Last Night's Loss per Baseball Prospectus

[SadChiSoxFanOptimist]

In this article, Joe Sheehan of BP says the game was lost in the 7th by poor approaches at the plate by AJ, Cintron and BA, against Villone who was on the rocks.

 

Kinda makes one wonder why a Greg Walker wouldn't be advising his hitters to be more patient.

 

Good reading for Sox Talkers.

[Felix]

In this article, Joe Sheehan of BP says the game was lost in the 7th by poor approaches at the plate by AJ, Cintron and BA, against Villone who was on the rocks.

Is this a surprise? I thought it was pretty obvious, and I know AJ was swinging for the fences.

[gosox41]

In this article, Joe Sheehan of BP says the game was lost in the 7th by poor approaches at the plate by AJ, Cintron and BA, against Villone who was on the rocks.

 

Kinda makes one wonder why a Greg Walker wouldn't be advising his hitters to be more patient.

 

Good reading for Sox Talkers.

 

 

I've been disappointed all year with the Sox inability to hit sacrifice flies. It seems like there's been a lot more DP's and pop outs with the bases loaded this year.

 

 

Bob

[qwerty]

I've been disappointed all year with the Sox inability to hit sacrifice flies. It seems like there's been a lot more DP's and pop outs with the bases loaded this year.

Bob

 

The sox are second in baseball with 42 sacrafice flies this year...

[YASNY]

The sox are second in baseball with 42 sacrafice flies this year...

 

Stats are so overrated.

[Dam8610]

He wrote an article about something that would've been obvious to anyone who has ever watched baseball before and saw the 7th inning last night?

[VAfan]

Of course AJ blew it by swinging at all. Villone had thrown Crede 4 straight balls, and then threw 4 straight balls to AJ. A walk there would have scored at least two, b/c Anderson's fly would have been with 1 out, not 2, and added a run.

 

But, as I wrote elsewhere, I took encouragement from this game. Down 7-0 in the 7th inning. All the talk was about the great Yankees and Randy Johnson going for a no-hitter. And they ended up having to use Mariano in the 8th inning in a desperate attempt to hang on to a 1-run victory.

 

I can live with a single loss as long as it shows tenacity and fight. It clearly carried over into last night's 5-4 victory, in which Javier Vazquez battled and battled through 5 innings, somehow only giving up 2 runs. The "turnips" in our lineup drove in 3 runs and scored twice, including manufacturing the winning run with two outs and nobody on. And the bullpen came through for four innings, stranding more Yanks in scoring position.

 

Let's see how we play tonight. Contreras v. Verlander. We need the A-game from Jose from here until the end of the season.

 

GO WHITE SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[elrockinMT]

He wrote an article about something that would've been obvious to anyone who has ever watched baseball before and saw the 7th inning last night?

 

 

Let me add this to that:

 

Obvious to all Sox fans who have watched this same thing happen time after time. We need a fly ball to score a runner from third with one out and all we get is a strike out or pop up. It is amazing that on the other hand we hear that the Sox are leading the league in hitting with runners in scoring position. We must have some real exceptional hitters doing that because we have a few others that are pits when we need the big hit. Of course it might be that we are putting lots of runners on-more than any other team-but just not always getting the big hit. We are #1 for runs scored.

[Milkman delivers]

Is there a way to find out how many times we've loaded the bases and scored no runs (not even with no outs, just any time we've loaded the bases and got nothing to show for it)?