Ducksnort

When you don't take advantage of runners in scoring position, you don't win. Pitching is not getting it done, we knew they couldn't keep it up all year. The Sox need to score more runs and need to get creative, because whatever they are doing now is not working. Just like that Runner on 3rd 1 out. Can't get him in. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the pitching, but the situational hitting.

They have to make this a big inning. Have to work around the bad umpiring and bad breaks and just play.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 18, 2016 -> 08:49 PM) I think pitch trax is really helping us see that umpires are mostly awful at calling strikes. I wonder sometimes if pitch trax is even accurate

I will say what I said on Sunday, this is getting to be embarrassing.

If the Sox continue to not get runners in when they are on base, they are going to lose a ton of 1 and 2 run games, such as this one if they don't cash in here in the late innings.

Sox need to swing at everything up and watch everything low. Anything low is gonna be a groundout with his sinkers and curveballs. Those high changeups, like what Abreu hit, high sinkers and high fastballs are what they should be looking for in my opinion. Everything else, leave it be.

You can cancel the post game show. Need a couple more of those

QUOTE (bmags @ May 17, 2016 -> 08:41 PM) Wellp. Thanks for another unbearable game thread. Enjoy your chamber of tears everyone. Yeah it is kind of depressing reading these threads. People are bashing even on Benetti, when he was the announcer of the year for the first month lol.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ May 17, 2016 -> 08:33 PM) LOL of course he can't pitch around that error. Thanks Saladino. Good throw gets him It was a good throw...unfortunate that it hit the runner. He would have been out otherwise.

Rodon needs to throw a fastball first pitch every at bat right down the middle. He just cannot get ahead of hitters. It's very taxing working from behind all the time.

Carlos, attack. Quit trying to toy and attack. Get ahead in the count for Pete's sake.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 17, 2016 -> 08:20 PM) Amazed at how few people are at the game It's only the first inning, might fill up a bit more. Doubt it though.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ May 17, 2016 -> 10:00 AM) I'm blacked out. SON OF A b****. Blackouts are horrible. Yeah...mlb.tv sucks in that regard. I'm in Michigan so anytime they play Detroit I will be blacked out. It's been nice they haven't played them yet, but when they do, it will suck lol.

Nice 10 game homestand against not so great teams. I would be satisfied with 6-4, thrilled with anything better than that. I agree with these posts so far as well, it is time for Rodon to let his stuff do the talking rather than trying to ace those corners.

That's what happens when you don't score with runners on 2nd and 3rd with no one out.

This is really embarassing

This is pretty embarrassing

Hawk said we have a 12 game scoreless streak not a 12 game errorless streak lol

That was a big first pitch to Beltran

Sands on deck for melky

QUOTE (SonofaRoache @ May 14, 2016 -> 02:15 PM) Jackson and Abreu would have reached base had they just not swung. That slider is nasty but it's not a strike. Most nasty sliders aren't strikes, and on purpose. Hitters swing and miss at them. Easier to say they should just have laid off. Hard to actually do it

Man. I know these pitchers are tougher than the average pitcher, but these swings look kind of pathetic.

Guys, Betances is nasty and hard to hit. He is spot on with his pitches right now. Hitting those corners with the curve and blowing them away with the fastball.

I have a feeling someone on the Sox is gonna surprise us with a bomb

I think those curves should have been strikes to lawrie