Jake

Seranthony's luck evens out there lol

And I continue to think that if you're letting Schultz make the start tonight you can't take him out without a single run on the board in the 4th inning. If you don't trust him enough to see at least another batter with platoon advantage, then you don't trust him enough to start (which is fine, but then don't start him!)

Lot of talk about the pen but IMO this is just a team loss. You lose 9-4 and the offense should be asking how they could have gotten a couple more right along with the pitchers trying to keep it closer.

I think some of the stuff you see between swings, etc. is like a tic and not necessarily about discomfort

Newcomb is one of the guys in the circle of trust but tonight's not his night

NGL, I think this is just a baseball game and doesn't mean a whole lot for what the next handful of baseball games are going to be like. The Yankees are better than the Sox so that's a disadvantage. But that doesn't mean you'll lose 'em all.

Well that's a mistake that pitchers love to make.

To be fair, I've done some analysis on this (my day job is in statistics so baseball lets me flex the same muscles). By the numbers, you should generally trust the typical platoon splits over the player's splits unless and until you have very clear and compelling evidence to the contrary. That said, a pitcher with surprising splits is more likely to continue to have surprising splits than a hitter who is overwhelmingly likely to be experiencing small sample size luck.

Well, I guess it was a bad send. I kinda wanted them to do it though.

Bad contact base hits has always been integral to Colson's game (at the MLB level at least)

Down on the Farm update: all those guys not pitching well enough to deserve a call to MLB

Well that's where Quero was asking for it. He just missed it middle-middle

I think with neutral batted ball luck he'll perform about equally against both sides. But either way I wouldn't necessarily be matching him up with lefties specifically.

Well, part of Hudson's deal is throwing fastballs down the heart and not getting hurt by it thanks to the deception. But Ben Rice may well be the best player on the field tonight so he's more likely than most to punish your mistakes.

Have Sox considered using Trevor Richards like Old Hoss Radbourn? Just have him pitch every inning of every game?

The claim on Twitter that I didn't remember is that El Caballo had an opportunity for payback with a hard slide but passed up on it. And this allegedly soured Ozzie et al. on Lee

All season Miguel has tended to have trouble on balls hit softly when he's playing really deep

Not sure if I'm middle-aged, but this may be worse: I've been a member of Soxtalk for a larger percentage of my life than I wasn't a member of Soxtalk.

The thing about Richards is not only the changeup a mega-outlier in terms of its movement, so is his fastball. The fastball is super "verty", i.e., doesn't drop nearly as much as a batter is trained to expect. And of course his changeup drops a lot more than a batter would expect...to an unbelievable extent tbh.

I'm a White Sox fan. I would have been curious to see the side-arming lefty throw to Jazz Chisholm before we decided to ask the bullpen to cover 6 innings, starting with a guy who was clearly not up to the task.

Did they tell us on the broadcast why Fried is out of the game? Yankees just wanted to play fair and not have one side empty their pen in game 1?

It could have been so bad that he would have given up 4 runs or something.

I would have been okay with sending Noah down after the last start. I think the worst decision is to let him have the start but then pull him extremely early before he gives up any runs. Worst of all worlds.

You could say Murphy has better numbers this year than Noah, but I'd guess if Noah got hand-picked situations out of the pen like Murphy has he would have better results. Of course in the context of the game going on, sometimes it helps just to change looks. Didn't work tonight.

Oh okay. I thought non-competitive at bats usually don't involve the pitcher getting ahead in the count or anything like that. Now I guess non-competitive means the batter gets on base.