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Interesting that Grandal hits for McGuire, but Harrison hits for himself. Probably saving Moncada to hit for Abreu.

Mieses Home Run in the same inning.

Don't need to DFA him to bring up Perez. Mendick never plays. Better to carry 3 catchers if Yaz can't hardly catch anymore.

Colas Home Run

McGuire with a .328 OPS. Is he the worst hitter the Sox have had in recent memory? I mean, at least Zavala could run into one occasionally.

Don't forget Harrison, Keuchel, Kelly, possibly Cueto, and who knows about Lynn. Sox could be the last line on a ton of careers this year.

Ha ha. Now Kopech gets the huge strike zone.

Gonna be interesting when Eloy is back. Right now only 4 guys on the team look like major leaguers — Robert, Anderson, Moncada, and Vaughn. Early in the year, TLR was sitting Vaughn whenever possible, but he can’t afford to do that now. If Abreu starts hitting, then the Sox will sacrifice defense for offense to get Shets in against RH pitching. But if not, Engel and Pollock will play more at Jose’s expense. Also, looks like the Grandal to DH experiment is not going to work out. However it works out with Jose, this offense needs a massive rethink.

4 good hitters, 3 of them back to back to back in that inning.

Deja vu.

Sorry to hear that. My brother has something similar going on post-COVID. No fun.

So you leave him in to walk the lefty and bring in the lefty to face the guy who has hit 2 homers tonight???

Wtf are these guys swinging at?!

I think this Vaughn kid has a shot. Bring him up.

Engel expands the zone yet again.

Cease is the perfect pitcher for this defense. 9 PAs, one defensive play required.

I saw that. Injury?

Perez continues to bang on the door. Seriously, I don’t hate McGuire or anything, but you can’t catch him every day.

Listened to Future Sox podcast. Obvious from lineups and that interview that Sox think Beard and Krogman > Misael Gonzalez, which I find surprising.

HR Vaughn!

Thanks. I'll give it a listen.

All this improvement leads me ask a dangerous question: Are the Sox getting better at helping their hitters improve? The Royals have changed their organizational approach and it has borne fruit. Maybe the Sox are doing something similar? Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Never easy for a closer to get keyed up then relax then get keyed up again.

Ugh.

Fudge.