Back to the time zone thing for Castillo’s debut.

I’ll count a rainout as a skid stopper at this point, but would that require a follow-up game thread from me tomorrow?

Kevin Roth

YELLOW/GREEN - Ok now I'm getting tired of saying it... yet another game with a few little downpours around. I'd call it a low chance of a delay, and the game will play 9 innings regardless of any potential delay.

The Sox need to change something about their approach at the plate. It’s dreadful to watch them strike out ~25% of the time. They can’t swing from the heels on every pitch of every at bat. There has to be some situational awareness.

Got my fingers and toes crossed I won’t have to deal with another reported post regarding terrible things. I believe in you guys!

Confidence level is shot to hell. Surprise me.

DR is AST year round.

2 minutes ago, nrockway said:

DR is AST year round.

But not Nova Scotia.

Hope it gets rained out. Boston is on another worldly level right now.

3 hours ago, JoeC said:

I’ll count a rainout as a skid stopper at this point, but would that require a follow-up game thread from me tomorrow?

Yes but you can give it away if you want or just start it as soon as a rainout is official.

57 minutes ago, Middle Buffalo said:

The Sox need to change something about their approach at the plate. It’s dreadful to watch them strike out ~25% of the time. They can’t swing from the heels on every pitch of every at bat. There has to be some situational awareness.

Other teams might start pitching the Sox like Boston does, lots of breaking pitches down and fastballs up and many out of the zone.

Boston, just like the last series against them, is the hottest team in baseball. Their pitching has been incredible and they’re seemingly squaring up anything thrown at them. That’s a tough team to beat and will make even good teams look bad.

I expect an L today and won’t think twice about it when the sweep is complete. It shouldn’t be used as proof that we suddenly suck or whatever nonsense dumb fans will inevitably throw around. No analysis should go further than the fact we ran into a buzz saw. They just swept LAD before us.