Jake

Sabrowski leads all MLB lefties in Ks as a percentage of plate appearances by an enormous margin. Not clear to me what's so difficult to hit about it but these guys taking pitches down the middle and burning challenges on clear strikes makes me think it's a lot more deceptive than it looks.

Sabrowski's numbers are incredible this season. 17 K/9! Holy cow. Plenty of walks along with it is the only thing keeping him out of prime Billy Wagner territory.

Grichuk not seeing Sabrowski at all

I'm not sure whether it's worth it to use Acuna here, but okay I understand doing what you can to try to bring the game to the quickest ending you can.

I choose Liam Hendriks as baserunner

If the Sox somehow pull this out, Richards will be a hero

Teel has gotta be exhausted with how many bouncing balls he's had to handle back there today

The 45 footers burned us even without a man on base

Eat s%*# Schneemann

If we are to reach a 10th inning or get a man on base, Richards can't keep bouncing every 5th pitch in there like that

All the missed calls tonight. 7 against the Sox, 2 against the Guards. Sox overturned 2 via challenge, Guards overturned 1. Tricky business for Teel because 5, 6, 4, and 7 were sooo close and you are trying to guard against ones like D and E.

Listen, this game is going to come down to who cracks first between Smith and Richards. I like our chances

We have reached the Sox hitting lasers for outs portion of the program

You can see Teel's frustration because he knows the ump has missed more than that but he's trying to make sure he has the challenge for a miss that bad.

Sox pitchers are wearing out that area about 5 feet in front of home plate

You can in fact get lower leverage than a 2 run lead in the 7th, lol. Sox just didn't have the luxury to hide him any more than that with the current usage situation. And they trusted Hicks a little bit less than him, I think, so Hicks went earlier.

My hunch is they will try to see if they can finish the game with Richards but Newcomb might be able to go if there's a lead and Richards isn't able to go any further.

After last night, really hurt the Sox to have what looked like a pretty good Kay outing cut short so early. It's possible that Richards is the last man standing here.

Put good wood on it a couple times but no joy that inning. Ump kind of took the bat out of Miguel's hands.

There are 4 relievers left: Eisert, Richards, Newcomb, Taylor. I don't think Taylor is likely to be available. Eisert has pitched on back to back days. Newcomb I'm not sure about, he threw almost 30 pitches in a single inning last night but was well-rested beforehand. Richards should be good to go.

Frankly I don't think Seranthony is afraid to throw strikes. I believe he would love to throw it down the pipe every pitch if he could manage it. He's just lost.

So even if you get out of this, who do you have left to cover these next two innings?

Bloopers always hurt more when you walk people. At this point, the Colson misplay doesn't change much because that blooper would have scored both runners regardless (I think)

I don't think Colson could get an out there but you gotta keep it in front of you to save the run.

Time for Seranthony to come up with a fake injury so he can go work on some things