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I think Hicks has to go another inning to face 8-9-1. Huddy to handle the 8th Close with ??????? f***. Schultz is going to get in the game.

Ditto. Was sitting there while Grant was pitching and I was like holy s%*#, I’m shaking and feel really anxious. That’s probably not a good thing considering it’s only WC game 1 in what is hopefully a long playoff run. Blum nailed it…we looked like the more poised and experienced team.

Did Jersch tell him to hold at 3b?

So you're doing nothing to differentiate his first week with the team to his last week with the team which is quite literally the only way to evaluate the improvement being cited in the thread.

That it’s predominantly mental, but I was assured it was a 1.37° change in Mune’s bat angle while in his batting stance and definitely not mental.

74 pitches and yanked him in a meaningless game. Convince me that wasn’t dictated by the FO before today’s game.

Very much this. Houston is an under .500 division winner who got hot for a bit this summer, including when we played them. At the same time, the Sox offense was sputtering badly. Houston will not be going into this series feeling very confident. Going into today, 4-6 over their last 10 in crunch time. Meanwhile, we’ve been performing relatively well under the same pressure and the offense is alive again. I think we’re headed to the ALDS.

Not long after we acquired Doyle, I commented somewhere on here about how fidgety he was at the plate. I think I phrased it as him looking like an amateur golfer who watched way too many YouTube swing videos. He had a dramatic toe tap, moving his body a ton pre-pitch like some sort of routine he felt was necessary. He looked awful. Now? Hes SO MUCH QUIETER in his stance. More upright, very slight toe tap, is not draining concentration from the pitcher by concentrating on some dumb movement. He looks like a completely different hitter. For as much s%*# as Getz fairly gets for the Castillo debacle, I think this Doyle move is going to prove to be a real winner, not only through this post season but also by adding another 20-30 dongs to our lineup next season. Huge props to the hitting staff for apparently fixing this kid.

Kay was solid for a good month or two but has completely lost it last couple starts.

How do you walk a man with a 9-1 lead? F’n idiot.

Monasterio no longer in the Circle of Trust.

The series won’t be like this. They won’t want their guys to go cold.

#1 second baseman in the AL in fwar (2nd in bwar), 4th in MLB 2b war....."super sub"....."he's fine". Dude gets zero respect for what he's done.

I'd be in favor of reseeding the teams after the wild card round. If it ends up: Rays vs. Yankees and Sox vs. Astros, you've got the #1 seed playing the team with the 2nd best record in the Division Series. That's kinda garbage. If they reseeded, it would be Rays vs. Astros and Sox vs. Yankees. You've got to make that 162 game grind count as much as possible and not reseeding is punishing teams not for lack of wins but for being in a tough division.

Which should mean they'll face the top of the rotation this week, eh?

Resounding success no matter what. A large driver in me thinking that way goes beyond simple wins and losses. This team blew away all expectations and are on the brink of making the playoffs despite going into the season with a roster that was clearly not built to contend. The starting rotation was a joke and there was very little money thrown at making it whole last offseason. Tried to beef up the pen a bit with Dominguez, but no one looked at that pen full of castaways and thought they'd be worth a damn. There was nothing invested in the line-up. Tristan Peters as a starting OF?! A rookie RF, hoping for Quero to hit to cover for Teel's injury, Mune a complete unknown, moving Sam to LF? Them getting to .500 with those questions and that roster heading into the season was something no one could have predicted. Then you look at the deadline and the way Getz kinda HAD to handle it. With such a top heavy farm, he could not sacrifice those top prospects to get the types of players we needed to become a true contender. Improve the roster? Sure, but he wasn't going to build a contender. Turns out, the deadline was an abject disaster. So this team, so bad for years and a s%*# roster this season, no midseason help, still ends up .500 or better? That's a win and should make us all excited for the future.

Props to the fans who stayed out there…can’t say I’d do the same. Should’ve swept them, but good win and good series. Cleveland with 3 against Boston, our best chance to overtake them. Bats are getting going again and my man Doyle is looking a million times better in the box (still chasing some non-competitive pitches). BP rested, especially with an off day tomorrow. Let’s do this s%*#.

Didn’t really see anything. Didn’t seem to be in pain. Gut wonders if it’s a fake injury.

On and off listening to the radio feed. How is Mune looking tonight? Hitless, but how’s he look?

A guy with his stuff being afraid of contact is bewildering. He was good when he was the aggressor. That dinger he gave up in the Cubs series is when it all fell apart. Mental midget.

Fair and he may have made slight adjustments which aren’t obvious to my blind ass. But watching his swing decisions during the slump looked far more mental than mechanical to me. Maybe poor mechanics led to mental issues. Either way, we need him and he looked great tonight.

No it wasn’t. “But but but…his bat was 10° higher in his stance!” FOH.

Great dub. You can’t burn Taylor for the series tonight and not walk away with a win. Mune needed a game like tonight to get out of his head. People rip the coaching staff but it was plain as day that Mune’s issues were ALL mental. Swing issues don’t cause a hitter to watch strike 3 time after time.

When you’re talking starting lineup, I agree wholeheartedly. But dude seemed to be insinuating Acuna should’ve been pulled in the 9th to bring in Antonnaci to second and move Chase to 3rd. That would’ve been incredibly retarded.

Because Acuna is a fantastic SS? He made a bad play but he’s far superior to Chase at short.