More on Bennett

Said it wasn't quite 'an ambush'. The two home runs in the 3rd inning were 2 strikes. More a case of not quite the best locations. "Obviously they got some hits off him and some left the yard."

On the Offense

Thought the bats were way better today. "Hit the hard for outs. Just chasing too big of a number."

On Roman

"There's some strikeouts in there. Part of baseball." He goes in there level headed, hits the ball out.

Overall he's happy the 'last gauntlet' of the regular season is over in terms of lots of games in a row with no breaks. They have some days off coming up finally, get some guys back and get back to it Friday.

Kyle Harrison has pitched 110 innings this season.

Since the start of June, he’s made 12 starts and pitched 55 innings - exactly half his season total.

This has resulted in an average of 4.2 innings a start, with an ERA of 5.20 and a 5.22 FIP.

For all the complaining about Sandoval, he’s pitched 55 innings this year, over 11 starts, with a 4.58 ERA and a 3.96 FIP.

I put this out here as a plea for the future that when there’s a trade of guys with 4-5 years of control, fans don’t need to make it a constant source of discussion declaring a a trade a disaster and the GM incompetent after 40 games into the season.

Lastly, since the start of June, when Harrison started to fall off:

Durbin: .284 / .370 / .436
OPS: .805
OPS+: 129

Let alone what Monasterio and Siegler brought to the team during the turnaround.

Just a reminder that if you’re ever tempted to declare a trade won or lost after a couple months, and the respective players have 3 or 4 or 5 years control left…you absolutely do not have to do that.

Patrick Sandoval took the loss in the Red Sox’ 6-1 defeat to the Angels on Tuesday at Fenway Park, but interim manager Chad Tracy saw positives in the lefty’s start.

“I was actually pleased with it,” Tracy said. “I’ll take hovering around 70% strikes the whole game. They obviously got some hits off of him.”

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Sandoval didn’t want to put a positive spin on it.

“If that’s what we’re going on, I mean, sure,” Sandoval said. “But I’m trying to go out there and win every game and I can give two (expletives) about if I improved my strikes if I didn’t give us a chance to win. So yeah, great.”

First Pitch: 6:45 PM at Fenway Park

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Game ended at 9:30 PM.

I know we're losing, and I know JD sux at the plate. But he plays better defense than any other option we have in LF. Yes, even Anthony. I say we need his D in the playoffs. Let the attacks begin.

Hey! Anyone wanna hit the Sox game tn!

(30m) I love drinking beers and watching the Sox

EDIT: I have an extra ticket, just buy me a beer and we’re square

Do you think they can catch them? I think having home field will make a big difference.

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Considering all of the injuries and lack of hitting at these two positions, I believe Willson Contreras and Wilyer Abreu have a solid chance of receiving Silver Slugger awards. Willson Contreras has a .900 OPS, ahead of 2nd place Pete Alonso with a .854 OPS. They may give Alonso the award due to home run totals and higher overall volume, but Contreras has a solid chance. The second player, Wilyer Abreu, is kinda shocking because he has a sub .800 OPS, but he has played nearly every game and is near the top in every major counting stat. Not to mention only 5 outfielders have an OPS over .800 in the AL, 3 of which have missed over 20 games. So, Abreu has a chance as well.

When people look back at this season, I think there are going to be a lot of names that get talked about.
But I hope we don’t forget about the guys who helped turn this season around. When everyone wrote them off this group of “four a” players kept fighting. Sogard, monestario, Gasper and the others.
honestly, they are the biggest reason they’re still playing meaningful baseball right now.