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

yes sorry day before yday

de aza 2-4 today

nbd man just gotta savor every win in these trying times

and yea the de aza train rolls on, he had a bad miscue in left yday when he was a defensive replacement but they won the game anyway so it wasn't even a big deal

holt probably my straight up favorite player

would love to see mookie tear the cover off the ball here

ah shit

I like holt despite distrusting the cult of brock holt. xander is my favorite current red sock followed by koji

did not know there was a cult!! of what does this cult consist? yeah xander right up there, koji.. so many people to like on this team

lol I'm referring to the adoration and partial overrating focused around gritty wite players like holt, which tbf is not exclusive to boston (see how the yankee fans view gardner, countless other examples past and present) but because of certain aspects of our sports culture in the city can be magnified to a degree I find questionable

i getcha

RHP from single-A greenville, mike kopech, banned 50 for some type of speed or another http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/07/16/red-sox-minor-leaguer-suspended-games/fbHt8rbLGqg9RMGzsyxt4J/story.html?s_campaign=bostonglobe%3Asocialflow%3Atwitter

brilliant move, kid :/

the fuck is it with this new generation of stimulants. oxilofrine?

tbh i wouldn't be too surprised if this were a mistake of supplements or something. he's 19, a first-round pick, got a $1.5m bonus -- no real motive at this point

he did have a jump in velocity this season, which everyone is now questioning, but that's hardly uncommon for high school kids

going to tonight's game. Go Angeles, Boo Panda.

haha, Angels

lol ok dude

like you don't need to be mad just bc the faustian bargain bochy made dictates that odd year wins are not permitted seems like a bad way to live imo

so Uehara threw Trout an 83 mph fastball? is that his 9th-inning weapon?

not much you can do against the best player there is

looked more like a failed splitter than his (such as it is) fastball, but oh well

zloth you don't get me at all, i was being sarcatic. i was hurt at what he said at first but i have moved on...

only care about one team.

Trout is the man, they had two hits tonight and one was the walk-off.

I suppose I'm happier to see a drought stricken state get rained on than see the sox lose earlier in the evening

rip eduardo

@TimBritton
The Angels scored seven runs on Eduardo Rodriguez's last eight pitches.

u coulda been a contender ed-rod

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/07/19/hopes-growing-that-eduardo-rodriguez-ace-material/ncuPXV9uh9HvRccJYUahjM/story.html

*sighs deeply*

his offspeed stuff needs a lot of work imo

I agree there def, also his movements are clearly easy to read although since he's a kid that can be fixed

unrelated, this dude filling in for don orsillo in the booth with remy is v off-putting

sounds kinda like patrick bateman calling a game :/

sometimes pitch tipping doesn't get fixed :/

sometimes pitch tipping doesn't get fixed :/

true, but he's so young and the massive natural talent is so clearly there i'm willing to wait to see if he works it out

never missing an opportunity for nostalgia mining, NESN is airing a marathon of classic pedro games

not that I'm complaining

currently on aug 28 2000 where he hit gerald williams and went complete game, 1H, 13K, 0R, 0BB.

Hot sub-.500 showdown on ESPN tonight.

lol yea, at least with the tigers it's only one game under rather than...12.

miley is pitching tonight and his last start was legit great so there's that but I ain't expecting anything anymore. barring a massive run (which seems impossible), the season's fuckin over

turning point, people

:D

beautiful game. even if it's just that and things haven't changed overall, it was fuckin great

also I posted earlier that miley was starting and it was in fact ed-rod, but rodriguez was great tonight!

in the bleachers for pedro day

there will be tears

um how is that a home run

frankly I was apoplectic (and it wasn't)

ortiz is walking up to a spanish version of "fuck up some commas" tho that was alright

poor cello ;_;

he is not good at the pitching and the throwing and the ground ball outs it is true

lol napoli

fucking napoli. at this rate I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes somewhat consistent at the plate the rest of this season and the team still continues to repeatedly shit itself

trampa bay's SP, matt moore, has a 7.61 ERA and kelly (5.94) is pitching for boston so this'll prob be a high-scoring game of absolute shit-tasticness

good fuckin riddance lucchino, you fuck

lol ungrateful much?