Solaxys

8 Ks.

We take those.

I wonder if they'll ever start mass producing that jacket to sell, it'd sell like fire. Also KEVINNNN

Makeup call for the other K he didn't give last inning.

Watching Kevin is such a detox from the shitshow the last two days.

Yankees losing 4-1 to the As after loading the bases and clearing them on an Andrus 2-out double.

Jesus, that was a nasty changeup. Seabold has good s***.

lol 414 ft, 108 EV with a LA of 18. Just a horizontal rocket.

Vladdy's HRs are just so much fun to watch, so different to how most other HRs are lol

Lets gooooooo!!!

Sigh, ump pls.

Bo makes everything tough. --- oof hit to the 9th guy.

That was a filthy pitch by Seabold. He's pitching really well and good sequencing by Vazquez

"Won't chase my splitter? I'll just beat you with my fastballs bitches." - Kevin

Cool. Vladdy with a terrible AB and Bo with a baserunning error.

Bo is tired of s***** strike calls against him.

Wow. Is that what a clean first inning looks like?

Well I made it 'cause no one else did AND didn't really think Berrios would f*** me like that .

May we remain undefeated in the Romo Era. f*** you Kikuchi. Red Sox Lineup: CF - Refsnyder 3B - Devers DH - Martinez SS - Bogaerts LF - Verdugo 2B - Story C - Vazquez CF - Bradley, Jr. 1B - Dalbec SP - Seabold The Red Sox will call up Connor Seabold for the start. It will be his second major league start ever. The 26-year-old rookie has thrown 11 starts for the Triple-A affiliate Woo Sox, where he sports a 2.09 ERA. Also, Baseball America ranked him as the 21st best prospect on the Red Sox farm system, including the 10th best pitcher. He implements a mid-90s fastball, a slider that is in the mid-80s, a changeup that sets down in the low-80s, and a curveball that sits in the mid-70s. Seabold will have some support as the bullpen ranks 14th in team ERA. The offense offers more spice. * RHP Tanner Houck and OF Jarren Duran are placed on the Restricted List. Blue Jays Lineup: CF - Springer SS - Bichette 1B - Guerrero, Jr. C - Kirk RF - Hernandez DH - Gurriel, Jr. 3B - Chapman 2B - Espinal LF - Biggio SP - Gausman The Blue Jays will roll with Kevin Gausman on the hill today. Gausman is 5-6 with a 3.19 ERA. He tossed six innings in his last start, allowing two earned runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts and two walks. Gausman has been inconsistent, going six innings in two of four starts. Alternatively, he has lasted less than four innings in two of those four starts. Gausman is 1-0 with a 0.64 ERA in two starts against the Sox in 2022. He comes in with a career mark of 5-8 with a 4.01 ERA in 22 appearances against the Red Sox. --- Lets wrap up the first half with a bang; 20 games to win.

Don't threaten me with a good time. A starting pitcher going 4 innings in this economy?!

Wait what, why... He has a negative WAR and is f***ing 40. Wtf.

In other news, the matchups for the Sox series: Seabold v Gausman Seabold is a rookie, top 14 MLB prospect. This year in AAA he is putting up some stellar numbers: 11 G (51 IP), 2.09 ERA, 0.987 WHIP, ~4K/BB. We should be able to take this ... but we don't do well against rookies (Graham Ashcraft from earlier this year, for example), so here's hoping the tides change Also Kev's FIP is f***in 1.75. Wtf. Even in the game against Os where he gave up 5 ER, 1.84 FIP. Kevin has been a f***ing godsend. Wacha v Stripling Wacha has been pitching well but his savant page is eh, lots of contact. Sox have hit Stripling well over his career. Doesn't matter though, I trust Stripling; we take this if the offense shows up. Pivetta v Manoah Pivetta has been pitching ridiculously well since May; 2.12 ERA, 2.83 FIP, 70 Ks to 16 BBs and 5 HRs. And Manoah is Manoah. This can go either way and will be an exciting game, hopefully it doesn't turn into shitshow the Yankees game was.

Well if it is, I hope they've seen it and are talking plans - because, I rather he get miss some starts to get patched up and get back to last year's Berrios for the remainder of his contract then keep pushing himself with this injury and make it worse. It's just such an oddball case. He does well, then badly, then well, then badly. This isn't like Kikuchi who has seemingly straight up lost it 5 starts ago and only went 6 innings twice in all his starts (not even the losses or runs given, its the f***ing IP with this guy - literally have to make it a bullpen game 90% of the time).

Maybe but how does he go absolutely lights out against Twins with 13 strikeouts and forget how to do half as well two games later. It seems to be the story this year - 1-2 bad starts followed by 2-3 good starts and then to the top Just feels like they are constantly trying to tweak him (which leads to the bad starts) and then he sort of finds it. After seeing the consistency in next two-three games, they tweak something again. [bad] TX/NY; [Good] BOS/BOS/HOU; [bad] CLE/NYY, [Good] SEA/STL; [bad] LAA; [Good] MIN/DET/BAL; [bAD] CHW/MIL Its like f***in clockwork. At this point, I fully expect him to put up a sub 3 xFIP against the Rays in the coming start. --- The 8 'good' games: 3.54 xFIP; the 6 'bad' games (I am excluding the TX game 'cause that'd make this argument pointless): 6.13 xFIP. Can make the case that the good games were against bad teams or teams that were struggling offensively (the Sox & Astros at the start of the season & Mariners in general) but he kept STL/MIN in check and BAL was no slouch offensively in our 4-set.

Pete Walker is definitely headed towards a Rothschild situation if Berrios is not 'fixed' or at the least returned to his consistency of yesteryears. Kikuchi is gone in 2.5 yrs but Berrios is here for 6.5 more years and a heavy contract (15M next year increasing to ~25M in the last two years - 2027/2028, which is obscene for a 4th starter/inning eater). Either Berrios is just bad and has gotten lucky with AL Central (which doesn't exactly make sense since he did pitch for us and only had one bad start in 12 games) or Pete is tweaking him to turn him into the promised ace making him worse and worse. I was skeptical when the trade was made for him but he did really well over the starts in Toronto - typically 3 ER in 6-7IP (no Ace stuff, but solid/consistent). This contract + opening day bid made me think that maybe they unlocked something Ace-esque in him but he isn't even close to being himself (with savant metrics doing a full 180) let alone a #1/#2 starter. Obviously we don't know anything of what happens internally, but someone's going to get fired if Berrios doesn't start earning that contract, irrespective of us making playoffs or not.