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HuskyHawk said:
The constant stranding of RISP, especially with bases loaded and no or 1 out, is maddending. That said, two big wins for the Sox. They need it because Cleveland is playing incredible baseball. 10 wins in a row now. They are only one game behind Detroit and have tied Houston in the Wild Card. Boston is up 1 game on both of them. Yanks are now within 2 of the Jays and Houston is within 2 of Seattle. MLB has to be thrilled with this penant race. Nobody in the AL has clinched anything. 4 spots are taken in the NL including all the division winners.

Huge start from Harrison last night. He's looking like a really nice young pitcher. Need Connor Early to be good today, but Tampa's starter is meh, so hopefully the offense can get untracked. He's RH so Abreu should be back today. Keep winning.
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Nice to see Yoshida with hit in 9th along with dependable Story. Need good outing from Early since Chapman may not be available.
 
I am not one of the "fire Cora" people. I am now all in on firing the third base coach. He seems to get it wrong almost every time. This team is giving away far too many outs on the basepaths. That absolutely should have been a win yesterday.
 
NEforceUConn said:
What a great W last night. Hoping to emulate tonight. Go Sox!
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Need tonight just as much as they needed it last night!

I was listening on the radio on the way back from soccer practice when the Sox nearly blew scoring their first run. Yoshida doubles with no one out. Strike out, ground out to short. How is a professional Major League hitter not able to hit the ball to the right side? Luckily Lowe (who is hardly hitting his weight) was able to bail Romy and Rafaela out.
 
Husky25 said:
Need tonight just as much as they needed it last night!

I was listening on the radio on the way back from soccer practice when the Sox nearly blew scoring their first run. Yoshida doubles with no one out. Strike out, ground out to short. How is a professional Major League hitter not able to hit the ball to the right side? Luckily Lowe (who is hardly hitting his weight) was able to bail Romy and Rafaela out.
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Lowe credited Bregman was some adjustments to his swing. Looked better at the plate. Yoshida is quietly hitting 10 for his last 24. No power, but he's hitting well. Abreu in RF and Rafaella in center is elite defensively. Huge clutch double from Narv last night. Bullpen was stellar.

Another big game tonight, with the War Pig on the mound. Bats have to step up and for the love of God, can they please stop making outs on the basepaths?
 
How about that Crochet? I really like having a lefty ace. Tolle was less than impressive in the 9th last night, but he is young, super inexperienced, and projected to be a starter next season. He really can't be in a better position than learning from a similar type pitcher Crochet who also throws from the same side.

The 'Sox are now over their preseason win projection with 4 games to go, their magic number is 1, and they can clinch before 1st pitch tonight in Toronto if Houston loses out West this afternoon. After a three year drought, just making the playoffs is a success for Boston, particularly if Roman Anthony cannot make it back.

Recovery from an oblique is 4-6 weeks. He has just started week 4 (Sept. 3) and Breslow said he is not close to baseball activities.

That said, the Wild Card round is best of 3 and the Red Sox have the horses on the mound to get to the ALDS.
 
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Nice win by Boston in first game of WC. Crochet looked great retiring 17 straight batters. Chapman had to work but didn't give up a run with bases loaded and no outs in the ninth. Hats off to Cora for sticking with Yoshida even though he didn't start. Yoshida has been hot the past two weeks.

I love playoff baseball and watching games in the afternoon and early evening. Most games were close except for the Dodgers who hit 5 HRs against Cincy.
 
If Boston didn't win last night, I don't think they had chance to advance.
 
Husky25 said:
If Boston didn't win last night, I don't think they had chance to advance.
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I agree and I believe that since the wildcard become a best of three series, the winner of game 1 always wins the series. Of course that can change at any time. ESPN has NY favored at 59% today with Radon vs Bello. Crochet is a horse and he needed to win yesterday.
 
HCCForever said:
I agree and I believe that since the wildcard become a best of three series, the winner of game 1 always wins the series. Of course that can change at any time. ESPN has NY favored at 59% today with Radon vs Bello. Crochet is a horse and he needed to win yesterday.
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You're correct. Game 1 winner has won every series so far. I really hate the 2-1 format and I think it wildly favors the home team. No team should play a playoff series with the possibility of losing the series without a game at home.

I'm worried about a RH pitcher going tonight for Boston against that lineup, but Bello does keep the ball down. Yanks have lefty Rodon, which means the weaker Boston lineup, but they have roughed him up so far this year.
 
HuskyHawk said:
You're correct. Game 1 winner has won every series so far. I really hate the 2-1 format and I think it wildly favors the home team. No team should play a playoff series with the possibility of losing the series without a game at home.

I'm worried about a RH pitcher going tonight for Boston against that lineup, but Bello does keep the ball down. Yanks have lefty Rodon, which means the weaker Boston lineup, but they have roughed him up so far this year.
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So much for that. It's all about pitching in the playoffs and losing Giolito in late Sept. did no favors for the Sox (Niether did Bello only going 2.1 in game 2).
 
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Husky25 said:
So much for that. It's all about pitching in the playoffs and losing Giolito in late Sept. did no favors for the Sox (Niether did Bello only going 2.1 in game 2.1.).
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I hate losing to the Yanks.but Sox weren’t expected to do much in a best of five or seven with their lack of starters. I’m not as bummed as other years when they fail to advance.
 
Waquoit said:
Woulda won if they had Devers. But winning isn't as important as payroll flexibility.
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Think so? I have my doubts.

The Red Sox were barely treading water, if even doing that well, on June 15. They went 72-60, post trade and and made the playoffs. Devers also refused to play 1B when Casas went down.

The Giants were 10 games over .500 at the time of the trade and ended the season 81-81. Other than playing 1B when the Giants asked him to, there is virtually nothing Devers did better in his last 90 games than in the 1st 73. Further, compare that that to Roman Anthony, Devers' replacement in the lineup. In 19 less games, Anthony had only 4 less hits in 78 less ABs, more doubles, 32 less Ks, and better percentages in all three slash categories than Devers.

Offensively, Anthony's injury and subsequent absence was the backbreaker. By virtue of the tie breaker, The Red Sox held the top Wild Card spot and only 2.5 behind Toronto on September 2.
 
Husky25 said:
Think so? I have my doubts.

The Red Sox were barely treading water, if even doing that well, on June 15. They went 72-60, post trade and and made the playoffs. Devers also refused to play 1B when Casas went down.

The Giants were 10 games over .500 at the time of the trade and ended the season 81-81. Other than playing 1B when the Giants asked him to, there is virtually nothing Devers did better in his last 90 games than in the 1st 73. Further, compare that that to Roman Anthony, Devers' replacement in the lineup. In 19 less games, Anthony had only 4 less hits in 78 less ABs, more doubles, 32 less Ks, and better percentages in all three slash categories than Devers.

Offensively, Anthony's injury and subsequent absence was the backbreaker. By virtue of the tie breaker, The Red Sox held the top Wild Card spot and only 2.5 behind Toronto on September 2.
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I don't think they even make the playoffs if they keep Devers. The team clearly didn't work with him on it. Would have won this series with a healthy Anthony. By the end of the season we had no Casas, no Anthony, no Mayer and Bregman had been worn down. I don't see how he can opt out at this point. He's a very good player who is going to need the Sox to play Mayer at 3B quite often to keep him fresh.
 
For the Devers defenders, Breslow is taking a beating on social media. He's dry, robotic, and nowhere as charismatic as Theo, but I don't know what Boston fans wanted. The players on the field overachieved. Boston lost their offensive catalyst and #2 pitcher before the playoffs, but well after the trade deadline. Could he have gotten another #2-3 pitcher? Yes, but at what cost for a team that everyone knew was not quite there?

They should compete for a deep run next season and hopefully for as long as Crochet is healthy and wants to be here. As I see it, the field is pretty much set. The Sox will be in the market for a couple bench/platoon players, 1B, at least one starter, and bullpen help.

Pretty much like every other team.
 
Husky25 said:
For the Devers defenders, Breslow is taking a beating on social media. He's dry, robotic, and nowhere as charismatic as Theo, but I don't know what Boston fans wanted. The players on the field overachieved. Boston lost their offensive catalyst and #2 pitcher before the playoffs, but well after the trade deadline. Could he have gotten another #2-3 pitcher? Yes, but at what cost for a team that everyone knew was not quite there?

They should compete for a deep run next season and hopefully for as long as Crochet is healthy and wants to be here. As I see it, the field is pretty much set. The Sox will be in the market for a couple bench/platoon players, 1B, at least one starter, and bullpen help.

Pretty much like every other team.
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Honestly, I think TB dropping even futher below .500 as they were in 2024, and the Orioles winning 16 fewer games this year than they did in 2024 sorta propped up the Sox into a WC.

That said, Duran was a disaster in LF this series. Had he made that catch right in front of him in game 2, and Eaton simply followed the advice of third base coach Kyle Hudson (who was windmilling him home), there's a really good chance the Sox would've swept NY in the Bronx.

As it turned out, mental gaffes and physical errors plagued Boston and it was too much to overcome.
 
They had the series won with game two. A really bad job of them not doing the little things that would've gotten them that win.
If only Story hit that 400 foot line drive to a gap instead of straight away to the 408 sign.

Schittler and bad defense finished us in game 3. I thought Early threw really well and might be a nice number 3 in upcoming years.

In the end we somehow lost 75% of our pitching depth between Boston and Worcester to injury. Not to mention Casas, Anthony and Mayer. Need to figure a way to stay on the field.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I don't think they even make the playoffs if they keep Devers. The team clearly didn't work with him on it. Would have won this series with a healthy Anthony. By the end of the season we had no Casas, no Anthony, no Mayer and Bregman had been worn down. I don't see how he can opt out at this point. He's a very good player who is going to need the Sox to play Mayer at 3B quite often to keep him fresh.
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Injuries are a part of the game. Yankees had to play around no Gerrit Cole, Clarke Scmidt, and Jake Cousins all getting Tommy John surgery and no Jonathan Loaisiga. The better team won the series.
 
superjohn said:
Injuries are a part of the game. Yankees had to play around no Gerrit Cole, Clarke Scmidt, and Jake Cousins all getting Tommy John surgery and no Jonathan Loaisiga. The better team won the series.
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Which has nothing to do with Devers. Sox are very young, lots of talent but it hasn’t all matured yet. Couldn’t handle the injuries as well as an older, deeper team. It’s fine, I can’t complain because the future is so bright. Both teams have more talent than Toronto and yet they played better ball. Baseball is weird sometimes.
 

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