AJ also in midseason form.

AJ is off to a fast start

LOL f*** you AJ

 

AJ with his best Giancarlo Stanton impression

Yay Rios

Pop out to third and every infielder will have a pop up.

 

3 infield pop ups, 2 K's and a caught stealing....

Edited April 6, 201213 yr by Harry Chappas

What is Alexei doing swinging at that junk?

nice AB Alexei.

 

(first negative post of the season...feels good to be back)

Pop out to third and every infielder will have a pop up.

 

3 infield pop ups, a K and a caught stealing....

 

Clearly, the answer is FIRE WALKER!

My MLB.com isn't working properly. f***.

Most important thing I'm seeing is more patience at the plate. Yeah, they've popped out a lot, but it's far more important in the long run if the lineup gets into a habit of making pitchers work and getting deep into counts. Alexei and AJ aside of course. But that'll be that way all year.

Pop out to third and every infielder will have a pop up.

 

3 infield pop ups, 2 K's and a caught stealing....

don't forget the hit and the walk, though

Danks better pitch a good 2nd inning. Don't worry we have Tank Bacon coming up next inning.

 

Clearly the first 2 innings of this season are on Jeff Manto. 2 strikeouts and 3 pop ups.

I don't think I mentioned this in another thread, but I hate the idea of Morel batting 2nd. He's so much more effective when he's aggressive and trying to pull the ball at the plate. However, I feel like he's going to try and hit it to the right side a lot and take more pitches batting 2nd. I would have rather had AJP or Alexei batting 2nd, and make Morel prove himself this year.

I know it worked because they scored...but I am surprised by the bunt there. Both Andrus and Kinsler have owned Danks. Why give up the out in the 1st inning? I guess I am just too anti-bunt.

 

With Hamilton/Beltre/Young/Cruz coming up. I agree that the bunt is a bad decision there.

Most important thing I'm seeing is more patience at the plate. Yeah, they've popped out a lot, but it's far more important in the long run if the lineup gets into a habit of making pitchers work and getting deep into counts. Alexei and AJ aside of course. But that'll be that way all year.

 

Agreed. I was thinking of that until I saw all the pop-ups...let's see how it progresses throughout the game and if they keep the same strategy.

It hasn't been 2 full innings, and I am already sick of Hawk

Danks needs to get the ball down in the zone, everything is up. That will eventually hurt him as they are not popping those pitches up on the infield.

Nice Danks

Danks has been missing his spots up an awful lot, until those last two pitches which were spot-on. Hopefully he's finding it

Texas is loaded.

If we win two games this series it may be cause for wild drunkenness.

The Sox are going to have to start hitting to keep up with last season's pace. They scored 15 runs on 18 hits opening day last year.

Agreed. I was thinking of that until I saw all the pop-ups...let's see how it progresses throughout the game and if they keep the same strategy.

Even if they pop up 10 more times in this game, if they work the count, things will even out. And as the season wears on, those pop ups become line drives.

Nice inning by the Dankster. YEEHAWK, let score some runs with our TankBaconatorAza!

 

Texas is loaded.

If we win two games this series it may be cause for wild drunkenness.

?

 

It's 1-0 after 2 innings. They scored on a 2B-bunt-sac fly.