Game Thread 4/27: Sawks @ Sox, 7:10pm, The U

[Kyyle23]

Turning point of this game was AJ's early double not going out of the park...

 

LMAO Wat?!!

 

The turning point in the game was a first inning double not being a homerun? It wasn't the sixth inning when Danks loaded the bases with a 3-2 lead and promptly gave up a double to MacDonald? So the Sox should have lost 10-4 instead of 10-3? Lol

[jeffro2525]

LMAO Wat?!!

 

The turning point in the game was a first inning double not being a homerun? It wasn't the sixth inning when Danks loaded the bases with a 3-2 lead and promptly gave up a double to MacDonald? So the Sox should have lost 10-4 instead of 10-3? Lol

 

I actually agree that AJ's double not leaving the yard as a huge turning point. There is a big difference between taking a 3-0 early lead and a 1-0 lead. Who knows how the game goes momentum-wise if the Sox apply maximum pressure there in that first inning.

 

The double went from a momentum-builder to a momentum-killer after Rios went up and stranded two guys with an awful swing and pop up to first.

[greg775]

So Rios looks like a completely different player the last two games. Jamming himself with everything and showing no patience at the plate.

 

There was a ton of overreaction about his getting off to a good start.

He actually played like he's supposed to play for a bit.

 

[caulfield12]

Of COURSE, the McDonald hit killed us, especially with 2 outs.

 

But the entire tenor of the entire game changes if we take a 3-0 lead early. We can argue about it, it can't be proven, it's just one of those things you feel in your gut from having watched and listened to hundreds of baseball games in a lifetime.

[greg775]

Of COURSE, the McDonald hit killed us, especially with 2 outs.

 

But the entire tenor of the entire game changes if we take a 3-0 lead early. We can argue about it, it can't be proven, it's just one of those things you feel in your gut from having watched and listened to hundreds of baseball games in a lifetime.

 

I wonder if it's just a Sox thing where we always point to little things like that as ruining a whole game.

Not picking on you. It's something that is done all the time. Or like last year blaming Pierre's drops and Thornton's implosions as reasons the whole season was toast ... something that happened in April.

Is this a Chicago thing? Don't good teams just win?

Edited April 28, 2012 by greg775

[Marty34]

When you hand Danks $65M in the offseason he has to outpitch Daniel Bard.

[Kyyle23]

Of COURSE, the McDonald hit killed us, especially with 2 outs.

 

But the entire tenor of the entire game changes if we take a 3-0 lead early. We can argue about it, it can't be proven, it's just one of those things you feel in your gut from having watched and listened to hundreds of baseball games in a lifetime.

 

I don't believe there is an argument at all. Your opinion is a 3 run lead in the first inning would have mattered against what this offense did against Danks. Fine, take 3 runs in that first inning, it doesn't matter, the Sox still lose by 5 tonite.

 

Homerun or not, Danks was awful tonite. AJs at bat wouldn't have changed that

[caulfield12]

I don't believe there is an argument at all. Your opinion is a 3 run lead in the first inning would have mattered against what this offense did against Danks. Fine, take 3 runs in that first inning, it doesn't matter, the Sox still lose by 5 tonite.

 

Homerun or not, Danks was awful tonite. AJs at bat wouldn't have changed that

 

 

If you're always going to go under the assumption that everything after that point would have transpired exactly the same as it did, when then there's simply no way of having a discussion.

 

Let's say a golfer has a 4 shot lead with at Amen Corner on a Sunday and he quadruple bogeys.

 

You can't say the rest of his round would have had the same exact result had he laid up for a bogey instead of carding a quadruple bogey and losing the entire lead on one whole.

 

Pitchers feel a lot more stress and pitch differently with a 3-0 lead as opposed to a 1-0 lead.

 

They make different pitches, and have the luxury of not having to be so careful with their pitches...which, in Danks' case, always leads to elevated pitch counts and numerous walks.

 

 

Baseball is and always has been a game of momentum.

 

We've gone from on top of the world and playing well twice this season to losing four in a row or 5/6.

 

We could have easily beaten Boston had we played them last week...but when they started to get their confidence against Minnesota, Bard and Aceves put together a momentum-changing relief appearance and they've been on a tear ever since.

 

They lose that first game against the Twins and they're a completely different team coming into Chicago.

 

 

We desperately NEEDED that 3 run lead in the first inning. When we didn't get it, you just had a feeling with Danks pitching...."Oh, no, here we go again. That lead will never stand up." And it didn't. If we can feel that as fans, don't you think it can also adversely affect the players on the field as well?

 

 

 

In 2005 or 2008 or whatever year it was, if Grady Sizemore didn't drop that ball in the afternoon sun against the Royals on the next to last Sunday, the entire following week would have played out quite differently.