Dick Allen

They should have listened to Soxtalk and picked up Jason Heyward.

Hopefully he stays healthy, because Burger is going to be the ultimate "professional hitter".

Some speculation that Eaton winds up back in DC.

Our Chuck is not happy. He and Eaton are buds.

If Pineda is ever going to throw a no hitter, today is his chance.

They are going to have to change the NBCSC commercial with Eaton telling us what we are watching.

I don’t think I have ever seen 2 OFs and a camera man have no idea where a pop up went.

Peter Gammons thinks the Sox should make a play for Jacob Stallings.

What difference does that make?

Not only that, the job is like the weatherman being blamed because it’s too hot or too cold. Moncada dives awkwardly hurts his hand, fire the trainer.

The Sox don’t have prospects sexy enough for the Cubs to make them prohibitive favorites.

Trout was 6-8 weeks. Hopefully Grandal is not as long, but if it is, he should be back for the homestretch.

The good news is if he has to miss a month or two, he , Robert, Eloy, all should be pretty strong at the end of the season and the playoffs when other guys are probably dying. Could be huge.

It looked terrible because he was in a lot of pain, but the physical act that caused it to happen was minimal. Hopefully that keeps the severity down. It wasn't like he was busting his ass going somewhere, he just took a pitch That calf muscle couldn't have been as engaged as it would be for other things.

I am not a medical professional, but I am thinking even if he had sat out a week, that calf was a ticking time bomb and the same thing was going to happen. There really was no good answer IMO.

They probably wouldn't have scored anyway. That lefty is tough on lefties and Billy Hamilton was the hope. Of course he may have bunted.

Because with the infield in, if it wasn't, he would have waited for the ball to go through.

I've never been a big fan of the contact play with nobody out.

Some day, some year, if you keep this up, you are bound to be correct.

I think some are gassed more than that.

I don't get leaving a guy in after he had thrown so many pitches in 95 degree heat with a lefty ready, not that Fry was guaranteed to get him out.

So is Deroits, and until the 9th inning yesterday, the Sox couldn't touch them.

At least it doesn't appear to be an Achilles.

The All Star break is a good time fot an IL stint.

Lefties have to be lucky against that guy, but he will walk you if you let him. Goodwin didn’t let him.