Home plate ump's zone has not been consistently applied for both teams.

Bull sh%t

wow, a decent throw would have had him.

Yep. That's what I was afraid of.

Ellsbury with a soft liner, and Carrera's throw to the plate was a bit off line.

TFIR wrote:wow, a decent throw would have had him.

Absolutely.


Carrera is still in learning mode. His throw tailed to the first base side. It didn't look that bad when it left his hand.

I played 1st base, 3rd base and occasionally catcher on a couple of beer league softball teams into my late 30's. We had two or three guys on our team who had played college baseball and had screwed around with curve balls and other pitches along the way,

When their hard throws were coming at me at the plate or the 1st base bag, the movement was just as tough to decipher as a line drive to left center field.

We played a good game against a good team tonight.

Better to lose these out-of-division than in-division.

TFIR wrote:wow, a decent throw would have had him.

Together with the mess that was the bottom of the 2nd inning we can sure hang this loss on our defense.

I never feel an AL team should win unless they score 4 runs.

Where did Huff get that wicked curveball? He really had it going last night. Too bad Santana can't catch it.

Tribe and Bosox tied at 2, Pronk on 3rd, nobody out

Make it one out, as Santana K's

And the 4th inning ends with Hafner still at 3rd

Kipnis better start doubling up on his home runs per game if he expects to catch the season record.

For those just tuning in, Kipnis has homered in this 3rd straight game.