18 minutes ago, brijames1957 said:

Great and exciting first win. Cease with just amazing stuff. Some mistakes but hey the team battled and came through huge at the most critical time. 

Keep in mind this was maybe the best team in baseball they were battling with. Hopefully they can one of the next two and win the series. 

4 game series

4 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

I really like the 1st 4 . Against Valdez and that sinker they have to go up the middle or the other way and take advantage of the no shift on the right side of the infield.

Cease limiting the walks and having a strong outing against a depleted Astros lineup will help net the Sox a victory.

Just as I predicted ! Sort of.

A couple base running blunders today. I don’t get why Moncada tried to stretch that hit into a triple, does anyone know if the 3rd base coach was telling him to?

Just now, Joshua Strong said:

A couple base running blunders today. I don’t get why Moncada tried to stretch that hit into a triple, does anyone know if the 3rd base coach was telling him to?

I don’t know what happened, but by the time Tucker got to it, I thought it was going to be a stand up triple. Obviously, you can’t make the first out at third base- and I really don’t know why they didn’t review it either. Bad play. 

11 minutes ago, Joshua Strong said:

A couple base running blunders today. I don’t get why Moncada tried to stretch that hit into a triple, does anyone know if the 3rd base coach was telling him to?

He never picked him up. Yoan was trying to do too much.

10 minutes ago, flavum said:

I don’t know what happened, but by the time Tucker got to it, I thought it was going to be a stand up triple. Obviously, you can’t make the first out at third base- and I really don’t know why they didn’t review it either. Bad play. 

They did review it. The out was confirmed. 

Just now, ptatc said:

They did review it. The out was confirmed. 

Ok thanks. I don’t know what ESPN was doing during the review.

1 hour ago, Capn12 said:

If this were last season, Vaughn gets lifted for Leury Garcia PH opportunity.

(Not really, but maybe...)

If this was last season Leury Garcia would have been starting not on the bench to PH!

8 minutes ago, flavum said:

Ok thanks. I don’t know what ESPN was doing during the review.

That's what I was watching. I could've sworn I heard them say it was confirmed. I could be wrong. 

12 minutes ago, Chimpton said:

If this was last season Leury Garcia would have been starting not on the bench to PH!

36 minutes ago, ptatc said:

That's what I was watching. I could've sworn I heard them say it was confirmed. I could be wrong. 

They did say it was being reviewed and that it was confirmed on-air but it happened really fast. It took very little time to review considering how close it looked on the replay. Umps have a review clock too I guess.

1 hour ago, Hang Wiffem said:

They did say it was being reviewed and that it was confirmed on-air but it happened really fast. It took very little time to review considering how close it looked on the replay. Umps have a review clock too I guess.

The review was way too quick for how close it was.  I 100% thought he was safe.  It didn't look like he applied the tag on his chest until the hand was on the bag.  Moncada slid around it.  

2 hours ago, ptatc said:

That's what I was watching. I could've sworn I heard them say it was confirmed. I could be wrong. 

Yes the out was confirmed.  You could hear it in the background while the ESPN crew was babbling on something else.

2 hours ago, Capn12 said:

You are right.  I guess Leury must be working nowadays as TLR ‘s butler.

4 hours ago, Jack Parkman said:

Moncada looks way better this year

He's not late on fastballs anymore. 

He looked good in the WBC.

4 hours ago, Heads22 said:

I do like how Reynaldo is embracing the bullpen as well.

He is looking better than Hendriks

4 hours ago, Jack Parkman said:

López doesn't have enough swing and miss to be a closer. 

He is hitting 100 mph speed, that can strike out hitters even if straight.

6 hours ago, flavum said:

I don’t know what happened, but by the time Tucker got to it, I thought it was going to be a stand up triple. Obviously, you can’t make the first out at third base- and I really don’t know why they didn’t review it either. Bad play. 

They did review it. It was a solid slide, play was super close. He looked safe from some angles. 

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4 hours ago, hankchifan said:

You are right.  I guess Leury must be working nowadays as TLR ‘s butler.

He’s getting $11 mil for not working the next two years. Tony is his butler.

1. Cease looked amazing.  I think they squared up 1 foul ball?

2. Moncada still has a low Baseball IQ.  You never go to 3rd in that situation

3. Colas' swings looked good

4. No one died (Eloy, Anderson, Robert)

5. Grandal is going to be BACK (offensively)

11 hours ago, Jack Parkman said:

Moncada looks way better this year

He's not late on fastballs anymore. 

I can't believe they gave Abreu an error on the play he got out at 3rd on. That ball was smoked.

8 minutes ago, chw42 said:

I can't believe they gave Abreu an error on the play he got out at 3rd on. That ball was smoked.

Yeah same here. 

Nice everyone except Eloy had a hit and the Sox had 11 for the game. Nice opening day start.

28 minutes ago, chw42 said:

I can't believe they gave Abreu an error on the play he got out at 3rd on. That ball was smoked.

I'd have called it an error.  He raised his glove exspecting a hop. right through his legs.

Yordan is pretty fucking good.