hankchifan

Can’t get the ball up in the air for a sacrifice fly. TA swings at a 1-0 ball low and outside with the bases loaded and no outs and pulls the ball on the ground, instead of waiting for a higher pitch to get the ball in the air or hit it the opposite way. Moncada hits it on the ground and Robert strikes out. Menechiho needs to coach Robert to close his stance which is too open. Our hitters are too impatient.

Give Cueto a sixpack of XX beer and make him the spokesperson of that brand.

Leury never rests. He must be bionic or permanently printed on lineup cards. Only our higher paid stars get to rest under TLR regime.

TLR loves lefty-righty matchups and Sheets is a lefty, albeit a shitty lefty, thatTrumps playing a righty instead.

Thanks to Cueto, AJ, Vaughn, Engel and Liam that came through in the clutch. One run was not have been enough.

Good observation. When Liam can throw a breaking pitch it’s normally lights out.

Thinking that we could beat the Yanks 1-0 was a wet dream. We needed to at least manufacture one more run. TA has to pinch hit for Leury. Take it as batting practice for the second game. No desperation in our managers vocabulary.

Hitting Leury second has been a killer. Anderson leading and Moncada hitting second should have been the call. Go with the stars in the first game. Or at least pinch hit TA for Leury in the 8 th. Need to go all out to get a second run.

TLR does not pinch hit with “resting” players.

Kelly was the right call to start the inning

TLR is no longer a HOF quality manager. I would refer him as a former HOF quality manager.

Unnecessary 2 runners on base. You could see that coming. I don’t know how we can put up with TLR much longer. Bad decisions in every game. No sense of urgency. Not using the best resources available to him.

Send TLR with them for keep using them while “resting” our stars.

TA should be playing both games. We need to use all our weapons in key games. TLR does not, and misuses the scrubs. Leury second?

Changing the topic from Donaldson/TA7, I was pleasantly surprised that TLR pinch hit with Moncada and Sheets late in the game. TLR had only sent 5 pinch hitters to the plate in all games prior to today. It would have been a shame if Moncada and Sheets, both home run hitters, would be grabbing some bench late in a close game, as has happened many times before.

Should not be hitting second until he is back on track.

Not enough clutch hitting again today. Nobody getting close to the short right field porch. We needed more runs with DK back to his old form. Walking the below Mendoza line 9th. Hitter to get to LeMaheiu was a killer. I wonder if we could replace DK in the rotation with Reynaldo Lopez,he looked good today.

Gavin Shit anyone.

It was a no brainer to run Robert. Abreu is a double play in a baseball uniform. TLR had been putting runners in motion ahead of Abreu to avoid the DP, but must have been sleep this time.

Better Sousa than Banks or Burr.

Even Benetti is getting into the action commenting why do the Sox have the fewest pinch hitting in the majors at five and the Diamondbacks backs have had 49 pinch hitters. And that TLR doesn’t like to pinch hit players while on their “rest” days. How many times we have seen our resting sluggers grabbing bench late in close games, and TLR letting the scrubs hit in game situations, our Chuck has also questioned TLR moves as well. And these are Sox employees. TLR has to go and soon.

Low energy, no accountability manager. Bad coaching. TLR is ruining this season for the Sox.

Give some take signs to our less disciplined hitters. Offer bonus/perks for every walk taken.

At least TLR Learnt his lesson of the many Abreu DP balls last season, and he is running ahead of Abreu whenever feasible.

Maybe TLR should give a take sign once in a while…