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OMG !!!!

Never gets old 🙂

Because he's already a very good weak side platoon player so why mess with success ?

One hell of a start by Sandlin ! Could probably go another but doesn't seem like he will.

We can only control our own destiny so just keep winning and it takes care of itself , grasshopper .

You must feel way better now 🙂

There's some aggressive baserunning that paid off big time !!

Blowing L to R so might be carrying out some to RF.

Beggars can't be choosers.

That's about right.I think he said it's been at 75 for a while but he usually had one bad inning with too many pitches that prevented him from getting past 4 innings.

Right Sox don't score many runs with base hits unless there's some walks in there and stronger hitters.

The immediate hit that scored 2 runs isn't good ? If it was 1st and 2nd and Hill Ks or pops out ,then Antonacci has infield at DP debt and possible DP grounder. I didn't like it because Hill hits decent against LHH and is fast and and bottom of order coming up and Acuna and Antonacci have very weak splits against LHP.

RF really didn't come close to catching it though.Maybe I missed some deke by the OF. I know because it's on the RF line the throw to 1st is short if he catches it so it limited how far he could go towards 2nd. I just think a lot of guys read that it was going to drop in better and are closer to 2nd when it does. At least he didn't pull a muscle so there's that .

So you were surprised he didn't make it to 3rd on the Quero hit too ?

Not real fond of that bunt. But it worked great.

You can see why he has reverse splits. Good sequencing had guys off balance .He settled down quickly.

Venablecamera shot in dugout has a long pointy thumbnail. Looks like vampire nail.

LFG !! Imperative to knock Prielipp around to win this game.

I think it's more the always getting hurt part than it is having very little of it. All the Tommy John surgeries caused a deficit and between injuries & inconsistencies of our top minor league starters it created a massive deficit in just around 15 months. There's only so much a GM with almost no money to spend can do combat that when you can only sign a pitcher to a 1 or 2 year contract. You added Fedde, Davitt, Sandlin, Kay, Shane Smith , Vasil, Houser,Yoendrys Gomez . Newcomb can't remember who else who was AAA or above that they added between the last 2 off seasons after the TJ epidemic started in spring 2025. But Vasil got hurt.Shane Smith lost it then got hurt.Jonathon Cannon was replaced.Gomez and Houser traded or replaced.Schultz not very effective rookie.Fedde cheap signing not effective. McDougal hurt, Hagen Smith no command. THorpe, Mason Adams TJ surgery.Martin and Burke the only 2 who survived from last years rotation. Newcomb was given incentives based on games started but it became apparent he wasn't a starter and has pitched effectively in the pen . Probably forgetting 3 or more no names who got some starts last year not counting openers.

Tanner Murray injury ( out for the season) hurt our RH infield depth as did trading Mead for Boston Smith. Lots of depth injuries to the 40 man roster especially among pitchers.

I should have specified the lineup is not as effective as it is against RHP, not in how they relate to the rest of the AL or MLB . But if it is let me know. Lineup isn't as strong but that may be the case with a lot of teams. Sam is much worse against LHP than RHP, Mune's OPS is .128 points lower but still pretty good . Colson pretty equal. Quero is very bad RH this year when last year he was considered to be stronger RH. He's hitting . .061 RH. Hill and Grichuk have hit LHP pretty good . Acuna also much worse vs LHP. Big difference with Vargas. Easily our best hitter against LHP . Didn't realize just how much better he is against LHP than RHP. Big difference with Meidroth also . Much better against LHP. Helps immensely that our big 3 don't lose much if anything with how much better Vargas is. The top 5 are still concentrated but looks like he dropped Colson down a bit to 5th behind Grichuk . 3 of the bottom 4 aren't very good at all against LHP.

2 Rookie Starting pitchers , Sandlin for the Sox and (LH)Prielipp for the Twins. Sox lineup always is pretty weak against LHP. Still no Hays (RH), Pereira (RH) or Braden Montgomery (SH) or even Korey Lee (RH). Sox showing no inclination to demote Quero or DFA Acuna just yet.

I hope @ptatc is doing well. Maybe its just the Soxtalk reconstuction server issues keeping him away . Or he could be fedup with all the Soxtalk medical experts talking crap even to this very day that act as if every Sox injury is an indictment of the medical staff. The paranoia is real.

Thanks I thought I remembered seeing a tweet that he'd start today but apparently not everyone got the memo even though that tweet was from yesterday and seems like thats plenty of time for those sources to be aware of it.

Was there a tweet somewhere that said Sandlin is starting today ? I still see Martin listed on MLB Gameday & MLB app on my TV but Sandlin listed on CBS Sports which usually has more updated info for gamblers.