Grow some balls Robin

That is a ball to Red Sox hitters and strikes to White Sox this is BS.

Ventura is going to be second-guessed on this one, too...

 

Isn't it funny how the Red Sox can bring up an inexperienced rookie and he manages to get a bunt down successfully when we always struggle in that area with young players?

WSox 0-10 with RISP

Fun.

And walked off again...

Of course.

 

Perfect and fitting ending for the series.

 

 

Thanks for making it exciting Conor.

Edited July 10, 201411 yr by caulfield12

Ventura is going to be second-guessed on this one, too...

 

Isn't it funny how the Red Sox can bring up an inexperienced rookie and he manages to get a bunt down successfully when we always struggle in that area with young players?

Usually baseball players learn to bunt before they hit the major leagues.

Was there any doubt that walk would come around to score?

Sellers

This f***ing ump really cost Sox the game RV needed to come out earlier and got tossed.

Edited July 10, 201411 yr by Soxfest

The previously bad corpse ball playing Red Sox, come up with the hit with RISP, the White Sox don't. Beaten by a 3 hit effort.

I hate the Red Sox. Don't care much for Ventura as a manager either.

And that was one of Carp's first at-bats of the season, I think.

 

Oh, well...back to the drawing board.

 

 

It's pretty clear nobody's going to want to have anything to do with Belisario....unless it's against the Dodgers, he doesn't pitch well under any kind of pressure.

Edited July 10, 201411 yr by caulfield12

Can we f***ing release Belisario already??? Sheesh

This f***ing ump really cost Sox the game RV needed to come out earlier and got tossed.

 

 

You don't win many games when you're 0/10 with RISP. Quintana deserved better, but he put himself in that situation in the bottom of the 6th, and the pitch sequence to Ortiz was absolutely befuddling.

 

 

Along with not caring what happens to Belisario, there's also Flowers and Leury Garcia on the roster.

 

Our "bottom 15-17" players on the 25 man have to be the worst in the majors.

 

Our top 8 or so can compete with any team in the majors.

Edited July 10, 201411 yr by caulfield12

Why does Ace Ventura intentionally walk Drew, who was hitting about .150?

Can we f***ing release Belisario already??? Sheesh

FIP 3.71, xFIP 3.44, SIERA 2.76. His K:BB rate is excellent. Dude has been seriously unlucky. Who exactly do you propose releasing him for?

FIP 3.71, xFIP 3.44, SIERA 2.76. His K:BB rate is excellent. Dude has been seriously unlucky. Who exactly do you propose releasing him for?

 

 

Tell me your kidding right....

Why does Ace Ventura intentionally walk Drew, who was hitting about .150?

Sets up a DP.

Really?? You never know what Beckham will do there. Maybe he walks, or gets a hit.. Either way, You don't take the bat out of the hands of Abreu who gets a lot of XBH.

 

I disagree with you 110%

You don't know what Beckham will do there. Maybe he homers. Maybe he hits into a double play. But we do know he was 0-4 with 3 Ks. While I hate taking the bat out of Abreu's hands we don't know what he will do there either (though I like his chances). You never know what Tank and Alexei will do either. If one of them gets a hit, we're not discussing this. The sacrifice paid off for the Red Sox. Bottom line, I think Robin shouldn't be crucified because Viciedo and Alexei didn't come through.

Tell me your kidding right....

Only 58.1% of his baserunners have been stranded. LOB% is a figure that fluctuates too much to indicate that pitchers have that much of a control over it.

 

2009: 81.1

2010: 65.6

2011: injured

2012: 76.5

2013: 70.4

2014: 58.5

 

Tell me which year looks like the outlier...

 

His ERA last year was 3.97, the year before 2.54 and this year he's walking way less hitters than he did in either of those years, and striking out about the same as last year and a bit less than the year before. Unless he starts throwing differently, that ERA is gonna come down fast.

I see a bad pitcher with no command and control. No matter how many fancy stats you wanna try to put a spin on. He's bad, your not unluckywhen you walk lead-off hitters, your just bad. No fancy stats with a spin, just bad

I see a bad pitcher with no command and control. No matter how many fancy stats you wanna try to put a spin on. He's bad, your not unluckywhen you walk lead-off hitters, your just bad. No fancy stats with a spin, just bad

Ok, what ERA would you expect this bad pitcher with no command and control to pitch to for the rest of the year?

Why does Ace Ventura intentionally walk Drew, who was hitting about .150?

He routinely IWs hitters to set up the double play, no matter how poor a hitter he is.

Ventura is limited.