World Series thread

[intlzncster]

Really hoping Kinsler’s poor play yesterday means he considers moving Betts to 2B. We need Benintendi in the lineup.

Kinsler played that whole game like he was hung over as hell.

Need as many bats in there as possible. Last night proved that. Make no mistake, defensive faux pas aside, it was the offense that lost the Sox that game.

 

[HooperScooper]

Idk for sure but it looked like Xander was hurting last night too. Anybody know?

Sox position guys are banged up with Nunez, JD, and what I believe to be Xander.

Yup. Got hurt on the play when a Dodger slid into 2nd when he was taking the throw and then threw to first. I don't know why he was on the front side of the bag instead of the back side when he took the throw. That's the reason he got hurt. I hope he's O.K. Can't have another 0-28 from the first 4 guys in the order.

 

[Waquoit]

Sox have been good all year at bouncing back after tough beats.

 

[HooperScooper]

Really hoping Kinsler’s poor play yesterday means he considers moving Betts to 2B. We need Benintendi in the lineup.

Benintendi and Holt playing but JBJ sits. Line up tonight:

CF Betts
LF Benintendi
1B Pearce
RF Martinez
SS Bogaerts
3B Nunez
2B Holt
C Vazquez
P Rodriguez

Hopefully this line up does better than last night's.

 

[tentoes4rings]

Yup. Got hurt on the play when a Dodger slid into 2nd when he was taking the throw and then threw to first. I don't know why he was on the front side of the bag instead of the back side when he took the throw. That's the reason he got hurt. I hope he's O.K. Can't have another 0-28 from the first 4 guys in the order.

Agreed but part of that 0-28 was Eovaldi, Kinsler hitting 3,4 for 6 innings. Cora needs to become more adept at double switches because that was brutal.

 

[HooperScooper]

Roberts finally wises up and doesn't go with the all righty line up. Bellinger and Muncy starting.

Freese 1B
Muncy 2B
Turner 3B
Machado SS
Bellinger CF
Puig RF
Taylor LF
Barnes C
Hill P

 

[TitleTown]

The Red Sox won't touch Hill tonight and Rodriguez will get hammered by a rejuvenated Dodgers team that is ready to break out! LA wins this one easily and goes on to win the series in 6.

 

[the Q]

Roberts finally wises up and doesn't go with the all righty line up. Bellinger and Muncy starting.

Freese 1B
Muncy 2B
Turner 3B
Machado SS
Bellinger CF
Puig RF
Taylor LF
Barnes C
Hill P

But it’s even worse defensively than the sloppy d they’ve already had.

La really needs to find a real cf this winter.

Muncy at 2b is interesting. He was ok there in a small sample size.

 

[intlzncster]

Yup. Got hurt on the play when a Dodger slid into 2nd when he was taking the throw and then threw to first. I don't know why he was on the front side of the bag instead of the back side when he took the throw. That's the reason he got hurt. I hope he's O.K. Can't have another 0-28 from the first 4 guys in the order.

That was really the story yesterday.

Benintendi and Holt playing but JBJ sits. Line up tonight:

CF Betts
LF Benintendi
1B Pearce
RF Martinez
SS Bogaerts
3B Nunez
2B Holt
C Vazquez
P Rodriguez

Hopefully this line up does better than last night's.

JBJ makes for a good replacement runner/batter/fielder late in the game.

Really interesting that Nunez is going tonight over Devers. Knee can't be that bad?

 

[intlzncster]

The Red Sox won't touch Hill tonight and Rodriguez will get hammered by a rejuvenated Dodgers team that is ready to break out! LA wins this one easily and goes on to win the series in 6.

lol

Given that a team who was down 2-0 wins the WS only 19% of the time....

And then winning 4 in a row to do it? I think not.

Again, I got any amount of money that this won't happen. Lemme know.

 

[superjohn]

That was really the story yesterday.




JBJ makes for a good replacement runner/batter/fielder late in the game.

Really interesting that Nunez is going tonight over Devers. Knee can't be that bad?

As an outsider I don't understand how you can ever keep Benintendi and Devers out of the lineup.

 

[intlzncster]

As an outsider I don't understand how you can ever keep Benintendi and Devers out of the lineup.

Beni absolutely. Ben should have been in there yesterday with Mookie at 2nd. Idk why Cora seems reticent to put Mook at the two. Simplest solution imo.


I get why they put Nunez in at times, because Devers is an awful defender at this stage of his career (he's only 22).

But Nunez has been hurt, and not really playing all that well in general, so I'd prefer the Sox try to out slug the Dodgers.

 

[the Q]

If Nunez can’t run (and he can’t or he would’ve scored easily on that hit last night) why is he on the roster? Lin is probsbly a better player right now simply by being a healthy runner and far superior defender.

 

[the Q]

Beni absolutely. Ben should have been in there yesterday with Mookie at 2nd. Idk why Cora seems reticent to put Mook at the two. Simplest solution imo.


I get why they put Nunez in at times, because Devers is an awful defender at this stage of his career (he's only 22).

But Nunez has been hurt, and not really playing all that well in general, so I'd prefer the Sox try to out slug the Dodgers.

He can’t field or hit either.

 

[intlzncster]

He can’t field or hit either.

It's hard to find a solid argument to start him at 3rd at this point. I would go with Devers at 3rd.

And imo, Mookie at 2nd with JBJ/Beni/JD outfield. Get your best players in there.

 

[the Q]

It's hard to find a solid argument to start him at 3rd at this point. I would go with Devers at 3rd.

And imo, Mookie at 2nd with JBJ/Beni/JD outfield. Get your best players in there.

Again. I don’t have much of an argument for him over a guy like Lin at this point other then he’s RH power, but he hasn’t hit since he crumpled into a pile in Houston last postseason

 

[the Q]

It's hard to find a solid argument to start him at 3rd at this point. I would go with Devers at 3rd.

And imo, Mookie at 2nd with JBJ/Beni/JD outfield. Get your best players in there.

The latter part of this post should’ve been a no brainer for Cora. That’s been his biggest mistake so far, if you wanna pick something

 

[intlzncster]

Again. I don’t have much of an argument for him over a guy like Lin at this point other then he’s RH power, but he hasn’t hit since he crumpled into a pile in Houston last postseason

idk much about Lin so can't really comment on that one.

 

[intlzncster]

Alex Cora said that the only pitchers that are not available out of the bullpen tonight are Nathan Eovaldi and Chris Sale. Everybody else is available.

 

[intlzncster]

Nice quote from Dave Roberts on Eovaldi:

"I appreciate everything about what he did last night. I'm on the other side but I'm a baseball fan, I'm a sports fan. And when you see people like that perform at the highest level and to stay focused, appreciating that that was three out of four for him, to go 90-plus pitches, hold his stuff, use his mix, and take three at-bats I think last night and still keep going and give his team a chance to win, those are moments that don't come by very often. I think one of our players mentioned it, in recent memory, what Bumgarner did in the World Series. And obviously you can talk about Sandy Koufax, who was there last night, and guys like that who did it more often as far as kind of pitching three games. But in recent times it just doesn't happen. And so it was pretty special."

 

[mauconnfan]

He can’t field or hit either.

Who can’t Nunez? He had a couple hits last night and I seem to recall a rather large 3 run homer?

 

[HuskyHawk]

Nice quote from Dave Roberts on Eovaldi:

"I appreciate everything about what he did last night. I'm on the other side but I'm a baseball fan, I'm a sports fan. And when you see people like that perform at the highest level and to stay focused, appreciating that that was three out of four for him, to go 90-plus pitches, hold his stuff, use his mix, and take three at-bats I think last night and still keep going and give his team a chance to win, those are moments that don't come by very often. I think one of our players mentioned it, in recent memory, what Bumgarner did in the World Series. And obviously you can talk about Sandy Koufax, who was there last night, and guys like that who did it more often as far as kind of pitching three games. But in recent times it just doesn't happen. And so it was pretty special."

All class. While I think Boston will win this, I really wish Eovaldi wasn’t a pending free agent. He’s been better than ever.

That said, in my view it was a mistake by Cora to use ERod early. I would have saved Eovaldi to start tonight and saved Rodriguez for long relief last night.

 

[intlzncster]

That said, in my view it was a mistake by Cora to use ERod early. I would have saved Eovaldi to start tonight and saved Rodriguez for long relief last night.

It's easy to see in retrospect, but nobody was planning on an 18 inning affair. There's only so much you can do in the heat of the moment. He didn't want to use Eo because he wanted to start him.

 

[Kemba'sYogurt]

With the sentiment of starting Mookie at 2nd up for discussion prior to the series moving to LA, I wonder how much the Machado slides in to 2nd affected the decision. Spiked Pedroia last year sparking a fight and a couple suspensions. Machado even had a dirty slide in the NLCS grabbing Orlando Arcia's leg. Aside from Machado, even with Max Muncy "oversliding" the bag last night into Holt on a double play ball.

 

[the Q]

I have a new reason to hate NL rules: it means kinsler will probably get off the bench again this series.

 

[the Q]

It's easy to see in retrospect, but nobody was planning on an 18 inning affair. There's only so much you can do in the heat of the moment. He didn't want to use Eo because he wanted to start him.

People don’t seem to understand that no one in the history of baseball had ever been in Cora’s shoes before.

 

[the Q]

Come on eddy.....that’s just pathetic effort

 

[Marat]

Come on eddy.....that’s just pathetic effort

He didn't want to be on the bases.

 

[HuskyHawk]

It's easy to see in retrospect, but nobody was planning on an 18 inning affair. There's only so much you can do in the heat of the moment. He didn't want to use Eo because he wanted to start him.

It’s always a mistake. There are other guys who can get those outs. You never bring in your long relief guy and have him get one out. That’s just dumb.

 

[tentoes4rings]

The way Hill is dealing we need ERod to keep it even for a couple more innings and hope we can get to their pen.