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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 27, 2023 17:34:06 GMT -5
Guardians @ Red Sox Friday, 28th April 2023 7pm @ Fenway
Bieber 1-1/ 3.23 vs Pivetta 1-1/ 4.58
Cleveland Guardians vs. Boston Red Sox Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7:10pm EDT Written by Bosun Akinpelu
The Cleveland Guardians (12-13) will be going for their second consecutive win when they face the Boston Red Sox (13-13) in the first game of their three-game series on Friday night.
Shane Bieber, 1-1, 3.23 ERA, will get the start for the Guardians. The Red Sox will counter with Nick Pivetta, 1-1, 4.58 ERA.
Boston is 7-3 in its last 10 games against Cleveland.
Guardians Going For Third Win In Five Games The Guardians snapped their two-game losing streak with a win over the Rockies in their last game. They will try to keep the momentum going with a win over the Red Sox, which will give them their second win in a row and third win in their last five games.
Cleveland is averaging 3.80 runs per game. Their .231 batting average is 23rd in the league. Their .313 on base percentage is 19th, while their .348 slugging percentage is 27th.
Jose Ramirez has been the big bat for the Guardians. He leads the team with a .271 batting average, three home runs, and 16 RBI.
Cleveland’s pitching has been good, with the team giving up 4.32 runs per game. Opponents have a .248 batting average against the Guardians, which is 21st in the league. Their 3.96 ERA is 12th, while their 1.26 WHIP is 13th.
In his last start, Bieber gave up four hits and three runs in 5.2 innings, leading to a 6-1 loss to Miami. They will need a better effort from him if they want to win this game.
Red Sox Trying To Bounce back From Loss The Red Sox followed up their win over Baltimore with a loss in the series finale. They will try to bounce back with a win over the Guardians, which will give them their third win in their last five games.
Boston is averaging 5.62 runs per game. Their .252 batting average is 11th in the league. Their .329 on base percentage is also 11th, while their .429 slugging percentage is ninth.
Alex Verdugo leads Boston with a .311 batting average, while Rafael Devers leads the team with nine home runs and 24 RBI.
Boston’s pitching hasn’t been good, with the team giving up 5.31 runs per game. Opponents have a .264 batting average against the Red Sox, which is 24th in the league. Their 5.13 ERA is 27th, while their 1.37 WHIP is 23rd.
In his last start, Pivetta gave up seven hits and three runs in 5.2 innings, leading to a 5-3 win over Milwaukee. They will need a better performance from him if they want to get the win.
Christian Arroyo (Hamstring) is questionable for this game.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 27, 2023 17:36:47 GMT -5
SP Probables for rest of series
Saturday, 4pm, Plesac 1-1/ 6.50 vs Whitlock 1-2/ 6.19
Sunday, 1:30pm, Allen 1-0/ 1.50 vs Sale 1-2/ 8.22
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 4:13:45 GMT -5
Red Sox notebook: Boston to host Terry Francona, Guardians for three-game series Tito and the Cleveland Guardians come to town on Friday
By Gabrielle Starr | gstarr@bostonherald.com | PUBLISHED: April 27, 2023 at 9:13 p.m. | UPDATED: April 27, 2023 at 9:14 p.m.
The Cleveland Guardians and old friend Terry Francona come to town on Friday for a three-game set.
How hotly contested is the American League East? The Red Sox are 13-13 to start the season, which puts them down at the bottom of the division. By comparison, the Guardians are 12-13, which is good for second place in the AL Central.
But the Guards are 3-7 in their last 10 games, including dropping their most recent series to the Colorado Rockies, and the Sox are 5-5.
Here’s the weekend slate and probable pitching matchups:
Friday (7:10 p.m.): RHP Nick Pivetta vs. RHP Shane Bieber
Saturday (4:10 p.m.): RHP Garrett Whitlock vs. RHP Zach Plesac
Sunday (1:35 p.m.): LHP Chris Sale vs. LHP Logan Allen On this day
With the NBA playoffs in full swing, it’s astounding to look back through sports history and see how much things have changed.
April 27, 1963 is the perfect example, as it was the day two NBA players faced off in the same inning of a Major League Baseball game.
When Gene Conley started that day for the Boston Red Sox, he’d already made history as the first player to win an NBA championship and MLB championship. He faced Jackie Robinson in his playing debut, squared off against Ted Williams in the 1959 All-Star Game, and spent his winters guarding Wilt Chamberlain.
Conley became a World Series champion with the 1957 Milwaukee Braves, then won three rings with the 1959-61 Boston Celtics. Funny enough, when the Celtics won their first championship in 1957, Conley was on a basketball hiatus to focus on baseball; the Braves paid him thousands to take a break from hooping. The Phillies would later try to get him to do the same, but his Celtics coach, the legendary Red Auerbach, didn’t care how that he spent his summers on the mound.
Doubling up worked out pretty well, though; to date, he stands alone in that achievement, and since Michael Jordan’s baseball career never panned out, he probably always will.
Speaking of Jordan’s baseball career, Conley pitched into the fifth inning against the Chicago White Sox that day, and since it was the pre-designated hitter era, he also went 1-for-1, collecting a double and scoring a run.
On the mound, the decorated athlete allowed four earned runs on four hits, walked six, and struck out two, but when he faced four batters and was unable to record an out in the fifth, his day was done.
But in the bottom of the fourth, Dave DeBusschere took over for Chicago White Sox starter Ray Herbert. He faced Carl Yastrzemski, Dick Stuart, Lou Clinton, Frank Malzone, and Eddie Bressoud before getting out of the inning.
During the White Sox offseason, DeBusschere was an All-Star forward with the Detroit Pistons. He was significantly more successful on the court than the diamond, and left baseball behind after two major and two minor league seasons.
DeBusschere would go on to win two championships with the New York Knicks, in 1970 and ’73. After a 12-year career that included six NBA All-Defensive First Team honors, he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983. He’s also remembered for being the Knicks director of basketball operations who drafted Patrick Ewing first overall in 1985.
While DeBusschere and Conley didn’t line up for any plate appearances, that contest is a vastly underrated moment in sports history. The amount of time, hard work, and energy that athletes put into playing at the highest level of one sport is enormous; two, even not entirely at the same time, is beyond comprehension.
“When I look back, I don’t know how I did it, I really don’t,” Conley told the Los Angeles Times in 2008. “I think I was having so much fun that it kept me going. I can’t remember a teammate I didn’t enjoy.”
To date, only 13 athletes have played in both leagues. And on that day in 1963, two of them played in the same game. Injury updates
Chris Martin’s rehab appearance with Triple-A Worcester has been pushed back from Thursday to Friday, but not due to complications with his arm. Julian McWilliams of the Boston Globe reports that Martin had a stomach bug this week, and the Red Sox wanted to give him an extra day to recuperate.
So far, Martin has made seven appearances for the Red Sox, including three games finished. In seven innings, he’s allowed two earned runs on eight hits, walked one batter, and struck out two.
The Red Sox signed Martin to a two-year, $17.5 million contract this offseason. Around the league
Fans around the league were clamoring for their favorite team to trade for Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, Bryan Reynolds, but the 2021 All-Star is officially off the market. Instead of jumping ship, he just inked the largest contract extension in Pirates history an eight-year, $106.75 million deal through 2030.
Matt Strahm, who posted a 3.83 ERA over 50 appearances (44 2/3 innings) for the 2022 Red Sox, has a 2.42 ERA over five games (four starts) for the Philadelphia Phillies. Despite only making 25 starts out of 157 total games between 2016-21, Strahm was vocal about his belief that he could be a regular in the rotation. Perhaps, the Red Sox should’ve given him a chance.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 4:19:48 GMT -5
Red Sox open seven-game homestand vs. Guardians FLM
Sitting at .500 after a stretch of 19 games in 19 days, the Boston Red Sox have plenty of work to do to climb the ultra-competitive American League East standings.
Following its first off day since April 7, Boston begins a seven-game homestand with Friday's first of three weekend contests against the Cleveland Guardians.
The Red Sox entered Thursday at the bottom of the division -- 7 1/2 games behind first-place Tampa Bay -- with their 13-13 record. They are a half-game better than Cleveland (12-13), which trails only Minnesota in the AL Central.
"We're battling, and I know there's good stretches that are going to come," third baseman Rafael Devers said via a translator. "We're going to get better as time goes because we're going to recover some guys that are down on the injured list, and the help we're getting from Triple-A is very good."
Despite falling 6-2 Wednesday and losing a three-game series in Baltimore, Boston is 8-5 in its last 13 games after starting 5-8.
Masataka Yoshida seems to have adjusted in his new home after an 11-for-23 trip to Milwaukee and Baltimore, while Jarren Duran is much improved from his rookie season. The Red Sox, however, have seen their middle infield depth tested due to multiple injuries.
They have shown resilience through it all, earning nine of their 13 wins in comeback fashion.
"They don't get caught up in the ups and downs," manager Alex Cora said. "We lost four to Tampa and we move on. We lost three to Pittsburgh and we move on. It's still early to really tell you who we are, but like I always say, we've got a good team. We just have to be better."
Right-hander Nick Pivetta (1-1, 4.58 ERA) looks to maintain his consistency on the mound. He has thrown at least five innings in three of his first four starts this season, including Friday when he allowed three earned runs in 5 2/3 at Milwaukee.
The Red Sox won Pivetta's first two career starts against Cleveland last season, allowing only three earned runs in 12 2/3 innings combined.
The Guardians beat Colorado 4-1 Wednesday for just their third win in 10 games. The victory concluded a 2-4 homestand for the club led by former Red Sox skipper Terry Francona.
That recent stretch has included the MLB debuts of both Logan Allen and Tanner Bibee, who made great first impressions with eight strikeouts apiece.
Right-hander Shane Bieber (1-1, 3.23) gets the ball in Boston for the first time since 2019. He is 2-2 with a 5.18 ERA in four career starts against the Red Sox.
Through five starts this season, Bieber has worked at least six complete innings in all but the last one. He lost to Miami on Saturday after allowing three runs on four hits and four walks in 5 2/3 frames.
"I don't know the last time I had that many walks," Bieber said. "I had some 50/50 shots, and it seems like when you really need them, they maybe don't go your way and that's the game of baseball."
Bieber did not walk four batters in any start last season.
The wins have not come of late largely due to a struggling offense. Cleveland scored just 15 runs over its last six games, though outfielder Steven Kwan reached base at a .370 clip during that span.
"You get in modes where you try to get yourself going," Francona said. "You start swinging at everything. We're going to have to be more disciplined. ... It's easier said than done, but we're going to have to get better."
--Field Level Media
Guardians at Red Sox Friday, at 7:10 PM EST Partly Cloudy It's expected to be 54° F with a 1% chance of precipitation and 7 MPH wind blowing right to left in Boston at 7:10 PM EST. Hourly Forecasts: Weather.com
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 13:13:51 GMT -5
Red Sox shortstop undergoes surgery, expected to miss 6 weeks
Published: Apr. 28, 2023, 1:47 p.m.
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Chris Cotillo | ccotillo@MassLive.com
As expected, Red Sox shortstop Yu Chang had to go under the knife after injuring his wrist Monday night in Baltimore.
The Red Sox announced Friday that Chang underwent a “successful left hamate excision” Thursday. The procedure was performed by Dr. Matthew Leibman at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. The team did not provide a timetable for Chang’s return but he said earlier this week that the expectation is that he will miss about six weeks.
Chang fractured the hamate bone in his left wrist swinging at a pitch late in Monday’s loss to the Orioles. He was placed on the 10-day injured list the next day with the Sox recalling rookie second baseman Enmanuel Valdez to take his place. Before the injury, Chang emerged as a competent defensive option at shortstop, starting 10 of the last 12 games at the position. In 17 games this season, Chang has hit .136 (6-for-44) with three homers, eight RBIs and a .515 OPS.
With Chang joining Adam Duvall (wrist), Trevor Story (elbow) and Adalberto Mondesí (ACL recovery) on the IL, Sox manager Alex Cora will once again be forced to change up the team’s up-the-middle defensive alignment. Kiké Hernández is expected to be the full-time shortstop with Valdez and Christian Arroyo playing second base. Jarren Duran, who has hit well in a limited sample size so far this season, will get plenty of reps in center field with Rob Refsnyder getting some starts against left-handed pitchers.
“It’s the reality of it,” Cora said earlier this week. “Coming into the season, we thought Kiké was going to be a shortstop and he was for a little bit there. Then, Arroyo gets hurt and all the sudden Duvall gets hurt and we have to make adjustments. That’s the beauty of having Kiké on the roster. That’s why we made a commitment with him because in cases like this, we can just move him around. Enter your email address here to receive the Fenway Rundown email newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday.
“People take him for granted,” Cora said. “It’s not easy going from second to short, short to center, but he has done it his whole career. It feels like now he’s going to play more shortstop than in the past.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 13:20:03 GMT -5
Terry Francona’s Cleveland Guardians could show Red Sox the way to better days Terry Francona's Guardians had only two stars in 2022 but thrived because of contributions from young players the Red Sox can only dream of.
By Jon Couture April 28, 2023 | 10:14 AM
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I hope you’ll excuse my Terry Francona on the brain today. “Tito: The Terry Francona Story” has gotten a couple extra watches at this address, his Guardians headed to Fenway Park this weekend for their annual visit.
“I was too dumb, too stupid to die,” Francona says in the documentary, with Curt Schilling — remember him? — noting the baseball lifer’s litany of health problems included receiving last rites in the early 2000s.
Debated turning this into a top-quotes listing, prominently including the above. The jibes with former Sox utility man and current Rays manager Kevin Cash — complete with a 2018 clip of when he stole Francona’s scooter so his team could ding it up in batting practice. The story of a champagne-soaked Theo Epstein visiting the Cleveland clubhouse in the gloaming of the 2016 World Series, the one-time Red Sox architect given more time than anyone to gush in the film.
“I’m not surprised everyone wanted to show up for this documentary for the way that they’d show up for him, anywhere, anytime. He is baseball,” Epstein said. “When you think about Tito, you think about just being in a clubhouse, the bonds that are created, the brotherhood. The friendships and the beauty of it for him is the way he’s developed countless unbelievable connections and friendships with people in the game.”
Not being sure when the doc is airing again, however, quashed that. I debated using Francona — who’s not only been in Cleveland longer than he was in Boston (11 years vs. eight), but made more playoff appearances there — as the jumping-off point for a run-through the greatest Red Sox who got away.
Alas, even Francona says it was time for something new at the end of 2011. And, honestly, it’s too easy. I wager there’s not a ton of new ground to cover in this list:
Babe Ruth Tris Speaker Carlton Fisk Sparky Lyle Jeff Bagwell Wade Boggs Roger Clemens Pedro Martinez Mookie Betts Xander Bogaerts
You hit most of those names yourself in, what, 30 seconds? Even if we pull the recent additions because the history’s not been written yet, Reggie Smith and Dennis Eckersley aren’t exactly stains on the franchise.
Eh. I’d rather look at a list you’re less likely to know.
Shane Bieber Zach Plesac Logan Allen
That’s Cleveland’s pitching probables this weekend. A recent Cy Young winner (2020), a solid homegrown piece, and a recently debuted lefty who could be another.
Boy, could the Red Sox use some of that.
Cleveland was a shock winner of the American League Central last year as baseball’s youngest team, 17 players making their major-league debuts. The formula was simple: Pitch well, and pressure defenses with balls in play and speed until they crack.
(The formula was also to be in the AL Central, where Cleveland was the only team better than .500, but they still won a division they were picked as fourth-best in when the year began.)
This year’s Guardians come to Boston just 12-13, but that’s not out of character; they were sub-.500 into mid-July last year, and didn’t lock up October until winning 24 of their final 30. Nor is already needing three debuts just in the starting rotation all that different, Peyton Battenfield and Allen joined by Tanner Bibee on Wednesday.
It’s been a major challenge of piecing it together without Triston McKenzie, the potential ace of the future who might be ready for June following a shoulder strain, and Northeastern’s Aaron Civale, whose latest injury battle in a career full of them is a strained oblique.
Again, it’s working. Bibee, a fifth-round draft pick in 2021, struck out eight in 5⅔ innings. Allen, who’s scheduled to make his second career start Sunday, did the same in his winning debut. And in so much as one start against Colorado and Miami respectively requires perspective, it’s another note of just how Cleveland has done this.
Their youth, unencumbered by expectations, took the torch and ran with it.
Steven Kwan ended up third in Rookie of the Year voting and won a Gold Glove in left field. Andrés Giménez, the star of the package Cleveland got when it dealt its generational talent Francisco Lindor, made the All-Star team at second base. McKenzie, coming off a 2021 in which he ponged between Triple-A and the majors, made 30 starts to a 2.96 ERA. Cal Quantrill, a swingman in 2021, had a 3.38 ERA and never left the starting rotation.
The 2022 Guardians had two stars, José Ramírez and Bieber, and a bunch of corks filling holes while their prospects percolated. Last season, the kids simply overran the stage and turned a sleepy bridge year into something far more.
It’s certainly a situation Francona’s old franchise would love to get to experience.
For Tanner Houck, Garrett Whitlock, and Brayan Bello to decrease the need for Chris Sale and Corey Kluber and James Paxton to turn back the clock.
For Alex Verdugo, a centerpiece in his own right, to follow through on that All-Star promise of the early going. (And for Connor Wong, probably the best defender of his position that this group’s got, to keep chipping in as well.)
For Triston Casas, experiencing understandable rookie growing pains, to become more than a walk collector and a defensive mess. (Jarren Duran certainly is providing a nice example, from far deeper depths.)
And for Alex Cora’s team to be more than a good attitude, no-quit squad who just can’t keep pace in division.
These Red Sox want you to believe it’s coming, and sometimes even offer hints that it is. And if nothing else, they certainly have the same low expectations to work with.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 13:26:25 GMT -5
Tomase: Red Sox' upcoming schedule offers perfect test for 2023 team 2H ago / by John Tomase John Tomase
Putting aside for a moment the Last Place conundrum -- it doesn't matter how many divisions you'd theoretically be winning if you can't leapfrog anyone in the AL East, and therefore the wild card race -- the next month should tell us a lot about the Red Sox.P
Their schedule is replete with teams kinda just like them -- wannabe contenders nonetheless hovering right around .500.
Outside of the Blue Jays and Braves, who have both turned on the jets, everyone else on the upcoming slate is failing to meet expectations.
That starts with the 12-13 Guardians, who open a three-game series at Fenway Park on Friday night, but continues through the end of May when the Red Sox visit San Diego (13-14).
In between, they'll square off with the Phillies (13-13), Cardinals (a shocking 10-16), and Mariners (11-14). All reached the playoffs last year, and every one of them entered 2023 believing they'd return.
So that makes them the perfect test for the Red Sox, who can deal with the problem of their division later. For right now, let's see how they stack up against exactly the kind of competition that will be jockeying for wild card position all summer.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly where the Red Sox stand. At 13-13, they've probably exceeded some prognostications, but they've also completed what many assumed would be one of the easier portions of their schedule.
Of course, the Pirates were supposed to be easy, but they swept the Red Sox and now own the best record in the National League at an improbable 18-8. Many similarly looked at the Orioles' underwhelming offseason and assumed they'd come back to the pack, but they're a dropped fly ball away from being 4-2 vs. Boston instead of 3-3 after winning the most recent series between the clubs at Camden Yards, and they're now 17-8.
On the plus side, the offense is showing serious signs of staying power, especially with Alex Verdugo finally taking a step forward, newcomer Masataka Yoshida punishing the ball to all fields, and youngster Jarren Duran smashing rockets behind a new batting stance. Tomase: Three role players who helped Sox get back on track
Outside of Kaleb Ort and Ryan Brasier -- two pitchers who probably won't be here when everyone is healthy -- the retooled bullpen has been lights out. The Red Sox are the only team without a blown save, thanks to closer Kenley Jansen, and they've received a huge lift from setup man Josh Winckowski, who has turned into a multi-inning weapon while making the Andrew Benintendi trade look better by the day.
On the negative side, the only rotation in baseball worse than Boston's belongs to the itinerant and irrelevant A's, with Chris Sale particularly disappointing. And the defense up the middle, especially with Kiké Hernández at shortstop, has been a liability.
In other words, the Red Sox are still searching, which makes the upcoming portion of their schedule such a solid barometer, given its surplus of teams straddling the contender/pretender line. The small-market Guardians, for instance, are integrating a number of new faces but consistently play beyond the sum of their parts under old friend Terry Francona.
The Phillies are experiencing a bit of a World Series hangover in one of baseball's best divisions while awaiting the return of two-time MVP Bryce Harper from Tommy John surgery. The Cardinals are surprisingly middle-of-the-pack in everything, while the Mariners just lost former Cy Young Award winner Robbie Ray for the rest of the season to elbow surgery.
That leaves the Padres, who just welcomed Fernando Tatis Jr. back to a lineup being kept afloat by Xander Bogaerts, who's in the discussion as baseball's best overall player after a month in his new home.
There's an opportunity here, but also a risk. Most of the upcoming opponents are probably better than their records. The Red Sox believe that description applies to them, too. Now they get to prove it.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 13:31:26 GMT -5
Game 27: Guardians at Red Sox lineups and notesBy Andrew Mahoney Globe Staff,Updated April 28, 2023, 2 hours ago The Red Sox are back at home Friday to open a three-game series with the Guardians after they finally had a day off following a stretch of 19 games in 19 days. They will not play for more than 10 consecutive days again until Aug. 15, when they play 16 in a row. The Cleveland bats have been quiet of late, with just 15 runs in the last six games. Nick Pivetta will be on the mound for tonight’s opener, which will air on NESN+ because the Bruins’ Game 6 playoff matchup at Florida is on NESN. Lineups GUARDIANS (12-13): 1. Steven Kwan (L) LF 2. Amed Rosario (R) SS 3. Jose Ramirez (S) 3B 4. Josh Naylor (L) 1B 5. Josh Bell (S) DH 6. Andres Gimenez (L) 2B 7. Mike Zunino (R) C 8. Will Brennan (L) RF 9. Myles Straw (R) CF Pitching: RHP Shane Bieber (1-1, 3.23 ERA) RED SOX (13-13): 1. Alex Verdugo (L) RF 2. Masataka Yoshida (L) LF 3. Justin Turner (R) DH 4. Rafael Devers (L) 3B 5. Triston Casas (L) 1B 6. Jarren Duran (L) CF 7. Enrique Hernandez (R) SS 8. Reese McGuire (L) C 9. Enmanuel Valdez (L) 2B Pitching: RHP Nick Pivetta (1-1, 4.58 ERA) Time: 7:10 p.m. TV, radio: NESN+, WEEI-FM 93.7 Guardians vs. Pivetta: Josh Bell 0-2, Andrés Giménez 3-5, Oscar Gonzalez 0-3, Steven Kwan 2-7, Josh Naylor 1-5, José Ramírez 2-6, Amed Rosario 6-18, Myles Straw 3-7, Mike Zunino 0-4 Red Sox vs. Bieber: Rafael Devers 3-11, Jarren Duran 2-3, Reese McGuire 0-6, Rob Refsnyder 1-2, Raimel Tapia 3-5, Justin Turner 1-2, Alex Verdugo 1-2 Stat of the day: Pivetta is one of only 12 pitchers to make at least 67 starts since the beginning of 2021. Notes: The Sox won Pivetta’s first two career starts against Cleveland last season, with the righty allowing only three earned runs in 12⅔ innings combined. He has thrown at least five innings in three of his first four starts this season, including last Friday when he allowed three earned runs in 5⅔ innings at Milwaukee. … 18 of the Sox’ 25 games have been decided by three runs or fewer (9-9). The only team with more such games is the Guardians (19). … Bieber is 2-2 with a 5.18 ERA in four career starts against the Red Sox. Through five starts this season, Bieber has worked at least six innings in all but the last one. Song of the Day: U2 - Mysterious Wayswww.youtube.com/watch?v=TxcDTUMLQJI
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 14:37:45 GMT -5
Red Sox Place Garrett Whitlock On IL With Ulnar Neuritis
By Darragh McDonald | April 28, 2023 at 2:02pm CDT
The Red Sox announced today that right-hander Garrett Whitlock has been placed on the 15-day injured list with right elbow ulnar neuritis. Fellow righty Brayan Bello was recalled to take his spot on the active roster.
The club didn’t provide any more information about Whitlock’s injury, so the severity isn’t publicly known at this time. It’s possible that they are still doing more testing, as ulnar neuritis comes with a wide range of possible outcomes. The ulnar nerve is commonly known as the “funny bone” due to the tingling sensation it causes when agitated. Neuritis is the medical term for when there is inflammation of the nerve.
It’s too early to draw conclusions but the diagnosis is nonetheless concerning. Rays left-hander Jeffrey Springs was recently diagnosed with ulnar neuritis and just a few days later was reported to require Tommy John surgery. That’s not to say that Whitlock is inevitably headed down the same path, as Blue Jays right-hander Jordan Romano was diagnosed with the same ailment in April of 2021 but was back after just 10 days.
More to come.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 14:43:05 GMT -5
Alex Speier @alexspeier · 16m Garrett Whitlock said he felt something akin to a numbness or tingling two side sessions ago, and had felt it sporadically when throwing pitches since. He said he’s not concerned that this is anything like the torn UCL that led to Tommy John surgery in ‘19. He hasn’t had an MRI.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 16:41:42 GMT -5
oh boy
Jen McCaffrey @jcmccaffrey · 1h Bello will pitch in Whitlock’s place tomorrow. Cora said they’re hopeful Whitlock only misses two starts.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 16:43:36 GMT -5
Alex Speier @alexspeier · 1h Cora said the Sox still see Whitlock as a starter. Bello will take Whitlock’s spot in the rotation on Saturday.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 16:45:13 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 42m Cora on why he moved Devers to fourth and Yoshida to second. "Just try to create traffic in front of [Devers] and I think those three guys [Verdugo, Yoshida, Turner] are swinging the bat well and getting on base and hopefully right away we can get runners on and do his thing."
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 17:50:19 GMT -5
Damn, getting the NESN feed which means mute will come quick
and as for Whitlock, I said last year the choice to make him a starter was not wise.
But then again, this team can't bring up any home grown pitchers to save their lives.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 28, 2023 18:10:40 GMT -5
Dress Like a Seat Night at Fenway Again
Meanwhile in Toronto, 40, 000 plus Again
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