ground-ball pitchers, pandas, victorino's rickety spine and the hope of mookie betts: your 2015 Boston Red Sox

need another 4th-place finish, right above the Stanks

nice try

ha! hanley's bat broke on that grand slam

REPORTERS: yo ben are you gonna extend porcello man
CHERINGTON: idk we'll see who knows what might happen
RED SOX: *win exactly one game, albeit with authority*
CHERINGTON: jk he's getting 4 years for 82.5 million plus 12.5 mil this year from arbitration plus signing bonus

@TonyPaul1984
Whoa: By the time he is 30, Rick Porcello will have earned about $100M -- more than Max Scherzer and David Price combined. #redsox #tigers

probably when they traded for him they said "this is here if you want it"

he's an east coast guy, pretty good deal for everyone imo.

I'm cool with it for sure. he doesn't have the highest ceiling (that'd be clay), but is probably the best combination of raw talent and proven consistency in that rotation. he's relatively young so if he stays healthy he'll be well worth it.

actual inning: mookie flyout, pedroia flyout, ortiz single, hanley single + run advancement on two philly errors, panda walk, victorino RBI single, buchanan walks in hanigan for a run, bogaerts 3-run triple, justin fucking masterson RBI

guys I think the sox offense works

I don't mean to be negative nancy but isn't the other team the phillies?

it is, but it worked against their purported opening day ace as well as this buchanan scrub.

@mighty_flynn · 7m
I think I just watched the most entertaining 20 minutes ever aired on MLBN.

@mighty_flynn · 3m
Sean Casey was thrown out by 20 ft by Markakis. Went back to dugout, Pedro said, “Hey man, can we talk? Do you think you might have polio?”

lmao

have any position players hit the mound in this classic yet?

omg this game is still going?

Costas just told an anecdote about suicidal guinea pigs, followed immediately by a stephen drew single

ITS THE 17TH INNING WTF

wanna see papi pitch

they could always get brock holt

oh hell with it it's an early season game they can have this one, I'd be happy if they didn't but oh well

love a lead then a tie in the 18th

what a throw

longest game in franchise history

in terms of time that is AND ITS OVER AND WAS NOT A LOSS COOL GREAT.

late-inning crowd was a nice preview of September in the Bronx

fell asleep in london just as miley came out

i could have woken up at 7am and caught the last half hour

joe kelly, who knew

buchholz threw seven scoreless innings in his first start

after his second start, he now has a 7.84 ERA

it's April, I'm not worried about him yet even if I probably should be

last night's game is unquestionably A Thing That Happened And Sucked

but, yea they are currently ringing zimmerman's goddam bell (thanks mookie) so i think the offense might yknow be juuuuuuust fine

any time

are you posting from the dugout????

FACED

http://i.imgur.com/SZ61xzQ.gif

what if I told you
that early on in the season
the sox's #5 starter joseph kelly jr.
would by far look like the ace

...and also like a complete headcase after 5 innings

hanley leads the league in home runs and RBIs :D

let me get the zing attempts out of the way for y'all if you're so inclined: old, left field, health blah blah blah

*waits for morbs's borderline 9/11 truthery joke about idk hanley on roids or some shit*

era+

joe kelly 84
justin masterson 80
rick porcello 77
clay buchholz 72
wade miley 48

team 83

i don't make jokes about SSS league leaders in APRIL

or even JUNE

xxp i am well aware of teh pitching bud it is decidedly less than optimal

bullpen's been good tho!

Joe&
Justin&
Rick&
Clay&
Wade

on the back: FREE KNUCKLEPUCK

xxp wut the bullpen is kind of a mess, ogando is ok, koji is mostly prime koji, taz is ok against anyone but the blue jays but robbie ross sucks, layne is a coin flip, barnes is still developing...team def needs arms, prob one from a trade and some leaps and bounds by the prospects

swihart day today http://i.imgur.com/GTjafzC.gif

maybe shoulda hung on to lackey

Hanle y is hur t.

:[

day-to-day for now, hopefully not a big deal

first shutout game pitched by a red sock not named clay buchholz, or in other words, by a pitcher (porcello) who's guaranteed to be on the team next year - which clay frankly is not