Yankees, Cubs and Red Sox do this s**t all the damn time, all over the country. It's extremely f**king sweet to go into Fenway and take it over like we have.
Rather Osuna surrender a HR than three baserunners for one run. He went 1-2-3 yesterday, but with some hard contact. He's really good, but can't quite consider him "shut down" until proven otherwise. Good news is, he's already proven stepping up his game come postseason.
Pat Neshek. Probably Mike Fiers and Scott Kazmir. But yes on average pitchers improve probably better than anywhere.
He has excellent command and control of all of his pitches. He doesn’t throw the hardest or have the best movement so he gives up base runners... however he can get big outs with runners on because he has such command of the zone.
He's going to have to. Their rotation is in shambles with injuries. Saw a report today that they're not expecting Manaea back at all. At some point, the usage is going to work against them...at least I hope so.
The Astros last week they play Toronto and Baltimore. The A's also have failed to make up ground it seems for a month now, despite continuing to win games consistently... that has a somewhat exhaustive component to it when you're the one doing the chasing (and no head to head games remaining). They may very well catch the Yankees for HFA in the wild card game though... not that playing in Oakland intimidates anybody.
I was excited to see James out of the Stros pen, I had no ****ing idea it would be at Fenway in an important game dealing like he did. I love it: he does not trifle, everything is around the plate and he has some serious ****.
Nope. It's Harris and Devo pitching for their playoff lives down the stretch. Smith is nails as a situational righty; Devo is the RHP that is/was great against LHB, but Pressly has usurped him in that role.
Osuna gave up a bloop oppo popup on a great pitch, the walk wasn't that egregious, and Benintindi did what great hitters do and hit a great pitch right where you're supposed to. Sometimes the other team tries to win the game too.
Every time or I should say most of the time the other team tries to win. The point I was making was that compared to last night, when Osuna went through the best part of the Boston lineup 1-2-3 for the save, tonight's outing was more stressful and adventurous and reminded me of when Giles was saving games for us. I never felt comfortable watching Giles try to save games.
