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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 19, 2021 14:07:30 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 38m Since Garrett Whitlock reported to spring training: 65 batters faced, 23 strikeouts, 0 walks
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 19, 2021 14:10:22 GMT -5
Red Sox Notes @soxnotes · 49m Nathan Eovaldi’s last 8 starts:
49 K 6 BB 2.01 ERA 0.99 WHIP
He has allowed 0 HR in his last 6 starts.
Garrett Whitlock:
Spring Training – 4 G, 9.0 IP, 1 R, 8-for-35, 0 BB, 12 K
Regular Season – 4 G, 9.0 IP, 0 R, 3-for-30, 0 BB, 11 K
Total – 0.50 ERA, 23 K, 0 BB, .169 opponent AVG, .369 opponent OPS
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 14:41:36 GMT -5
Nathan Eovaldi’s last 8 starts:
49 K
6 BB
2.01 ERA
0.99 WHIP
He has allowed 0 HR in his last 6 starts.
Talent is not the problem .Staying healthy is.
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Post by Kimmi on Apr 19, 2021 16:03:27 GMT -5
glad u have it that way and my extra innings....I never trust what the guide says,,,,I just look for it heck, the amount we pay for it, it should be very exact. My Extra Innings guide is pretty good. Thank goodness because I have had to pre-set the recordings for all of these day games. I'm not sure why the 2nd game wasn't broadcast on the package. Anyway...
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Post by Kimmi on Apr 19, 2021 16:11:52 GMT -5
Wow !!! Turned the tv on after a morning on the links and was TOTALLY SHOCKED to see the beating they put on one the best SP in baseball. After the WS pen put the Sox bats to sleep yesterday its safe to say no one seen this coming. Baseball is so unpredictable.
Yesterday was rough, losing both games in the double header, and having a rough time scoring many runs. We needed this today.
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Post by Kimmi on Apr 19, 2021 16:12:20 GMT -5
oh man what a nice play by Marwin to rob Lamb of a hit. Beautiful play.
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Post by Kimmi on Apr 19, 2021 16:14:25 GMT -5
Nasty Nate line
6.1/9/4/4/0bb/10k/100-75 Nice outing by Eovaldi. As PA mentioned, it's big that he was able to get into the 7th and save the pen a little bit.
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Post by Kimmi on Apr 19, 2021 16:17:30 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 38m Since Garrett Whitlock reported to spring training: 65 batters faced, 23 strikeouts, 0 walks Too soon to tell, but this could end up being the steal of the century.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Apr 19, 2021 19:24:51 GMT -5
3 straight singles by verdugo, jdm and devers
2-1 red sox
vazquez bunts and fools everyone
bases loaded I loved bunting for a hit there. The downside is that you likely put the team in position to go ahead in the game. The upside in a big inning. I wouldn't sacrifice, but bunting for a hit is good BB.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Apr 19, 2021 19:29:40 GMT -5
oh man what a nice play by Marwin to rob Lamb of a hit. Was that not Kike? Whoever it was, that was one of the best plays I've seen this year.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Apr 19, 2021 19:37:33 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 2m Danny Mendick has the 8th for the White Sox in an 11-4 game.
What a farce. Position players pitching used to be a joke or a professional embarrassment when clubs resorted to it. That it's become acceptable within #MLB is just sad. #RedSox I don't understand why it makes Koch sad. Just for fun, I checked the RS for 2019, the last full season. They devoted an entire one inning of relief pitching to a regular. The NYY had a whopping 3 IPs from position players. So far in 2021, neither team has used a position player in relief. These people must stay awake at night trying to figure out what they need to be outraged by.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Apr 19, 2021 19:40:16 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 38m Since Garrett Whitlock reported to spring training: 65 batters faced, 23 strikeouts, 0 walks Too soon to tell, but this could end up being the steal of the century.They're showing a ton of confidence. A lot of times, you keep a Rule 5 hoping he might be league-average. They're stretching him looking at starts, imho.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 20, 2021 2:51:18 GMT -5
Sox celebrate Patriots' Day with hits parade April 19th, 2021 Jordan Horrobin
Jordan Horrobin @jordanhorrobin
After being swept in a doubleheader on Sunday, in which the Red Sox scraped across just three runs, manager Alex Cora noticed the wear and tear of the schedule weighing on his players. They’d played 11 day games in their first 16, including a pair of doubleheaders in the past week.
The 11:10 a.m. ET start on Patriots’ Day didn’t appear to be coming at the best time.
“Just one more day,” Cora told his players. “Grind it out one more day.”
The Red Sox responded by opening the floodgates at Fenway Park with a seven-hit, six-run first inning in an 11-4 win to earn a series split with the White Sox.
Boston’s first six batters hit safely against Chicago starter Lucas Giolito, who had allowed just five runs in his first three outings this season. Enrique Hernández led off with a homer over the Green Monster -- which barely cleared, and had initially been ruled in play -- and that gave way to a quintet of singles.
“The line kept moving,” Cora said of his offense, which matched a season high in hits (17). “Probably the best inning of this short season. Line drive after line drive, quality at-bat after quality at-bat, against a good pitcher.”
The at-bat of the inning, though, might’ve belonged to Bobby Dalbec, the Red Sox rookie whose strikeout rate is in the bottom four percent of the league, per Statcast. Dalbec fouled off eight pitches to work a 14-pitch walk and roll the lineup over. Since 1988, when the pitch-count era began, only three Sox batters -- including the club's present-day manager -- have had longer at-bats that resulted in walks (all were 15 pitches).
“That was a game-changer,” Cora said. “Got that pitch count way up there. We had [Giolito] on the ropes, and we were able to put him away.”
Indeed, Dalbec’s patience, paired with a bundle of base knocks ensured that Giolito would not last long. J.D. Martinez homered for the sixth time to lead off the second, and Rafael Devers followed with a walk, which ended Giolito’s day after 54 pitches in one-plus innings.
Nathan Eovaldi surely enjoyed the outpouring of run support, but he didn’t need most of it. The flamethrowing righty fanned 10 in 6 1/3 innings, matching a career high in strikeouts. That included a punchout of Nick Madrigal, who hadn’t struck out in his previous 42 at-bats (the Majors’ longest active streak).
The early cushion allowed Eovaldi to do what he does best: shoot strikes. Of his 100 offerings on the day, 75 found the zone. He challenged the White Sox hitters to beat him, and they couldn’t.
“[When] we’re up 6-1, it’s like, I’m not worried about giving up runs; I’m worried about getting those guys back in the dugout and getting [our] guys hitting again,” he said.
Eovaldi couldn’t recall a time in which he had to pitch so early in the day as a Major Leaguer, but he was well prepared for the morning start. In the final few days leading up to Monday, Eovaldi woke up at 7 a.m. to “get the body moving” and condition himself. He only needed one coffee on the morning of his start, versus his more typical two or three.
“I mean, I’m tired in the afternoon, but at these key hours I was locked in and ready to go,” he said. “I'm a morning person, anyways. I love coffee, so I wake up and enjoy it.”
Maybe the Red Sox (11-6) as a collective are morning people, given their first-place start in the American League East on a steady diet of early games. That’s about to change, though, as Tuesday’s matchup with Toronto opens a stretch of nine night games in Boston’s next 11.
“Tomorrow, it feels like finally the schedule is [close to] normal,” Cora said. “For them to show up today on a special day here and play that way, that was eye-opening and fun to watch.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 20, 2021 3:23:31 GMT -5
Six-run first is just the start as AL-best Red Sox crush White Sox in series finale By Julian McWilliams Globe Staff,Updated April 19, 2021, 2:28 p.m.
Fresh off a Sunday evening loss to the White Sox in which they managed just four hits, the Red Sox bats were wide awake Monday morning for a convincing 11-4 Patriots Day win.
Chicago starter Lucas Giolito ran into a buzzsaw. The Red Sox battered him for six runs in the first inning, forcing him to throw 46 pitches. He was done after just eight more in the second, the shortest start of his 89 (including postseason) in the majors.
Giolito gave up a home run to leadoff hitter Kiké Hernández, plus five more singles before he recorded an out. And even that, a Hunter Renfroe grounder to third, made it 4-1.
It wasn’t until after a Franchy Cordero single, a 14-pitch walk worked by Bobby Dalbec, a Hernández pop out, and an Alex Verdugo fly out that Giolito finally got a breather.
But not for long.
Red Sox starter Nate Eovaldi struck out the side on 12 pitches in the top of the second after yielding a run in the first, and within a blink, Giolito’s 47th pitch was bouncing off a billboard. J.D. Martinez parked it, an 85 mile-per-hour slider, over the Green Monster.
Following a Rafael Devers walk, Giolito was lifted, bludgeoned for eight runs (seven earned) on eight hits and two walks in 54 pitches.
“It started with Kiké,” Cora said. “Probably our best inning of this short season. Line drive after line drive, quality at-bat after quality at-bat. Against a good pitcher, one of the best in the league, and it was fun to see.”
Giolito has attacked hitters with a three-pitch mix this season: fastball, changeup, and slider. Yet he leans heavily on his changeup, tossing that pitch 35.2 percent of the time and generating a whopping 47.3 percent whiff rate. Since 2018, Giolito has morphed his changeup into his primary putaway pitch, and himself into one of the better arms in the game. In his three previous starts, he’d utilized his changeup as a putaway pitch 41 percent of the time.
The Red Sox weren’t fooled Monday. Hernández’s homer came on an 0-and-2 changeup. Devers’s first-inning single came on a 1-and-2 changeup, followed by Christian Vázquez’s bunt single, Marwin Gonzalez’s first-pitch single, and finally Cordero’s two-strike single to make it 6-1.
“He has a really good changeup, but he leaves it over the plate,” Hernández said. “Mine was pretty middle. He left it up. He wasn’t executing his changeup and he made some mistakes and we made him pay for it.”
Eovaldi, meanwhile, put together a solid outing, allowing four runs in 6⅓ innings with 10 strikeouts, matching a career high.
The Sox’ 17 hits, including a Verdugo solo shot in the third off reliever Zack Burdi, helped salvage a four-game series split with Chicago, which used non-pitchers Yermín Mercedes and Danny Mendick to throw the final two innings. At 11-6, the Red Sox had the most wins in the American League at game’s end.
Now, they must turn the page to a two-game series with the Blue Jays and Toronto’s high-powered young offense led by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. The series of good arms the Sox have faced recently won’t let up Tuesday, with Hyun Jin Ryu taking the hill. Ryu has a 1.89 ERA in three starts, collecting 19 strikeouts in as many innings.
“He’s relentless with the way he attacks hitters,” Cora said. “He doesn’t give in. He’s been doing it for a while.”
Eduardo Rodriguez will start for the Red Sox.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 20, 2021 3:25:45 GMT -5
RED SOX NOTEBOOK Finesse figuring in to Nate Eovaldi’s varied attack from the mound By Julian McWilliams Globe Staff,Updated April 19, 2021, 8:08 p.m. 7 Nate Eovaldi has been on the attack this season, fanning 24 hitters -- including 10 on Monday against the White Sox -- against just four walks in a 3-1 start.
At the start of spring training, much of the talk surrounding Red Sox pitchers involved pace. The rhythm of the Sox pitchers was out of sorts in 2020, so, in addition to hammering in the idea of pounding the strike zone, pitching coach Dave Bush wanted his staff to employ pace with purpose.
In Nate Eovaldi’s start Monday against the White Sox, he worked at a steady pace. He commanded and pounded the strike zone. But Eovaldi had another thing going for him, too: Five pitches.
In his 6⅓ innings of an 11-4 win, which amounted to 100 pitches, a season-high 10 strikeouts and four runs allowed, Eovaldi tossed his splitter 12 times, his slider and cutter 13 times each, and a heavy dosage of curveballs (21) and four-seam fastballs (41).
Eovaldi has refined his approach to attack hitters. In the past, he mainly relied on velocity, pumping in a plethora of cutters and four-seamers. The upper-90s to 100 miles-per-hour fastball is still present, but more than any other year, you’re beginning to see finesse with Eovaldi, too. 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.
He upped the overall usage of his curveball to 20.6 percent prior to Monday, and has often played that off of his overpowering fastball. He’s also cut his cutter usage roughly in half.
The curveball, a pitch Eovaldi began flashing effectively last season, has proven to be a catalyst for his success. Tim Anderson’s double in the fifth inning was the first hit against Eovaldi’s curveball this season.
The proper and effective mix of the curveball and fastball, and roughly the 20-mph differential between the two pitches, can be devastating for a hitter. If you consider that Eovaldi has the other three pitches in his back pocket, maybe even as a show-me pitch, they add another knot for a batter to untangle.
“Today was one of those days where I felt like I kind of had everything working,” Eovaldi said. “I made a mechanical adjustment, trying to clean it up a little bit. And I felt like that adjustment was really good for me. It allowed me to just get out in front and get that better extension. I think we’re heading the right direction.”
Command, of course, makes it even easier to throw pitches with conviction. Eovaldi has walked just four batters in 23⅔ innings, and none on Monday.
“My focus is first-pitch strike, get ahead of them and stay on the attack the entire time,” said Eovaldi, who has a 3.04 ERA. “If I’m not striking guys out, hopefully I’m getting quick outs, going deep into the ball game. That’s been my main focus: Make them earn their way onto the basepaths.” Polar proceedings to dissect
Pitching prospect Connor Seabold reportedly sat between 91-94 mph, topping out at 95, during a scrimmage at the team’s alternate site in Worcester. Seabold tossed six innings against the New York Mets, surrendering five hits while striking out five. He did not yield a run and walked two. Seabold, acquired from the Philadelphia Phillies last season via trade, is being watched closely this season. The 25-year-old flashes a plus changeup to go with his fastball and slider. At the team’s alternate site in Pawtucket last year, Seabold began incorporating a curveball, a pitch he noted is coming along. “I totally get how it can be confused for a slider because it’s still a little slurve-ish” Seabold said during a Zoom call Monday. “I’m not looking for it to be 12-[to]-6, but it’s not like a curveball shape yet. Still a work-in-progress, but I got some good takes on it today for strikes. It’s come a long way since where it started.” Top outfield prospect Jarren Duran also hit two homers during the contest . . . A group of Red Sox players received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine after the game, including Kiké Hernández . . . The Red Sox scored 10-plus runs for the third time this year, and hit at least three homers for the second time . . . Martín Pérez reached 1,000 innings pitched in the majors on Sunday, becoming the 12th Venezuelan-born pitcher to reach the milestone.
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