The good thing about Dunn is that if he just sucks this year and next, I can totally see him retiring.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 02:37 AM) If nothing else, don't pretend that only a fool would disagree with you. Cabrera looked so bad earlier that I thought about walking Boesch to get to Cabrera. AJP really should have wasted a pitch with a high fastball there. As I mentioned earlier, Cabrera had to know that a slider was coming there.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 5, 2011 -> 02:33 AM) Can someone explain to me Adam Dunn, period? He has no confidence at the plate, and he's in between on everything. This is really a bad situation, as the fans despise him already. He's standing so far off the plate, he has to lunge at everything.