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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 10, 2021 17:47:55 GMT -5
and there ya go single 6-2 Philly
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 10, 2021 17:52:15 GMT -5
workman walks in the next run DFA him now Cora comes out Boos rain down, he should never of been brought back. Phlly up 7-2 Brice is in.....hahahahaha
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 10, 2021 17:57:14 GMT -5
Brice a full member of the gas can gang 2 more runs in 9-2 Philly.\\
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 10, 2021 17:59:39 GMT -5
Harper as usual with a useless hit 2b 11-2 Philly
Hope Bloom is on the phone.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 10, 2021 18:02:54 GMT -5
another walk. boos rain down
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 10, 2021 18:06:01 GMT -5
and every time he goes to the bump I smell gas
Red Sox Notes @soxnotes · 28m Prior to today’s game, Josh Taylor had allowed 0 runs in 26 consecutive appearances, the 2nd-longest streak in Red Sox history. (Koji Uehara made 27 consecutive scoreless appearances in 2013.)
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 10, 2021 18:18:36 GMT -5
Chavis batting for Xander more white flag shit and Chavis K;s hope he writes in his book, that the fans boo'd him
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 10, 2021 18:27:09 GMT -5
Brice back out for 9th
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 10, 2021 18:39:59 GMT -5
Sox lose 11-2
total horseshit effort
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 11, 2021 3:26:11 GMT -5
Taylor's streak ends in rare lapse for Sox 'pen July 10th, 2021 Ian Browne
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne
BOSTON -- All that separated Josh Taylor from a piece of Red Sox history was turning in yet another scoreless performance on Saturday.
Instead, the lefty picked an inopportune time to have his worst outing in months as Boston fell to the Phillies, 11-2, at Fenway Park.
With the Sox still within striking distance, down 3-2, Taylor struggled in the top of the eighth, allowing four straight baserunners to reach. The backbreaker was a two-run double by Rhys Hoskins.
After giving up zero runs in 26 straight appearances, Taylor gave up four on Saturday. The only out he recorded was when the Phillies got caught in a rundown to end the seventh.
If Taylor could have put up another unblemished appearance, he would have tied Koji Uehara’s club record of 27 consecutive scoreless outings from July 9-Sept. 13, 2013.
“I mean, it’s cool and all. That’s not really something I show up to the field worried about,” Taylor said of the best pitching stretch of his career to date. “Just want to go into the game and do my job. I have a job to get the outs I need and today I didn’t do that.”
The inning got away from the Red Sox even more after Taylor’s exit, as Brandon Workman and Austin Brice also pitched in what snowballed into an eight-run frame by the Phillies.
Though it was a tough day for Taylor, his hot streak -- which started on April 30 -- is something to appreciate.
“He’s been so great for two, two and a half months. It just happens,” said Red Sox manager Alex Cora. “He’s been getting lefties and righties out. I know there were a lot of righties there. I think [his] command wasn’t there. It’s just one bad one in, what, 28 outings? What he did was amazing. He’s been great. Hopefully he gets the ball tomorrow and he can do the job again.”
After a sluggish start to his season, Taylor moved his hands back to a position where he was comfortable and got on a roll, holding opponents to a .149 average and striking out 28 over 21 2/3 innings during the streak.
“It’s a comfortability thing,” said Taylor. “I’m not going to blame anything I’ve done before or blame anything I’m doing today. It’s just about being comfortable and being able to pitch and locate your pitches.”
It wasn’t just a bad day for Taylor and the bullpen. The offense also struggled with every opportunity it had, going 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position.
With one day left before the All-Star break, the Red Sox (55-35) lead the Rays by 1 1/2 games in the American League East.
“We’ve been doing a great job, man," said Red Sox lefty Martín Pérez, who took the loss. "I think we've been pitching good. We’re just throwing the ball well and like I say, we’ve been pitching every five days, so I think if we continue to do that, we're gonna get to October. We’ve just got to stay healthy and stay focused.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 11, 2021 3:42:42 GMT -5
Phillies end reliever Josh Taylor’s 26-game scoreless streak, beat Red Sox with eight-run eighth inning By Julian Benbow Globe Staff,Updated July 10, 2021, 7:43 p.m.
Red Sox reliever Josh Taylor hadn’t given up a run in so long it might have been hard to remember what it felt like.
His 26-game scoreless streak was the longest of his career, the longest by a Sox pitcher since Koji Uehara’s 27-game streak in 2013, the longest in baseball this season, the longest in baseball since Taylor Rogers made 28 straight scoreless appearances for the Twins in 2018.
Taylor, for his part, wasn’t one to blow it out of proportion.
“I mean, it’s cool and all,” he said. " I mean, that’s not really something I show up to the field every day worried about. I just want to go into the game and you know do my job.”
With the Sox trying to stay in a razor-thin matchup Saturday against Philadelphia, down 3-2 in the eighth inning, Cora saw no better time to call on Taylor to do the job he’d been doing for two months.
But in an eighth inning that turned into an eight-run avalanche, the runs Taylor managed to avoid for so long finally found him.
Taylor gave up four runs on two hits with one walk and one hit batter in one-third of an inning as the Phillies handed the Sox an 11-2 loss, their third in four games. The Phillies snapped Boston’s nine-game home winning streak.
“We haven’t seen that in a while, right?” Cora said. “We had the right guy on the mound.”
With a leadoff single, Bryce Harper got the ball rolling on an inning that seemed as if it would never end. Taylor walked Andrew McCutchen then gave up a two-run double to Rhys Hoskins that pushed the Phillies lead to 5-2.
“I wasn’t locating today,” Taylor said. “I was all around the zone and I put myself in a position to give up hits.”
After seeing Taylor hit Didi Gregorius with a sinker on an 0-and-1 count, Cora had to dip into a bullpen that was already thin after using four relievers to pull out an 11-5 win Friday.
Cora called on Brandon Workman, but Workman couldn’t stop the bleeding. Workman walked Luke Williams to load the bases, then gave up a single to Ronald Torreyes that scored Hoskins and walked Andrew Knapp to load the bases again.
With the score getting out of hand, down 7-2, Cora turned to Austin Brice, but Brice immediately gave up a single to Jean Segura that scored Williams and Torreyes and extended the lead to 9-2. Brice struck out J.T. Realmuto on three pitches for the first out of the inning but gave up up a two-run double to Harper in his second at-bat of the inning.
After walking McCutchen, Brice finally got the Sox out of the inning by getting Hoskins to fly out to right and Gregorius to pop out to third.
“Just good at-bat after good at-bat,” Cora said. “It’s just hard to stop right there. It’s one bad inning.”
The eight runs were the most allowed by the Sox in a single inning this season, topping the seven they gave up in the third inning of their 11-3 loss to the Orioles in April.
The Sox had to dig themselves out of a hole after starter Martín Pérez once again struggled in the early innings.
Even when it seemed like he would get through the Phillies’ first batter with no troubles, Pérez couldn’t. He thought he caught Segura staring at a 3-and-2 cutter that blurred by his shins. But umpire Jerry Meals called it a ball, low. From there, Pérez was stuck in a fight with Segura that Segura eventually won when Pérez left a sinker waist-high inside. Segura launched it into the Monster seats to give the Phillies a 1-0 lead.
It didn’t get better for Pérez in the second.
He walked Hoskins on five pitches to start the inning. He missed the strike zone on his first three offerings to Alec Bohm an at-bat later but battled back to a full count. But the change-up he went to on the seventh pitch of the at-bat stayed over the plate and Bohm dotted it off the Plymouth Rock Assurance sign over the Monster for a two-run homer that put the Sox in a 3-0 hole.
Pérez has a 5.60 ERA in the first two innings of his 15 starts this season.
After Williams flied out to center, Torreyes doubled to left, and Sox pitching coach Dave Bush came out from the dugout to settle down Pérez.
Pérez had allowed just nine homers on the season and he had only given up multiple long balls in the same game once (June 13, three, vs. Toronto).
Xander Bogaerts started the process of pulling the Red Sox out of a hole with a solo homer on a 1-and-0 fastball off the Plymouth Rock sign.
An inning later, a lead-off double from Christian Vazquez set the Sox up to chip away at the lead again. After Bobby Dalbec popped out to first, Phillies starter Matt Moore hit Kiké Hernández with a 90 mile-per-hour cutter that made it first-and-second with one out. Alex Verdugo flew out to right for the second out of the inning.
Then, with J.D. Martinez at the plate, Moore missed low with a fastball and catcher Knapp fired a pickoff attempt to first that whizzed past Hoskins into right field. Vazquez raced home from second to cut the lead to 3-2.
The Phillies put the Sox away with their biggest inning of this season. The nine-run loss tied for the Sox’ second-biggest loss of the year.
Taylor didn’t put much weight into the scoreless streak to begin with and said he wouldn’t let a bad outing carry over. Considering Taylor’s body of work for the season, Cora shrugged off the outing.
“He’s been so great for, what, two, two-and-a-half months?” Cora said. “It just happens, right … Just one bad one in, what, [26] outings. So what he did was amazing. He’s been great and hopefully he gets the ball tomorrow [Sunday] and he can do the job again.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 11, 2021 3:44:57 GMT -5
Martín Pérez early innings struggles continue By Kris Rhim Globe Correspondent,Updated July 10, 2021, 11:17 p.m.
Martín Pérez has struggled this season to get things going at the beginning of games. His 5.60 ERA over the first two innings is 12th worst among pitchers with at least 15 starts.
It was the same story Saturday in the Phillies’ 11-2 win at Fenway Park.
Although he didn’t pitch deep into the game, only 3⅔ innings, Pérez was satisfied with his performance.
“I think I pitched good. Just two bad pitches and they hit a homer, but after that, I was ok,” he said. “I think I threw the ball well.”
Similar to Friday night’s game, Phillies leadoff hitter Jean Segura got things started. Segura crushed Pérez’s four-seam-fastball 411-feet into left field, over the Monster for his fourth home run of the season.
After a J.T. Realmuto single to right field, Pérez got Bryce Harper to ground out into a double play, and then got Andrew McCutchen to ground out to end the inning.
To start the second inning, Pérez walked Rhys Hoskins. Alec Bohm then hit a changeup 381 feet into left field off the Plymouth Rock Assurance sign atop the Monster for a two-run homer that gave the Phillies a 3-1 lead.
Philadelphia fans roared, chanting “Let’s go Phillies” and even singing the Philadelphia Eagles’ fight song.
Pérez turned things around in the third. After a single by Realmuto, he struck out Harper on three pitches, got McCutchen to foul out, and Hoskins to pop out.
Pérez began the next inning with a strikeout and a ground out. Then Ronald Torreyes singled to third base, and Andrew Knapp walked. Pérez’s day ended there.
He allowed six hits, three runs (all earned), and throwing four strikeouts on 73 pitches. It was his sixth start this year of fewer than four innings — tied for second most in the major leagues. Only the Royals’ Brady Singer has more (7).
Despite pulling him before the fourth inning, Red Sox manager Alex Cora wasn’t disappointed in the way Pérez played. He said there were times where things didn’t go the team’s way. He pointed to Segura’s home run in the first inning as an example. He thought Pérez threw a strike that would have resulted in the out, but it was called a ball, then Segura homered.
“He gave us enough,” Cora said. “We had a 3-2 game going into the eighth. Did we want him to go longer? Of course. But where we were bullpen-wise, we felt like that was enough.”
Cora did say he “would’ve loved” for Pérez to have gotten the out on Knapp, but he was comfortable going to the bullpen.
Pérez used all five of his pitches, featuring his cutter and sinker in 67 percent of the balls he threw.
Coming into this game, the 30-year-old was getting into a good rhythm. The Red Sox won in all of his previous four starts. He had a 1.86 ERA in those games and allowed only four earned runs. Pérez lasted five-plus innings in three of his previous four starts.
In his July 5 start against the Los Angeles Angeles, Pérez pitched 5 ⅓ innings, allowing eight hits, two runs (one earned), and three strikeouts in the Sox’ 7-4 win. Saturday’s game was Pérez’s final start before the All-Star break. As Pérez reflected on his play in the first half of the season, he was content.
“I’ve been a good man. I’m healthy. I pitch every five days and try to give my team a chance to win,” he said. “Some days, you can’t win.”
Coming into this game, the Red Sox had a 2.85 ERA over their last 15 contests, an American League best . Sox starters have also thrown over five-plus innings 70 times, tied for the second most in the majors with the Dodgers.
“We are doing a great job. We’ve been pitching well and throwing the ball well,” Pérez said. “Like I said, we’ve been pitching every five days, and if we continue to do that, you know we are going to get to October. We just got to stay healthy and stay focused.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 11, 2021 3:47:28 GMT -5
Red Sox notebook Red Sox put reliever Matt Andriese on injured list because of hamstring tendinitis By Julian Benbow Globe Staff,Updated July 10, 2021, 5:14 p.m.
Red Sox reliever Matt Andriese was placed on the 10-day injured list Saturday because of right hamstring tendinitis. The righthander had been experiencing nagging pain for some time, manager Alex Cora said.
Andriese gave up two runs on two hits and one walk in the seventh inning of the win Friday night against the Phillies, but he left the mound in pain and Cora spotted him limping from the dugout.
“I noticed that right away,” Cora said. “He actually was going to go out for a second inning, so I took him off. We brought in Darwinzon [Hernandez] and we usually don’t use Darwinzon in those situations.
“We talked a little bit. He talked to the medical staff and we decided it’s the best thing we can do, get him right.”
For the season, Andriese is 2-3 with a 6.03 ERA in 26 appearances out of the bullpen. Since June, he’s given up 11 runs in 12⅔ innings. Cora said the time on the injured list will allow Andriese to address some things that have been impacting his performance.
“He needs that,” Cora said. “I think mechanic-wise, it’s not helping him. He’s been grinding and just to unplug him and get him right, I think it’s the best course of action.” Sale looking good
Chris Sale got more thumbs up after throwing another session of live batting practice Saturday.
Sale pitched two innings of a simulated game in Florida at the Red Sox spring training facility.
“Everything’s good, he was good,” Cora said.
The test, as has been the case throughout his 16-month recovery from Tommy John surgery, is how Sale recovers Sunday.
“Tomorrow’s a big day, right?” Cora said. “He did what he did today and let’s see how he shows up tomorrow. Hopefully, everything is fine. And then after that, we can map it out.”
Cora said the plan would be to have Sale throw two innings in his first rehab start in the minor leagues, but the manager didn’t say when or where.
“It’s a lot different than just pitching down there,” Cora said. “It’s not the big leagues but it’s still a real game. He’s going to be anxious, he’s going to be excited, the whole day is going to be different.
“It’s his first outing since Cleveland a few years ago. So probably two innings, and then from there, we’ll see where it takes us.” No use complaining
While Kiké Hernández didn’t hold back his feelings about the Red Sox having a shorter All-Star break than 28 other teams in the league, Cora was more diplomatic about playing just two days after the Midsummer Classic.
The league originally introduced a Thursday game following the All-Star Game in 2018 when the Cubs faced the Cardinals. The next year, the Astros played the Rangers.
“It’s something that MLB decided to do in ’18 and it just happened that this year it’s us and the Yankees.”
Coming out of the break, the Sox have a stretch of 18 games in 18 days, including a seven-game road trip through New York and Toronto. Cora saw no point in complaining.
“It is what it is,” Cora said. “The fact that they moved the All-Star Game to Colorado makes it harder on the guys, but it is what it is. And we’ll make sure those guys that are going to Colorado, we’ll take care of them over the weekend. They’ll get an off day in New York, somehow, someway and now we can move forward.”
Cora said he’s already talked to Rays manager Kevin Cash, who will head up the American League, about Nate Eovaldi’s use during the game. Eovaldi will pitch Tuesday in the All-Star Game then throw in the third game of the series against the Yankees. The rotation will start with Eduardo Rodriguez then move to Martín Pérez, Eovaldi, and finally Nick Pivetta.
“We’ll make sure [Eovaldi] gets his proper rest and be ready for Saturday,” Cora said. More outreach needed
Asked for his thoughts on a New York Times story that that highlighted the scarcity of African-American players who will be at the All-Star Game, Cora gave some thoughts on an issue the league has had to face for decades.
Mookie Betts and Taijuan Walker are the only African-American players on the National League roster. Tim Anderson is the only one in the American League.
“We’ve been talking a lot about this for the last few years,” Cora said. “This is nothing new and this is something that as an industry, we have to do a better job. We’ve got to go to the Black communities and get these guys to play the game.”
The Times noted that in 1986, African-American players represented 19 percent of the league. But this season, that figure is only 7.6 percent. Cora said the reasons go beyond simply a lack of interest in the sport but a concerted effort to make the game accessible.
“I think it’s just one of those things that is more than race, to be honest with you,” Cora said. “I think it’s more what we can do to get the game to them.”
Cora said baseball is has been trying to turn the tide.
“It’s something that I think MLB is doing a conscious effort,” Cora said. “We’ve got a lot of guys that are helping out and hopefully, with time, we’re going to get back to having more African-Americans play the game and being the players that we know that can be.” Cora remembers drafts
With the draft set to begin Sunday night, Cora looked back on how his two draft experiences. He was drafted in the 12th round by the Twins in 1993 but decided instead to go to the University of Miami. Three years later, the Dodgers took him in the third round.
“Obviously I had the scholarship to go to Miami,” said Cora. “I think scouts down there, they took it for granted that I was going to school because of [my brother] Joey — Joey went to Vanderbilt, so Alex is going to go to Miami.”
Edwin Rodriguez, a Twins scout at the time who went on to manage the Marlins, broke the news to Cora.
“There was no reaction, to be honest with you,” Cora said. “It was like, ‘Oh, really.’
He couldn’t pass on the chance to go to Miami, but in hindsight, it was the right decision.
“To be honest with you, thank God it happened,” Cora said. “No chance I’m sitting right here talking to you if I didn’t go to college.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 11, 2021 3:56:21 GMT -5
Boston Red Sox notes: Josh Taylor struggles as his scoreless appearance streak ends one shy of franchise record Updated Jul 10, 2021; Posted Jul 10, 2021
By Matt Vautour | mvautour@masslive.com
BOSTON — Josh Taylor needed one more scoreless appearance to tie Koji Uehara for the Red Sox franchise record for most consecutive outings without allowing a run. But history eluded him Saturday.
Taylor hadn’t given up a run since April 24 when he relieved Garrett Whitlock with two outs and a runner on first in the seventh with Boston down 3-2. He got out of that inning without throwing a pitch as he picked Jean Segura off first base, an out that was aided by some bad baserunning decisions by Segura.
When Taylor started throwing to the plate in the eighth, things didn’t fare as well. After Bryce Harper’s leadoff single, Taylor walked Andrew McCutcheon. Rhys Hoskins followed with a bases-clearing double. Taylor hit pinch hitter Didi Gregorious ending his afternoon. He allowed four runs on two hits, a walk and a hit batter. He didn’t record an out with a pitch.
Taylor was more upset about losing the game than the streak.
“It’s not something I show up to the field every day worried about,” he said. “I just want to go into the game and do my job. I could care less about a streak. It’s cool, but I still have a job to do and go out and get the outs I need.”
The pitchers who followed (Brandon Workman, and Austin Brice) didn’t fare much better as the Phillies scored eight times in the eighth to pull away for the 11-2 win.
Uehara established the mark at 27 as the Red Sox closer during the team’s World Series run in 2013. Taylor’s streak was the longest in the majors since 2018.
MARTINEZ STREAK CONTINUES — J.D. Martinez’s third-inning walk extended his streak of reaching base to 27 games. That’s both the longest in Major League Baseball this season and the longest of his career. Kiké Hernandez extended his on-base streak to 14 games after getting hit by a pitch twice.
AUSTIN BRICE ARRIVES — The Red Sox pressed Brice into service quickly after he arrived from Allentown, Pennsylvania where he and the Worcester Red Sox had been playing the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs. He was called up to replace Matt Andriese who went on the injured list.
Brice allowed the three runners he inherited to score in the eight and allowed one of his own, but worked a perfect ninth with two strikeouts. He threw 44 pitches.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Jul 11, 2021 4:01:42 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 8h Houck got his pitch count up to 76 tonight but with only 53% strikes and 4 walks in 3.1 innings. He's not exactly on a roll, but still seems likely he's with the Sox on Thursday.
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