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

oh and deven marrero, and whoever the hell RHP jonathan aro is

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Bold move by the Red Sox to swap rosters with Pawtucket. May be a #turningpoint

lol pretty much

morbs come to a game! that would be about the only thing that gets me near fenway this summer.

we'll see if i have pocket change for this in August (Jimmy Fund benefit):

http://saberseminar.com/the-participants-the-program/

this team appears to have figured out how to play. even when they lose they look dangerous. maybe instagram's been banned from the clubhouse?

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--slothroprhymes

lol that didn't work friggin zing

anyway, ~JBJ home runs~

happy canada day

burn it to the ground

been done

clearly wasn't done right

this is the wackiest fuckin game

betts, holt xander and the inexplicably resurgent alejandro de aza all have 3 hits tonight

fangraphs predicts sox to have the best record in the AL the rest of the way

I'm gonna not get hopeful and take that with like 9,000 grains of salt...

*watches hanigan score on xander's fourth hit*

SHITTY PARITY-STRICKEN DIVISION TITLE HERE WE COME *blows paycheck on tickets*

but seriously, that is good to hear and I also cannot yet see it with this rotation even with buchholz being good again and e-rod showing promise

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/david-ortiz-did-something-no-red-sox-first-baseman-has-ever-done-004547771.html

weird

FOUR WINS IN A ROW FIRST TIME ALL SEASON 2015 AL EAST CHAMPS HERE WE COME LETS GET IT

seriously they're slouching shockingly toward quality in a tangible way, but they can't lose momentum

4 1/2 back in the division

13.5% to win the division, 26.6% to make the playoffs

and you haven't even shit on mike napoli lately

I mean the team is kinda doing that for me, david ortiz is repeatedly playing first base. in AL games.

I got to figure Ryan Hanigan is probably living out the dream getting to play for the Red Sox this year being from MA. Hanigan's a cool player, definitely someone that has pretty much maxed out of his talent.

buch's breaking ball that starts outside (to left-handers) and then darts back over the plate is fucking devastating today. he's thrown it like 80% of the time and he should keep doing so

aaaand now he's hurt

buch only on the 15-day, just enough time to coincide with the break and bring up brian johnson

I have also run out of possible explanations for the streak of de aza inexplicably doing something good or valuable in almost every game he plays in, at age 31 after being traded for nothing by the orange birds due to like a 15-game hitless streak

as much as i love brock holt you could make the argument that his fielding miscues led directly to the big innings that lost the game yesterday and probably today

they won yday! Friday was the big fuckup

but yea I mean when holt fucks up it's usually pretty consequential, which you forget bc of his utility value/general competence

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