Burke’s fastball lacks consistency badly

Burke throwing that junk breaking pitch again

And there's the run given up that always seems to happen when you blow golden scoring opportunities.

Everyone knew Seattle was scoring this inning

Not exactly making the Mariners earn it here

That was not a good effort.

Bad defense

3 minutes ago, Soxfest said:

Everyone knew Seattle was scoring this inning

Telegraphed after that awful showing by Peters and Romo

Ultimately if they are in any sort of contention and Kyle's season is in disarray you can't have Quero and Romo starting. They are going to need to find someone.

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by Baron

Nice pitching!

Just now, Baron said:

Ultimately if they are in any sort of contention and Kyle's season is in disarry you can't have Quero and Romo starting. They are going to need to find someone.

Teel will be back before they have to make that decision it seems like

Only gave up one. They are winning this one last half inning be damned.

Just now, fathom said:

Teel will be back before they have to make that decision it seems like

I hope so. But honestly since Getz has been Mr Wheeling and Dealing lately I don't know why we need to hold onto Romo. Make that a tryout position.

Burke averaging 20" induced vertical break on his 4-seam today which is just stupendous and even better than his already-great norm. That will tend to induce whiffs. Part of the T-Mobile effect is that a mixture of the prevailing wind blowing in from center and the overall environmental conditions makes most pitchers' pitches move better.

Acuna...

Guess Acuna wasn't looking for a pitch down the cock of the plate

Just fucking stare at it buddy

Just admit it was a bad acquisition and DFA him

1 minute ago, Baron said:

Acuna...

I long for the day that his ass is grass

Atta boy Sammy

Not getting g

9 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

Ive exhausted this bit and argument so wont keep it going too much, but you wont find another elite (top 3) defensive shortstop in the past 50 years who jumped around positions.

Your argument had some merit earlier their year when he played there frequently, but he’s made three total starts at 3B since April 2nd prior to today. And clearly that’s because with Vargas out they like the defense better overall with Acuna at SS more than Antonacci at 3B. The bigger complaint should be Acuna being in the lineup at all, but I’ve already speculated on that.

Not sure why they have him shifted to pull. Maybe the data contradicts my intuition.

That was not a strike

3 minutes ago, fathom said:

Just admit it was a bad acquisition and DFA him

Yup, as soon as Hayes is ready Acuna needs to go. That at-bat last night in the 9th sealed the deal for me.

There we go!