Post by The Captain on Apr 13, 2015 14:05:16 GMT -5
Nothing on earth like Opening Day at the ballpark. Currently watching my Pirates lead the Tigers 2-0 in the 6th inning under blue skies and nearly 80 degrees with a nice breeze blowing through the park.
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Nothing on earth like Opening Day at the ballpark. Currently watching my Pirates lead the Tigers 2-0 in the 6th inning under blue skies and nearly 80 degrees with a nice breeze blowing through the park.
Go, Bucs!
"You have to love the irony of hiring two people to run the Department of Government Efficiency."
SO I just saw that both steals Betts had were on the same pitch...stole second and the Nats had the shift on the throw took the infielder to the first base side of second and no one was between 2nd and third, so Betts took off for third and made it. Great heads up play there.
Porcello looked solid again, 2 quality starts in 2 tries for him. Still some question marks, still some guys starting slow, but there's some promise there.
Post by Prince Hal on Apr 13, 2015 22:24:09 GMT -5
Dr. Charles put on another stirring Opening Day ceremony: Brady, Belichick, Bob and Jonathan Kraft, the Richard family, Pete Frates signing a Sox contract, his wife and Pedro yelling "Play ball!" Brady throwing the first pitch, etc, etc. All that and perfect weather like we haven't seen around here since dirt was new. (We still have snow piles here and there, though they will probably not make it through the rain tomorrow.)
Patriots Day should be a doozy!
Plus the Sox (aka Mookie Betts) schooled the Nats. Nats outfielders twice let two fly ball outs drop between them. Sox took mighty advantage of those "hits" and other Washington errors. Betts homered, Papi homered, and Porcello was as good as he had to be, pitching to the scoreboard once the Sox had the 8-0 lead.
Keep your fingers crossed, m; things are looking good...
"You have to love the irony of hiring two people to run the Department of Government Efficiency."
Seems the injury bug has hit the Sox too...Castillo hurt his shoulder diving for a ball in AAA, Xander's knee kept him out tonight and he had an MRI, and Workman made the death journey to see Dr. Andrews so the likely outcome of that is TJ surgery...
got to hope Xander is good to go soon, Holt's a nice utility guy, but he's not good enough defensively to play there everyday, and Devin is not quite ML ready so we are a little thin at SS if Xander is out for an extended period. Hopefully Panda's foot is ok too after he fouled a ball off of it and had to leave the game...though Ceccini could fill in for a bit if needed, if it's been 10 days since he was optioned and the Sox can call him up
Tonight's win was ugly-when I saw the score at work it was 5-1 then I got home and saw it ended 8-7 and I was like wtf?
Bogaerts is apparently okay. MRI was just a precaution. He may play today.
Holt remains a cult-hero super-sub. Could be playing every day somewhere else, but not at the level at which he fills in here.
The Masterson performance is bothersome. Same as in Philly: once he sat during a longish inning, he came back a different pitcher. He righted himself in Philly, never could last night.
Washington's defense was/is execrable. Catchable fly balls dropping all over the joint on Opening Day; Desmond at shortstop is like a revolving door; plus last night, thanks to poor Nats pitching and fielding, the Sox became "the first team since at least 1961 to score three runs in an inning without a hit or walk."
Hey, you take every win you can get.
And, maybe best of all, Koji pitched a 1-2-3 ninth (with a bit of scare thrown in).
"You have to love the irony of hiring two people to run the Department of Government Efficiency."
And Miley can't make it out of the third this afternoon as the Nats are pounding the Sox today. The second time through the rotation is far less encouraging than the first, only Porcello has put together back to back solid starts.
Boagarts is back though, and Panda could have played but got the day off against a tough lefty (same as Ortiz).
And Miley can't make it out of the third this afternoon as the Nats are pounding the Sox today. The second time through the rotation is far less encouraging than the first, only Porcello has put together back to back solid starts.
Boagarts is back though, and Panda could have played but got the day off against a tough lefty (same as Ortiz).
-M
Worrisome, this rotation...
"You have to love the irony of hiring two people to run the Department of Government Efficiency."
And Miley can't make it out of the third this afternoon as the Nats are pounding the Sox today. The second time through the rotation is far less encouraging than the first, only Porcello has put together back to back solid starts.
Boagarts is back though, and Panda could have played but got the day off against a tough lefty (same as Ortiz).
-M
Worrisome, this rotation...
As worrisome as it is, and it is indeed so, they are still at 6-3 and have won every series so far. Still it's been a lot of stress on the bullpen and the offense has had to carry them-which is what we all thought they would have to do, so there's that. We will see how Joe Kelly (the man Curt Schilling says has the best chance of becoming an ace on the staff) fares tomorrow against the Orioles. Hopefully he can go deep no matter the outcome to give the bullpen a chance to recover.
