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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 30, 2021 3:38:48 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 7h Horrendous start for Pivetta. 1st inning gave KC the lead, 2nd inning lost the lead, 4th inning lost the lead, 5 inning lost the lead.
Pivetta ERA HR 2.81 1 April 4.82 3 May 5.40 9 June
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 30, 2021 3:57:52 GMT -5
Royals @ Red Sox Wednesday, 30th June 2021 7pm @ Fenway
Minor 6-5/5.12
Minor was rocked for nine runs on 11 hits across five-plus innings in Friday's loss to the Rangers. Minor kept the Rangers off the scoreboard through the first three innings, but matters began to devolve from that point onward and the veteran southpaw would ultimately allow nine runs over his final two-plus frames. Four of those runs scored in the fourth stanza, the other five in the sixth. The 11 hits allowed were a season-high, ditto the nine runs. This marks the low point of what's been a dreadful season to date.
Perez 5-4/4.09
Perez was lifted after allowing three unearned runs in 3 2/3 innings Friday against the Yankees. Perez's spin rates have been down of late, and he's pitched well in just one of his last four starts.
Kansas City Royals vs. Boston Red Sox Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 7:10pm EDT Written by Adam Rauzino
The Kansas City Royals take on the Boston Red Sox in the third of a four-game series Wednesday night from Fenway Park. It will be Mike Minor seeking a rebound from his worst outing of the season. The Red Sox will send a struggling Martin Perez to the mound. The Red Sox lead the season series 3-2 including a 7-6 win on Tuesday night.
Minor Clobbered in Worst Start of Season
Mike Minor will make his 16th start of the season in this one. Minor was clobbered in his previous start, giving up a whopping nine runs in five innings against the Rangers, and was tagged with the loss to dip his record to 6-5. The veteran southpaw is allowing a ton of hits and has not been reliable as of late. His ERA has plummeted to 5.12 along with a 1.26 WHIP in 91.1 innings pitched. Minor held the Red Sox to only two runs in 6.2 innings a few starts ago and has filed a 3-3 record and a 3.63 ERA in 52 career innings against Boston.
KC continues a difficult 10-game road trip in this one. They stand at 1-6 on the trip including a series loss to the Yankees, followed by a three-game sweep at the hands of the Rangers. The pitching continues to be exploited while the offense has been decent.
Whit Merrifield was a tough out against Boston earlier this month, recording 5 hits in 13 at-bats with three RBI’s and collected another three hits on Monday. The 32-year old right fielder has tallied 43 RBI’s and a .740 OPS on the season. Merrifield has nine hits in his last five games.
The Royals are scoring an average of 4.13 runs per game, ranking them 20th overall. The KC pitching has posted a 4.86 team ERA, pegging them 25th in the Majors.
Perez Starts, Red Sox Climb into First Place
The Red Sox will have Martin Perez on the hill for the 16th time of the season. Perez couldn’t find a groove in his latest outing, allowing three runs (zero earned) in 3.2 innings of work against the Yankees and was able to escape with the no-decision in a game Boston ended up winning. The veteran southpaw has struggled over his last four outings and enters with a 4.09 ERA and a 1.44 WHIP accompanied by a 5-4 record in 70.1 innings. He limited the Royals to one run in five innings earlier this month and is 2-1 with a 4.93 ERA in 49.1 career innings.
The Red Sox rebounded from a series loss to the Rays by sweeping the rival Yankees this past weekend. They now stand in first place with a half-game lead ahead of the Rays in the East. Boston has won five straight home games entering Tuesday’s action.
JD Martinez has driven in three runs in 16 at-bats against the Royals this season. The veteran slugger had a bit of a quiet month for his standards but overall features solid numbers, launching 15 homers with 47 RBI’s and a terrific .895 OPS on the season.
The Red Sox are averaging a terrific 5.03 runs, good for fourth in the big leagues. The pitching staff enters with a 4.10 team ERA, landing them 15th overall.
Royals at Red Sox Wednesday, at 7:10 PM EST Rainy According to Forecast.io, it's expected to be 81° F with a 39% chance of rain and 7 MPH wind blowing out in Boston at 7:10 PM EST. Hourly Forecasts: Weather.com Forecast.io 8:10 PM rain 47% Rain 79° W 7 mph Out 9:10 PM rain 39% Rain 78° W 7 mph Out 10:10 PM rain 25% Rain
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 30, 2021 6:32:06 GMT -5
Peter Gammons @pgammo · 2h Tuesday's 4.2 4 0 0 0 6 gave Boston's bullpen 17.2 IP, 1 ER in five Fenway wins on thei homestand.
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Post by Kimmi on Jun 30, 2021 7:00:39 GMT -5
Attention Garret RichardsAlex Speier @alexspeier · 2h Tanner Houck, who turns 25 today, is starting for Triple-A Worcester tonight - his third start back from his flexor strain. He’s struck out 12 with one walk in 6 2/3 innings in his first two starts back from the injury.Katie Morrison @katiemo61 · 1h More first-base Franchy
Alex Speier @alexspeier · 44m With Dalbec’s struggles against righties, this is notable. We have been very fortunate so far in terms of injuries to our starting pitching. We have not needed any depth. It's nice to have Houck off of the IL and pitching well.
Are we headed for a Dalbec/Cordero platoon at 1B? I wouldn't mind that, but I also am fine with leaving Dalbec at 1B by himself and letting him continue to develop. I know he has a terrible K rate that needs to improve, but I think the Sox are fine with him in the #9 spot.
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Post by Kimmi on Jun 30, 2021 7:10:52 GMT -5
Boston Sports Info @bostonsportsinf · 4h Red Sox - June
(17-10, .630) Runs scored - 135 Runs allowed -136
Run differential - (-1)
Huh?
I don’t recall ever seeing a team win 63.0% of their games in a month with a negative run differential As much as I don't like to admit it, the Sox have been on the fortunate end of baseball randomness. They are currently 5 games over their Pythagorean W-L record due to their W-L record in 1 or 2 run games. Seven games over .500 in the month of June with a -1 run differential. Yikes. Not that I'm complaining, but we will need better from our starters.
At the same time, we have been rather unfortunate in terms of starts made by Eovaldi and especially ERod.
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Post by Kimmi on Jun 30, 2021 7:12:07 GMT -5
Peter Gammons @pgammo · 2h Tuesday's 4.2 4 0 0 0 6 gave Boston's bullpen 17.2 IP, 1 ER in five Fenway wins on thei homestand. Go bullpen. They've been awesome.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 30, 2021 8:53:03 GMT -5
Attention Garret RichardsAlex Speier @alexspeier · 2h Tanner Houck, who turns 25 today, is starting for Triple-A Worcester tonight - his third start back from his flexor strain. He’s struck out 12 with one walk in 6 2/3 innings in his first two starts back from the injury.Katie Morrison @katiemo61 · 1h More first-base Franchy
Alex Speier @alexspeier · 44m With Dalbec’s struggles against righties, this is notable. We have been very fortunate so far in terms of injuries to our starting pitching. We have not needed any depth. It's nice to have Houck off of the IL and pitching well.
Are we headed for a Dalbec/Cordero platoon at 1B? I wouldn't mind that, but I also am fine with leaving Dalbec at 1B by himself and letting him continue to develop. I know he has a terrible K rate that needs to improve, but I think the Sox are fine with him in the #9 spot.
Cordero can stay right where he is. Pitching is the need.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 30, 2021 8:54:57 GMT -5
Peter Gammons @pgammo · 2h Tuesday's 4.2 4 0 0 0 6 gave Boston's bullpen 17.2 IP, 1 ER in five Fenway wins on thei homestand. Go bullpen. They've been awesome. and will be burned out by August if the SP don't get their shit together.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 30, 2021 9:11:22 GMT -5
Red Sox bullpen has become the straw that stirs this team's drink
By Rob Bradford 3 hours ago
The Red Sox won Tuesday night, beating the Royals, 7-6, at a steamy Fenway Park. It was their fifth straight win and put Alex Cora's team two games ahead of second-place Tampa Bay.
You know what else happened? The bullpen carried them ... again.
This time it was 4 2/3 innings that the relievers were counted on for, with the group not allowing a single run while allowing for Major League Baseball-leading 27th come-from-behind victory.
It was the 34th time this season the Sox' bullpen has had to turn in four or more innings, with the team's record in such situations standing at a very digestible 21-13. (Conversely, the Yankees are 13-21 when asking their relievers to get 12 or more outs.)
This time the participants included Yacksel Rios (who may be turning out to be yet another valuable under-the-radar find by Chaim Bloom), Darwin Hernandez, Adam Ottavino, and, of course, Matt Barnes.
Those not partaking this time around include Josh Taylor, Hirokazu Sawamura, Matt Andriese, Brandon Workman and Garrett Whitlock.
As we sit here, every single one of those names either presently does, or has the potential to serve a purpose. That's something.
The Red Sox have landed at the end of June answering one of their biggest questions coming into 2021, that regarding the viability of the bullpen. It's good to be good. But what has made it really important to be really good is the fact that they are being to get half of the team's outs in about 40 percent of its games.
The route to get here hasn't been seamless, with some desperation to discover a bridge to Barnes before the emergence of Ottavino and Taylor. But consider what it has become. Since the June 13, 18-4 meltdown of a loss to the Blue Jays -- when Marwin Gonzalez and Christian Arroyo became part of the relief pitching fraternity -- the Sox relievers have a collective 2.15 ERA while allowing three of their 24 inherited runners to score.
And to sweeten the deal, the Red Sox have managed to find the very same dynamic the Yankees tried to throw money at in order to uncover. New York is paying two relievers -- Aroldis Chapman and Zack Britton -- a combined $29 million to find the kind of security the Sox are sitting with.
Oh, and two of those Red Sox go-to guys -- Ottavino and Whitlock -- they got from the Yankees for nothing but cash. Ooof!
All is well and good right now, which is Step 1. Now comes crunch-time. July, August and September.
Ryan Brasier expects to pitch at some point in July, even though he is still fighting off the impact of that 104 mph line-drive that left him with a concussion and a bunch of stitches in his right ear. The way he pitched last season, that would be helpful.
There will be some semblance of All-Star recognition, most likely involving Barnes but with the outside chance that Taylor and Whitlock will enter the conversation. Three guys in that sort of mix says something.
But if the starters remain on this innings roller coaster (although they do somewhat surprisingly sit with the fourth-most innings of any American League starting staff) prioritizing proven lock-down bullpen arms might be a very thing at the trade deadline.
In other words, a very real case can be made for punctuating the Red Sox' relief-pitching conversation with the acquisition of a player like Pittsburgh's Richard Rodriguez. He's the guy who is living life with a 1.78 ERA, .168 opponents batting average, 27 strikeouts and just three walks while throwing almost exclusively fastballs.
There are others. Detroit's Michael Fulmer, Texas' Ian Kennedy, or ... wait for it ... old friend Daniel Bard, who is serving as Colorado's closer.
For the time being, the Red Sox are living life with a pretty solid security blanket thanks to this bullpen. And for those dealing with pennant race angst, that should be a comforting notion.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 30, 2021 9:14:30 GMT -5
Red Sox Notes @soxnotes · 43m Boston’s 9 active relievers have a combined 2.91 ERA for the Red Sox this season. Eight of them have an ERA of 3.04 or lower:
Whitlock – 1.42 Workman – 2.00 Sawamura – 2.56 Barnes – 2.65 Rios – 2.70 Ottavino – 2.73 Hernandez – 2.84 Taylor – 3.04
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 30, 2021 9:16:46 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 11m The core of the Red Sox bullpen has been good all year and have saved their ass this month.
Barnes, Ottavino, Taylor, Hernandez, Sawamura, Whitlock:
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jun 30, 2021 9:17:59 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 3m Still 8 more days before an off day and the bullpen is taxed big time. Might be a Perez, Andriese, Workman, Taylor night.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jun 30, 2021 10:30:50 GMT -5
Red Sox notebook Red Sox’ aggressive tactics on bases have defenses on the runBy Julian McWilliams Globe Staff,Updated June 30, 2021, 12:41 a.m. Red Sox first base coach Tom Goodwin swiped 369 bags during his 14-year big league career. In 1996, when Goodwin was a member of the Kansas City Royals, he stole 66 bases that year. It was a different game back then, one that relied on speed to exploit teams. Now, 25 years later, Goodwin has infused some of his aggressive baserunning tactics into this Red Sox team. “We’ve been trying to work on our primary and secondary leads,” Goodwin said before the Sox’ 7-6 win over the visiting Royals on Tuesday. “We’re trying to be as aggressive as we can, but yet still playing within the realm of the game. . Big fan of this. I know SBs are no longer a big part of the game, but there are probably dozens of times a game where you can get an extra half-foot lead, or position your OFs 2 feet closer to where the hitters might hit, or maybe a frame a strike better. The more you take advantage of these opportunities, the more likely we are to win. A lot like real life.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jun 30, 2021 10:46:14 GMT -5
Boston Sports Info @bostonsportsinf · 4h Red Sox - June
(17-10, .630) Runs scored - 135 Runs allowed -136
Run differential - (-1)
Huh?
I don’t recall ever seeing a team win 63.0% of their games in a month with a negative run differential As much as I don't like to admit it, the Sox have been on the fortunate end of baseball randomness. They are currently 5 games over their Pythagorean W-L record due to their W-L record in 1 or 2 run games. Seven games over .500 in the month of June with a -1 run differential. Yikes. Not that I'm complaining, but we will need better from our starters.
At the same time, we have been rather unfortunate in terms of starts made by Eovaldi and especially ERod.I will defer to the real mathematicians on this one, but I believe that the weakness of the Py W/L. which is very good, is that it underestimates the BP, and the closer. If, for example, we doubled Barnes ER, the Py W/L would decrease almost exactly one run. But our real W/L might decrease by 3-4 wins. Where it differs from the normal calculus is the leverage. There is no real leverage with batters and SPs. They get the same number of ABs and IPs no matter what the situation. Since your best RPs are used in order to lock down wins, I think you could easily double their contribution to Py. The same with your bad RPs. If we only use Andriese when we are down or up by 7 runs, he could have a 10.00 ERA, and it wouldn't affect our W/L. but would impact our Py W/L. I'd be curious to see what they W/L records of the RS, NYY, TO, and Philly are when they are ahead after 6 innings. I'd expect to see at least a 3-4 game difference.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jun 30, 2021 11:11:49 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 3m Still 8 more days before an off day and the bullpen is taxed big time. Might be a Perez, Andriese, Workman, Taylor night. Good chart, but I'd like to it labeled better. I'm not what the pinkish color means. That aside, some of this has to do with a 5-game winning streak, as well as the NYY righthandedness. Taylor and Darwin basically got 3-day vacation because the NYY have no real lefties. And Andriese and Workman are basically doing cleanup work. When you win 5 in a row, you probably won't use them. So that is effectively 4 of the 9 guys not being used.
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