YourWhatHurts

Ok

If not for Leury last inning would have never ended. Say sayonara to Arihara which is Japanese for Odrisamer Despaigne.

This is a guy Collins can go deep on.

Our hitters are going to have to deal with this shit too. Their team needs the extra help a lot more than our team does.

Benetti on a Sox game is like a turd on a pizza. Nice to see him out of the booth. Hopefully his ESPN gig takes him away more often. And hey look another ump with no idea of the strike zone. Yay.

If you are so worried about Grandal' bat 1) don't hit him 6th anyway and 2) pinch hit if you want because Collins is on the bench and defensively he has been outplaying Grandal all year.

I think it's worth noting that the clip you posted is nobody out, nobody on, bottom of the 2nd and he's looking to get on base there. Grandal is also one of the better bets on the team to take a walk, albeit the ump last night was one of the worst umps you're ever going to see. But still maybe he walks, and even if not, Robert is fast and King isn't exactly overwhelming in terms of stuff. He is the kind of RP this team is going to light up anyway. I just see it as giving up an out and taking the bat out of the best hitter's hands with the game on the line.

I agree with this. TLR made another bad move and this time his players bailed him out. Lucky for him he is managing one of the most talented teams in baseball right now because otherwise he'd have no chance. I didn't like the hire for all of the most obvious reasons, but I never would have guessed he would be a Ricky-level manager or worse. I expected better than this. I am indeed surprised. I have noticed even in the game threads fathom is out-managing Tony. This really has to be TLRs final season one way or another. But even if it is I am going to guess the Sox have no plan in place beyond him.

It was still out over the plate. Lots of guys can hit that hard. On our own team Abreu TA Yermin Eloy and probably more can hit that pitch. He needs to get it in more. 97 when you have it timed really isn't that hard at the MLB level. It's definitely not 100.

Just add 3 letters. Lamb out, Lambert in. Solved.

And your shitty manager. Both TLR and Liam get the W now.

Yay! Good job Little Nicky!

There's a big opening on the right side.. come on little nicky

Tony is such a dipshit

BTW it's amazing nowadays how many hitters can take a ball 4-6" above the zone at 97 and take it out. Pitchers really need to get that ball inside.

All those fans in that thread who put their blinders on. When you look at big money closers the track record isn't very good. Hopefully he's just an overpayment and isn't a total albatross.

To be honest I had no idea Hamilton had an arm like that. Makes me feel better about him. Still redundant when Engel comes back though.

I'm happy he airmailed it over the cutoff man if only to see he has some arm strength. That was comforting to see.

I think the dorf should fire Hahn and make Hawk GM again if only for the fact that we all know he'd send TLR packing once again. And that would truly be coming full circle and maybe a bit of poetic justice for Hawk's final curtain call.

Heuer is Tony's Cordero. Let's hope he doesn't go down for TJ next ST.

Yep. He barely escaped the last inning.

Hahn and his $8m DH. I think we all know the pecking order there.

Imagine if Grandal was trying to catch Gibson tonight instead of Keuchel. No chance.

He's been excellent tonight.

This is exactly why you don't hit your best hitter 7th with Robert and Grandal ahead of him. TLR is an old bag of garbage. Bring back Ricky. Should have been the Yerminator in that spot. At least Robert took the walk though and laid off some of the garbage after starting out chasing it.