8 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

* Royals

You can’t waste this for the opposite days.

man the other team really has to be bad for us to win.

1 minute ago, chitownsportsfan said:

man the other team really has to be bad for us to win.

The Royals aren’t doing so well but Kay must’ve put up the best start of the season thus far.

Sox and KC now tied at 5-8, both ahead of Detroit at 4-9. Road record is 2-5 for the season.

Sox for the second time this year end a skid at 3. By this time last year, they had already had an 8 game loss streak (they had a 4L and 5L at this point in 2024).

Win #5 comes on April 9th this year (April 20th in 2025, April 27th in 2024). The date to beat for #6 is April 24th.

Team ERA over the last 7 games is 2.25 (18 total runs allowed). Second shutout in that stretch.

Probably should get more than a 4-3 record out of that if they could start hitting some HRs again.

Edited 18 hours ago18 hr by Autumn Dreamin

wait they actually won? wtf lol

8 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Sox and KC now tied at 5-8, both ahead of Detroit at 4-9. Road record is 2-5 for the season.

Sox for the second time this year end a skid at 3. By this time last year, they had already had an 8 game loss streak (they had a 4L and 5L at this point in 2024).

Win #5 comes on April 9th this year (April 20th in 2025, April 27th in 2024). The date to beat for #6 is April 24th.

Team ERA over the last 7 games is 2.25 (18 total runs allowed). Second shutout in that stretch.

Probably should get more than a 4-3 record out of that if they could start hitting some HRs again.

it's really astonishing how the pitching is so decent given the setbacks pretty much everywhere else.

14 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Sox and KC now tied at 5-8, both ahead of Detroit at 4-9. Road record is 2-5 for the season.

Sox for the second time this year end a skid at 3. By this time last year, they had already had an 8 game loss streak (they had a 4L and 5L at this point in 2024).

Win #5 comes on April 9th this year (April 20th in 2025, April 27th in 2024). The date to beat for #6 is April 24th.

Team ERA over the last 7 games is 2.25 (18 total runs allowed). Second shutout in that stretch.

Probably should get more than a 4-3 record out of that if they could start hitting some HRs again.

It would be nice if they could actually score more than three runs in a game for a change...home runs or not.

Well, we can't say the Sox can't win in Kansas City anymore!

Interesting comment from Venable after the game to the Sun-Times:

Manager Will Venable said fans shouldn’t hold their breath for Schultz to make it to the South Side.

“I just know he’s continuing to pitch really well, which is awesome to see. We have a number of guys down there playing well,” Venable said.

That includes fellow flame-throwers Hagen Smith (nine strikeouts in six innings) and Tanner McDougal (11 K’s in nine).

“You don’t want to put them in situations where we’re asking them to do stuff that they’re not prepared for, even if they might be the best option,” Venable said.

Kay a little feisty lol

No reason for Cags to think it was intentional though.

42 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Sox and KC now tied at 5-8, both ahead of Detroit at 4-9. Road record is 2-5 for the season.

Sox for the second time this year end a skid at 3. By this time last year, they had already had an 8 game loss streak (they had a 4L and 5L at this point in 2024).

Win #5 comes on April 9th this year (April 20th in 2025, April 27th in 2024). The date to beat for #6 is April 24th.

Team ERA over the last 7 games is 2.25 (18 total runs allowed). Second shutout in that stretch.

Probably should get more than a 4-3 record out of that if they could start hitting some HRs again.

Damn you and your positivity

3 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Kay a little feisty lol

No reason for Cags to think it was intentional though.

f*** yea, love that s%*#. kay looked good tonight talk ur s%*#.

6 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

f*** yea, love that s%*#. kay looked good tonight talk ur s%*#.

An Italian who's all talk and no action is really just a Sardignian.

5 hours ago, joejoesox said:

wait they actually won? wtf lol

You were watching the game when they brought in Dominquez weren't you ? Maybe you turned it off after he walked a guy but the rest of that inning went well. Struck out Witt on 3 pitches to end the game.

4 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Interesting comment from Venable after the game to the Sun-Times:

Manager Will Venable said fans shouldn’t hold their breath for Schultz to make it to the South Side.

“I just know he’s continuing to pitch really well, which is awesome to see. We have a number of guys down there playing well,” Venable said.

That includes fellow flame-throwers Hagen Smith (nine strikeouts in six innings) and Tanner McDougal (11 K’s in nine).

“You don’t want to put them in situations where we’re asking them to do stuff that they’re not prepared for, even if they might be the best option,” Venable said.

Can't blame him. Maybe if the team can tread water through the injuries and keep it close to .500 and within 5 games of 1st place then if those young guns are ready you bring them up maybe to start or whatever . But like with the hitters you don't want to waste service time when it serves no real purpose. Most of them aren't ready now.

I think they want them coming up in waves maybe after the trade deadline. Antonacci is basically less than a month into showing them he has a bit of power and learning a new position. Schultz , Smith & McDougal need to show they can keep it up with the good games overshadowing the bad ones which there will be in Charlotte. That can't be helped. Braden Montgomery is also only in his 2nd pro season like Hagen Smith.

Maybe the 3rd wave is Cholowsky, Bonemer, Oppor while the rest are all gaining experience hovering around .500 or higher in 2028.

5 hours ago, WestEddy said:

An Italian who's all talk and no action is really just a Sardignian.

Sardinian?

Nice well pitched win but we’re not going to win many games like this, the Sox need to start hitting, they’re almost at the bottom of all the offensive categories in the American League. The good news is team ERA which was around 18.00 after the opening road trip is heading down towards respectability.

Has anyone noticed how the NL is dominating inter-league play with a .610 winning percentage against the AL, there are only 4 teams in the AL with winning records.

Edited 8 hours ago8 hr by The Mighty Mite

Anthony Kay has had a solid start to the year. Finally Will figured out who needs to use out of the bullpen too.

11 hours ago, WestEddy said:

An Italian who's all talk and no action is really just a Sardignian.

As a Northern Italian I approve

Kay's pitching motion and body-type reminds me of Carlos Rodon.

1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Kay's pitching motion and body-type reminds me of Carlos Rodon.

His avg fastball is up to almost 96, but he's had extreme BABIP luck so far. That said, if he pitches as well as he did yesterday he'll have a useful season.

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Anthony Kay Stats: Statcast, Visuals & Advanced Metrics

(2026) Avg Exit Velocity: 91.8, Hard Hit %: 55.8, wOBA: .297, xwOBA: .409, Barrel %: 9.3.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by chitownsportsfan