hankchifan

Sox at full strength is an exciting, more dynamic team. Without the injuries, Sox could have had the best record in the AL.

Nasty Boys part 2

He put two on but got out Altuve and Brantley who both pinched hit,, contrary to the Sox who never pinched hit with our resting stars.

Best home record in the AL by far and we kept punting games.

Great game for the Sox tonight. They are running on all cylinders. Showed what they can do with the roster at full strength. Don’t stop now boys.

Jason Castro a .213 hitting catcher hit a 3 run homer for the Astros in the dreaded 8 th inning.

He already pitched tonight for Detroit. Changed his name to Brian Garcia.

Brian Garcia is theTigers version of Mike Wright.

I didn’t mean to derail the thread to soccer. My point is that we have our own CR7 star in TA7.

CR7 is still the best and highest scoring soccer player in the world. Who is better? Regardless, TA7 is another star using the same number. On TLR, will need to agree to disagree on some of the takes. If we go beyond the first series I will gladly eat some crow with the TLR takes.

Is Bummer not available?

TA7 4 hits doing his best CR7 4 goal games imitation.. (Cristiano Ronaldo best soccer player in the world better known as CR7).

TLR had no sense of urgency or killer instinct to go for HFA. Many games when we were down 1 in the 9th he never pinched hit with one of our “resting” stars and let scrubs like Mendick hit. TLR overdid the resting mode and also shut down any running game. His bullpen management left a lot to be desired.

Not with Crochet on the mound, not looking at the runners.

Wish we did not giveaway several games in the 10 th inning with Hendriks running, bad bullpen management, failure to move runners over to third,lack of clutch hitting, etc, we will end so close to HFA....

So happy that I don’t have to worry anymore about Mike Wright coming in relief.

I am glad he has/was finally unleashed. Sox are finally playing playoff baseball. Wished they would have started playing this way earlier to go for HFA. But it is what it is.

2 great slides and excellent base running from TA7.

But Yoan is a switch hitter?.

Seems to me that Sheets is a more dangerous hitter than Leury. Sheets has been hitting the long ball lately as well. He would have come up with the bases loaded and with 2 on base second time around. One swing of the bat and Sox get 4 runs and/or 3 runs.

Why is Leury hitting ahead of Sheets? Leury has left 5 on base as well.

5 LOB/3 RISP on 2 at bats so far.

Not the Moncada at bat though. Weak swings. Left them loaded.

In my view, it does not matter either way. Goodwin should not be in our team in 2022. He should be upgraded. He is not a major league outfielder.

We punted too many games. I think we over did the resting. The HFA is big for the Sox with the best home record in the AL and a very mediocre away record.