Ducksnort

This game should be a blowout with that pitching matchup...or at least something like 6-2 victory with Q on the mound and the way the Sox have been hitting of late...although there will be considerably cooler temps today.

James Shields throws a no-hitter tomorrow. Calling it.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 21, 2016 -> 12:03 PM) When you have an offense that's struggling, you shouldn't be giving up outs and playing for 1 run all the time. It's one thing to do it when you only need 1 run to win in extras or in the 9th, but the Sox have had their #3 hitter bunt before in the 7th inning. If you don't let your best hitter swing the bat, then what's the point? David Ortiz, the Red Sox number 3 hitter and possibly the best hitter in the league, bunted yesterday with TWO out and no one on (granted there was the shift), and nearly beat it out, and it was the first inning. The best offense in the league had their best hitter bunt. The White Sox are not the only team to have their 3 hitter bunt to try to spark something.

With this offense, I would rather see a runner on 1st get bunted over and have one out rather than the hitter ground into a dp, which is likely what would happen. I like the bunt because it forces the defense to make the play, and oftentimes you see mistakes when trying to field a bunt. I would say most people on here don't mind the bunting, its just the ones that don't like it are the ones that are vocal about it.

NOW THAT IS HOW YOU WIN A DAMN BASEBALL GAME. Guys bailing each other out and situational hits (at least toward the end)...let's continue this play.

Abreu...

Alex Avila saved this baseball game

As bad as this team has been, they have never shown that they have given up. Now, time to close the door. Lets goooo Sox!!!!!

So reminiscent of 2005. Wow.

The way this is going Gonzalez is going to throw a complete game shutout.

There ya go Todd. Anyway you can get em take em.

Abreu starting to hit better. Hey the Sox have a hit in each inning so far...

Worst part of the park to hit that. Damn that would have been his first homer if it were in Chicago

Red Sox trying to give this game away

David Ortiz is just a bad-ass

Now that at-bat is exemplary of a good hitting team. Long at-bats, fouling off tough pitches...

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 20, 2016 -> 06:28 PM) Gonzalez is 140th out of 140 total in BAA in balls put in play. .388. That's really quite hard to do. How is Shields not number 140?

Well this is a pleasant change. Can we get a 3 run homer while we're at it?

I love Timmy at the top of the lineup

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 20, 2016 -> 03:23 PM) Won't watch a game until Ventura is gone. Bet you will

Hawk is an angry elf

Oh my word...they may actually get out of this without giving up a run. How often does that happen?

Carrasco is very predictable imo...hard stuff inside, and breaking balls away/in the dirt. His approach is the same for every hitter

Great at bat there by Avila. The rest of the team needs to take a lesson from him.

Hawk actually made an interesting point...Abreu wasn't hitting at all during April and the Sox were the best team in the league. Everyone was saying in order for the Sox to really compete, Abreu will need to start hitting. He has been hitting well now, and the Sox have been sucking it up. Wtf lol.