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I should add quality start by Lynn and 3 scoreless from Middleton, Bummer and Kelly. BP 19.2 consecutive scoreless innings !!

Robert HR, Benintendi 2 RBI Romy 3-3 2 RBI and a triple ! Sox win 5-2 and 1st sweep of the season.

Yoan trotting to 1st base SMH.

10D

Thank you !

Insurance please.

Nice job Midway !

That giving the safe sign from runners shouldn't be a thing with replay. No thinking ,just put your head down and run through the base instead of let me throw my arms up in the safe sign.

Way to go Romeo !

I thought the wind was blowing in mostly or left to right ? Looked straight in when the KC broadcast showed the flags before the Robert HR . I was thinking the wind would knock it down.

Tell the Dodgers that.

Hey Benintendi and Burger 1 -2. I just suggested that yesterday in the move TA down in the order thread .

Oh no you mentioned the S word. The Sox are doomed ! ?

If I'm not mistaken Colas has taken a walk in 3 straight games. Maybe he's making progress. That's what I've been waiting to see. He can hit with his eyes closed in AAA but he has to take more pitches, be more selective and take his walks.

I tend to agree. The likely scenario is that it doesn't matter. However if you truly want to climb out of the big hole you dug yourself into then you must explore every option that could work to your advantage. It's not smart to keep giving TA the most AB's on the team. More about that later. I was also thinking Yoan was a good guy to replace TA at the top but Yoan is actually swinging the bat and not looking at as many pitches. I wouldn't want him to start looking at more pitches just because he's leading off now. Unfortunately his BB% is at a career low 3%. He cannot seem to find a fine line between being a good hitter while still getting the 8%+ BB% However, Benintendi's BB% is 7.9 and he's a positive base runner while Yoan is not. Yoan's slugging is also higher but he hasn't done well with RISP but he has done very well leading off an inning and hitting when there is 1 out. So I actually like the order Benintendi 1, Yoan 2 , but only against a RHP. We're not even sure yet if Yoan can bat RH. I don't think he has hit RH yet since he came back . Benintendi is also fine against a LHP but then I'd put Burger 2nd. AFter that just mix and match depending on the handedness of the pitchers so do what you can to get Moncada, Sheets,Grandal in there against RHP. Burger is now hitting RHP pretty well. However he's been hot at home but not on the road. He's also killing it while playing DH but not when he plays the field ( a very respectable .831 OPS but BA and OBP way down). So just keep Burger at DH all the time and perhaps he will start hitting better on the road. Of course this will present a problem when Eloy gets back. Unfortunately we have to rely on a small sample size for most of this. In the last 6 games since he got off the IL he's hit .500 which coincides with being at home and not playing 3rd base except the 1 game Moncada was out of the lineup because a LHP was on the mound May 18th against Logan Allen. That was the worse game Burger has had in the 6 games (1for4) and Grifol batted him 4th. While the sample size is very small as to not draw too many conclusions the recent data shows that perhaps when you move Burger into the middle of the lineup make sure he's at home and playing DH. I mean eventually we'll have to see if he can hit on the road as the DH. But in those 6 game his OPS is right around 1.300 with 1 double, 1 triple and 3 HR. A new manager comes in and says he supports sabremetrics and data analysis but you then have to start thinking small sample sizes do make a difference because of health road vs home statistics , RH or LH pitcher and ride hot streaks. I wouldn't break it down much more than that and get into stuff about which position in the lineup you hit best at. Lineups should be constantly changing based on a few key factors and sticking guys into permanent lineup spots is just plain stubbornness . I'd consider all of this temporary until TA shows he's healthy and can hit some fly balls. His sprint speed is 40% and that's just not TA . He's babying his leg. It's senseless to continue to lead him off not just from a statistical standpoint but also from a health standpoint. His Average Launch Angle is -0.1 . That is not a typo. You can no longer afford to give guys the benefit of the doubt when they aren't producing just because of his name. You have to take advantage of everything you can do for better offensive production. If you don't you get what you deserve to keep losing.

I thought they had back to back series wins like you said earlier but I thought "hey these are professionals" I'll go with what they said over what I thought.

I'm just going by what the post game show said so if it's wrong blame them !

1st back to back series wins. 11-8 over their last 19 (.579 win percent)

It's there.

Gio pitches well enough. Burger with a big double with the bases loaded to drive in 3 . Sox now 1 game over .500 against the Central. Lopez gets the Sox out of a big jam. Kelly continues to look great and Graveman finishes it off with a perfect 9th.

You and Mr. Pick to Click are probably the only 2 that made a pick

Woo ! The Joker is smokin'.

TA not good. That pitch was center cut. GB rate so high.

Lopey ! Sox dodge another bullet.

And Vaughn was hitting .417 with RISP before that K.