Good use of Castillo this series

Perfect job, Mr Venable

2 minutes ago, 2Deep said:

I was upset and thought this team was about to fold after friday night.

However this team proved me wrong last 2 days and again showed me they resilient. Props to this club.

Let's go win a division

Their most redeeming factor is being able to overcome devastating losses and just keep on keepin' on. That Tigers loss had a chance of being the nail in the coffin because of all the emotion, losing after being up 8-2... but they hung in there. And now we're talking about how close they were to a 4 game sweep instead of a shitty series loss.

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1 minute ago, 2Deep said:

I was upset and thought this team was about to fold after friday night.

However this team proved me wrong last 2 days and again showed me they resilient. Props to this club.

Let's go win a division

One common denominator of our last two wins was no Acuna and no Rogers in the lineup. Let’s keep it that way if we can, and let’s ignore the splits, because everyone else is better than these two guys.

1 hour ago, ron883 said:

Castillo is back!

The sad part was that if the Sox had used Castillo to help protect the 8-2 lead on Friday, maybe we would have won that game. He was the freshest guy in the bullpen.

Here is an interesting stat: The Sox have won their last 8 games before an off-day. This dates back to June 24th.

The bad news: They are 2-5 in the games after the off-day in that same span.

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6 minutes ago, hankchifan said:

The sad part was that if the Sox had used Castillo to help protect the 8-2 lead on Friday, maybe we would have won that game. He was the freshest guy in the bullpen.

The problem was that Sandlin imploded so quickly and gave up 3 runs in 4 hitters.

24 minutes ago, 2Deep said:

https://x.com/scottmerkin/status/2101846165289345215

I was scratching my head when Martin got yanked. Protecting Martin lower body, (calf ? ) is prudent.

8 minutes ago, chw42 said:

Here is an interesting stat: The Sox have won their last 8 games before an off-day. This dates back to June 24th.

The bad news: They are 2-5 in the games after the off-day in that same span.

That is one of the three games when all is said and done you can make the case that cost the Sox the divisional title and the #2 seed.

The others of course were the game in Boston where they were one strike away from winning and the game in Cleveland Tuesday when the same thing took place.

Two more wins for a winning season.

26 minutes ago, hankchifan said:

One common denominator of our last two wins was no Acuna and no Rogers in the lineup. Let’s keep it that way if we can, and let’s ignore the splits, because everyone else is better than these two guys.

I really hope Will finally ignores them, Sox are scheduled to face lefty starters in 3 of the final 6 games

Some really nice at bats where guys didn’t get themselves out by swinging at junk. Keep it up!