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Thread: July 19: Red Sox (Pivetta) @ Blue Jays (Stripling)

  1. 07-19-2021, 06:44 PM #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by iortiz View Post
    I like Duran coming off 2nd slot, even leading off. He has the tools to hit there.
    I was being ridiculously facetious. Cora, seeing the team slumping at the plate, decided to change the lineup a whole bunch.

    Batting Duran 2d vs. a righty starter was genius, but so were all the other changes. Only Hernandez and Plawecki hit where they normally would.
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    Quote Originally Posted by d-money View Post
    We are a good team. Just need to start playing like it.
    That’s right. We just have ugly stretches but when the offense gets going it’s scary.
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    Vlad got impaled on that one.
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    Jays' announcers really depressed about how that inning ended. Seriously, you guys who get most of these games on NESN are very fortunate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by d-money View Post
    We are a good team. Just need to start playing like it.
    Agree, but with the caveat that this team ain't this good if Cora is not managing.
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    Anybody know how many games Springer has been back. He appears completely out of it:
    - throws a lollypop to the cutoff man on the Hernandez double
    - the drive to the power alley by JD appeared to fall at the base of the wall...another embarrassment in the OF
    - then he swings at the 0-0 pitch late almost as an afterthought. At the point he swung he would have done as well to keep the bat on his shoulder. There was zero chance he was going to hit that
    - then promptly grounds into an inning ending DP
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    Quote Originally Posted by SPLENDIDSPLINTER View Post
    Jays' announcers really depressed about how that inning ended. Seriously, you guys who get most of these games on NESN are very fortunate.
    They have good reason to be depressed--beyond what's happening tonight. Two straight seasons, no home games. That's gotta be tough all around.
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    In the words of Don Corleone when he slaps a crying Johnny Fontaine: "Act like a man!" No, offense ladies.
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    DEVERS DEliVERS! He is one strong hombre.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maxbialystock View Post
    I was being ridiculously facetious. Cora, seeing the team slumping at the plate, decided to change the lineup a whole bunch.

    Batting Duran 2d vs. a righty starter was genius, but so were all the other changes. Only Hernandez and Plawecki hit where they normally would.
    Yeah Cora needed to shake things up a bit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maxbialystock View Post
    They have good reason to be depressed--beyond what's happening tonight. Two straight seasons, no home games. That's gotta be tough all around.
    I heard they begin their games in Toronto on July 31st.
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    Toronto has a stacked lineup but their pitching in both departments, rotation and BP, is a major concern.
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    Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post
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    OK, I like Cora, obviously, but I honestly don't think moving Devers from 5th to 4th in the order fixed his swing. Either he and the hitting coach did it, or the Jays want to keep the Rays in 2d place (or worse) and sent a short message to the Sox players asking which pitches they prefer be thrown to them.

    Pivetta came out of the 1st looking pretty good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SPLENDIDSPLINTER View Post
    I heard they begin their games in Toronto on July 31st.
    Same here.
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