Red Sox 2016: The Lard of Pablo, or No More Papis in MA

i always get down on my dad for having no faith in The Buch but he is pretty much always vindicated

brock fuckin holt

buch gets his first 1-2-3 inning, long may it continue

honestly if joe kelly and eduardo don't have it this year i don't know who we got behind price

https://i.imgur.com/mVE4Egy.gif

and then his true form emerged out of the cocoon-mouth

is it churlish to say that dave o'brien is good? so good that i'm not even missing orsillo?

ok that's how we're doin it this year #b2b

BROCK FUCKIN HOLT

brock fuckin holt

buch gets his first 1-2-3 inning, long may it continue

honestly if joe kelly and eduardo don't have it this year i don't know who we got behind price
--illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand)

the (small, unlikely) hope of porcello having an ERA under 4

obrien is fine he's just kind of a standard issue broadcaster - he'll never have orsillo's wonderful batshit surrealism

yeah

so the idea this year is offense (+ 1 ace + 4 no. 3 through 5 starters) wins championships?

tbf it is better than last year's offense + all no. 5s model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJk3wJi9Zo

well, he was gonna have to get an AB sometime

hat trick, error, broken belt. impressive

indeed! but hey, the reds aren't gonna break my favorite team's winning streak

robbie ross jr. throwing 2 shutout innings to seal a win is...not something you see every day

hanle y is playing...pretty well at first!

i see what you did there¡

i was not around for that fabled ilxor but have heard weird rumblings/saw the joke made & it stuck in my head

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgBx9JzWsAAwesk.jpg

:(

swihart down, vazquez up

and rusney down!! :(

vazquez rules

https://twitter.com/iamjoonlee/status/721142943768322048/photo/1

lmao

yesterday's game is the template. just like that, every time.

yeah I'm cool with that being the blueprint

so glad to have vazquez back

i never realized how intense the dude is

by the way i'm pretty sure pedey wasn't anywhere close to touching the bag when he turned two in the 8th

omg - that shake-off, nod-on was the best.

@AndrewSimonMLB
Last Red Sox pitchers to induce 4 GIDP in a game:
- Buchholz today
- Dice-K in 2008
- Clemens in 1992 and '93

https://twitter.com/redsoxstats/status/723231943874191360

the oral history of the doug mirabelli trade

omg that's awesome.

Mirabelli: They did, like, seven ceremonial first pitches that night. “Here’s Joey from Brockton, going to throw out a first pitch.” They just dragged it on and on.

left his cup in the police car

forever in our hearts, dougie, forever going deep tonight

JBJ's onetime inability to hit seems so far in the past given how well he's done lately

in retrospect it does kinda suck that sandoval had to go down in the year "panda" by desiigner is a major hit, but

a. he prob wouldn't use it as his walkup song
b. i enjoy travis shaw playing 3rd

otm i love travis shaw and his dazed, glazed mein

Ortiz just tried to bunt.

maybe ortiz should keep playing

i would rather he not end his career like a certain hollowed-out, gift-basket-distributing husk, even if the lack of fielding means he /might/ have one to two more years in him - the final of those years, if they occurred, would be the same sort of facile shitshow

but yeah having a current slash line (#smallsamplesize etc.) of .308/.393/.673 is pretty cool

also cool: steven fuckin knuckleballin' wright all of a sudden pulling off pitching lines like this: CG, 3H, 1R/ER (the gardner homer), 1BB, 7K.

did they flip flop which day was supposed to be the daygame? i was looking forward to seeing steve wright in the afternoon (that's a bbc radio joke, folks)

hah I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it had to do with ESPN wanting the sunday game for that prime time exclusivity viewership cheddar

well i'm pissed off because i got to watch yet another completely forgettable david price performance through to the bitter end instead of papi hitting two dingers and wright getting his CG

how do you watch - MLB TV? blackout rules are annoying as hell

Yup and I'm international so ... no blackouts :D

lol sox are legit starting a dude named sean o'sullivan tonight,who I cannot confirm WASNT just pulled out of a booth at cask & flagon just before the game

the way they clinched is sort of a perfect summation of this team.

Can I just say I SAW THIS?

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/195181944/jackie-bradley-jr-makes-highlight-reel-play/

First pitch of the game: Segura lofts a long fly ball to right-center, Jackie Bradley Jr. lazily tracking it back, back, back, and just as he's about to catch it he SLIPS on something - the lip of the warning track? And he tumbles over, the ball bouncing off his glove and into the grass. Segura makes it all the way to THIRD by the time the ball comes in. The crowd groans. Not the greatest omen for the three hours we have ahead of us.

Second pitch of the game: A frozen rope line drive to dead center, looks like a base hit for sure. JBJ barrels towards it, and amazingly, implausibly, catches it off the tops of his shoes. Everyone gasps. And in one motion, he fires the ball home with such unbelievable power that Segura, tagging at third on the catch, decides whoa, I'm going back to third, I can't beat that. But it's too late. The throw was so hard, and so accurate, that Bryan Holaday (who he?) grabs it and fires to third before Segura can get back. Double play. Nobody on the bases, two out.

(Morbs were you there??)

call all destroyer I disagree that it's a perfect summation! Buchholz was great (he has mainly been terrible); Kimbrel was terrible (he has mainly been great); etc

i was thinking more about the clinching-with-a-heartbreaking-loss aspect, seems to fit a team that has overcome some glaring issues and frustrating stretches to arrive here.

i agree w/ CAD

at the same time, when you go back and think on it...they won the fuckin' games, and while they def pulled a couple of wins out their asses with 9th inning comebacks and such, most of them came from the offense just pulverizing teams day in/day out

i'm most worried about the rotation going into the playoffs. rodriguez is showing good signs again, as is buchholz, and the bullpen (barring last night's colossal fart) has seriously improved, but porcello-price-buchholz-rodriguez just feels iffy

Porcello and Erod feel the most solid to me. Price has been AWFUL. And Buchholz, I mean, he either throws a shutout or gives up 6 in 3 innings.

i dont think price has been awful of late at all - 7 of his last 9 starts, which were sox wins, had him yielding only 2 runs apiece, and he was never the type of ace who always shut teams out completely. his historical numbers reflect that. BUT, his start on tuesday was an object lesson in all the problems he's had the entire season.

so i'm still worried.

as always, buchholz is a coin flip

lollllllllll http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ftw/2016/09/30/red-sox-manager-john-farrell-responds-to-yankee-stadium-heckler-shut-your-expletive-up/91340268/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

that is the softest 'expletive' anyone in baseball has ever used

Can I just say I SAW THIS?

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/195181944/jackie-bradley-jr-makes-highlight-reel-play/

First pitch of the game: Segura lofts a long fly ball to right-center, Jackie Bradley Jr. lazily tracking it back, back, back, and just as he's about to catch it he SLIPS on something - the lip of the warning track? And he tumbles over, the ball bouncing off his glove and into the grass. Segura makes it all the way to THIRD by the time the ball comes in. The crowd groans. Not the greatest omen for the three hours we have ahead of us.

Second pitch of the game: A frozen rope line drive to dead center, looks like a base hit for sure. JBJ barrels towards it, and amazingly, implausibly, catches it off the tops of his shoes. Everyone gasps. And in one motion, he fires the ball home with such unbelievable power that Segura, tagging at third on the catch, decides whoa, I'm going back to third, I can't beat that. But it's too late. The throw was so hard, and so accurate, that Bryan Holaday (who he?) grabs it and fires to third before Segura can get back. Double play. Nobody on the bases, two out.

(Morbs were you there??)

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, September 29, 2016 9:15 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WOW

that is the softest 'expletive' anyone in baseball has ever used

― mookieproof, Friday, September 30, 2016 5:02 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

farrell saves the best ones for when he's being ejected

http://a2.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0930%2Fr133571_1296x518_5%2D2.jpg

the president of the dominican republic is here to send off ortiz

Ortiz's 1994 Arizona League teammates who made it to the majors:

Wilson Delgado
Tommy Hinzo (before '94)
Dusty Wathan
Ken Cloude
Shawn Estes
Aaron Scheffer*
Roy Smith
Kerry Woodson

*Faced him in high school and barely got a bunt down. Terrifying.

Played some pick-up ball and was high school teammates with another one of this team's pitchers (local demigod, didn't make it out of A-ball).

too bad ortiz won't match dusty wathan's career .600/.667/.800 line

lol