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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 15:20:27 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 4m Cora on Jack Leiter -- 'I hate to compare guys. Maybe a stronger version of Roy Oswalt. Short, maybe a little bit stronger, good fastball, good breaking ball.'
(Cora is watching Vanderbilt at the #CWS -- his brother Joey is an alum.) #RedSox
Cora on Jarren Duran -- 'We like where he's at progress-wise. If it's tomorrow or in a month, I know he can help us.'
'He's going to help us in the future. The future might be tomorrow or in a month or two months or next year.' #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 16:05:13 GMT -5
Gym Heinzzzzz @heinzonly1 · 20m Replying to @billkoch25 Why does he keep giving the worst hitter the most at bats? Cora is great and smarter than me at baseball mgmt, not trying to be one of those fans, but I do not get Santana at 1.
Bill Koch @billkoch25 The simple answer? Verdugo is probably best suited but prefers not to do it. They're committed to keeping the current 2-5 the same.
The more complicated answer? The #RedSox traded the quintessential modern leadoff hitter -- Mookie Betts. This roster has no replacement for him.[/b]
John @paindidnthurt · 23m Replying to @billkoch25 Cora was trying to make Benny the leadoff guy over him in '19 though.
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 16m Which was a poor decision. And ultimately abandoned.
#RedSox saw Trout hitting second, looked into the analytics and played copycat. Benintendi was never comfortable.
Betts hit leadoff in all but one of his 94 starts after May 31 -- .299/.388/.549, 26 2B, 20 HR, 59 BB, 64 K.[/b]
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 16:05:56 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 9m Connor Wong was on the field early today. Worked with Jason Varitek. Caught a bullpen, too.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 18:22:40 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 1h Connor Wong said he was on the bus yesterday ready to go to Rochester when Woo Sox manager Billy McMillion told him he was going to the big leagues.
"Billy can be a jokester so I was, 'Really?' It was true. Such an amazing feeling."
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 18:36:04 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 11m #RedSox hitters are 1 for 24 with a walk and 7 strikeouts in the first at-bat of the game since May 26.
To follow up on this, the first batter of the game is hitting .217/.250/.319 for the Sox. 29th worst worst OPS in MLB.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 18:36:47 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 3m Wander walks after being 0-2. Eduardo Rodriguez in trouble from the jump.
That Devers error was the 9th in the last 8 games for the Sox.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 18:42:25 GMT -5
2 errors in the first slow throws pure shitty slop
2-0 Rays and counting
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 18:43:41 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 1m Infield single scores a run, error scores a second run. 2-0 Rays and Rodriguez is over 20 pitches.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jun 22, 2021 20:26:09 GMT -5
2 errors in the first slow throws pure shitty slop
2-0 Rays and counting Ugly 1st, not so bad after. Until Franco. Dude has a good, quick, compact swing. I need to research how many IF hits we allowed this year.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jun 22, 2021 20:42:30 GMT -5
2 errors in the first slow throws pure shitty slop
2-0 Rays and counting Ugly 1st, not so bad after. Until Franco. Dude has a good, quick, compact swing. I need to research how many IF hits we allowed this year. Found it, in BR, under pitching, under Hit Location. The RS have allowed the most IF hits in the AL, and most IF doubles, and guess what? The most IF triples with 1. And it's not a tiny amount either. The RS have allowed a .110 average v the NYY .070. If we had the same number of opportunities, that would be 34 hits in only 72 games. That's almost .5 hits a game.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jun 22, 2021 21:01:31 GMT -5
Good shot of Franco's dad when he hit to HR. Very cool.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 21:05:28 GMT -5
Ugly 1st, not so bad after. Until Franco. Dude has a good, quick, compact swing. I need to research how many IF hits we allowed this year. Found it, in BR, under pitching, under Hit Location. The RS have allowed the most IF hits in the AL, and most IF doubles, and guess what? The most IF triples with 1. And it's not a tiny amount either. The RS have allowed a .110 average v the NYY .070. If we had the same number of opportunities, that would be 34 hits in only 72 games. That's almost .5 hits a game. No damn wonder we give a few extra outs per inning
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 21:06:11 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 1m Devers tried to advance on a grounder. 3B umpire called him out of the baseline and a double play.
Call is now being reviewed for whether Renfroe was safe at first
Renfroe is out. That's some bad base-running there.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 22, 2021 21:07:02 GMT -5
another in field hit for the Rays sloppy shit
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 23, 2021 2:50:21 GMT -5
Sox take opener in 11, increase lead in East 3:16 AM ADT Ian Browne
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne
The story coming into Tuesday’s game at Tropicana Field was MLB’s top prospect Wander Franco making his debut for the Rays.
It was a story that gained even more momentum when Franco smashed a game-tying, three-run homer against Eduardo Rodriguez in the bottom of the fifth inning.
But the Red Sox have their own story they want to keep building on, as perhaps the biggest surprise team in MLB so far this season.
And that gained some more steam Tuesday night, with the Sox outlasting Franco and the Rays with a grind-it-out, 9-5 victory in 11 innings.
Though it wasn’t the prettiest game manager Alex Cora’s team has played this season, Boston (44-29) stayed the course and extended its lead in the American League East to 1 1/2 games over the Rays. Tampa Bay, scorching-hot last month with an 11-game winning streak, has lost seven in a row.
“If you take a look at the guys we have on this roster, they have to earn everything that they have,” said Cora. “We have a bunch of grinders, a bunch of guys that on other teams, they didn’t play that much, but they’re getting their opportunities to play here. We just like to play baseball.
“It’s a good baseball team and we still have to get better in certain things. I keep saying it. But at the end of the day, you tell us where or when or what time. It doesn’t matter if it takes two hours and 45 minutes or whatever it took today. We push to the end no matter the result. It’s a testament to who they are. I’m very proud of them.”
The Sox are now 4-0 against the defending AL champions this season. Boston found a way to prevail despite errors by Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers in the bottom of the first, and outs on the bases by Devers, Bobby Dalbec and Alex Verdugo in the late innings.
“At the end of the day, it’s a big league win against a team that … they’re the American League favorites,” said Cora. “Everybody said coming into the season that they have a chance to get back to the World Series and we did a good job against them.”
For all the grinders that Cora mentioned, the Red Sox also have some studs in their batting order, including Devers.
The star third baseman atoned for his costly error in the first and his baserunning miscue in the eighth when he smashed a two-run double (exit velocity of 104.1 mph) into the right-field corner in the 11th inning that eluded Rays first baseman Yandy Díaz. Devers leads MLB with 23 game-tying or go-ahead hits this season.
Though Devers is still trying to be more consistent in the field, his improved maturity with the mental side of the game is what allowed him to come through when it mattered the most.
“Obviously I made that error that could have really cost us, but I just put it behind me,” Devers said. “I just turned the page and focused on ways I could help the team win. That’s something I was able to do today so thankfully I was able to execute. That’s part of baseball. I’m going to make errors and I’m going to have to remember that. Don’t let it just sit on me. I just have to continue to play the game that I know how to play.”
Meanwhile, the Red Sox just keep finding a way.
This, even though their projected ace going into the season -- Rodriguez -- hasn’t been in sync for the past month.
If not for the shaky defense Rodriguez had behind him in the first inning, perhaps he would have recorded his first win since May 7. But he did pitch six innings for the first time since May 12 and recorded his first quality start since April 25.
“After everything I’ve been through the last six, seven, eight starts, this start was really good for me,” Rodriguez said. “I went six innings, and I felt good with all my pitches.”
If Franco’s career goes the way people expect it will, Rodriguez could one day be the answer to a trivia question as the first pitcher to be taken deep by the exciting phenom, who is just 20 years old.
“What a good player he is, by the way,” said Cora. “The way he controls the at-bats for how young he is and to have this building behind him. I’ve never seen anything like this -- like that -- in this building. For him to slow down the game, they have a special one.”
The Red Sox think they have a special team.
“We’re battling for first place against them, so it’s a big win tonight,” said Rodriguez. “After everything that happened in the game, and the homer I gave up to the kid, the way we scored those runs, I feel like this was a big game for us.”
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