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Tim ,Eloy, Santos, Middleton, Robert !

Uno mas ...

Got my wish courtesy of BHAM !

Nice game Yas outside of your questionable defense.

Nice inning Graveman. Now need some bottom of the order magic.

WTG Eloy !

Have a game TA.

Yes !!

If Vaughn had the corner of the bag instead of his foot right in the middle of the base perhaps that play at 1st is an out. When you are as short as he is every inch counts towards the ball .

Yup that .900 OPS and .600 slugging and 3rd on the team in RBIs in about half the AB's of the guys ahead of him screams he's been figured out even if he hasn't done much lately. 12 of his 15 hits are either doubles or HR's. I'll take a .225 BA and times where he doesn't look so good to have his productive bat in there when the next closest guy in slugging is Grandal at .437.

Yup and sometimes fly balls go right over your glove. Game of inches, still has nothing to do with his defense. He tried , couldn't get to where he needed to be fast enough. If he's playing 6 inches to his left or 6 inches back he might get it. Nick Gordon bombs Cease 4-3.

I meant attendance right here in the game thread . Only 13 when I last looked. ?

Maybe Moncada gets it maybe not. It's certainly not a given but nothing wrong with Jakes defense or effort on that. It was double plain and simple.

Where's Caulfield to talk about attendance in the game thread ?

Need more runs. Get greedy !

Nice job Dylan

That 3 run HR by Robert was just beautiful,man !

Haseley was up and he popped up. I'm pretty sure Alberto was next and grounded out. I'm sure he did like the match up . Haseley probably was facing a RHP ( that's where my memory fails me) and Alberto being RH would be facing a RH so you still also bring up a good point. So if Robert steals they walk Haseley and face Alberto with bases loaded 1 out.

I am not forgetting it's easier now to steal bases. It's why I was looking for speedy players in the off season. I made a point of selecting players with speed, defense, power and LHH to take advantage of all the new rules. Also there are pick off attempts that can come from a catcher so even if a 1st baseman is playing in with the drawn in infield he can always back up and take a throw from the catcher. I agree he should have stolen 2nd . Grifol ran his guys a lot in ST and maybe even in the earlier part of the season and the Sox did very well. The Sox are still 2nd in baseball in SB success percentage at 90.5% You also said this "The Dodgers get this and lead the major with 143 stolen bases. Pedro obviously doesn't get this and we are 27th with 78." I ignored it the 1st time but those are not SB stats they are Walk stats (bases on balls). The actual league leader in SB is the Pirates with 42, a far cry from 143. The Sox are 16th with 19 . I think most of those came fairly early. Since the 10 game losing streak I think he's just been trying to save outs and not give them away . Also Anderson got injured and he was leading the team with 5. Robert only has 1 . Not making excuses for him. I love me some steals and hit and runs but we haven't been using those weapons very much lately mainly because of not wanting to run ourselves into DP's maybe. I think maybe a red light should've gone off in your head thinking the league leaders in team steals was 143 with only 30 games or so played so far or being 27th with 78 an average of more than 2 steals a game.

Despite Robert being able to walk to 2nd and that Billy would've come home on any tag attempt or throw through at 2nd base for the winning run, the only reason I can think of for not running Robert was that there was still only 1 out. I know him running and making it to 2nd would eliminate the GB DP .I don't know if the 1st baseman was holding him on or not but a pick off there would've been bad. Can't get picked off there under any circumstances or else you negate the chance for a SF or a make contact run. The infield would then play back instead of in with 2 outs. Robert not running also eliminates Hamilton getting picked off 3rd on a fake throw to 2nd base by the catcher and Billy perhaps straying too far off 3rd. I think a bench coach in that situation could only suggest Robert stealing 2nd but if Pedro was playing it ultra conservatively it wasn't a bonehead move. It was just very conservative and he counted on Haseley not hitting into a DP or hitting a long enough fly ball to get Hamilton home. Of course he also could've tried a suicide or safety squeeze there too. Lot's of ways to play that situation. No idea if Haseley is a competent bunter . Most players aren't asked to be particularly good at that skill anymore.

Dare to Dream ( of winning a series) . Baby steps.

Brooks Baldwin (LF ,SH, 22, 12th rd pick in 2022 draft) had a good day ,3 hits , HR, Double, 5 RBI, Stolen Base

Dash 15-5 record is very nice.

He'd have to get quite a few save opportunities and convert on most of them while the Sox play .500 or less ball for him to be traded. Seems doable. However I am not hoping for much from Hendriks except that he remain healthy for many many years.

I think you capitalized the wrong word. DOGGED would've been better since Hamilton made his 2023 Sox debut on Dog Day !