Recent content by Mudge

Be tough to go against the Nats right now.

I’d have to give the “biggest disappointment award” flat out to the Red Sox and “the biggest surprise” in a draw to the A’s and the Rays (and honorable mention to the Yankees and the Twins). The NL has pretty much shaped up as expected.

Less of a surprise I suppose than the Red Sox doing just about the same.

My bad. I lost faith to quickly. A little bit of a reverse from the first game insofar as the Astros were the more erratic of the two teams — though not egregiously so. Neither starter pitched all that well, but neither did they pitch terribly, both of them yielding 4 earned runs by the time...

Do we know why the lefthand hitting Holt is not playing second?

Well, it was a good regular season at least, but the Red Sox look totally overmatched in this ALCS.

Good point. The pitch was exactly where they wanted it. Just chalk it up to the Fenway factor — you live by the sword; you die by the sword.

Yeah. Most of Sales walks were clear.

As good as they are, the Astros did not so much win Game 1 as the Red Sox lost it. It was just a bad, bad overall performance for Boston. First off, 10 walks (plus 3 hit batsmen) is simply unconscionable for a team in the ALCS. Not only that, the defense was not sharp (Nunez especially...

Good thing: it's the field of dreams; it'll forgive (that's one of the themes, no?) and it'll recover.

Red Sox still can't find any true offense.  11 LOB so far through the 7th.

  Same problem Joe Kelly has from time to time -- that "put 'em away" pitch.

    Not to rain on the parade too quicky, but Sale, Price, and Porcello faced what essentially amounts to a AAA team (the counterpart of which is that the offense faced a semi-minor league staff -- aka Kitteridge, Yarborough).  In effect, with their first nine games against either the Rays or...

  While both Sale and Price looked good, keep in mind, it's the Rays.   Meanwhile, Bogaerts is 5 for 8 (.625); all other Red Sox batters so far are 10 for 57 (.175).

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