Nothing like being at 80 pitches in the 4th inning, during the first game of a long road trip. Let's get all up in that pen

God I hate everything about Oakland, except MC Hammer. He's cool.

God I hate everything about Oakland, except MC Hammer. He's cool.

I love the unis. Hate everything else.

Nieto has everything moving at the plate. That's gonna be high maintenance.

Hawk is in a good mood tonight. Some good stories/discussion. That deep fly out and nice play by Redick might make his mood start to sour, though.

I love the unis. Hate everything else.

It is always a house of horrors in Oakland for the Sox.................hate the dump.

I was reading this post just as Hawk was saying how "Kenny Williams was the best GM this franchise has ever had," which is just complete bulls***. But that aside, it made me laugh thinking about KW's 1st round pick of Jared Mitchell and the situation the outfield is in right now.

 

Well, KW's team did win the WS. So arguably Hawk is right. I wonder if he'd describe Ozzie as the best manager because of the same reasoning. He might go with Al Lopez, though, but Ozzie did win in his one WS; Lopez lost his.

Hawk is in a good mood tonight. Some good stories/discussion. That deep fly out and nice play by Redick might make his mood start to sour, though.

 

Missed it, what happened

Redick got a great jump on Leury's deep drive to right and hauled it in. A lousy rightfielder might have not made the play. Pretty good play by all accounts.

Sox can't buy a clutch hit these days. This lineup still makes no sense.

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Gotta come through there if you want to win road games against a good team. Failure by Gillaspie.

Gotta come through there if you want to win road games against a good team. Failure by Gillaspie.

 

He made good contact, just hit it right at a defender. It happens.

Conor has had a couple of chances to do some damage.

Leadoff walk

wow, 4 pitch walk to #9 hitter...not even close

Conor has had a couple of chances to do some damage.

And hit it hard each time. Line out to 2nd and line out to CF to go along with that single in the 1st. Can't quibble with the contact , only the results.

Has Hawk or Stone addressed Danks' fastball being way down tonight? Were Danks and E. Johnson training partners this offseason??

100 pitches in 5 innings isn't what we needed from our vetern

KW is probably our best GM.

 

Himes had one hell of a run, though:

Drafted Jack McDowell, Robin Ventura, Frank Thomas, and Alex Fernandez in consecutive first rounds. Got us Wilson Alvarez, Scott Fletcher, Sammy Sosa, and Lance Johnson for old Harold Baines and Jose de Leon. Also drafted James Baldwin, Ray Durham, Jason Bere, Bob Wickman, Joe Borowski.

John Danks doesn't give up leads

All 3 runs with 2 out story of the season.

He made good contact, just hit it right at a defender. It happens.

 

I know, but at that stage of the game if you want to beat the A's on the road, you need to not strand the runner at third. That was one, key out. And predictably the A's plate two in the bottom of the fifth to take good command of the game.

Sox need to score some runs.

We needed to score again to win anyways. Sucks Danks only gave us 5 innings though

John Danks doesn't give up leads

 

How is his stuff even worse this year than last year?