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

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i like to think my visit for the ARI series in mid-August is what vaulted this team to their current form - they have basically been on fire ever since

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 06:38 (seven years ago) link

i was there too, u know

The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link

Difft day tho I thought - but yes! It was totally us!

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link

papi just crushed #37, moved into a tie w/gehrig for #10 on the XBH list, now has the most RBI in a final season (one more than shoeless joe jackson)

nomar, Friday, 23 September 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link

Sox staff has struck out 21 Rays in 9 innings (major league record) including 11 in a row (major league record).

aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Sunday, 25 September 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link

i think 21 may only be a franchise record

great game tho, totally cobb-esque prancing fro pedey there

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 September 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link

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

call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 September 2016 03:07 (seven years ago) link

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, 29 September 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link

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

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 September 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link

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.

call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 September 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link

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

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link

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

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link

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.

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link

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.

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link

so i'm still worried.

as always, buchholz is a coin flip

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link

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

mookieproof, Friday, 30 September 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link

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

k3vin k., Friday, 30 September 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link

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

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, 30 September 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link

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

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 2 October 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link

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).

Andy K, Sunday, 2 October 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link

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

mookieproof, Sunday, 2 October 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link

lol

if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 2 October 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link


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