Jake

Angry little man on 2B

Durbin has been a pain in the ass

IDK, with this loss the Sox will be .500 over the past month which is about what I'd expect them to be doing given the opponents and their talent level. I'm basically looking for .500 baseball down the stretch and I hope that's good enough to get some playoff experience and to whet Jerry's whistle for a more aggressive offseason.

I don't really feel all that badly about this game. Brutal offense but this Boston team is a juggernaut on the mound. And our pitchers have done fine. Drew Romo costs you a run or two, I guess that's just one of the things you're required to accept. Nobody said it would be easy and like I said last time we played Boston, there's a significant disadvantage in the fact that Boston is way better. It's nice to have come into this series having held serve against the two teams ahead of Boston in the standings.

TBH I don't think he's going to play well defensively at 2B so I prefer to keep working him in LF where his D has a lower impact and there's a little bit of upside. Especially since Sox are still light on outfielders

Romo's defense accounting for 2 of 3 runs in this one. Sam botched that throw but I won't charge him the run.

An example of sweet nothings coaches like to say: I remember my high school basketball coach telling me I was the most talented player on the team in the same meeting he was telling me that I wasn't going to be in the starting lineup anymore.

I don't have a totally clear read besides he doesn't seem to be all the way on Korey Lee's level. If we stipulate the IG thing to be true, Sox may be operating on the "we like you so much we don't want you to be a backup right now" philosophy. Of course that's a thing you can just say to a guy who you see no need to demoralize any further. Sox brain trust clearly is getting intolerant of shaky framers behind the dish.

Yeah I mean the strange English nudges a little towards being legit so I'm not confident one way or another about whether he really said that. Saying it to some group of people that apparently includes fans (I wonder if any of these are people he socializes with?) shows some poor judgment but nothing that really freaks me out without having other incidents/evidence. It's basically his lowest moment and I think he (and allegedly Will) are right that he's a better player than Romo right now. If he tweets out a "¿El Retiro?" then I'll change my tune

The supposed context is that it's a message sent to a group chat with some Sox fans in it and that screen grab was sent to a third party who chose to share it. Doesn't mean much to me whether true or false

Sounds like if you take the tweeter at face value, this is a message in a private chat with EQ in which case I find it to be not a remarkable thing for EQ to say (albeit not something you want public) and a weird violation of trust by some random guy on Twitter who presumably would have wanted to keep enjoying direct access to EQ. So I'd lean towards fake.

Sox have a conundrum for finishing the game on the bump because Luisangel is already out of the game.

Sam not necessarily ready for primetime defensively in the infield

IDK, he's hit very poorly against them since his return so I'm not sure how much of a factor he is. Maybe a little bit in a roundabout way by forcing lefty relievers into the game earlier or something,

I'll note the worst hitters against lefties in that since June 1 time period... Pereira: 0 for 8, 1 BB, 6 K Junior Perez: 3 for 27, 0 BB, 10 K Benintendi: 1 for 10, 1 BB, 5 K Only players above league average are Colson (by a lot), Luisangel (by a lot), Grichuk (by a lot) Meidroth (by a little)

Sox against LHP this season: 98 wRC+, #12 in MLB against RHP: 104 wRC+, #12 in MLB Since June 1: against RHP: 109 wRC+, 12th in MLB against LHP: 77 wRC+, 28th in MLB (CLE is distant last w/ 56 wRC+)

I suppose the main purpose was just to get them to burn Miller in the 6th inning of a blowout

The breaking pitches against lefties have not given Davis any results tonight. Might want to try out that changeup that saved his career

Plesac offering an interesting pronunciation of Cedanne Rafaela

Well I obviously don't generally love anybody who is playing against the Sox

Tarik Skubal not being on the Tigers just makes me like him a lot more.

It did set up Steve for the very funny reply, "only in ClownTown" a little while back

No joy.

IMO, Grichuk is playing for his job (or should be)

1st changeup of the inning, first one for a strike since the leadoff hitter and what do you know, a double play!