Official Boston Red Sox 2005 Thread

[Beantown]

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Don't worry the guy in front of me got on Nixon for a bit, but he left the next inning(bottom of the 7th) so he didn't have a lot of time to bash Nixon.

And Bellhorn has been very good defensively this year, and I was in the bleachers so i'm sure other parts of the stadium where it was drunken just-out-of-college kids weren't ragging on him as bad. It was a very costly play, but come on, unless this sends us into a 20 game losing streak, there isn't much to hate about Bellhorn right now.

[CWood2]

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When you're topping out at 85 mph and only have a change up in your bag of tricks, don't expect to blow Travis Hafner away on 0-2. Foulke is just no good anymore, even if he hits his spots he's got a BP fastball lately and when you can sit on it, don't expect to fool too many people with the off speed stuff. He pitched nearly every night and multiple innings every outing in the playoffs and was gold, I can't figure out what's different this year for him.

Watching Eck in the post-game, I agree with everything he says. "You want a guy that blows people away and even when he gets it done, you worry about him." "Too many guys have good swings and good hits off Keith Foulke...everyone's on him." True, true...

For the love of Portland's closer, would somebody please callup Marc Deschenes. I know he's not a bonus baby and he's already 32 but the guy hasn't been touched for a year and a half...he can really boost this bullpen right now. And unlike a Cla Meredith, he's ready to contribute.

[Misfit]

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Yuck, bad loss tonight. Keith Foulke just cannot get it going this season. I also don't think he can be trusted with more than one inning at this point, if he can even be trusted with one.

[CWood2]

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Yuck, bad loss tonight. Keith Foulke just cannot get it going this season. I also don't think he can be trusted with more than one inning at this point, if he can even be trusted with one.

Keith Foulke is broken friends.

[ILLCHILL]

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I went to the game Showcase Cinemas today and had a great time. I got a free awesome shirt, a free keychain, and a free box of mints thing for trivia during commercials and stuff, and a free autograph from Bob Montgomery, and a free coke and large popcorn, and the whole thing cost me 7 bucks. I did call Foulke blowing it to the whole place and unfotunately I was right. I did sit near Lou Merloni's family though.

[Beantown]

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As much as I hate to say it, we have to keep feeding Foulke the ball in the 9th. I don't agree with bringing him into the game in the 8th, but he's been more reliable that MM or Embree, so it's a respectable decision, but you can't suddenly lose all trust in Foulke/ Last year he was the difference between losing in the playoffs and winning the world series, because the closer-by-commitee approach of two years ago and the switching closers mid-season strategy doesn't work. The only thing the Sox can do is continue to show they trust Foulke and hope he gets it back on track, and I'm confident he will.

The problem is we don't have anyone to come in for the 7th/8th other than Timlin and when he has an off-night the bullpen is screwed. That guy has been the only gem in the pen, tonight was the first appearence he'd allowed more than two runs(in 34 tries) and his ERA is still 1.64. We need another arm in the pen to come in for the 8th, so Foulke doesn't have to.

[Stu]

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Exactly Longhorn. Arroyo would have been real helpfuly last night coming out of the pen. Hurry back Schill!

[Misfit]

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He's (Schilling) making his first rehab start tonight, hopefully everything goes well in Charlotte for him. This pen definitly needs some help.

Right now the Sox are on top 5-2 in the bottom of the 8th, I wonder who gets the ball in the 9th today? I would guess Timlin, unless a bunch of lefties are coming up, then you could see Myers go for the save.

[Stu]

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He's (Schilling) making his first rehab start tonight, hopefully everything goes well in Charlotte for him. This pen definitly needs some help.

Right now the Sox are on top 5-2 in the bottom of the 8th, I wonder who gets the ball in the 9th today? I would guess Timlin, unless a bunch of lefties are coming up, then you could see Myers go for the save.

I'm guessing Mantei. He's been warming and Timlin pitched last night. Boone, Cora and Peralta are due.

EDIT - I was wrong, it's Timlin. I totally missed the 8th inning. I hate listening to the game at work.

[Misfit]

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Timlin gets the save in slightly dramatic fashion as the Indians got two consecutive hits with 2 outs in the 9th to bring the tieing run to the plate in Casey Balke but he flew out to center.

Its nice to see another solid outing from Wakefield. Hopefully this run he's on lasts for awhile as we've seen him get into some nice streaks (and some bad ones) in his career. Toronto is going to be tough since they have Lilly, Halladay, and Chacin in line to pitch this weekend.

Mirabelli's homer was of epic proportions, that ball was crushed!

[Beantown]

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Schilling threw 78 pitches, 54 for strikes, in the 5 innings he pitched during his rehab start. He got the W, and went a solid five. He gave up 5 hits, 1 ER, walked one and struck out three.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2097547

[Stu]

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Schilling threw 78 pitches, 54 for strikes, in the 5 innings he pitched during his rehab start. He got the W, and went a solid five. He gave up 5 hits, 1 ER, walked one and struck out three.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2097547

That's a very good sign. He also was getting his fastball up to 92, which is excellent considering he hasn't pitched in 2 months.

Here's the Globe Article:

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/06/30/a_nice_restart_for_schilling/

[Stu]

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Eastern league all-stars were announced.

http://www.easternleague.com/

6 Sea Dogs made the team: Papelbon, Lester, Hanley, Moss, Perez and Sandberg. Pedroia should've gone as well, but I guess couldn't because of his callup.

[Thrasha]

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We've got some pretty nice prospects right now, I wouldn't mind adding a pitcher of Schmidt's calibre for a couple young guys right now.

[Misfit]

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Thats definitly nice to see. I personally want them to hang onto most of their prospects. The major league team is old and they need to start gettig younger. Trading away prospects for aging players isn't going to help much.