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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 14:47:16 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 7m 22-year old top prospect Ian Anderson is making his second career start for the Braves at Fenway tonight. He was electric in his debut (no-hitter into the 6th) with a 94 mph fastball and deadly changeup (44% whiffs).
He's also a huge Red Sox fan.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 15:14:27 GMT -5
no shit
Alex Speier @alexspeier · 4m Roenicke says it’s a possibility Andrew Benintendi won’t be able to play again this year.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 15:21:05 GMT -5
Chris Cotillo @chriscotillo · 6m Red Sox have starter for Wednesday listed as TBD. Mike Kickham is a candidate to start or serve as the bulk guy.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 15:23:11 GMT -5
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 15:28:04 GMT -5
will be using this tonight
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 15:37:36 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 28m Ron Roenicke joins us on Zoom. #RedSox
Roenicke on retaining Vazquez through the trade deadline -- 'It's not easy to find' a quality catcher. #RedSox
Roenicke said Hart could pitch in relief at some point over the next two days. No commitment to another start. #RedSox
Roenicke said Kickham will pitch Wednesday in some capacity. Perez will pitch Thursday. He's currently throwing his bullpen. #RedSox
Roenicke said Munoz was discussed for left field but they went with Lin instead. #RedSox
Roenicke said Dalbec will 'be in there most days' down the stretch. He's out of the lineup after a Golden Sombrero on Monday. #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 15:39:59 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 30m Replying to @billkoch25 Martinez (left hand) available to pinch hit tonight. Could return to the lineup on Wednesday. #RedSox
Hernandez (SC joint) shut down for at least a few days. Hopes to have him pitch again at some point this season. #RedSox
Roenicke said Duran was talked for promotion about but 'Chaim and his crew still feel like he's a ways away.'
Development, service time, 40-man status all in play there. #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 1, 2020 15:53:16 GMT -5
Guerin Austin @guerinaustin · 40m Ron Roenicke: -J.D. Martinez is doing better, they are hopeful he can pinch hit today -on Andrew Benintendi: improved but still sore, “possibility” he doesn’t play again this year -had conversations about Jarren Duran, don’t want to rush his development
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 2, 2020 3:10:24 GMT -5
Red Sox 3, Braves 10: Maybe don’t pitch to Marcell Ozuna 4 comments
The Braves slugger hits three homers as the Sox lose again. By Matt_Collins@MattRyCollins Sep 1, 2020, 10:42pm EDT
The good news: The Red Sox were actually tied in this game about halfway through. Ryan Weber had a bad first inning but settled down and looked good for the next three. Alex Verdugo had two more hits.
The bad news: Everything else.
The Red Sox fell behind early, tied it up, and then absolutely imploded. We’ve seen this story, I don’t know, 15 times this year. Marcell Ozuna absolutely terrorized Red Sox pitching in this one, smashing three home runs on the night with all of them being no-doubt moonshots. The offense didn’t do much. You know this story, right? I don’t have to tell it all again.
The Red Sox, as we all know, have never really been able to boast much in the way of rotation depth this season, and with Kyle Hart potentially pitching himself out of the mix and Nathan Eovaldi hitting the injured list, that depth has become even more sparse. Enter: Ryan Weber. The righty started the year in the rotation, pitched horribly, got demoted, came back up and thrived in a long relief role. As many here have correctly pointed out, the smart move if you want him back in a starter-type role would be to try using him after a reliever. Allow him to miss that top portion of the lineup the first time through.
That is not the route the Red Sox decided to take. They gave him a regular old star, and sure enough he looked really bad in the first inning against the top of the Braves lineup. After a quick first out, a pitch got away from him and hit Freddie Freeman, putting a runner on in front of Marcell Ozuna. On the very first pitch, Weber tried to sneak a fastball under the hands of Ozuna. Instead, the Braves slugger turned on it and sent it to the moon over everything in left field. Three batters in, it was a 2-0 Braves lead. Weber would also give up a single and a double in the inning — and the double was almost literally as far as a player can hit one without hitting a homer — but managed to get out of it without a run.
To be fair to Weber, and to those who have advocated for him to come in after an opener, he cruised after that brutal first inning. The righty allowed just a double in the second and then he was perfect in the third and fourth. He’d thrown enough pitches in the first that he’d only be able to toss those four frames, but he at least did not let things snowball after the tough start.
On the other side, the Red Sox were going up against Ian Anderson in the top prospect’s second career start. Though he’s known for big stuff and poor control, he looked pretty sharp against this Boston lineup, who failed to get much going early. They did get a leadoff single from Alex Verdugo in the first, but that was all there. They’d go down in order in the second, too.
Things would finally start to turn a bit in the third, thankfully, starting with a solid base hit from Tzu-Wei Lin. He’d then move up to second on a ground out before coming home on Verdugo’s second hit of the game, cutting the deficit in half. Verdugo was then able to move up on a wild pitch, and a couple batters later he was brought home by a third single of the inning, this one from Rafael Devers. Just like that, we were all tied up.
The next couple innings were largely uneventful, with the Red Sox getting three baserunners across the two innings but no runs. On the other side, Josh Taylor came on for the fifth and worked around a two-out walk to keep the score tied at two. Scattered Thoughts following the trade deadline
That was still the score heading into the sixth, and Robert Stock was coming on for his second straight day of action. This outing did not go as well as Monday’s. The big righty walked the first batter he saw on four pitches immediately before giving up a base hit. After a wild pitch put two runners in scoring position with nobody out, he served up a rocket of a base hit for Austin Riley, putting the Braves up 3-2 and leaving runners on the corners, still with nobody out. Stock almost worked his way out of that jam, too, thanks to a strikeout and a pop out. Ender Inciarte ruined that, though, with a high chopper on the infield to bring another run home and extend Atlanta’s lead to two. Austin Brice then came on to end the inning with a strikeout.
After the Red Sox went down easily in the bottom of the sixth, Hart came out of the bullpen for the first time this year. The southpaw got one quick out, but then Ozuna struck again in pretty much the same way, launching a hanging slider way out to left field to make it a 5-2 game. He’d come back out for the eighth, too, and let the game get away. The score was 10-2 by the time that inning finished, in part thanks to Ozuna’s third moonshot of a homer on the night.
The Red Sox did add another run in the eighth and got a perfect ninth from Jeffrey Springs. But, in the end, it was another blowout loss to drop their record to 12-24.
The Red Sox will be looking to avoid a sweep on Wednesday in the series finale against the Braves. They’re going with a bullpen game that should feature Mike Kickham for some bulk innings while the Braves go with Robbie Erlin. First pitch is at 7:30 PM ET
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 2, 2020 3:10:49 GMT -5
OverTheMonster @overthemonster · 5h iykyk
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 2, 2020 3:11:21 GMT -5
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 2, 2020 3:14:08 GMT -5
Red Sox can't keep up with Ozuna, Braves
By Ian Browne @ianmbrowne 12:10 AM EDT
BOSTON -- After his first three Major League starts totaled just nine innings, the Red Sox gave lefty Kyle Hart a chance to get back on his feet in the bullpen.
That went up in flames, too, as the 27-year-old was rocked (two innings, seven hits, six runs) in what turned into a 10-3 rout in favor of the Braves on Tuesday night at Fenway Park.
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When Hart came on, the Red Sox were right in it at 4-2.
Due to a combination of trades, injuries and recent workload, manager Ron Roenicke had little choice but to put the unproven Hart into a close game.
“We have a few guys down today and that's why Kyle was in that game,” said Roenicke. “We need length from him, which he can certainly give us length. It was a good ballgame again for six innings, but [he’s] just not spotting the ball well. Made a real nice play on that little chopped ball that he got out of his first inning, and then just left some balls up in the zone. But a tough [night] for him.”
It’s to the point now where Roenicke has to balance the fine line of getting Hart more experience for a non-contending team while taking the risk he loses confidence.
In Hart’s first four career appearances, he’s given up 24 hits, 19 earned runs, four homers and 10 walks in just 11 innings. Opponents are hitting .429 against him.
“We'll talk about it, figure out what to do,” Roenicke said. “I don't want to ever see a guy not in a position where we think he can do well. Those are the discussions we need to have to make sure we're doing what's best. When you're [in the player pool], that's your dream to get up here. We want to make sure we're still giving him the opportunities to go out and try to do well. We'll discuss it and figure out what to do.”
A 19th-round selection in the 2016 Draft, Hart overachieved in the farm system due to persistence and work ethic.
But it hasn’t translated at all so far in the Major Leagues.
In the seventh, Hart served up a solo homer to Marcell Ozuna, who had a monster night.
It was in the eighth inning that the game got away from Hart, as he allowed five more runs. Again, it was Ozuna who provided the big blow, a three-run dinger for his third homer of the night.
“He also tweaked a hip on that good play he made in that [seventh] inning to end it, and I hope that's OK. But he's pretty sore,” said Roenicke. “That could've also added to that second inning not throwing the ball well. We went in to make sure he was OK and the trainers checked him out. He said he could go back out there, but I'm sure that didn't help.”
Ozuna and Braves righty phenom Ian Anderson (six innings, two runs, eight strikeouts) combined to hand the Red Sox another tough night in what is becoming an increasingly tough season.
Roenicke’s team slipped to 12-24.
Tuesday was the latest case of the Red Sox hanging in the game through the mid innings, and then getting blown out late.
“No doubt it's difficult, when you feel like you're in games, especially if you're leading games and then you lose them, those are definitely difficult,” Roenicke said. “It's tough. You play hard, you play close, and all of a sudden you have a blowout.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 2, 2020 3:16:04 GMT -5
Notes: Pivetta's fresh start; J.D. out of lineup
By Ian Browne @ianmbrowne September 1, 2020
BOSTON -- Though recently acquired righty Nick Pivetta remains at the alternate training site in Pawtucket, R.I., to get stretched out and work on mechanical issues, he has remained in close contact with the Red Sox and is thrilled with the fresh start that has been presented to him.
“It’s great to be with the Boston organization. They’ve made it really prevalent that they value me as a starting pitcher,” Pivetta said. “That’s what I believe I am. Obviously I wasn’t pitching well enough out of the bullpen in Philly to put myself in that opportunity to be a starter and they chose to go with some other arms over me. So being traded and having that opportunity is really important for me. I’m looking very much forward to that.”
Pivetta was traded to the Sox along with righty prospect Connor Seabold for veteran relievers Brandon Workman and Heath Hembree on Aug. 21.
Getting Pivetta to reach his considerable potential -- something he wasn’t able to do in Philadelphia -- is a major goal going forward for Red Sox pitching coach Dave Bush.
“I just talked to him again this morning,” said Bush. “He threw yesterday in Pawtucket, so I talked to him this morning. We’re getting him built up still. He’s had a little bit of time off, so it’s a matter of getting his innings and length built up. But we talked quite a bit about his pitch mix and his style and the different things he wants to do on the mound and some changes he’s made in the past year or so.”
Though there are just 25 games to go, the Red Sox expect Pivetta will make some starts by the end of the season.
Pivetta doesn’t dispute that some fresh voices could be just what he needs to get out of the rut he’s been in since 2019.
“It definitely hasn’t gone the way I’ve wanted it to, but I’ve been given an opportunity here for a fresh new beginning,” Pivetta said. “So it’s just taking what I’ve learned from my past experiences, moving forward and developing into the pitcher that I know that I can be and that the Boston Red Sox believe that I can be. There’s a lot of things that happened, especially last year in 2019, that were out of my control.”
That is all in the past now.
“A change of scenery is going to be good for him,” Bush said. “It happens to a lot of guys where they get in a situation where they haven’t performed or they’re not in the role they like and for whatever reason it just doesn’t work out. And sometimes a change of scenery can be the little push they need to really untap their potential and reach what they can do. So from that standpoint I’m glad to have him.”
Bush studied a lot of film of Pivetta before the Red Sox made the trade for the 27-year-old.
“I like his stuff. I think he’s got a lot of potential,” Bush said. “He’s got a good mix of pitches, he’s got a nice fastball with some breaking balls to go with it and it’s a matter of putting it together and performing. The goal is still going to be the same on the field for us as it was when he was in Philadelphia, which is to get out on the mound in the big leagues and be a good big league pitcher.”
J.D. could return Wednesday For the second straight game, the Red Sox didn’t have slumping slugger J.D. Martinez in the lineup on Tuesday against the Braves.
Martinez was hit on the left hand with a pitch late in Sunday’s win over the Nationals.
“He’s doing better, for sure,” said Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke. “They’re treating him now. He’ll try to get a bat in his hands later on and see what he can do. Hopefully we can use him tonight in a pinch-hit situation and then hopefully back in the lineup tomorrow.”
Benny iffy Left fielder Andrew Benintendi has been slow to recover from the right ribcage strain that sent him to the injured list on Aug. 13.
At some point, Benintendi will have to start making some significant progress if he is to play again this season.
“He’s still a ways away. He’s still on the treadmill, he’s doing some incline walking,” said Roenicke. “He’s sleeping better now. He doesn’t have as much pain as he did before, but it’s still there. Any rotational activities, it’s still painful, so unfortunately this thing is slow like we thought it could possibly be and it’s keeping him away from really doing anything with baseball activities.”
Walden working his way back After becoming one of Boston’s most surprisingly effective relief pitchers last season, righty Marcus Walden struggled enough at the outset of this season that he was sent down to the alternate training site on Aug. 19.
There is still hope he can make the necessary adjustments and become a factor again in the bullpen before the season ends.
“Yes, he’s getting there,” said Bush. “He had to get back to being the guy he was the last couple years, which was being able to pound the zone with his sinker and cutter. He used his slider as more of an out-pitch, a strikeout pitch. He was having trouble commanding the ball. The sinker kind of was lost for him when he was still up here.”
Bush noted that Walden’s outings have looked much better in Pawtucket
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 2, 2020 3:39:22 GMT -5
Marcell Ozuna (3 HRs), Braves overpower Red Sox By Peter Abraham Globe Staff,Updated September 1, 2020, 11:45 p.m.
Marcell Ozuna belted three long home runs on Tuesday night, the third a blast to the far reaches of Fenway Park as the Atlanta Braves thumped the Red Sox, 10-3.
Ozuna had a two-run shot in the first inning off Ryan Weber and a solo rocket against rookie Kyle Hart in the seventh. Both were over everything in left field.
Facing the overmatched Hart again in the eighth inning with two runners on, Ozuna drove a first-pitch fastball to center field. The ball bounced off the camera platform below the video board for one of the longest home runs in recent history at Fenway.
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MLB’s tracking software did not record the distance on any of the home runs.
“All three of them were hit good,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “The second one was hit harder, I thought, than the first and the third, was like, my gosh.”
Ozuna is the 15th visiting player with a three-homer game at Fenway Park, the first since Mark Teixeira of the Yankees in 2010. Get 108 Stitches in your inboxGet everything baseball from the Globe's Red Sox reporters every Monday-Friday during baseball season, and weekly in the off season.
“I got some good pitches to hit,” Ozuna said.
Weber allowed only the two runs over four innings in his first start since Aug. 7. Josh Taylor pitched a scoreless fifth inning before the Braves went to work on the rest of the Sox bullpen.
Robert Stock allowed two runs on three hits and a walk in the sixth. Ozuna had a solo shot in the seventh before his third homer capped a five-run eighth inning.
Down only 4-2, the Sox went to Hart in the seventh inning. He had not pitched in a week.
“We had a few [relievers] down again tonight,” Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke said. “We knew we were going to use [Hart] somewhere. That’s what we had at that point.”
Hart allowed six runs on seven hits over two innings. He has appeared in four games and given up 19 earned runs on 24 hits over 11 innings.
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Alex Verdugo had two hits and drove in a run for the 12-24 Red Sox.
The Braves (21-14) have won three straight and 7 of 10. Rookie righthander Ian Anderson (2-0) allowed two runs over six innings.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 2, 2020 3:42:30 GMT -5
Red Sox notebook Ailing Andrew Benintendi running out of time to return By Peter Abraham Globe Staff,Updated September 1, 2020, 11:26 p.m.
Andrew Benintendi hasn’t played for the Red Sox since Aug. 11, the day he fell rounding second base and strained the right side of his rib cage. You may not see him on the field again until next year.
Manager Ron Roenicke acknowledged Tuesday that it was a possibility Benintendi would finish out the season on the injured list.
“He’s still a ways away,” Roenicke said. “He’s still on a treadmill; he’s doing some incline walking. He’s better sleeping now. He doesn’t have as much pain as he did before.
“But it’s still there. Any rotational activities, it’s still painful. Unfortunately, this thing is slow like we thought it possibly could be and keeping him away from anything with baseball activities.”
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With the season ending Sept 27, Benintendi is running out of time to return.
“I think that’s a possibility,” Roenicke said. “I hope somewhere along the line we get rid of the soreness and he’s able to progress quickly. But it’s just too hard to say.” Get 108 Stitches in your inboxGet everything baseball from the Globe's Red Sox reporters every Monday-Friday during baseball season, and weekly in the off season.
Benintendi hit .103 with a .442 OPS in 14 games.
The news was better on lefthander Darwinzon Hernandez, who is on the injured list with a sprained SC joint in his shoulder. He is a few days from throwing again, but the belief is he will pitch again this season.
“They want to wait a few days,” Roenicke said.
J.D. Martinez, who was hit in the left hand by a pitch Sunday, was not in the lineup for the second straight game but was able to take some swings.
Yairo Munoz made his Sox debut as the designated hitter in place of Martinez, going 1 for 4 with a double in the Sox’ 10-3 loss. Munoz, 25, had a .723 OPS for the Cardinals from 2018-19 before being released in spring training. Pitching plans
The Sox plan to give lefthander Mike Kickham the start Wednesday against the Braves or bring him in after an opener.
Kickham, 31, hasn’t appeared in a major league game since 2014 when he was with the Giants. He is 0-3 with a 10.98 ERA in 14 games.
Martin Perez is the scheduled starter for Thursday against the Blue Jays. Save a prayer
The team discussed the idea of promoting 23-year-old Jarren Duran to fill the roster spot created by the trade of Kevin Pillar. But Roenicke said baseball operations staff didn’t feel he was ready to make that jump. Duran finished last season in Double A. “He’s still got some development,” Roenicke said. “There’s a guy that we really need to take of and do the right things. This could be a pretty special player.” Duran homered in Tuesday’s simulated game in Pawtucket. Triston Casas, the 20-year-old slugger, drove in a run with a double that bounced over the left field wall. Righthander Tanner Houck struck out nine in five innings . . . The Sox are 8-8 against teams with a losing record and 4-16 against teams with a winning record.
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