48 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

We’ll see if this works!  Go Sox!!

Talk about a backfire.

Why were Cooper & Renteria ejected?

2 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Why were Cooper & Renteria ejected?

Arguing a checked swing against Reylo I believe.

If all he can throw is 2 pitches, how did he check all the boxes?

 

I'd agree that Reynaldo looks like he's due for a little bonus rest if the Sox can buy some for him. His velocity varies so much within and between games that I don't know whether I should think it's because he's tired, consciously backing off, or what.

Just now, GreenSox said:

If all he can throw is 2 pitches, how did he check all the boxes?

 

He was throwing pitches in Charlotte and then just let him stop throwing a changeup & curve.  It’s poor player if I’ve ever seen it.

1 minute ago, DirtySox said:

Arguing a checked swing against Reylo I believe.

Thanks.

Reynaldo really has a lot of young Bartolo Colon to him. I wonder if he'd be better off trying to emulate that approach and simplifying things, just throwing the fastball and one chosen offspeed with a third pitch just once in a blue moon.

1 minute ago, Chicago White Sox said:

He was throwing pitches in Charlotte and then just let him stop throwing a changeup & curve.  It’s poor player if I’ve ever seen it.

That's supposed to be the whole point of suffering through these 30 below .500 seasons.   Clear out the dugout in the offseason, Hahn.

1 minute ago, Jake said:

Reynaldo really has a lot of young Bartolo Colon to him. I wonder if he'd be better off trying to emulate that approach and simplifying things, just throwing the fastball and one chosen offspeed with a third pitch just once in a blue moon.

But the fastball doesn't miss bats.   That's a big problem when you don't have good offspeed pitches.

17 minutes ago, Scoots said:

Just turned game on. Why Coop and Renteria ejected?

The crew chief felt they were underperforming even with an underperforming roster so he told them to go home. 

2 minutes ago, Jake said:

Reynaldo really has a lot of young Bartolo Colon to him. I wonder if he'd be better off trying to emulate that approach and simplifying things, just throwing the fastball and one chosen offspeed with a third pitch just once in a blue moon.

Colon has elite command though, he can take the frosting off a cake with his fastball. Reylo not so much yet.

Even the outs are loud

1 minute ago, fathom said:

But the fastball doesn't miss bats.   That's a big problem when you don't have good offspeed pitches.

Sure, but that's why I brought up Colon as a comparison because other than a brief time early in his career he wasn't a big strikeout guy but was able to be successful throwing 80%+ fastballs. Lopez might also find a little more success with his fastball if he could get himself ahead in the count a little more often, which is hard to do when he can hardly throw an offspeed pitch for a strike (not that he's pounding the zone with his fastball either).

Lopez has actually thrown a ton of changeups tonight.  Has that contributed to the poor results?  If so, I’m all for it.  I’m guessing it’s much more than that, just looking for a reason for optimism.

Well they've hit the changeup pretty well, but the same could be said for his fastball. He's thrown 9 breaking balls, 8 of which were called balls. That's probably not helping him much.

Jose heating up.  Houston? You watching?

Hung the shit out of whatever that was.

That's the first time that pitch-tipping came to mind for me there. It's a very hittable hung curveball but you almost never see a guy go up and swing at that on 0-0 unless the pitcher has been throwing that pitch to start guys off throughout the game.

Wonder if we're heading to a record-breaking score against us.

This is fun. Go draft pick go!

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I suppose we could play under protest now since the rule may have not been applied properly, couldn't we?

 

Then we could protest our pitching staff

What the hell was that?!

From what scrap heap did the Sox get this Vieira guy?