The Mighty Mite

I think Quero is the new Corey Lee.

Go to right Acuna

Doyle OK

Get a few more runs and then let him come out for the 5th.

That’s 3 line drive outs, will bite us eventually.

Big K

How can that be an infield flyball rule

YES, tomorrow will be worse

Fedde losing his control

2 walks and HBP, can’t do this.

Bear down Fedde

I agree.

Why is Braden in the lineup? Stop the lefty/righty bull s%*#, Peters should be in the lineup every day.

Hope we can get 6 innings out of him tonight.

Shut them down

Now thats doing something! Anyone notice that Mune’s hands were a little lower.

Vargas had to do something there.

8 more innings like that would be fine.

Venable just doesn’t get it.

The Rays did well too.

BMont needs to be on the bench the rest of the way and only used for late innings defense. We have no idea when Kolson will be back with his wrist contusion. That leaves Mune with it looking like a miracle is needed to get him back on track. We can still win without those 3 as we were competitive in the Guards series basically without any help from them and should have won 2 of the games. What we need is the starting pitching to step up with quality outings.

Baseball Reference right now is giving the Sox a 55.4% chance to win the division while the Guards a 44.6% chance, comes down to the Sox having an easier schedule with 7 home games with 3 against the Rockies in the last series of the year while the Guards only have 3 home games and have that series in Boston.

Guys go in slumps but Mune and Colson have to be suffering from bad mechanics, I’m not a hitting coach but the one we have for some reason can’t fix them. Hitting should be simple, see the ball, hit the ball but I’m wondering with all the information available to the modern day player is a bit much and the trend of swinging as hard as one can along with launch angles ruins some players, just look at the batting averages, there’s only 7 guys in MLB that are batting .300. Junior Caminero of the Rays leads the AL in homers with 41 and has one of the flattest swings in baseball but he does swing hard and manages to knock the ball over fences. I’m pretty sure it’s a lot harder to hit a baseball coming at you at 96 MPH with an uppercut swing versus a flat swing. This isn’t 16 inch slow pitch softball like we played in our youth when we had a huge ball and the time to meet the ball with an uppercut swing.

Yep

Braden Montgomery shouldn’t be given a pass.