So Does the Sox: Toronto Pounds Boston 7-0



I had a few requests for a visit to our old friends at SOSH via Twitter. I don't usually visit when the Sox beat the Jays, mostly because I don't enjoy it when terrible people are happy. (Weird, I know.)

But when the Jays put pushed it to 7-0 late I knew it'd likely be pretty safe.

I just want to warn you, it's pretty boring. The site is at its richest when the Sox are playing well but the Jays put a wrench in the works. The Sox aren't playing well, so SOSH is boring.

Not boring was Aaron Sanchez who, despite control issues, pitched the best game of his young career. His pitches were a little wild, but he somehow managed to keep it in the strikezone. Also, he induced twelve ground balls, including some when he really needed them, were another promising sign. If Sanchez is going to walk the world, he needs to find an efficient way to eliminate those base runners while he figures out how to not walk the world.

Sanchez told John Lott of the National Post,“It came down to me making pitches when I had to make pitches,” Sanchez said. “I felt like there was a couple pitches in that inning that could’ve gone either way and I think I let it affect me too much. Russell came out and told me to calm down, just play catch. I found a way to get out of it.”

He did and it was really great to see. Sanchez was confident and didn't appear to freak out. He was pitching.

On to SOSH.

 Why not tonight? 

A struggling Red Sox pitcher at the Rogers Centre should make for a long night. 

 It was actually a pretty efficient game, finishing under three hours.

Or struggling bats come alive at the cement box.

Ok, this is annoying. I'm not in love with the Rogers Centre, but aren't most stadiums cement boxes? Also, nice visitors' tunnel at Fenway, jerk faces.

Toronto's the only AL East team the Sox don't have a losing record against....so, yeah.  Bring 'em on.

Sox will score double digits tonight.  Book it.

 And the game started.

At least they don't make us wait to be losing. 
This was a thing of beauty. A homer off Windows Restaurant is a Blue Jays rite of passage, and I'm thrilled to see Donaldson do it.

Jose Batista looks like a very poorly cast villain on a low budget CSI: Miami knock-off.

No, he doesn't. But even if he did, he could still get your sister, your girlfriend and your mom.

I think I may hate Wade more than Lackey even with Lackey's douche sneer.

Congratulations, Wade Miley. Red Sox fans hate you and put that hate in context with the hate of a previous member of the Boston Red Sox. You are officially a member of the Boston Red Sox.

This game is out of reach.

It was 2-0 at this point. The Sox have played like garbage for a week or so and everyone is sad because Tom Brady has soft balls.

Sanchez is quite the nibbler 

By nibbler, you mean good, solid bites out of the zone and not getting calls. To be fair, that is normally a pretty apt description of Sanchez. Although, I wouldn't really use nibbler to describe him. He's really just wild and lacking in the control/command part of his game.

The fact that Sanchez had to deal with that zone and still pitched the best game of his young career is just that much more satisfying. Control is an issue, but he is working on it.
And this is just fun.

Tight zone. 

This one knows.

God this team is trash

 This one knows, too!

This kid has to be the palest guy named Sanchez I have ever seen.

 Ok.

Sanchez walks two guys and then hits Allen Craig to load the bases.

PRAISE THE LORD!

 It was a little scary. Bases loaded, nobody out.

They're going to fuck this up, aren't they.

 Yeah.

Oh, now that's a strike? Fuck you. 

It was probably always a strike. This zone was "festive".

Lolololol

HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS ARE WE EXPECTED TO TAKE!1? 

Ok, seriously. Your stupid ugly baseball team has three WS in this very young century. Go cry about it to your grandpa, who died between 1918 and 2004, you entitled jerk.

WEEI just reported Alex Cobb is getting TJ, he hopes to pitch again by Sept. 2016.  So at least we can all get some schadenfreude type pleasure tonight. 

It's the "celebrate the injuries and painful surgeries of others" portion of the evening.

The ump is kinda fucking over the Jays. And still, the Sox refuse to capitalise. 

It`s so scary when they get observant.

Schadenfreude from an injury is pretty low on the pathetic fandom scale.

 I agree.

No kidding. It's not like it happened to Chris Archer or David Price.

 Charming.

If toronto had just scored 6 runs in the first two, I could have turned my attention away from the game. Instead they lead me on for almost two hours.

 Can we hire Bobby Valentine again, just so that Farrell looks like an effective leader of men once more?

 Maybe it was never Farrell that made the team successful. The sooner the "Farrell as saviour" mythos can die, the better.

Didn't they already challenge on the X play?  

There was a lot of talk about the replay. Gibby didn't actually challenge on that late play. The umps challenged themselves to be competent at their jobs and reviewed the call themselves.

Gibbons is an ass.

Fire everyone.

 Starting with the fans.

So this team is kind of terrible, isn't it?

 Certainly looks like.

Baseball sucks and so does the sox

 Grammar, schmammar.