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Had him and Sosa gotten under it a bit more on their fly balls, it'd be like a 9-0 game.

Pretty much everything has been hit hard this inning.

Please keep Imanaga in Counsell

43 degree launch angle and he still hit it 380

Slater almost hit that out

Imanaga has nothing today. His fastball is so hittable when he can't locate.

Colson!

Thought we had 5 when Sosa hit his single off the wall.

Base running this inning has been awful. How do you only go up one base on a ball off the wall? That already cost us a run.

Cardinals should trade for Houser to replace Fedde

Wasn't this guy pitching really well before today? Pretty harsh to option him when he's got the 2nd most pitching WAR on the team.

Has this team had an offensive stretch this good since 2021? Even when we weren't bad in 2022, I felt like that offense had trouble scoring. When is the last time this team has put up 10+ runs 3 times in 6 games? They also had 7 and 8 runs in there. I don't think there's a better time for this team to play the Cubs.

Wegner gave us a lot of calls in the last few innings.

No it could have been anyone on the roster. I saw that some players apparently left already?

I don't like the idea of the swing off to begin with, but holy crap, what was Aaron Boone thinking sending Aranda up there to be your last hitter when he could have picked Aaron Judge or the guy who won the HR derby the night before?

More like they didn't want a lefty-lefty matchup with Rojas

Might as well just walk JRam

We win if either of them get to first before the 2nd baseman does.

Colson should have kept running.

I think Houser's been a bit lucky, but some of the improvements might be real. He gained about 1.5 MPH on his 4 seamer. His spinrates on his sinker and 4 seamer are both up around 100 RPM. Seeing how he throws those like 60% of the time, I can see how it would make a difference. He switched around his slider and curveball usage and is getting much better results because of it (they killed his breaking pitches last year). His expected stats and BABIP all say he's been lucky, but very few pitchers can put up a 1.6 ERA and not be considered lucky. I think he's this year's version of Erick Fedde, just maybe a bit luckier thus far. Hopefully we get more than a Miguel Vargas-type player for him at the deadline.

Cause the last time they tried a 2 inning save with him, he gave up 3 runs.

DJ makes Schriffen sound good as PBP

We need to carry 3 catchers and DFA Noda. He serves no purpose on this team.

With Smith struggling, is Houser going to be our lone all-star?

It took the Sox 123 games to win 30 last year.