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Just for a fun exercise try keeping track for how often players on both teams look at strike one before they take their 1st swing. The Sox might not ever win against any team in that category.

?Vaughn

I like Burger and Robert next to each other in the lineup. Robert needs someone else on the team to challenge him. A little friendly competition on who can hit more HRs or w/e .

Yea. I don't know if it's still his back or what. But like the oblique his injuries seem to linger on while he plays. I don't know if I should I believe all that he plays through pain or if the pain isn't there. That's part of the reason why I TRY not to form too many opinions on player . who the f*** knows what's going on. I'm not just a fan of winning and hate the players who perform poorly. I want them to win as just as much as anyone but I'm not going to let it rule my emotions. I know I don't know wtf is going on with any of them.

Supposedly he feels a lot less pain batting left handed.

Was nice to see Eloy's return too .He did well.

He looked at 3rd at 1st but the 3rd baseman wasn't quite in position yet. Then just gunned it to 1st in plenty of time.

Did we expect HR's every 10 AB's? I still want him in the lineup every day especially at home. Give him 4 AB's instead of Moncada. ( Hindsight) and the outcome might've been different. I wanted him in the lineup over Vaughn and Vaughn had a good game .

3 HR's you expect to win the game but all solo not so much. Great game to watch though.

Let's not go crazy. Grandal is at least starting from the LH batters box and Neto has a gun plus with Vaughn up he mightve been deeper towards the hole instead of more up the middle for the pull hitting Grandal. Maybe if hit as hard to the same spot those it goes through if Neto is closer to the hole. Depends where they shifted him .

Yea he was pissed. He knew he had a pitch to drive.

SHeets has been pretty good the last2 weeks , .900 OPS and those ugly Home/Road splits from last year are behind him .

Yeah another rookie GM perfect.

ANy chance of Burger PH ?

Great now Hendriks appearance looks worse might've been tied, however I'm not a firm believer that ELoy wouldve hit a HR after a scoreless inning but 1 run behind better than 3.

I keep hearing stuff like this but do you think JR will hire anyone decent ? Hahn should be fired and GM with some experience would do but JR is still running the show.

I actually thought Bummer was a better choice than Hendriks for the 8th since Thaiss is lefty and so is Walsh. Rengifo SH. Bummer does have reverse splits so a coin flip I guess.

That GO by Robert was 108 MPH.

Santos and Middleton some great pitching. Time to get back in it so the late inning relivers can blow it. Please don't let Hendriks blow a save. Please Please. We need a triumphant return.

see what I mean.

I've made a couple of posts about him not being able to combine the good walk rate with good hitting.

Moncada same results .

Moncada was the only one of our 3 hitters that inning to actually take a called strike. Make the ptcher throws balls in the zone ! I know Romy hit a HR on a 1st pitch fastball but at least that ball was in the zone.

Yay Romy !! He's starting to look interesting all of a sudden.

Need the bottom of the order to start something. Still in this game.