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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 31, 2020 15:57:15 GMT -5
Game 35: Braves at Red Sox lineups and notesBy Andrew Mahoney Globe Staff,Updated August 31, 2020, 46 minutes ago After taking two out of three against the Washington Nationals, the Red Sox open a three-game series against the Braves tonight at Fenway Park. BRAVES (19-14): 1. Dansby Swanson (R) SS 2. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B 3. Marcell Ozuna (R) DH 4. Nick Markakis (L) LF 5. Austin Riley (R) 3B 6. Adam Duvall (R) RF 7. Johan Camargo (S) 2B 8. Tyler Flowers (R) C 9. Ender Inciarte (L) CF Pitching: LHP Max Fried (5-0, 1.35 ERA) RED SOX (12-22): 1. Alex Verdugo (L) RF 2. Christian Vazquez (R) C 3. Rafael Devers (L) 3B 4. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS 5. Michael Chavis (R) 1B 6. Bobby Dalbec (R) DH 7. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF 8. Jonathan Arauz (S) 2B 9. Jose Peraza (R) LF Pitching: RHP Colten Brewer (0-2, 4.57 ERA) Time: 7:30 p.m. TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7 Braves vs. Brewer: Travis d’Arnaud 1-1 Red Sox vs. Fried: José Peraza 2-3, Kevin Pillar 1-4, Kevin Plawecki 0-3, Alex Verdugo 1-1 Stat of the day: Rafael Devers is 11-for-21 in his last five games, including three doubles, three homers and eight RBI. Notes: Brewer has walked 12 and struck out 21 in 21⅔ innings this season. ... In his last 12 games, Xander Bogaerts is batting .370 with a 1.107 OPS (17-for-46, four walks, three doubles, four home runs, 11 RBI, seven runs scored). ... Devers has four extra-base hits and seven RBI in his last five games, and is 21-for-69 (.304) with 16 RBI in his last 16 games. ... Fried has allowed just 26 hits in 40 innings over seven starts, holding opponents to a .190 batting average. Song of the Day: Boomtown Rats- "I Don't Like Mondays" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc5jtW7tmT4
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 31, 2020 16:08:58 GMT -5
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Post by Kimmi on Aug 31, 2020 16:43:49 GMT -5
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 31, 2020 16:46:55 GMT -5
The Braves tonight
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 31, 2020 17:28:58 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 7m Darwinzon Hernandez on IL. Sprained SC joint. Not a serious issue, it's believed.
IF-OF Yairo Munoz, LHP Mike Kickham and RHP Robinson Leyer called up.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 31, 2020 17:40:00 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 11m Roenicke -- 'The last few days were really rough. It will be good to know what we have here.' #RedSox
Roenicke said Weber starts Tuesday, Wednesday is now TBD and Perez at the earliest on Thursday. #RedSox
Roenicke said Perez (blister) is pushed to Thursday at the earliest. #RedSox
Roenicke on Pillar -- 'He said some things that didn't come out exactly how he wanted to that he tried to clear up.'
'This is a really good guy. It bothers me.'
'The last few days this guy was a mess.' #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 31, 2020 17:43:06 GMT -5
Chris Cotillo @chriscotillo · 21m Roenicke says Munoz, JD Martinez, Lin and Peraza are candidates to fill in the outfield spots with Pillar gone.
Ryan Weber starts for Red Sox on Tuesday. Wednesday is TBD. Martin Perez likely pushed back to Thursday with a blister.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 31, 2020 17:47:47 GMT -5
profile photo Dan Roche @rochiewbz 21m #RedSox have recalled INF/OF Yairo Munoz, LHP Mike Kickham, and RHP Robinson Leyer from their alternate training site @pawsox They will replace the traded Kevin Pillar and Josh Osich as well as Darwinzon Hernandez(IR) on the active roster. #WBZ @wbz
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 31, 2020 18:40:49 GMT -5
no update om JDM at all mmmm
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 3:36:20 GMT -5
Red Sox 3, Braves 6: An inning too many for Colten Brewer 4 comments
And not enough from the lineup. By Matt_Collins@MattRyCollins Aug 31, 2020, 10:54pm EDT
Partially out of actual belief in the talent and partially out of sheer necessity, the Red Sox continued to try Colten Brewer as a starter in Monday’s series opener against the Braves. The righty was not particularly sharp all night long, but for the most part he was solid through four innings. So far this year, that’s been about his limit, and with the middle of the Braves order coming up for a third time, it seemed like a good time to pull him here as well. Instead, the Red Sox tried to push him a little bit more, and that was essentially the difference in this one. That fifth inning certainly wasn’t the only reason the Red Sox lost, to be fair, as the offense had a quiet night after losing Mitch Moreland and Kevin Pillar to trade and J.D. Martinez to a minor injury. Combine those two things, and you get a Monday evening loss to drop the team’s record to 12-23.
The Red Sox were not exactly in the driver’s seat for this one in terms of the pitching matchup, as they were sending Colten Brewer to the mound for just his fourth career start in the continuation of this experiment to turn him into something close to a starter. Once again, he struggled to get through clean innings, and it came back to bite him early. The righty gave up a leadoff single to Dansby Swanson to put a runner on right off the bat. Brewer did come back with a couple of big outs after that, but he couldn’t get Nick Markakis. The veteran lefty poked one into the left field corner for a double, and Swanson was able to come around and score fairly easily in part because José Peraza couldn’t cleanly play the ricochet off the wall. Brewer gave up another base hit to put runners on the corners, too, but avoided more damage.
So, the Red Sox found themselves down 1-0 early and they were going up against a guy in Max Fried who hasn’t allowed more than one run since his first start of the year, a start in which he allowed a whopping two runs. Fried has been particularly tough against lefties, too, but Alex Verdugo didn’t seem to mind. He led off the bottom of the first with his first of three doubles on the night. A couple batters later, Rafael Devers continued his hot streak at the plate with a base hit through the middle, and just like that we were all tied up at one.
Both sides had their chances in the second, with Atlanta managing a leadoff single but nothing else and the Red Sox wasting a one-out double from Jackie Bradley Jr., but the score was still 1-1 heading into the third. This was another scary inning for Brewer, who issued another leadoff single and then quickly throwing a wild pitch — on a ball that Christian Vázquez probably should have kept in front of him — to put the runner on second. A deep fly ball then moved Freddie Freeman up to third with just one out, but Brewer managed to walk the tightrope and get through a scoreless inning despite the trouble.
The Red Sox then thanked him in the bottom of the third with a lead, though it wasn’t exactly the prettiest way to take the lead. It did start off with Verdugo’s second double, and he’d quickly move up to third with just one out. Devers couldn’t come through this time, leaving it up to Xander Bogaerts. Or so we thought. Instead, Fried made a mistake with a twitch of the glove, and he was called on it. The balk brought Verdugo home, and the Red Sox had the 2-1 lead.
Said lead would not last very long, though. Brewer’s first batter of the fourth was Adam Duvall, who took a cutter above the zone and absolutely demolished it over everything in left field. Just like that, three pitches into the inning, the game was tied up at two runs apiece.
The Red Sox then had a quiet bottom half of the inning, and Brewer was pushed a little too far. He was trying to get outs in the fifth for the first time this season, but was facing the heart of this order for a third time. He did not get any outs. Instead, he gave up a walk, a double — one that should have resulted in an out at second base but Jonathan Araúz couldn’t handle the throw in from Jackie Bradley Jr. — and another walk. Phillips Valdez then had the pleasure of coming in to face Austin Riley with the bases loaded and nobody out in a tie game. Riley won the battle, just missing a grand slam out to right field. Instead, it hit off the short wall in the corner and resulted in a bases-clearing triple to give the Braves a 5-2 lead. Valdez came back with three strikeouts after that, but the damage was done.
Boston had a chance to answer back in the bottom of the inning thanks to yet another double from Verdugo and a Vázquez walk to put two on with one out for Devers, but he hit into a double play to end the inning without any runs. Mitch Moreland became an improbable Red Sox lifer
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That brought Robinson Leyer out for his major-league debut in the sixth. The righty got the first batter out, but that was followed by a walk and a base hit to put two on with one out. Leyer almost got out of it after a big strikeout against Marcell Ozuna, but Markakis smoked one to the right side and Araúz couldn’t handle it. The ball bounced off the glove into center field, and Atlanta had a 6-2 lead.
Now, it was on the Red Sox offense to get things going. The good news was Fried was out of the game. Unfortunately, it wasn’t making much of a difference, as they went down in order in both the sixth and seventh innings. On the other side, Robert Stock tossed a scoreless seventh before Jeffrey Springs did the same in the eighth.
In the bottom half of the eighth with Will Smith on the mound, the Red Sox did get going a bit at the plate. After a quick first out, Vázquez, Devers and Bogaerts smacked three straight singles, and suddenly it was three-run game with one out and Michael Chavis coming up representing the tying run. He couldn’t come through, going down swinging, leaving things up to Bobby Dalbec, who came to the plate 0-3 with three strikeouts to that point on the night. He got the sombrero, going down looking to leave a pair on in the three-run game.
After Springs came out for another three-batter inning, the Red Sox had one more chance against Braves closer and old friend Mark Melancon. They went down in order, and that was that. A 6-3 loss to fall to 12-23.
The Red Sox will look to even this series up on Tuesday. They have Ryan Weber jumping back into the rotation for this one while Atlanta sends out Ian Anderson for his second career start. First pitch is set for 7:30 PM ET.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 3:36:53 GMT -5
OverTheMonster @overthemonster · 7h Eck is losing his mind at Valdez throwing 12 straight changeups
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 3:37:50 GMT -5
Julian McWilliams @byjulianmack · 7h Some news: the Red Sox have another starting pitcher going into the fifth inning other than Eovaldi, Perez: Colten Brewer. He joins Zack Godley, too, who pitched into the fifth in his last start.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 3:46:28 GMT -5
Red Sox relieved to move beyond trade talk
By Ian Browne @ianmbrowne 12:30 AM EDT
BOSTON -- For the Red Sox, Monday night’s 6-3 loss to the Braves at Fenway Park wasn’t so much about those who were dealt at the Trade Deadline, but rather those who remained.
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Jackie Bradley Jr., who has been in more trade rumors than any Boston player over the past several years, once again stayed put -- this time even as he heads to free agency after the season. The center fielder roped a double and drew a walk.
With the Red Sox since he was drafted in 2011, Bradley savored the joy of another evening at Fenway Park.
“There were just conversations with Jackie, and nothing like big conversations, but quick things with him and he was smiling and so, I think he feels pretty good,” Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke said.
Catcher Christian Vázquez, in what was definitely more of a surprise development than Bradley, was at the center of various rumblings in recent days that he could be on the move. But the spirited right-handed hitter, who loves playing in Boston, was still around on Monday to belt an eighth-inning double and score on an RBI single by Xander Bogaerts.
Now that Vázquez survived this Trade Deadline without getting moved, he could be around for the next two seasons on his club-friendly contract. Or maybe longer if things go as Vázquez hopes.
“I’m happy to be here and stay here,” Vázquez said. “Yeah, there were a lot of rumors but finally we made it here, and I was still here with this beautiful jersey, and hopefully still here for a long time.”
• Red Sox deal Pillar, Osich at active Deadline
Perhaps it is underappreciated how hard it must be for an athlete to wonder if he will get traded during Deadline week. Vázquez was candid about it on Monday night.
“It’s tough,” Vázquez said. “A lot of thinking. I’ve never been in this position. It’s my first year of my career I’ve been in a lot of rumors for trades, but it’s part of the game, it’s part of the business. We can control what we can control and come here and play hard every day and do our best, but it’s a lot of stress, these [last] couple of days, thinking about it, but thank God we stayed here.”
Even for a player like Bogaerts, who seemed highly unlikely to be moved but still had his name floated on the rumor mill, Monday was a relief.
“I think a lot of guys are relieved,” Roenicke said. “I know Bogey made a comment to me. So as much as you try to tell guys that there’s nothing going on, I think there’s still a lot of anxiety there for everybody.”
It was hard for Red Sox veterans to avoid the anxiety when, over the past 10 days, Brandon Workman, Heath Hembree, Mitch Moreland, Kevin Pillar and Josh Osich were all traded.
“It’s tough,” Vázquez said. “I played with Mitch a couple of years, we won a World Series. We start the season with some guys and then during the season, they get traded. You pass a lot of time with them, and they’re good people. They’re not here anymore.”
Then there was Alex Verdugo. He was never going to be traded. In fact, the Red Sox acquired him in February as part of that blockbuster for Mookie Betts, and he’s going to be a big part of the core in the coming years. Verdugo showed the caliber of building block he is by belting three straight doubles against Braves lefty starter Max Fried, who came into the night having allowed just two hits to lefties in 21 at-bats this season.
Verdugo is hitting .302 against lefties this season and proving he’s more than a platoon player.
“Really nice,” Roenicke said of Verdugo’s night. “And off a really good pitcher. Doogie, he hangs in there well, and he stays inside the ball. Gives himself a chance, especially against the lefties to hit them well. It’s fun to see when you’re battling a good pitcher and you put together three at-bats like that.”
While 2020 is a season the Red Sox will want to forget soon after it ends, Verdugo, Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, Chris Sale, Eduardo Rodriguez and Andrew Benintendi represent a core that chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom can build around.
The shape of the 2021 team will start coming into focus in the winter months. But for the final 25 games of this season, the players will have the peace of mind of knowing they won’t be uprooted.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 3:48:17 GMT -5
Darwinzon placed on IL with SC joint sprain By Ian Browne @ianmbrowne August 31, 2020 BOSTON -- It was eye-opening when Red Sox lefty Darwinzon Hernandez topped out at 93.3 mph on his fastball in his brief relief outing on Saturday. Hernandez is typically in the mid-to-upper 90s. Prior to Monday night's game against the Braves, the Red Sox placed the reliever on the injured list with a sprained left SC joint (linking the clavicle to the sternum). “There’s some inflammation there,” said Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke. “They’ve checked him out, and they were trying to decide on just to rest him for a few days or IL him, so the decision was to IL him and give himself a little more chance to rest before we get him going again.” Hernandez is one of the pitchers the Red Sox are most excited about. The 23-year-old can be overpowering and has experience as a starter and in relief. The club is choosing to be conservative with someone who could be a significant piece of its future. “We’re obviously taking care of him and making sure we do everything right with him,” Roenicke said. “He’s felt this but he hasn’t really told anyone it’s an issue, so when he’s pitching, he doesn’t feel it. He feels it maybe a little bit the next day, but he hasn’t felt it while pitching. The other day, as you know, we didn’t have him go back out there and things just didn’t look like , and this is what they have found.”
Hernandez started the season late due to testing positive to COVID-19 before Summer Camp.
He quickly made up for lost time, not allowing any runs in his three relief outings, striking out seven over 4 2/3 innings.
The move of Hernandez to the IL in addition to the trades of outfielder Kevin Pillar and lefty Josh Osich put the Red Sox in a scramble for players in the hours leading up to Monday’s game.
They added left-hander Mike Kickham, right-hander Robinson Leyer, and infielder/outfielder Yairo Muñoz to the active roster from the alternate training Site.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 4:13:17 GMT -5
Rebuilding Red Sox no match for Braves in 6-3 defeat By Julian McWilliams Globe Staff,Updated September 1, 2020, 12:18 a.m.
The Atlanta Braves came to Fenway Park on Monday night in first place in the National League East, ready to spend the next month playing for a postseason berth.
The last-place Red Sox, on the other hand, having shipped off two more current players for future players to be named and payroll flexibility, are positioning themselves for the future. When that future will come into focus, translating into a competitive team remains unclear.
Prior to the game, right after chief baseball officer, Chaim Bloom traded Kevin Pillar to the Colorado Rockies and reliever Josh Osich to the Chicago Cubs, Bloom pushed back on putting a timeline on success. But one certainty at the day’s end, it undoubtedly isn’t this season.
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The Braves took care of their business with a 6-3 decision, upping their lead in the N.L. East to three games. The Sox dropped 12½ games behind
Red Sox starter Colten Brewer entered the fifth inning with the game knotted at 2.
He walked Freddie Freeman to start the frame. Then Marcell Ozuna doubled, followed by a walk to Nick Markakis to load the bases.
That’s when manager Ron Roenicke summoned Phillips Valdez from the bullpen in an effort to try to keep the game tied. But that was far from the outcome once Austin Riley stroked an outside sinker off the right field wall for a bases-clearing triple.
“We tried to get him a chance to get him a win,” manager Ron Roenicke said in regards to Brewer afterward. “We tried to get him actually into the fifth inning. We thought because his pitch count was down we would try to do it, but it didn’t work so well.” Red Sox reliever Robinson Leyer follows through on a sixth-inning delivery Monday night at Fenway. Red Sox reliever Robinson Leyer follows through on a sixth-inning delivery Monday night at Fenway.Jim Davis/Globe Staff
The Braves scored their first two runs on Markakis’s RBI double in the first and an Adam Duvall moonshot over the Green Monster in the fourth.
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To start, the Red Sox weren’t necessarily owned by Max Fried (6-0), who entered the game tied with Cleveland righthander Shane Bieber for the best ERA in baseball (1.35). That’s, in large part, was because of Alex Verdugo, who doubled three times off of him.
Verdugo scored the first two runs for the Sox on Rafael Devers’s single up the middle in the first inning and when Fried balked him home in the third.
Before Monday, lefthanded hitters were just 2 for 21 with two extra-base hits against Fried. Verdugo, meanwhile, is 16 for 26 with eight doubles and two homers on balls he hits to the opposite field this season.
“Really nice,” Roenicke said of Verdugo’s game. “Off a really good pitcher. Dugie, he hangs in there well and he stays inside the ball and gives himself a chance, especially against the lefties, battling a good pitcher and he put together three at-bats like that.”
The Red Sox day consisted of jitters, Roenicke admitted. The days leading up to the trade deadline brings its set of nerves, particularly for a team like the Red Sox, who are restructuring their organization. Christian Vazquez, the Sox’ longest-tenured player, was in a lot of those trade talks.
“It was tough,” Vazquez said. “A lot of thinking. I never been in this position. It’s my first year of my career that I’ve been in a lot of rumors about trades. It’s part of the game. It’s a tough game.”
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Perhaps Bloom looks across to the visiting dugout and envisions his team looking like in the future. A young superstar to build around, pitching, sprinkled in with some veteran leadership. Maybe that’s his outlook for sustainability. The new faces on the field for the Red Sox currently, though, resemble turnover.
“It’s tough. I played with Mitch Moreland a couple of years,” said Vazquez on all the faces that are no longer on the Sox’ current roster. “We won a World Series.”
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