QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jul 2, 2008 -> 09:39 AM)
Is Ozzie's plan of attack automatically to always sit back and hope for a home run, no matter who is up? This situation has come up so many times recently and it baffles me why we aren't doing some fundamental things.
Last night, I think it was 6th inning - JD up with 1st and 2nd nobody out - and then GIDPs. There has to be a better plan of attack for this situation with our atrocious RISP batting average.
The Sox are actually 3rd in baseball with RISP behind Minnesota and Cubs. We are hitting .284
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/aggreg...ng&type=reg
It is when there are 2 outs that we struggle. We are only hitting .207 and ranked 27th.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/aggreg...ng&type=reg
Another reason why the Twins will probably eventually fall off:
They are currently hitting .280 with runners in scoring position and 2 outs and hitting .313 overall with runners in scoring position. With the small margin of difference between RA and RS (lots of close games), I would assume they will start to lose a lot more games once they get fewer hits with RISP.