The Mighty Mite

Way to get to get those 2 runs back. Don’t stop now boys.

An unforced error.

it was against Baltimore.

Good 1-2-3 inning by Burke, he needed that with a high pitch count in the first 2 innings

All right Brooks!!!

Real feel right now in Port Charlotte is 109, don’t ever remember being that high, actual temp is 95.

It’s because of the afternoon showers, someone figured that most of the time they move out around 7ish. Funny thing here in Port Charlotte, we haven’t had a drop of rain the last 4 days, very unusual here in Florida during rainy season. .

Pretty sure it is because they were as bad in April of this year as they were last year and it's been a long climb just to get to .350.

That’s what I’m thinking.

35 wins in 100 games, .350 winning pct.

That’s for sure, can only hope for the best.

Not sure what to expect against the Rays, will the Sox continue to swing hot bats or will the Rays with better pitching shut us down. We usually attend a Sox-Rays game if there’s a day game in the mix, not so this year plus with the Rays playing in Tampa this year it makes the trip 30+ minutes longer, it’s very easy for us to get to the Trop but not so Steinbrenner Field.

How sweep it is, on to Tampa where things will be tougher but the Rays went into a funk after knocking on the door of first place, they’re fighting for a WC spot.

Vargas is doing well at first, I would try Sosa at 3B, I thought he did OK there last year.

Who wants this guy that he’s being showcased, put Baldwin out there damn it.

Gift run.

That was ugly.

I agree but Meidroth is better off at 2B but what to do with Sosa is the 64 Thousand Dollar question.

No cheap homers there.

Baldwin on the bench again, it has to be Getz not liking him.

I hope we get to see Baldwin out there everyday, seems like they’re playing games with him. Make Beni the regular DH and put Baldwin in LF and let him swim or sink.

The rest of the pitching was the pits especially the bullpen.

First of all the pitching is much better than last year, league average ERA is 4.04 and the Sox are 4.10, last year we were last with a 4.67 ERA. It’s the hitting that’s killing us, last in OPS, last in BA, second to last in homers, second to last in runs and the list goes on. I thought they were in the process of turning things around with the bats in late May and June but just about all the young prospects have regressed since then. The bats have come around this weekend but we’re playing the Pirates, the Rays are up next and let’s see what they do in TB. Venable is better than Grifol which isn’t saying a lot, he’s had some bad moments but the team hasn’t quit on him and hopefully he gets better with experience. I’m optimistic like you and think the kids will also get better with experience and we should be a .500 team in 2027. Theres also the possibility that Ishiba takes over sooner than 2029 and he goes out and signs some quality free agents which could really help things along.

Changing gears, why was yesterdays Cubs-Red Sox game the most sought after ticket in Cubs history?

At this stage, that was a big K.