Jake

I really don't care that much about any of this. This Sox team made the playoffs and the team is full of good young players. Try enjoying yourselves a tiny bit before the season ends and we have nothing to do

Should say that the catch Sam failed to make against Cleveland had 85% catch probability. That is in the realm of non-routine plays. Sam sometimes makes plays that difficult because he can run well but such plays are not uncommonly missed by a team's worst defensive outfielder. Sam makes plays in that difficulty bucket about 66% of the time.

Both cutters that were hit out had a very atypical lack of drop. Makes me wonder whether those are meant to be a different kind of pitch (or that the other cutters were supposed to be sliders or something). Or perhaps he's just not releasing it consistently and the bad releases get killed

I think Pham just couldn't see Q's changeup at all

You have described some of the reasons he was made available

The ability to hit a ball 108 on a line over the fence to LCF is why the Sox wanted to roll the dice on Acuna (along with the super speed, strong arm, etc)

Will knows how to line em up

To be fair, the cutter that was hit out was a totally different pitch than the previous cutters. 10 inches more rise. So IDK what's going on with that

Cutter

Revenge game

I think Steve is right about why they pulled Rumfield

Metrics were good but not sub-1.00 ERA good (of course that's going to be true for anyone posting a sub-1.00 ERA)

Will be interesting to see if the Rox sub out any of their lefty hitters against Noah. If they don't, probably bodes well for the length of Noah's appearance. If not, you can try to exploit some righty-righty matchups...although the number of bullpen righties is admittedly low.

We'll see how Noah does but I have more confidence in Noah right now (it's a low bar). Makes sense for Will to be really aggressive here because this lineup is a matchup nightmare for Davis and his stuff just isn't working

Probably a DP with Chase in the game

Never bothering with that again. Watched the Sox play a nice game after the cathartic playoff clincher and I'm sitting around pissed off a couple hours later. Cleveland and Kansas City are disgraceful organizations, teams, cities, people, etc

Smashed it, but no luck. Go get em tomorrow

Gose not fooling anybody.

Mune has smashed it all 3 times up now

Fedde's ankle is probably about the size of a grapefruit by now

The opener pays off after all

Atta boy!

Sox have gained the 5th most runs from ABS challenges as a team this year. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/abs-challenges?challengeType=team-summary&season%5B%5D=2026&splitYear=1&level=mlb&minChal=1&minOppChal=0&gameType%5B%5D=R&leverage=&ballStrike=&breakeven=&dataCount=runs&sort=net_chal_gained_runs_total&sortDir=desc&page=0&pageSize=50

Braden does fine because he's been doing pretty much fine and hitting into bad luck

Nice job Sam