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2021 Season | Series #42 | Indians @ Red Sox | Sep. 3-5
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Now Zimmer cannot count outs.
to be sure, you didnt have to lose track of the number of outs to be assaulted by Martin
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Well we got a much needed win here with much needed hits by Reyes...
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Um, upon further review...
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Nice to win the last Indians game in Fenway. It looked like they were going to blow it until the 9th.
Plesac staggered through five innings, allowing 8 hits and 3 walks. The first four innings he looked like a tightrope walker in a hurricane as he escaped jam after jam. They finally got to him for three runs in the 5th and it could have been more but he stepped up and struck out Renfroe and Devers with runners on second and third. A tremendously gutsy performance that may have saved the game.
Plesac was lucky that double by Shaw wasn't 12 inches higher or it would have been a three-run homer. Instead it was only good for one run.
The Indians bullpen give up two more runs in four innings today (thanks to Wittgren), so the final total for the six Red Sox games is 17 earned runs in 21 innings. This was a very useful and instructive series. The front office should have no doubts about the need to augment the bullpen this off-season, even assuming Sandlin and Karinchak return and pitch well next year.
Nice to see Stephan bounce back and pitch a scoreless inning.
It's amazing how Franmil can go from something like 1-for-23 with 13 K's to 5-for-5 literally overnight. It's like flipping a switch.
The Sox did us a favor by resting Devers and we also got lucky when their starter came down with COVID and they had to rush a kid up from AAA to make his first career appearance. We still almost let this one get away. We got six runs off their two minor league pitchers so this win was kind of a gift.
All six games were decided in the 7th, 8th, 9th, or 10th innings. It really was a close, competitive series. Every game came down to who had the better bullpen. Today it was the Red Sox guy who imploded.
With a better bullpen the Indians could have gone 6-0 even with Morgan starting two games and Allen one.
Schwarber is amazing; he almost never chases a bad pitch, even the ones 2 inches off the plate. His OBP since coming to the Sox was .464 coming into the game. The Indians got him today, though, as he went 0-for-4 with a walk.
Owen Miller hit a double off the center field wall. You don't see an infielder do that every day. He and Chang are very similar in that they are infielders with unusual power but they don't make solid contact enough to be worth playing.
The Red Sox have used 50 players this year including 32 pitchers thanks to the usual injuries plus COVID. They're now in second place in the wild card race. Verdugo is hitting .363 his last 25 games; Plawecki .344 since the All-Star break. Schwarber is .338 since being traded. These guys are stepping up.
Plesac staggered through five innings, allowing 8 hits and 3 walks. The first four innings he looked like a tightrope walker in a hurricane as he escaped jam after jam. They finally got to him for three runs in the 5th and it could have been more but he stepped up and struck out Renfroe and Devers with runners on second and third. A tremendously gutsy performance that may have saved the game.
Plesac was lucky that double by Shaw wasn't 12 inches higher or it would have been a three-run homer. Instead it was only good for one run.
The Indians bullpen give up two more runs in four innings today (thanks to Wittgren), so the final total for the six Red Sox games is 17 earned runs in 21 innings. This was a very useful and instructive series. The front office should have no doubts about the need to augment the bullpen this off-season, even assuming Sandlin and Karinchak return and pitch well next year.
Nice to see Stephan bounce back and pitch a scoreless inning.
It's amazing how Franmil can go from something like 1-for-23 with 13 K's to 5-for-5 literally overnight. It's like flipping a switch.
The Sox did us a favor by resting Devers and we also got lucky when their starter came down with COVID and they had to rush a kid up from AAA to make his first career appearance. We still almost let this one get away. We got six runs off their two minor league pitchers so this win was kind of a gift.
All six games were decided in the 7th, 8th, 9th, or 10th innings. It really was a close, competitive series. Every game came down to who had the better bullpen. Today it was the Red Sox guy who imploded.
With a better bullpen the Indians could have gone 6-0 even with Morgan starting two games and Allen one.
Schwarber is amazing; he almost never chases a bad pitch, even the ones 2 inches off the plate. His OBP since coming to the Sox was .464 coming into the game. The Indians got him today, though, as he went 0-for-4 with a walk.
Owen Miller hit a double off the center field wall. You don't see an infielder do that every day. He and Chang are very similar in that they are infielders with unusual power but they don't make solid contact enough to be worth playing.
The Red Sox have used 50 players this year including 32 pitchers thanks to the usual injuries plus COVID. They're now in second place in the wild card race. Verdugo is hitting .363 his last 25 games; Plawecki .344 since the All-Star break. Schwarber is .338 since being traded. These guys are stepping up.
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...it looks like James Karinchak was pitching for the Sox today.
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If Zimmer is going to lose track of the number of outs at least it happened in the 9th inning of a game we led 11-5.
As he was jogging into third base the coach was screaming at him to go back to second but it didn't even register. Zimmer just kept going, passing the coach almost close enough to touch him and jogging home. Then halfway to the plate he realized something was wrong. He was totally checked out. No harm done - this time.
As he was jogging into third base the coach was screaming at him to go back to second but it didn't even register. Zimmer just kept going, passing the coach almost close enough to touch him and jogging home. Then halfway to the plate he realized something was wrong. He was totally checked out. No harm done - this time.