hankchifan

Tatis Jr, Semien, Madrigal. Is anybody being held accountable?

The main problem with the Kimbrel trade is that we paid too much, and we did not actually need him. We needed a good RF instead. We could have won just as easy without Kimbrel. We already had Kopech, Bummer, Hendriks, Tepera, Crochet... this will turn out to be one of the worse Sox trades ever.

Right on. Even Grandal at first would have made that play. We would not have had Goodwin at bat making the last out. Kimbrel has been hurt by hitting batters and walks. Can’t afford that in late close games. Sox should also look at how the Tigers and Rangers had runners in motion against the Sox, which tonight led to the winning run. Need to do more of that.

Stoney was suggesting walking the lefty Castro to get to the righty Haack which had not looked good tonight. Kimbrel has been a bust. Can we still get a refund?

Sheets needs to let that ball go to Cesar. Ruiz was on the bag to take any throw to first,

Great to see TA running the bases and scoring. I wonder if he is a soccer fan, and has heard of that other famous #7 Cristiano Ronaldo, better known as CR7. Tim is also our star and we should be calling him TA7.

Sox finally realizing that Goodwin is our worse defensive outfielder, playing Eloy and Sheets in the OF ahead of him.

Cleveland is pretty much done. HFA is the main goal now. Sox are 49-27 at home but one game below .500 (36-37) on the road. Get the picture.

It’s ovah! KC breaks 11game losing streak to the Indians., winning 7-2. Sox magic number down 1.

KC leading Indians 7-0. Salvy Perez hit a 2 run bomb. Breaking the record for homers by a catcher (46). Looks like Sox magic number will go down one after this game.

Problem is that we will not be facing any of those teams in the playoffs.

Nice surprise. He closes the game successfully.

Mike Wright is back for the 9 th.

Glad Wright was not pitching at GRF today. That bomb would have been a 3 run homer.

Why is Wright still on this team? He is terrible. I can’t see him being on the playoff roster.

You are right.Leury should have tried to steal earlier.

No doubt. Sheets bat is more valuable, and defensively he can’t be worse than Goodwin who is bad.

With Robert not in the lineup even more.

at least Sheets was in motion and we avoided the double play. Need to put more runners in motion. Sox have the third highest ground ball rate in the majors.

He is their Goodwin defensively.

Anderson needed to make contact and get the runner over to 3 rd. Two Ks in the inning did not help.

No Robert or Eloy, but no Goodwin either. Still, looks a bit better than our usual Sunday lineup.

I believe we should have counted down where we stood behind Houston for HFA on a daily basis, instead of Worrying so much about Cleveland. I think not getting much pressure from Cleveland made us take the foot off the pedal. Would not have been the case with Houston.

Respect your opinion and hope you are right. However IMO Tony is no longer performing at a HOF manager level. We are in a different era now.

We may pay a big prize for being so non chalant. about HFA, prioritizing rest/Sunday lineups over getting HFA. Sox have the best home record in the league. We may be over doing the resting thing, particularly if it results in the Sox not going beyond the first series because of not having HFA.