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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 5:06:54 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 9h Since Saturday, there have been 5 hours and 32 minutes of rain delays at Fenway.
Sox will pitch Houck and TBA tomorrow.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 5:09:31 GMT -5
RED SOX NOTEBOOK The Red Sox have a starting pitching problem, but how big of a problem? By Julian McWilliams Globe Staff,Updated September 13, 2023, 8:39 p.m.
The Red Sox have a starting pitching problem.
Kutter Crawford’s inability to get through the fifth inning in Tuesday night’s loss to the Yankees was the latest example of just how much this rotation has struggled.
Crawford made it through the first four innings scoreless. He registered the first two outs of the fifth with the Red Sox holding a 1-0 lead. But a walk, stolen base, and a 10-pitch at-bat by Estevan Florial, which resulted in an RBI single, ended Crawford’s night.
It was another reminder of what has plagued this rotation: It just can’t pitch deep into games.
Entering Wednesday, Red Sox starters had pitched just 236⅓ innings since the All-Star break, the second-fewest in the majors.
The Red Sox banked on getting Chris Sale and Tanner Houck back, but both were on pitch limits and have underperformed. Sale has made six starts since he was reinstated from the injured list on Aug. 11. The Sox are 13-17 overall in that time. Sale, meanwhile, has completed five innings just twice in those six starts.
Chris Sale was supposed to reinvigorate the Red Sox rotation with his return from injury along with Tanner Houck, but innings limits and underwhelming play have kept both from making a big impact.
“If you look around the league, and you look at Toronto, those guys, most of them are going to get 200 innings,” said Red Sox manager Alex Cora. That’s the difference between this year and 2021. Everybody talks about the magic run in 2021. It wasn’t that magical run. It was just a good team with solid starters that went deep into games. It was 32 starts from [Nate Eovaldi], 31 starts [from Eduardo Rodriguez], and 30 starts from [Nick] Pivetta. Martin Perez and Garrett Richards, they were doing their part, they [each] had 22.
“Then we had Tanner coming in and doing his thing for a while there. So, I think everybody talks about the bullpen, but the first six innings are very important because then you don’t tax the bullpen, and that’s something that we ran into during that 16-game stretch recently. We weren’t going deep enough and we paid the price.”
In 2021, with the exception of Perez, and Houck (a spot starter), each Red Sox starter tossed at least 136⅔ innings. Eovaldi led the way with 182⅓. Rodriguez was second with 157⅔, followed by Pivetta with 155.
Brayan Bello leads the way for the Red Sox in 2023 with 25 starts and 142 innings. After that, excluding Pivetta (who has bounced between the bullpen and rotation), Crawford is next with 112 innings.
That’s a concern for the Red Sox. Not just this year, but in the years to come.
“If I knew the issue we would fix it,” said Cora. “It’s just one of those that hopefully we can figure out. These guys are learning, too. Some of these guys are learning at the big league level. It’s not easy. You look at Toronto, experience guys. Tampa with [Tyler] Glasnow and all those guys. They’re learning. They have to mature. Hopefully next year, with all the experience that they had this year, we can get to that next level.” Jansen on COVID injured list
The Red Sox placed closer Kenley Jansen on the COVID-related injured list on Wednesday and recalled lefthander Brandon Walter from Triple A Worcester. Jansen left Tuesday night’s game in the top of the ninth inning because of what the team called illness and fatigue . . . Corey Kluber (shoulder) pitched 2⅔ scoreless innings for Worcester on Tuesday, yielding two hits without a walk. It is still to be determined what’s next for the righthander.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 5:23:27 GMT -5
Battle for the Cellar Thursday, 14th September 1:30pm and 7:15 pm @ Fenway
Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 1:15pm EDT Written by Ben the Pen
It's Thursday afternoon so that means another make up game in the Boston and New York Yankees series. These teams were supposed to play on Monday night and wound up playing a doubleheader on Tuesday. The Yankees swept both games to tied Boston at 73-72, but Wednesday's game was rained out. They won the first game 3-2 and the second game 4-1.
So these teams will play a doubleheader on Thursday and we'll cover the first game at 1:35pmET from Fenway Park. The projected starters are Michael King (4-5. 2.92 ERA) for the Yankees and Tanner Houck (4-9, 5.28 ERA) for the Red Sox in Game 1.
Still trying The numbers game says that the Yankees are done. They've now won three straight games, but it puts them up at 7.5 games behind the final wild-card spot, which is Seattle at 81-65 with 17 games to go. To New York's credit, they could have rolled over and just given up. But in sweeping the doubleheader on Tuesday, that was their first at Fenway Park in 17 years.
The Yankees lack a dominant starter aside from Gerrit Cole, so they need to depend on a bullpen that owns a 3.10 ERA. Michael King is one of those pitchers, who is just trying to go five inning and let the bullpen do the rest. He's allowed just two runs over his last two starts and has struck out 13 in 10 innings. He's allowed just two runs over his last four starts and before that, was coming out of the bullpen.
What's next? Boston needed to sweep this series or at least win three games to have a chance. They are with the Yankees at 7.5 games behind Seattle for the last playoff spot. Tuesday was a disaster, especially for the lineup, where Boston went 0-for-19 with players in scoring position and had just 13 hits and three runs in two games. At this point, Boston might as well let some younger players get into the action and they did so in Game 2 when rookie OF/SS Ceddanne Rafaela hit his first career home run.
In Game 1, Boston will send right-hander Tanner Houck to the mound. Hock has made just four starts since missing two months due to suffering a facial fracture from a line drive against the New York Yankees. In his last start against the first-place Baltimore Orioles, Houck allowed five runs in 5.1 innings on Friday. Hock has started six games and has appeared in 11 games against the Yankees in his career, going 2-2 with a 2.39 ERA with 33 strikeouts in 37.2 innings.
Yankees at Red Sox Thursday, at 1:35 PM EST Partly Cloudy It's expected to be 73° F with a 0% chance of precipitation and 7 MPH wind blowing left to right in Boston at 1:35 PM EST. Hourly Forecasts: Weather.com
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 9:24:42 GMT -5
Games 146 and 147: Yankees at Red Sox lineups and notesBy Andrew Mahoney Globe Staff,Updated September 14, 2023, 19 minutes ago More rain led to Wednesday night’s game between the Red Sox and Yankees being postponed. That means the two teams will play a split doubleheader for the second time this week on Thursday. Both teams are one game above .500 and tied for last place in the American League East. The Sox will send Tanner Houck for Game 1 and have yet to announce a starter for the second game. The Yankees will go with Michael King for the matinee, followed by Clarke Schmidt in the evening. After Thursday’s games, the Red Sox will embark on a six-game road trip, beginning Friday with a three-game series at Toronto, followed by three games at Texas. Lineups YANKEES (73-72): Estevan Florial (L) CF Aaron Judge (R) DH Gleyber Torres (R) 2B Austin Wells (L) C Anthony Volpe (R) SS Jake Bauers (L) 1B Oswald Peraza (R) 3B Oswaldo Cabrera (S) RF Everson Pereira (R) LF Pitching: Game 1: RHP Michael King (4-5, 2.82 ERA). Game 2: RHP Clarke Schmidt (9-8, 4.54 ERA) RED SOX (73-72): Ceddanne Rafaela (R) CF Rafael Devers (L) 3B Justin Turner (R) DH Triston Casas (L) 1B Wilyer Abreu (L) LF Adam Duvall (R) RF Trevor Story (R) SS Luis Urias (R) 2B Connor Wong (R) C Pitching: Game 1: RHP Tanner Houck (4-9, 5.28 ERA). Game 2: TBA Time: 1:35 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. TV, radio: Game 1: NESN, MLB Network, WEEI-FM 93.7. Game 2: Fox, WEEI-FM 93.7. Yankees vs. Houck: Jake Bauers 1-4, Estevan Florial 0-2, Kyle Higashioka 1-3, Aaron Judge 3-6, Isiah Kiner-Falefa 1-4, DJ LeMahieu 0-11, Giancarlo Stanton 2-12, Gleyber Torres 3-15, Anthony Volpe 0-2 Red Sox vs. King: Triston Casas 0-1, Rafael Devers 4-6, Adam Duvall 0-1, Reese McGuire 2-2, Rob Refsnyder 0-1, Pablo Reyes 0-0, Trevor Story 0-3, Justin Turner 2-2, Alex Verdugo 3-9, Connor Wong 1-1, Masataka Yoshida 0-2. Red Sox vs. Schmidt: Triston Casas 1-4, Rafael Devers 4-10, Adam Duvall 2-6, Reese McGuire 1-5, Rob Refsnyder 0-1, Pablo Reyes 1-4, Trevor Story 0-2, Justin Turner 2-7, Luis Urías 0-1, Alex Verdugo 2-8, Connor Wong 0-2, Masataka Yoshida 0-7 Stat of the day: Red Sox reliever Chris Martin has made 16 consecutive scoreless appearances covering 15 innings. Notes: The Yankees have won 11 of their last 15 games. … Houck is 2-2 with a 2.39 ERA and 33 strikeouts in 37⅔ innings over 11 games (six starts) against the Yankees. For this season, he has a pair of no decisions and a 2.70 ERA two starts . … King is 2-3 with a 5.87 ERA in 11 career appearances against the Red Sox, who have tagged him for seven runs across four innings in three appearances this season. … Schmidt is 0-1 with a 4.03 ERA in seven appearances against the Red Sox in his career. That includes three starts this season in which he registered a 2.87 ERA. … Sox pitchers have held the Yankees to three or fewer earned runs in nine of their 11 meetings. … Adam Duvall is in an 0-for-19 drought with 14 strikeouts. Song of the Day: Aerosmith - Rats In The Cellar www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvodHi2_FoQ
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 11:32:04 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 2m Red Sox fired Chaim Bloom.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 11:44:44 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 35s Say this for the Sox, at least they fired the GM before a game this time and not during one.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 15:22:53 GMT -5
Red Sox win first game
5-0 2 outs in the 9th
I am calling it
Game 2 at 7pm eastern
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 16:35:27 GMT -5
Tanner Houck dominates, Red Sox pull away from Yankees
Published: Sep. 14, 2023, 4:26 p.m.
By
Matt Vautour | mvautour@masslive.com
BOSTON — On the day that Chaim Bloom was fired as the Chief Baseball Officer, the Red Sox took a step toward helping him not finish last for the third time.
Behind Tanner Houck’s best start of the season, Boston held off the Yankees, 5-0 on Thursday afternoon at Fenway Park to move one game ahead of New York in the quest not to finish in the basement of the American League East.
The second game of the doubleheader is scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
The Red Sox got on the board in the bottom of the first. Rafael Devers had a one-out single to right and moved to third on Justin Turner’s base hit. After Triston Casas struck out, Wilyer Abreu sliced a sinking liner that dropped in front of Everson Pereira as Devers trotted home.
Houck allowed no runs on four hits and three walks while striking out seven in six innings. He left with a 1-0 lead. He wriggled out of some trouble in the top of the six. With runners on first and third and one out, Cora elected to leave him in with Brennan Bernadino warming. Jake Bauers bounced a grounder to Casas whose throw home got by Connor Wong. Seeing the would-be error Gleyber Torres took off for home, but the ball caromed off of home plate umpire Todd Tichenor allowing Wong to recover it easily. He fired to Devers who tagged Torres out. Houck induced a bounce out to end the inning and his afternoon.
Ceddanne Rafaela introduced himself to the Pasky Pole in the bottom of the seventh to give the bullpen a cushion. He poked his second career Major League home run 316 feet around the famous foul pole to make it 2-0.
Trevor Story’s three-run home run went a little further. The previously slumping shortstop’s drive to straight-away center just cleared the wall at 404 feet to give Boston a 5-0 edge.
After Garrett Whitlock worked two scoreless innings, Chris Martin was warming up to close with Kenley Jansen out with COVID. Martin lost the save situation after Story’s home run but finished off the win allowing two hits and no runs in the ninth.
Rhode Island native and Boston College alum Michael King was the tough-luck loser allowing just one run in 4⅓ innings.
The unscheduled afternoon game created another sparse crowd for a series that used to be a tough ticket. The official attendance was 30,228.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 16:49:51 GMT -5
Game 2 Schimdt vs Robertson
DJ LeMahieu (R) 1B Aaron Judge (R) DH Gleyber Torres (R) 2B Giancarlo Stanton (R) LF Estevan Florial (L) CF Anthony Volpe (R) SS Oswald Peraza (R) 3B Oswaldo Cabrera (S) RF Kyle Higashioka (R) C
Ceddanne Rafaela (R) SS Rafael Devers (L) DH Alex Verdugo (L) RF Triston Casas (L) 1B Masataka Yoshida (L) LF Wilyer Abreu (L) CF Pablo Reyes (R) 2B Reese McGuire (L) C Luis Urias (R) 3B
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 18:22:13 GMT -5
another day of Dress like a Seat now the other day the NESN booth blamed the weather then a water main break lately.
No talk from the booth on the empty seats yet
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 18:38:05 GMT -5
Sox score 2 in the first to go up 2-0 and both involved Stanton in LF
Thank you Aaron Boone for placing him out there
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 14, 2023 18:55:45 GMT -5
Bernadino on for the 2nd and is going as expected loads up the bases then gives up a grand slam to Judge
5-2 Yankees
and that is all for me for this game
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 15, 2023 4:40:18 GMT -5
Aaron Judge hits grand slam to help Yankees beat Red Sox 8-5 for doubleheader split AP
BOSTON (AP) Aaron Judge hit a grand slam, DJ LeMahieu broke an eighth-inning tie with an RBI double, and the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 8-5 on Thursday night to split a doubleheader.
Oswald Peraza hit his first career homer, a two-run shot in the ninth for the Yankees (74-73), who won three of four at Boston to draw even with their rival at the bottom of the AL East.
“Incredible moment right there for me. We wanted those runs in that inning,” Peraza said through a translator. “To be able to come through and connect there was incredible. We were able to win the series which means a lot of us.”
Earlier Thursday, the Red Sox fired Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom after nearly four seasons, then beat the Yankees 5-0 in the twinbill opener. Tanner Houck pitched six strong innings and registered his first win since April.
Boston made the playoffs once during Bloom’s tenure and enters the remaining weeks of the season seeking to avoid another last-place finish in the division.
“Obviously, it’s a decision that ownership decided to go this route. We worked together all these years. It’s never easy to hear that,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said between games.
In the nightcap, Judge slugged a 2-0 pitch from Brennan Bernardino over the wall in center field with the bases loaded in the second inning to make it 5-2. It was his 32nd homer of the season and sixth career grand slam.
“Just got in a good count. Had a couple of opportunities over the past few days and didn’t come through,” Judge said.
Rafael Devers hit his 31st homer in the third to get the Red Sox within 5-3. Boston added a run in the fifth, and in the seventh, Triston Casas’ RBI groundout made it 5-5.
LeMahieu hit the go-ahead double off Mauricio Llovera (1-2).
“Good to see him go out there and do what he does at the top of the order,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Wandy Peralta (4-2) pitched the seventh for New York and Tommy Kahnle worked the final two innings for his second save.
Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt worked 5 1/3 innings, allowing four runs, three earned, on seven hits. New York turned three double plays behind him.
“Continued to stay locked in and be present and make the big pitch when I needed to,” Schmidt said. “Getting them to put the ball on the ground was the mentality throughout the game.”
FIRST GAME
In the opener, Houck (5-9) gave up four hits and struck out seven, and Trevor Story and rookie Ceddanne Rafaela homered for Boston. With the Red Sox ahead 2-0, Story hit a three-run shot into the center-field batters’ eye in the eighth inning.
Houck capped off his outing by escaping a one-out, first-and-third jam in the sixth. The Yankees were shut out for the ninth time this season.
“Today was a big day for Tanner,” Cora said. “He needed six innings.”
New York right-hander Michael King (4-6) gave up a run and six hits in 4 2/3 innings. The reliever-turned-starter who hails from Rhode Island and played at Boston College struck out eight and walked one.
“It’s nice being back on that routine,” King said of being back in the rotation for his fifth start. “I think that’s the main part of my body recovery that I feel like I missed (coming) out of the bullpen.”
Boston finished 9-4 against its rival this season.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Boone said top prospect Jasson Domínguez will undergo Tommy John surgery on his throwing elbow next Wednesday. Boone said the recovery time for a position player is nine to 10 months.
Red Sox: Right-handers Zack Kelly (right elbow inflammation) and Corey Kluber (right shoulder inflammation) are both on rehab assignments. Cora didn’t know what they’d be doing next.
UP NEXT
Yankees: RHP Gerrit Cole (13-4, 2.79 ERA) starts Friday in the opener of a weekend series at Pittsburgh.
Red Sox: RHP Brayan Bello (12-8, 3.68) starts Friday’s series opener at Toronto
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 15, 2023 5:00:55 GMT -5
Jon Couture @joncouture · 8h The #RedSox are 3-15 in games in which Mauricio Llovera has appeared. Would've believed you if you told me they were 0-fer.
(They were trailing 14 of them when he entered, to be fair.)
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