RHP Masahiro Tanaka (9-2, 3.84) vs LHP David Price (11-6, 3.97)
Let's finish the job. We've come too far and played too well not to get this sweep. Win. Dance. Repeat. x4.
No complaining about ESPN in my gamethread. Thanks
Put the hammer down on the skankees! Price has been putrid against the skanks.
Would be most interesting how Price pitches against the MFY. He throws more middle in pitches to a RHH in an inning than the MFY does to Betts in 19 regular season matchup. Tanaka is a junk baller, who never goes after hitters. They have hit him well this year.
Right now the SOX are playing THUNDERBALL.
Heck, Eovavaldi made Porcello's outing look pedestrian. This Yank team is a mess.
Come on Price.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
I wish there were a way to coordinate Castiglione and Neverett with the video on ESPN on days like this. I've even been known to do that knowing what's going to happen on the tv before it happens. (I don't know if that sentence makes any sense,....but.. you know what I mean! LOL)
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star game and the Old Timer's game.
-Vin Scully
David Price is going to do his job tonight.
In unrelated news, Clay Buchholz is now 5-1 with a 2.68 ERA for the Diamondbacks . It is not beyond a mathematical possibility of facing Clay B in a WS game. Not a high probability but but still floating out there.
In related news, tonight's game is both a big deal, and then not so much.
It's a big deal to see if David Price can get a good game in vs. NYY ; to see if the hitters can jump Tanaka and hit his slop ; to go up 9.5 games with less than 50 to go for the Sox (54 for NY); to shove pie in the face of all Yankee trolls; to sweep NY with a Red Sox DL list that looks like some team's dream roster .
It's not so much of a critical game because of the 3 wins in the books already . Even if NY won all of the 4 game differential, they would still be well in the rear view mirror.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
'Til we found a sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star game and the Old Timer's game.
-Vin Scully