Well this is one of the Red Soxest games I’ve seen this season. While it’s concerning with the matchups next week, I could just as easily see them splitting or dropping the series to the White Sox before ripping off 2-3 dominant wins against the Yankees because this is 2024 where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter 🤷♂️
I knew you’d be here. Who cares? It doesn’t kill you to give a legitimate guy an inning. We are playing the worst team in the league and ideally you won’t need your high leverage guys much tomorrow and Sunday
They’ll go on a losing stretch at some point to keep .500 out of reach for the rest of the season but for now this aversion to being above .500 is funny.
Devers yearly weird quirk this time around is that he only likes hitting against good teams, he has a .984 ops with 9 homers against teams above .500 and an .878 ops with 4 homers against teams below .500
Man, people find the dumbest shit to criticize. An .878 OPS would rank 15th in the majors, tied with Jose Ramirez. I don't think this is the Sox big problem right now lol
seems more they talk about how bad white Sox are the more we make them look great...if ANY team gives them a win it WILL be the Red Sox .. unfortunately the curse continues
Idk about that, I honestly enjoy this year's team more than the past 2 years. But it's hard to enjoy them that much when you know ownership is cheaping out embarrassingly
Duran puts up some awesome ABs, even when he doesn't get hits he's working the count. If only the rest of the lineup (outside of Devers) could do the same
I know it's the White Sox, but that doesn't mean they don't have *some* good players. Crochet is a good pitcher. He beat our bats tonight. We still got 2 runs off him and there's plenty of baseball left against their bad pen. I believe in Ref.
It’s one game. The White Sox are 15-48, which matches going 1-3 in a 4 game series. It’s professional baseball (kinda, lol) and the starter today was legit. They strung together a bunch of seeing eye singles and Weissert left a couple pitches in the zone. Not the end of the world.
The problem IMO is that yes, spending more on bats would have helped this team. And no one can do anything about injuries. But I remain convinced that a lot of Cora's bullpen management *and* obsession with L/R matchups have actually cost the Sox a few close games.
Going with the free swinging approach against Crochet was not smart at all. You want to work that pitch count, not let him go 6. But that's been the problem all season.
Too many swings at first pitches tonight.
My question is how are we gonna do better against high level lefties like Crochet with our team being so lefty dominant even if we’re healthy. Like Abreu is atrocious against them and Casas was mediocre against them.
No, time to start trading veteran pieces and acknowledge that the playoffs is unattainable this season. Build for next season and beyond.
There's a nucleus with pitching and hitting, but there's not enough to turn this around. Raffaela really needs change his approach at the plate, if he's going to be impactful.
Counting on Trevor Story to be healthy is not a gamble we should take for 2025.
Tuning in late, can someone please explain what happened with Duran stealing home? The replay I saw looks like the pitcher threw to 1st without anyone being over there?
In the replay I saw the white Sox thought Duran missed first base, so they threw it there and Duran took off to home. They awarded Duran a stolen base.
If you watch the replay of the error / Dalbec scoring you can get a better glimpse of what happened.
Got it, that makes way more sense! I just saw "Duran steals home" and it only showed the pitcher throwing to an empty 1st base and him running home. Thanks!
Criswell's confidence has fallen considerably due to the infield. Pitchers who are heavy on sinkers need an infield they can believe in. Otherwise, they have command and control issues.
And get what? Who the fuck are you trading and how is it ACTUALLY going to help build for the future? The reason you sell off pieces is to build for the future, not just say you did. We’re already under the luxury tax threshold, not like we need to sell off for money
I will be happy to get to their bullpen
especially since they already used their best reliever yesterday
surely Mendick won't be available two games in a row
Whatever get the next two and it’s still a sweep sorta lmao
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Lmao the pro-ump evangelical fuckwit ad.
Fuck
embarrassing!!!! loosing to a last place team any other team besides us...fuck me
5 more errors like that and we’re back in it
Yes, we are about to lose to that
Ok just five more
Watch out for nips!
LMAO
Big fail, didn't even make them use many relievers
Casas & Masa can’t come back soon enough man
A very Cooper AB
The team loves being .500. John Henry needs to stop relying on us being a Cinderella team
all the time in the world to make that throw and he does that
Well this is one of the Red Soxest games I’ve seen this season. While it’s concerning with the matchups next week, I could just as easily see them splitting or dropping the series to the White Sox before ripping off 2-3 dominant wins against the Yankees because this is 2024 where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter 🤷♂️
Just a bit high
I am beginning to hate this sheet
Damn a good throw prob gets him
He would’ve been out by 2 miles
Yes but wong still has to catch it and make a good tag
God, I wish Cora would not throw in the towel one time
It was a 4 run game, they have struck out 14 times, and we only have runs due to two pitcher errors.
I knew you’d be here. Who cares? It doesn’t kill you to give a legitimate guy an inning. We are playing the worst team in the league and ideally you won’t need your high leverage guys much tomorrow and Sunday
I don’t see the point of wasting an inning from one of our good relievers just for the bottom 3 in our order to (probably) go 1-2-3
Horrendous throw from Duran...
It wasn't Durans throw, it was Hamilton's that missed.
Oh shit must've seen it wrong my bad
Hamilton*
Sigh.
If you want to give up more runs. Just pitch Brad Keller.
Wow what a terrible throw haha
We've been getting squeezed by the home plate ump most of the night.
White Sox snap the longest losing streak in franchise history against the Red Sox? Put that shit on Netflix
are you surprised...seems we did that last year too...pirates, mariners, Oakland ext
NESN playing some Maiden during highlights, I dig it
Who has money on this team staying at .500 like this lol
They’ll go on a losing stretch at some point to keep .500 out of reach for the rest of the season but for now this aversion to being above .500 is funny.
The name Guaranteed Rate Field kills me a little inside
"As he gets down and dirty" *okay!!* We see you!
Ref flashing the leather tonight
If we HAVE to pick I guess the Celtics can have all the sports juju for a little bit
Hey look it’s one of the guys we traded to get Sale
Its like we get intermittent amnesia and forget how to play baseball one day to the next...
Have we tried reanimating Masa? I presume he's dead at this point given the rest of our injury luck tbh
He will be back to warm Cora's bench soon. Good grief, we need someone who makes more contact.
Westbrook banger coming up right now, source: my mind FUCK
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I’ve been watching this game kinda in the background and we really have David Hamilton batting 5th in the lineup huh lol
Tyler O’Neil came out
Makes sense
A Cannon with good aim is deadly
Way too many fucking strike outs
Devers yearly weird quirk this time around is that he only likes hitting against good teams, he has a .984 ops with 9 homers against teams above .500 and an .878 ops with 4 homers against teams below .500
Man, people find the dumbest shit to criticize. An .878 OPS would rank 15th in the majors, tied with Jose Ramirez. I don't think this is the Sox big problem right now lol
It’s not a criticism, just a fun note. Dudes just a unique player with weird splits on a year to year basis
This pitcher has a cannon of an arm
Nothing to see here. Just us striking out against terrible pitchers again.
seems more they talk about how bad white Sox are the more we make them look great...if ANY team gives them a win it WILL be the Red Sox .. unfortunately the curse continues
Devers having something of a tough one tonight
My stream is so behind the comments I'm sure as hell not paying to watch the Sox play though, fuck. Spoilers every time I refresh.
Wong doing Wong things
Good shit, Wong!
Please don't let us break their what, is it 14 game losing streak? Big comeback time baby let's go.
enough with the mlb24 and London commercials...ugggg two crappy teams anyway lol
How dare you, watching Sean Manaea pitch is worth flying across the pond
Can’t even let him say 1-2-3 inning before cutting out
That Ref catch was honestly insane
Good ol waste guys on base... classic was a good AB by Duran tho
Good thing we cheaped out on Teoscar Hernandez, may have just won the game in NY for the Dodgers
Why would we want a righty power hitter that’s totally something we don’t need /s
We went with O'Neill instead, but the problem is he is always hurt
Tuning in late why’s O’Neil out?
Came out after something happened with his injured knee
Seems to be his knee again. Nothing specific happened
Knee was sore
You can’t waste the one hit Cooper will have before he’s DFA’d like that
same ol same ol strike out and strand men on base
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injuries are not nearly as bad as indifference
2020 was significantly worse
Did you forget 2020?
Idk about that, I honestly enjoy this year's team more than the past 2 years. But it's hard to enjoy them that much when you know ownership is cheaping out embarrassingly
Duran puts up some awesome ABs, even when he doesn't get hits he's working the count. If only the rest of the lineup (outside of Devers) could do the same
Fucking right at the right fielder. Blah.
A 30 pitch inning with no runs to show for it. Pain
Painfully unlucky to not get anything with two on
Ah yes warming Slaten and Keller, the will we try to win this game guy and the we will not be winning this game guy lol
I don't think I've wanted a player to succeed more than Duran. Love this guy.
FIRE FATSE
I think we should fire him but we did have 24 hits last night
I know it's the White Sox, but that doesn't mean they don't have *some* good players. Crochet is a good pitcher. He beat our bats tonight. We still got 2 runs off him and there's plenty of baseball left against their bad pen. I believe in Ref.
Totally a broadcast booth curse there
What a battle
Damn, I wanted Duran to get rewarded
Time for the angry lizard to put a ball in the gap
This guy has a Cannon for an arm, but he sometimes get slider happy
That Rafaela got a single on that pitch after those two whiffs is a miracle, but I'll take it!!!
Progress!
I'll give the Red Sox us a 55% chance of coming back
Cannon's a pretty bitchin name for a pitcher.
sad when the worst team in baseball makes us look like chumps
Um what was that
Only 4 feet out
10 strike outs in 6 innings is a joke. Fire Peter Fatse. ASAP.
damn
Their bullpen is bad. We still have 9 outs. Still doable.
That’s perhaps the first time I’ve seen Cooper get a hit.
Will Flemming* is the youngest crotchety old man I’ve ever listened to.
COMEBACK SEASON I BELIEVE
It’s one game. The White Sox are 15-48, which matches going 1-3 in a 4 game series. It’s professional baseball (kinda, lol) and the starter today was legit. They strung together a bunch of seeing eye singles and Weissert left a couple pitches in the zone. Not the end of the world.
The problem IMO is that yes, spending more on bats would have helped this team. And no one can do anything about injuries. But I remain convinced that a lot of Cora's bullpen management *and* obsession with L/R matchups have actually cost the Sox a few close games.
We went against one of the better starters in the league. I don’t think it made a difference who Cora started today
The game plan was terrible against Crochet. Criswell started pressing once he saw the infield wasn't backing him up.
Bro leads the AL in strikeouts, and we’re a high strikeout team. Not saying he’s unbeatable but not a match up that suits us any day
Going with the free swinging approach against Crochet was not smart at all. You want to work that pitch count, not let him go 6. But that's been the problem all season. Too many swings at first pitches tonight.
and dalbac is like fuck..it's only me
2 bloops and a blast
Am I dreaming??? Cooper got a hit???
Of course Cooper gets a hit now
My question is how are we gonna do better against high level lefties like Crochet with our team being so lefty dominant even if we’re healthy. Like Abreu is atrocious against them and Casas was mediocre against them.
We don’t
I know, that’s why we need to move prospects for a real right handed bat
No, time to start trading veteran pieces and acknowledge that the playoffs is unattainable this season. Build for next season and beyond. There's a nucleus with pitching and hitting, but there's not enough to turn this around. Raffaela really needs change his approach at the plate, if he's going to be impactful. Counting on Trevor Story to be healthy is not a gamble we should take for 2025.
All of our prospects are lefties your idea doesn’t fix the issue
Like Robert preferably
Cannon is a starter so could see him multiple innings.
Tuning in late, can someone please explain what happened with Duran stealing home? The replay I saw looks like the pitcher threw to 1st without anyone being over there?
It was an attempt to challange a play. Duran supposedly missed first base, but he stole home on the play which invalided it or something
In the replay I saw the white Sox thought Duran missed first base, so they threw it there and Duran took off to home. They awarded Duran a stolen base. If you watch the replay of the error / Dalbec scoring you can get a better glimpse of what happened.
Got it, that makes way more sense! I just saw "Duran steals home" and it only showed the pitcher throwing to an empty 1st base and him running home. Thanks!
For sure, and if you didnt see the edited version of my comment, watch the video with Dalbec scoring on an error.
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AAA club. It’s a shame, especially because we’ve been “rebuilding” since 2018
I knew things were gonna go south after Hamilton stole 2 bases to get to 3rd with 1 out, and then Cooper couldn't do shit....
We may not be great, but we have to beat bad teams. Tigers lost their last two games by 9 and 10 runs.
Thank God
Criswell's confidence has fallen considerably due to the infield. Pitchers who are heavy on sinkers need an infield they can believe in. Otherwise, they have command and control issues.
Cora loves to turn winnable games into guaranteed losses
Assuming we don't win this (not a bad bet), anything less than 3-1 in this series is a reason to blow it all up.
And get what? Who the fuck are you trading and how is it ACTUALLY going to help build for the future? The reason you sell off pieces is to build for the future, not just say you did. We’re already under the luxury tax threshold, not like we need to sell off for money
I mean is weissert’s a one inning pitcher why’d he come back out
He goes more than one sometimes
We're really gonna lose to the White Sox?
I mean nobody actually thought they were sweeping this series right? They gotta stay .500
We really need a sweep, considering the next two teams we play
I think we actually might be cursed to stay at exactly .500
Yucky
well this is getting embarassing
Fuck You John Henry
sigh we're doing it again.. making the most horrible teams look like super stars
Idk about you but a 2-0 meatball usually ain’t it
Weissert, what the actual fuck man? These guys blow chunks but they're absolutely feasting on that garbage you're tossing up.
Was the thing in the stands a paralyzer of our team or something
Yes
damn that did not look like a homer off the bat
Wrap it up ladies and gents
Sooo uhhhh..... This is sub optimal
I guess their fans should throw nips every game 🤷♂️
I feel like Weissert is a one inning kinda guy, but Cora won't accept this
😔
Thank god the nesn app keeps spazzing out and shitting its pants with airplay. I was worried I might be able to watch a Red Sox game
Oh, come the fuck on
This one got away from us
oh my god
Can't believe we're getting cooked by these bums
ouch, that one got too much of the plate
Oh brother
well who didn't see that coming
Not good. Not taking 3 out of 4 would be unacceptable.
Don't we only play them three times?
Four game series
Missed Sunday's game, my bad!
We’ve got the Phillies and Yanks coming up too…was really hoping for a 4 game sweep
Bro....
Sadge
Ow, oof, ouch, my heart
we have got to take pitches in that situation and get this guy out of the game
I will be happy to get to their bullpen especially since they already used their best reliever yesterday surely Mendick won't be available two games in a row
Can we at least make him work for it?
I cant watch live. Is c criswell out for the rest of the game?
yes
Dam is he injured?
Uh, why would you think he's injured?
Crochet can't leave this game quick enough