After one of the hottest hitting teams in baseball visited over the weekend, now the sox get one of the stingiest pitching staffs, led by Blake Snell.

It's a beeeeeeee-auty of a day for the 6 people that can attend the game.

And to make the sox heavy RH against Snell, that's right, we have a two catcher lineup.

Scouting Report on TB:

Not a super power hitting team but TB lineup have some good hitters that seem like they can hit you to death.

Diaz a very good hitter who can draw the walk, a great pick up by TB.

Pham another good hitter who can pretty much do it all.

Choi coming out smoking batting .370

Austin Meadows not 100% MLB tested but has proven to be a good hitter in the minors, can have some pop.

Avi Garcia's return...

TB starting pitchers are lights out so far and their pen has been terrific too with 4 pitchers yet to give up a run in over 21 total innings pitched.  Hence they are 7-3. 

Rodon needs to be stellar, we may need to manufacture some runs.

Go Sox!

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Edited April 8, 20197 yr by Chisox378

Soxtalk gamethread etiquette should require every OP to have the Sox gameday tweet.

This will be the least attended game of the year right? 1pm on a Monday. Cubs opener at the same time on the other side of town.

I fully expect to Avi to go bonkers today. 

Sox oughta just bunt every time against snell,

Castillo is barf and you should not use your backup c at dh barring emergency. MLB rosters are a joke.

10 minutes ago, pcq said:

Castillo is barf and you should not use your backup c at dh barring emergency. MLB rosters are a joke.

His splits vs. LHP are quite good though.

Just now, bmags said:

His splits vs. LHP are quite good though.

Yeah, I’m good with this lineup against Snell.

I'm an optimist but Sox have no chance today against Snell. 

I'll be there to watch the dual

I'm ready to see a solid start from a starting pitcher please.

Is free game of the day, only an audio feed?

3 minutes ago, jasonxctf said:

Is free game of the day, only an audio feed?

free video as well.

Son of a bit*h.

 

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Just now, jasonxctf said:

Son of a bit*h.

 

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Depending on how tech savvy you are you can easily get around that by using a proxy, provided you know how to set one up.  There are some extensions for Chrome that make it very easy.  Otherwise you could just google "reddit mlb st____" the game will be on there.

Oh look a seeing eye single.  About tired of those after yesterday.

1 hour ago, pcq said:

Castillo is barf and you should not use your backup c at dh barring emergency. MLB rosters are a joke.

I'll never understand why people care so much about this. If McCann gets hurt and Castillo has to come in the pitcher or pinch hitter has to bat the rest of the game. Not the end of the world.

Just now, lasttriptotulsa said:

I'll never understand why people care so much about this. If McCann gets hurt and Castillo has to come in the pitcher or pinch hitter has to bat the rest of the game. Not the end of the world.

Right. Like, don't do it in the playoffs, but reasonable risk if you like the lineup.

We get the audio for free atleast. Love listening to DJ and Farmer.

Abreu is a liability at first, I just hope against all hope that the Sox don’t extend him.

Just now, Chisox378 said:

We get the audio for free atleast. Love listening to DJ and Farmer.

Yeah, I thought I read somewhere online that it was video, too but I am only getting audio.

Rodon in trouble

What was a strikeout turns into a base hit

This is where i kinda wish rodon would just throw 15 sliders and get out of it.

Right where we want them!