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I admit I tuned out the game as well after the HR to watch the Seahawks.... Thank goodness I flipped back in time to watch that amazing 9th inning. No doubt game of the year and could potentially be a huge turning point the rest of the way trying to build momentum. It was also sweet to see the tigers get crushed
Ha, I deserved that. I turned it off and deleted the recording. They play better when I give up on them...so they should be good to go the rest of the way.
Felix is tiring though, but have to get through it. Love to add a SP before end of month.
Hate to remind you all, but King Felix has a career 3.61 ERA in Sept/Oct. September is in 8 days. Looks like he has started his late season swoon early this year. Love the guy, but has always been an earlier year pitcher vs a late year pitcher so who knows what he would have left for a playoff run anyways.
Boston is one of those teams that is notorious for fouling pitches off and making pitchers throw more pitches than they want to throw in fewer innings than they'd like to throw them. Why do you think they average probably the longest games of the year every season? Felix made one mistake and Cespedes hit it across the street. It's not like he'd been playing with fire all night and finally got burned.
I also don't think that this is necessarily a sign that he's suddenly going to go into a 5 week-long slump. His ERA for the month is still 1.80 even after this game, so it would take an awful lot for it to balloon to the level of last year and the year before. I just don't see it happening. Of course, when your season-long ERA is just over 2.00 and you recently had a streak of 17 straight starts of 7+ innings allowing 2 runs or less, allowing three runs in one game is going to look bad by comparison. He's been good going into August and September the last couple of years, but not this good. He's still only had one start all season where he allowed more than 3 runs. He also obviously still suffers from having starts that are really good, but maybe not up to his standards, with little-to-no run support to back him up, that make any mistake he makes look bigger than they would be if he had that support. If the M's had been able to take advantage of their earlier opportunities with runners in scoring position, would the homer to Cespedes be as big a deal as it was? I doubt it.
Anyway... great comeback by the M's, although I wish they'd have done it sooner than 2 outs in the 9th inning. You take any kind of win you can get, especially when you're in a playoff race and you're facing a team that hasn't realistically been in it for months. That's why the Philly series was so frustrating. They left a couple wins on the table there when they couldn't take advantage of some opportunities to score (of course, the poor umpiring at times didn't help). Hopefully this win will be a springboard for success the rest of the season, but I don't think it is any more telling about how the rest of the season will go than the losses in the Philly series were.
I don't disagree with much of anything you're saying.
The Sox are one of the teams I least want to face. They're sub .500, but in that litterbox of a park, it's scary to play them, especially with Cesspooldes in the lineup. If the M's win this series, I"ll be happy.