Red Sox vs Cubs Series Review

Weirdest Team In Baseball

Ladies and gentlemen. MLB Insider Matt Rosen’s take on the game.

“This Andrew Bailey guy might know what he’s doing.”- Matt Rosen

Overall Takeaway

Another hard-fought series against a playoff contender. Congrats to the No Dowd About It team for seeing the 17-0 win.

The Red Sox are still the weirdest team in baseball, and I will not be convinced by anyone that they couldn’t make a run.

Pour one out for Bobby Dalbec. If I were a gambling man, which I am not right now even though I made $400 betting the Red Sox the first 15 games of the season (Flex), I would bet that Dalbec gets the cut tomorrow. Garret Cooper is slated to arrive Tuesday, and a spot needs to open up for him.

Game 1: Cubs 7-1

Game 2: Red Sox 17-0

Game 3: Red Sox 5-4

What I Loved

• Masataka Yoshida Revenge Game

  • He goes 4-5 on Saturday night after getting shafted on Friday by Cora. He was 1-2 on Sunday night until he was pulled for an unknown reason.

• Tyler O’Neil

  • WALK OFF KING

  • He has confirmed he would do the HR Derby.

  • Hit home runs in back-to-back games. His biceps are looking fabulous, as always.

  • Here are his stats after Saturday’s game.

  

• Kutter Crawford and Tanner Houck Going Six Innings

  • Andrew Bailey is a confirmed superhero.

• Rafaela Break Out Game

  • After driving in seven on Saturday, Rafaela is now the team leader in RBIs!

• DEFENSE

  • Only one error in this series! Not only that, but some great plays in the field by Valdez, Abreu, and Rafaela over the three nights.

What I Was "Mid" About

• Jarren Duran

  • He is starting to get cold. He is batting .138 in his last seven games and starting to strike out more. He had a great triple today; there was lighting on the basepaths between that and him going first to third on the Devers single.

• Rafael Devers

  • Clutch hit in the 9th inning. But I want to see more from him.

What I Didn't Love

• Alex Cora… Again

  • He robbed us of a Masataka Yoshida vs. Shota Imanaga matchup. Lifetime, Masataka is 6-11 against Shota. I’m not an analytic guru, but that seems like a pretty good number.

  • Cora pulled him from Game 3 in this 6th inning. There is no news yet about whether he was hurt. If he isn’t, then we have a problem.

  • I loved Sunday Night Baseball, cutting to Yoshida when Cora talked about dealing with people in the clubhouse. A +++.

• Defenestrate Chris Martin

  • Enough said.

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