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

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

these guys are hitting the shit out of the ball

looking more and more like a classic sox home offense

if the trend continues against the As the run differential will go up by like 25 just due to these 3 games

^^^predictive

:D

speaking of "international", Tracer...

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/05/11/report-the-red-sox-are-being-investigated-by-mlb-for-questionable-international-signings/

JBJ's last 11 games: .475/.512/1.025

jfc this offense :] :] :]

Matias: How is it possible that Bradley Jr went from being “trash”, talked about a potential trade for a mediocre Mariners reliever, to this exciting player that is putting great numbers, with some pop? Between the last months of last season and this start, we cant say its small sample size, right?

Klaw: Well, he was never trash, right? People buried him based on what was still a small sample but didn’t look like one. The part that’s surprising to me is that he’s hitting for average AND power. I thought he could do one or the other. I still kind of think with his low contact rate, he’s going to see the average drop, and he kind of has to sell out a little bit to get to this power. I’d rather see him cut down on the swing a little to improve his contact rate, but that’s kind of a stupid criticism when the guy is hitting .322 and slugging .610.

well

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-red-sox-offense-has-been-better-than-the-1927-yankees/

jbj 20 game hit streak

maybe ortiz should keep playing

― mookieproof, Sunday, May 8, 2016 9:26 PM (6 days ago)

A couple of years ago, before the 2014 season started, I posted that Ortiz wouldn't go into the HOF as long as Edgar Martinez didn't get there first. NoTime argued that no, he'll go in. I'll stand by what I said at the time, but I'm thinking that the Edgar Factor is barely visible on the horizon at this point.

Something I never knew: Ortiz was first signed by Seattle in 1992--Edgar Martinez's breakout year (he'd been good in '90 and '91, but not yet the dominant hitter he'd become).

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