Jake

One more.

First two baserunners, no problem s%*# happens. But can't issue the free pass afterwards. Let's get a ground ball.

Made a good pitch, but instead of a double play you get another baserunner.

Interesting factoid: Connor Joe is a survivor of metastatic testicular cancer.

Great pitch.

I notice the ump went out there to observe the PitchCom exchange. I know that MLB is suspicious that teams are using "PitchCom doesn't work" as a way to buy themselves a free disengagement/timeout. I bet he went out there to try to confirm that there's no funny business.

Seranthony will continue to hold his place atop the leaderboard for pitchers entering the game in the highest leverage situations this season. No room for error

lol what the hell was that throw Randy? I didn't think we would even send Romo on such a shallow fly. Good deal.

Tough situational hitting spot here. Need contact, but uhh not the bad kind.

Drew is my boo!

Dandy Randy!

Bunting for two strikes with the bases loaded and 2 out against a pitcher who can't get it over the plate was just crazy, especially when you're literally the guy who is always bunting. Venable needs to step in and tell him to learn how to hit or else catch the next bus to Charlotte.

The sooner we don't have Peters in the lineup anymore, the better IMO.

Peters you are absolutely killing me man

Sox could use a little of that batted ball luck.

Gilbert is a top flight pitcher and half the Sox lineup sucks. Don't overthink it, just hope they run into one at some point.

Gilbert is pitching to a big strike zone today

Davis starting to rack up more strikeouts. He's easy to root for.

FWIW, if you view Roch as real top-shelf prospect of the ilk of Konnor Griffin, Vlad Jr., Adley Rutschman, Gunnar Henderson, etc...the data on the highest of high end prospects shows that position players on that tier typically produce a lot more value. Mostly for health reasons, it seems. Below that, the fact that pitchers are easier to scout correctly helps to equalize things.

Another thing to watch for, I suppose: Gilbert has had a huge 3rd time through the order penalty this season. Allowing a 1.200 OPS third time through, basically twice as bad as league average third time through the order. As we are now witnessing, he is superb 2nd time through the order.

I'm looking at the chart, he has really only thrown the slider in the heart of the zone one time. Has let some fastballs leak in there a bit but he also gave up some loud contact on that.

Gilbert's slider has excellent downward movement and almost no sideways movement, which makes it basically platoon neutral. It generates a ton of whiffs (not just today) but he also has a tendency to make mistakes with it and get punished when he does. So far, not many mistakes. Just one that really hit the heart of the plate and that was against the not-so-fearsome Tristan Peters.

Well, one guy in this lineup is seeing Gilbert real well.

3-2 heater down the middle, they'll never see it coming

Gilbert is an interesting pitcher. His slider and splitter have almost identical movement. Just straight down, virtually no sideways movement.