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Guardians win in extras.

Grandal has been hitting the ball better these last few games.

Grandal homer showed TLR the importance to keep the game 1-0 and not bring Ruiz in when you have ReyLo and Graveman available. Another unforced error of not using your best resources in a critical game situation.

Total managerial incompetence.

WTF is he in this critical one run game late? This is on TLR again. What’s waste of another Cease masterpiece.

Lack of clutch hitting, lack of power and terrible bullpen management by TLR are the main culprits.

Unbelievable. Where is RayLo and Graveman? Ruiz has been terrible in high leverage situations. TLR is so bad is risible. No sign of urgency or desperation. Fire this geezer please. Why is Ruiz is still in the game?. Shades of Lambert yesterday.

Because he is half asleep all the time, and there is no accountability or consequences. This whole TLR debacle is a major unforced error by JR.

Robert not hustling on bobbled ground ball cost us big time. Stoney called him out as unacceptable. I agree. I would have like Sheets playing today against the righty instead of Vaughn. Sheets has been hitting the ball well lately. If you are hitting on this team,you need to play.

And mostly meaningless in importance.

Another inning with man on third and less than 2 outs and fail to score. Yoan strikes out and Harrison swings at a ball over his head and pops up. Maybe we should have tried a squeeze with Yoan. This is no playoff team.

Not scoring with the bases loaded and no outs with the heart of your order up is unacceptable, First, bad base running by Sevy not scoring from second on a base hit. Then Eloy and Abreu both strike out. Grandal grounds out. Abreu a major bust with RISP in this series. Sox a failure with the bases loaded once again. Everyone trying to hit a grand slam instead of making contact. We are sucking once again.

And our hitters 5-9 are mediocre at best.

Ground balls = no fireworks. ?

This hurts even more when you play at the 3 rd easiest park to hit homers , GRF, and we have a losing record there because we get out homered in most games. Roster was not properly constructed for GRF with many ground ball hitters and not enough consistent home run hitters.

TLR has killed this season. He has drained all energy from the team and the fans. No sense of urgency or desperation. Terrible decisions every game. There was a closeup shot of the Sox dugout tonight and it looked like a funeral. Very sad. We lost this game after leading 3-1 late without ReyLo, Kelly, Graveman or Hendriks pitching.

Fair enough, but he was left in too long allowing 4 runs.

Still we need relievers capable to pitch two days in a row in a pennant race. This Lambert 8 th inning is an unacceptable nightmare. TLR threw the white surrender flag in a 4-3 game.

Royals embarrassing the Sox tonight. Matheny out managing TLR by a mile. Royals much hungrier than the Sox, also mentioned by Karros. We need to use our best players in these close games.

Where were ReyLo, Kelly, Graveman and Hendriks all strike out pitchers? We bring in Lambert instead. TLR should resign tonight. We need more energy and urgency in our manager. TLR is not the one.

Yes it was Karros. He said Sox 26 th out of 30 teams in homers. He pretty much wrote off the Sox. Said Sox are the worst defensive team in the AL.. He also said the Sox were underestimating a hungry Royals team coming into this series.

Break given right back by TLR.

To face three lefties in a game situation like tonight. TLR is so incompetent. It is pitiful.

We are in a pennant race and we need to go all out. Relievers had to be up starting the 6 th. Need to protect the lead in this game. TLR is too formulaic, he has relievers assigned to innings. And don’t want to deviate. Diekmann had to come in for the lefty batters. No urgency.

They should have had a reliever up for Salvy. Didn’t get the memo to not let Perez beat us.