Jake

Peters finally pays off all those fake bunts

Curious to see how Shane looks after a very laborious first. Marlins didn't see him well at all but he may lose his stuff from all that work. Not to mention he gets to face the second and third time through the order penalties more quickly.

Nice example of luck and non-luck. Marlins ludicrously lucky in this inning. But! Shane facilitated the entire thing with the fielding mistake. Field the ball and all those softies are scattered across the innings. Now he's thrown so many pitches he may be unable to go much longer. Took 7 batters to get to the first solid contact.

Fun game. Sox had some of the batted ball luck today.

Getz pushed all the right buttons this offseason

Point is not that the Sox should have shut them out. But that inning was propelled by a 50/50 ground ball single followed shortly by an infield single, followed not long after by a bloop single with the bases loaded. Ideally you get some of the other guys out instead, but that sequence of events doesn't normally earn you a 6-run inning. Then you can look backwards and see Sox barreling two outs that could have been home runs with just about anything else being different (park, weather, ball-to-ball variation, etc.). Even earlier in the game, Sox had a sequence of a walk to the 9 hitter followed by 4 batters in a row squaring it up but only got a single run out of it. You can make your own luck to an extent but sometimes things just do or don't line up for you. Overall I liked seeing some life from the bats today and I don't think the Sox will give up too many 6-inning 8th/9th innings going forward. And I was always going to feel a little worried about smaller leads. To me the goal this season is the same as the last: figure out who is part of the core. There have been some interesting data points throughout the series. I think the best player in the organization is on the IL though.

Well that's a tough loss. Hard to see much of a lesson here. Sox hit well and had some serious tough luck. Brewers got all their luck and production focused into one inning. That's the randomness of baseball. Sox aren't going to outplay a team like the Brewers enough to overcome that kind of thing.

I think training staff has not much effect on player health (because they are all qualified and the biggest variable is the player himself)

Well safe to say Grant Taylor was indeed fooling Yelich

Grant gives up a lot of soft runs although the walk is his own fault

Is Quero dead?

Mune magic

Throwing whiffle balls out there

All I know about Ashby is these two games but his stuff looks nasty

Knocking out their starter in the 5th ain't the worst thing to happen. Can still see the vision here that the core is largely guys who take good ABs and therefore will tend to run up the pitch count.

A lot of folks were booking Chase a ticket to Charlotte

Great matchup for Mune

FWIW, yesterday's HR for Antonacci was a Charlotte special. xBA of .033. Today's was annihilated though.

Ump hit Frelick with the hezzy and baited him into challenging

Classic

I haven't been hanging around ST enough, are we pushing the panic button on Colson yet?

Little bit of hitting would certainly take the edge off

lol yep. Hasn't helped his own cause with the baserunners or on that play

Hard for me to be too mad at Burke so far TBH. But he'll have to bear down to get out of this

I never got the clear message that Benny was going to only DH. Frankly I don't care that much if he plays outfield but that was more of an opinion I held when we had a logjam of catchers.