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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 17:20:32 GMT -5
Erods line 5ip/9/4/4/0bb/5k/87-62
Sawamura pitched clean 6th
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 17:34:16 GMT -5
Hernandez has the 7th 2 out meatball to Walsh 5-3 Halos and I am muting the Halo feed. These guys are clowns
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 17:41:17 GMT -5
Maddon with changes to his D in the 8th former 3B now at RF has a ball sail over his head JDM lead off triple Xander 2B
5-4 Halos
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 17:43:46 GMT -5
devers again pops up this time to 3B foul territory
renfroe ks
arroyo grounds out
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 17:56:18 GMT -5
whitlock zips thru 8th nasty nasty stuff
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 18:03:35 GMT -5
cora barking at the ump the k zone is trash
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 18:05:35 GMT -5
Halos win off day tomorrow philly to close out before break
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 18:16:29 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 10m Sox were 3.5 games up when they left Boston. They return 2.5 games up.
Sox 5x23 with RISP the last two days in a two-run loss and a one-run loss.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 18:17:07 GMT -5
Chris Cotillo @chriscotillo · 4m Alex Cora said he didn't agree with the double play/neighborhood play call in the 6th and that he was surprised it wasn't overturned.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 18:18:18 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 1m Cora on Gonzalez (right hamstring) and Santana (left quadriceps) -- 'We felt like both guys were progressing. Both of them, in an emergency, were going to be available.'
Both players will receive treatment and be evaluated at Fenway Park. #RedSox
Cora on Rodriguez -- 'Those two pitches (on the homers), I bet he wants them back.'
'Overall, we don't like the result. But the stuff was good. He made some good pitches.' #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 18:19:17 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 7m Alex Cora -- 'Every time we lose a series we're disappointed. Now we move on.' #RedSox
Cora -- 'That's what they do -- they hit the ball out of the ballpark.'
'We can talk about all the singles and soft contact, but those three swings -- they were big.' #RedSox
Cora on the Iglesias turn/double play that was challenged -- 'There's no more neighborhood play.'
'The angles I saw, I didn't agree with Alfonso (Marquez). Obviously he's closer than me.'
'I didn't agree with the call.' #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 7, 2021 18:19:46 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 6m Cora -- 'The line is still moving, which is good. We just haven't had that big hit the last few days.' #RedSox
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Jul 7, 2021 20:59:50 GMT -5
Can't really complain about this road trip. Even the 2 losses were winnable games, though to be fair, our wins could have just as easily gone the other way. It would be nice to finish the series and the west coast trip with a win and come home winning 4 of 6.
Let's go! Amazing. 3 one-run wins, two one-run losses, and one 2-run loss. As close as can be.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2021 3:06:36 GMT -5
E-Rod looks forward after 'grinder' first half July 7th, 2021 Ian Browne
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne
ANAHEIM -- First there were the annoying bloops. Later came the back-to-back blasts.
For Eduardo Rodriguez, it was a somewhat fitting end to his up-and-down first half.
As the Red Sox lost, 5-4, in the rubber match of a three-game series to the Angels, E-Rod gave up four runs on nine hits over five innings, walking none and striking out five.
“Personally, a grinder. That’s how I see my first half, personally,” said Rodriguez. “Every start, just go out there and grind, grind, grind.”
The grind Rodriguez referred to has added up to a 6-5 record and a 5.52 ERA in 17 starts.
Despite Wednesday’s loss, Rodriguez has been trending upward of late. In his last four starts, Rodriguez posted a 3.52 ERA with 26 strikeouts and three walks, while holding the opposition to a .244 average and a .665 OPS in 23 innings.
Rodriguez will get seven days of rest before he is the first Boston pitcher to take the mound to open the second half at Yankee Stadium on July 15.
“I felt really good the last couple starts, and I have to go and execute the next half. Now we’ll start pushing towards the playoffs, and I know what I have to do to put my team in position to win every start I go out there,” Rodriguez said.
Aside from the back-to-back jacks by Shohei Ohtani (No. 32) and Jared Walsh in the fifth inning, the Angels didn’t have any meaningful hard contact against Rodriguez.
“I tried to go changeup to Ohtani, and I missed middle-up and he hit out. And the other guy I went to go down and away, and I missed the middle of the plate and he hit it out, too,” Rodriguez said.
Given the final score, perhaps the biggest homer of the game was the one Darwinzon Hernandez gave up to Walsh in the seventh.
After starting this West Coast trip by winning three out of four, the Sox had an anti-climactic end, losing the last two to break even on the trip. The homers by the Angels were all that separated Boston from a winning trip.
“Hanging changeup, bad cutter and a bad fastball. That’s what they do,” said Red Sox manager Alex Cora. “They hit the ball out of the ballpark. We saw it yesterday with [Max] Stassi, the three home runs today. We can talk about all the singles and soft contact, but those three swings, they were big, and the one yesterday. It’s what they do and they have enough guys that they put it in play, but they have power. We got burned by the home runs.”
In building a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first, the Halos had three hits that didn’t top 80-mph.
“He threw the ball well,” Cora said of Rodriguez. “There was a lot of soft contact, so that’s out of your control. I know he was disappointed and upset that was happening, but that’s the nature of the ballgame. Play to make contact and hopefully good things happen. It happened enough to them the last two days. Stuff-wise, he was really good.”
The fact that Rodriguez had 15 whiffs in 87 pitches was an indicator of how much life the lefty had on his pitches.
Given that Rodriguez didn’t pitch at all in 2020 due to myocarditis, it stands to reason he is still getting stronger and will perform better down the stretch. For a Boston team that should also get Chris Sale back at some point in August, a strong finish by Rodriguez could be huge.
“He’s been amazing the last three or four [starts],” said Cora. “Stuff wise he is where he has to be, making pitches. His fastball, actually halfway through the game, it started playing. He’s like, ‘If you’re going to make contact down there, let’s elevate.’ He did a good job. So he’s in a good spot.”
Costly call and a near miss The Red Sox were on the comeback trail in the top of the sixth, down 4-3, with two on and two outs when Christian Vázquez hit a grounder up the middle. Second baseman David Fletcher flipped to shortstop José Iglesias, who executed some fancy footwork to fire to first for what was called a double play. The issue Boston had was that it looked like Iglesias missed the bag before throwing.
Christian Arroyo, who was ruled out at second, furiously waved his arms toward Boston's dugout, and Cora challenged the call by second-base umpire Alfonso Marquez. However, the call stood, as a frustrated Arroyo went to retrieve his glove and play defense.
“There’s no more neighborhood play,” said Cora. “I know [Iglesias] is good at short, he makes great plays, he has some great footwork, but the angles that I saw, I didn’t agree with Alfonso. Obviously he’s closer than me. It was going to be, what, second and third and two outs, but I didn’t agree with the call. Like I said, he’s closer than me, so he had a better view.”
Arroyo nearly came through two innings later when he hit a grounder up the middle that looked like it had enough to get into center field and score Xander Bogaerts with the tying run. But Fletcher made a nice stop and fired to first for the inning-ending out.
“I hit it, and as soon as it got by the pitcher, I was thinking it would maybe squeak through,” said Arroyo. “They shifted a little bit and Fletcher was playing up the middle, and [he] made a really good play in shallow center. Off the bat, I thought there was a chance.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 8, 2021 3:31:36 GMT -5
Angels hit a bunch of bleeders against Red Sox, but homers by Shohei Ohtani and Jared Walsh did the real damage By Julian McWilliams Globe Staff,Updated July 7, 2021, 7:04 p.m.
Angels All-Star Shohei Ohtani fouled a ball off his right (front) foot and then his left leg against Red Sox starter Eduardo Rodriguez in the fifth inning on Wednesday afternoon.
Ohtani hobbled around outside of the batter’s box for a bit. Then he hit a go-ahead, 433-foot solo shot for his 32nd home run of the season. Jared Walsh made it back-to-back homers when he reached the greenery beyond the center-field wall at Angels Stadium. It put the Angels ahead by two runs, and they went on to defeat the Red Sox, 5-4.
In a game that was highlighted by a bunch of bleeders against Rodriguez, the homers by Ohtani and Walsh were no-doubters.
“That’s what they do. They hit the ball out of the ballpark,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. “They have enough guys that put the ball in play, but they’ve got power. We got burned by the home runs.”
Ohtani’s major league-leading 32nd homer set a record for most in a season for a Japanese player, breaking a tie with Hideki Matsui, who hit 31 for the Yankees in 2004.
Seven of the nine hits against Rodriguez, not counting the home runs, registered exit velocities below 80 miles per hour. When the Angels scored two runs off Rodriguez in the first inning, Ohtani’s RBI single came in at just 64.4 m.p.h.
“I feel like I was executing all of my pitches, and they were hitting bloopers all over the place,” said Rodriguez. “It’s kind of hard when you know your pitches are working pretty good, and they start hitting balls like that. But those things happen.”
Rodriguez finished the first half of the season with a 5.52 ERA in 17 starts (89⅔ innings).
“It was a grind,” he said. “That’s how I see my first half. I ended up feeling really good the last couple of starts. It’s something I have to execute in the next half.”
The Red Sox were held scoreless through the first four innings by Angels starter Andrew Heaney (5-6). But in the fifth, consecutive one-out singles by Christian Arroyo, Christian Vázquez, and Bobby Dalbec gave the Red Sox their first run. Later, a two-out single by Alex Verdugo tied the game at 2.
But the Angels didn’t waste any time answering in the fifth with the home runs by Ohtani and Walsh. An RBI single by Arroyo in the sixth cut the Sox’ deficit to just one run, but Walsh responded with his second homer of the day in the seventh off Darwinzon Hernandez.
“This is a good Angels team. They’re not a bad team,” said Arroyo. “It’s disappointing, but at the same time, you know, we’re going to keep playing baseball. We’re going to keep playing good baseball.”
In the eighth, it looked as if the Sox had a chance to steer their way toward a comeback. J.D. Martinez led off with a triple after right fielder Luis Rengifo lost the ball in the sun. Then Xander Bogaerts doubled to bring the Sox within 5-4. But the Sox then went down in order. Rafael Devers popped out into foul territory and Hunter Renfroe struck out. Arroyo then looked as if he had a hit up the middle, but second baseman David Fletcher played it perfectly in the shift and was able to nab Arroyo just in time for the final out of the frame.
“He made a really good play in shallow center,” Arroyo said. “Off the bat, I thought there was a chance. I was just trying to battle there and try to make something happen.”
The Red Sox (54-34) finished their West Coast trip 3-3. They still have a 2½-game lead over the second-place Rays in the American League East heading into a three-game set starting Friday night against the Phillies at Fenway Park.
“It sucks that we lost two out of three here,” Cora said. “But I bet before April 1, if you told me you can take 3-3 going to Oakland and Anaheim, [we’d take it]. Of course we are disappointed. It wasn’t a great trip, but it was an OK trip.”
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