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Oh great, Kopech has no fastball command.

He doesn't even hit the ball hard enough to get it through the infield.

If anything you pinch hit there to bunt Mendick to third.

Grifol masterclass right here. Instead of using Grossman for Maldonado, he makes it easy for Rocco to line up 2 lefties vs. Thielbar. Idiot. lol then he wastes Ortega just to play matchups again...

I'm pretty sure all of Benintendi's homers are on cutters.

Please pinch hit for Maldonado.

And that's why you don't play Pham in center. He just doesn't have good enough range to get to that.

Soroka looks like he's sort of lost it.

Abreu has somehow been twice as bad as Vaughn.

Santana probably should have caught that, but they've gotta cover 2nd on that.

Imagine how good the Astros would have been if they didn't have a pitcher hitting at the bottom of their order these past few years.

Pham and DeJong missed homers by less than 5 feet combined.

I remember Vaughn went on a pretty big hot streak in 2021 when he steadied his hands more during his load. It sapped some exit velocity, but he was hitting the ball hard more consistently. I don't think Vaughn's problem was that he didn't hit for enough power, it was that his approach never improved. If he improves his approach, the power will come eventually when you start swinging at better pitches. Just another example of poor development by the Sox.

Soroka lost his command.

I'm astonished at how Vaughn manages to hit pitches that should be pulled hard to the opposite field this year. Like that's not a bad thing in certain situations, but he's doing it on almost every one of those pitches. It feels like he's late on the pitches on purpose.

We've seen Gavin produce for a whole month before, so I'll have to see him keep hitting like this for a bit longer before making a judgement. But he's clearly made some adjustments to how teams were attacking him, especially on outside pitches.

How do you pop that pitch up to right field? I feel like Gavin took whatever hitting talent Vaughn had.

Is Gavin actually kind of good now? He's going opposite field quite a bit and it's working for him.

Gonna be down to Korey Lee.

That looked like a gapper off the bat.

Swung right through a hanging sweeper.

Most obvious move imaginable.

Man Thielbar's been awful this year.

This umpire sucks

Well that was quick...