Jake

Was hoping he meant to throw those early pitches up and in but it looks like he's just missing there like he was at the end of his last outing

They have gotten some soft ass hits today

FWIW Moncada has the hardest hit ball in this game, in fact hardest hit by a Sox player all year

BEEF

Nova definitely had a day that shows how much of a difference defense can make. Gave up a lot of 50/50 balls that mostly became hits.

Seems like we're playing bad

My problem with Welington is it seems like his effort is not very high right now

Nice job by Yolmer and Tim to recognize they had plenty of time to make the turn as long as they got the out at 2B

That makes sense.

Yolmer!

That could be, similar to what we've been doing for our home games

I'm confused about why we're playing a day game the day we arrive here

You won't see two cheaper runs than the ones the Tigers have so far

BTW I'm happy to just roll my eyes about them hitting Anderson. Somehow them hitting Anderson for doing something that's not against the rules got Anderson tossed from the game. That's what makes me pissed off

I hate them already. I will hate them no matter what they do

No, I want everyone to go crazy when they hit bombs. I will appropriately channel my anger to our pitchers as I always do

My problem with Swihart is that he was once considered perhaps the top catching prospect and just needed to show the bat more, but then he jumped too fast through the minors, never hit, and the limited data on his catcher defense in MLB suggests he's been bad. If his outfield defense is okay and the Sox really like him, they could always stick him in RF for the time being.

I like Palka but he obviously deserved this. Hope he figures something out, but I'll be very surprised if we see him again so long as both Abreu and Alonso are here.

No excuse to keep Palka on the team now. This isn't good for him or anybody else

One of his outings after giving up a homer he started spinning that slider pretty well. But then a day like today it's just all fastballs

Nate hadn't been terrible this year but it's clear this is all a very delicate balance and maybe back-to-back days isn't doable. Not sure how long we can let that be the case

With Tim in the game, Rondon replaces Yoan

Sure but they got to keep all their crappy players who are mostly shitting the bed

Sucks that Joe West threw out our hottest hitter for getting hit by a pitch

Well that was a terrible at bat