Mercedes ops 2.625

No it hasn't.

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Super bullpen.

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Should have gone with Bummer this inning

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They’re 3 for 3 in giving up runs late

Lol

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Maybe that's what they meant. They'll ALWAYS give up runs.

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7 unearned runs so far this series. Got to be able to pitch over 3 base errors and popups off the noggin.

Bad defense

Bad bullpen

I feel we've seen this movie before.

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Why is Leury on my TV 2 of 3 games?

what's up w/ LaRussa - i thought he would be fixing this in spring training.

Sean Marshall and Aaron Bummer are not 8th inning guys on a team with post-season expectations. Leury Garcia in the line up again? Have another red wine, LaRussa. LaRussa reminding us why The Hawk fired him in the 1st place.

Aaron Bummer is a 5th, 6th, or 7th inning guy.

Why so down on Bummer? Wasn't he pretty much lights out last year?

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--yet I can't look away."

Sean Marshall?

I'm not "down" on Bummer or Marshall. I just want the high leverage innings to go to Crochet and Kopech.

Anyway, they look like the same old Sox to me. But hey, it's only three games.

Also, I may be cracking up, but I swear when I went to sleep last night the Sox were leading 4-2 after the Mercedes double. When I looked this morning the final was 5-3. What happened to the other run? Did Collins get sent back to third? I guess maybe it was declared a ground rule double.

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I can't believe you went to sleep while your team was still playing.

I also cannot believe that Robert had a ball hit him in the head. He is such a smooth fielder. Guess stuff like that can happen to even the best of em.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Last 4 world series champions rank most regular season errors. 7th, 23rd, 23rd, 10th. White Sox 1st this season. Last 4 seasons 10th, 5th, 4th, 3rd. Tony Larussa world series champions 4th, 19th, 14th.

Adam Eaton also dropped a pretty routine fly ball earlier in the series.

This team just doesn't look very good right now.

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And the guys on ESPN 1000 said it was possible this bullpen would not lose a lead past the fifth even once the entire season....

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He pitched 9 innings last year. The year before he had a good year on a 72-89 team. I just don't think he or Marshall are pitchers to use consistently in high leverage situations.

Kopech looks the best out of all the relievers. Plus I'm going to make a snap judgement on his mental space based on his looks. In 2019, he was a pretty boy on the mound. Game 2 he was all disheveled and wore a hardhat and brought his lunchbox.

If Kopech can give them a solid 1 2/3 to 2 1/3 once every series in close games, he will reach his likely innings limits of 100 and still be available for the post-season.

His arm and his brain (cue Big Brane here) shouldn't be taxed with 70 appearances as a regular Roberto Hernandez-style 8th inning guy this year.

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Iirc, we also saw this in the first month and a half of wait for it....1983.

83!

Hopefully with a better finish though.

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I'm learning these sox fans are a different bunch. never participate in the series threads when the game is on and now this. Now I understand why they had one thread for the entire season the last 5 years.

to each their own i guess.

I'm happy for Mercedes. He probably doesn't have a long term home in a league without a DH and with 13 pitchers. But he will be a perfect fit on a team like Pittsburgh once they get the DH.

In the past, guys like this played forever as a third catcher and key pinch hitter. Gary's own Lloyd McClendon was an example of this type of guy, and going back to the 70s I remember a guy named Jose Morales who played for the Twins for a few years.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Yeah, back when every team had a couple of guys like that. And they had legions of fans awaiting the occasional timely plays.

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One of my favs....RIP