Jake

I think part of the deal is that Shomon doesn't want to talk to media so this gets him partly out of that obligation

Pause the funeral, Braden just muscled that thing out of here!

McKinven, partly speaking on behalf of the front office which controls the strategy on things like that, says their basic philosophy is "bombs away" and as of about a month ago they were very happy with how things were going

Gotta cut out the challenges the first time seeing a starting pitcher. The whole problem is you're being fooled and you haven't had a chance to check the data to see whether your eye matches reality.

Main managing decision I disagreed with last night was pulling Castillo so early. Although I wouldn't have given him a long leash at all so it's possible that not much would have changed had he gone out for another inning. Of course there was a terrible coaching decision sending Braden home in extras.

I suppose that maybe the confusion all came from the umpire wrongly telling Will that he couldn't pull Noah. But I don't know why Sandlin wasn't loosening in that case.

Well didn't they have two lefties batting 1-2 and then JRam batting third, who is weak from the right side?

Very confused by the sequence of events here. Seems like Will didn't think he was forcing Noah out, but also...when does Will ever come out to the mound other than to replace the pitcher? So was he just trying to create confusion to get Sandlin loose? But again, just like a couple starts ago, why start Noah if you're going to have such a quick hook?

I was okay with Bart but unfortunately he died so the Sox will have to move onto the next thing

Time to call up Quero and Haase. Start anew.

It had to end. This game was a coin flip. Lots of single plays that could have turned it one way or another. A lot of offense from the guys which is the only thing that matters much. A bunch of old men gave up runs, who cares. Play on a regulation ballfield and the Sox would have won by a couple runs in regulation. They could have won in other ways too...although they could have lost in a lot of other ways.

Rack em up Fedde?

Getting 1 in that inning is obviously better than 0, but at some point you need to have a strategy that increases the likelihood of 2+ even at the cost of increasing the chance of 0. You need to move this game towards a decision. Especially when you know it's going to get harder and harder to hold them to 1 with your bullpen falling apart. So we went up there hacking hoping to get a big hit before Romo got up. Didn't work out. Oh well

Mr. Fedde, we need perfection

Pointless stolen base thanks to the K but okay. For Colson, want to see him hitting but the spot called for using the home run swing

A problem when the workplace is filled with friends is that it makes personnel decisions difficult

Umpire gifted a ball to Colson there I think

You would think if the teams are going this deep, that at some point both teams would have failed to score the Manfred man. But nope, just keep trading.

I'm sick of this game. Just lose man I got things to do 🥲

That was a gift but again I don't think Murphy was supposed to pitch today. They must be talking in the bullpen about whether any of our starters could go for the 13th. I assume Newcomb will eventually have to suck it up and do what he can

Murphy making me wonder whether he's already blown the elbow

Yeah you can see why we were trying to stash Murphy tonight

If we did hold them to one here, what the hell would you even do to cover the 13th? Ask Murphy to throw at low effort?

If the play was remotely close it would have been easier to be a little open-minded about the send. Instead he was so out that you worry about him being hurt by the collision

With Mune and Vargas coming up