Locked On Red Sox POSTCAST- Red Sox Pitchers Can't Keep the Ball in the Yard in Losing 3rd Straight

[Music] you are a locked on Red Sox postcast part of locked on Sports Boston on the locked on podcast Network your team every day well the Red Sox drop another tough wanted home to the Houston Astros are going to need a win Sunday to avoid being swept by Houston for the second straight year at Fenway Park whatever happened to home cooking 54 Astros over the Red Sox Saturday at Fenway we welcome you into our latest edition of the lockdown Red Sox postcast I'm Steve Lennox longtime play-by-play announcer show host I've called games from the Tokyo dome in Tokyo Japan Dodgers Stadium Target Field minute made Park cman Stadium Jacobs Field glob life in Arlington and Lasher Park in L Mass we are providing reaction every Red Sox game on the locked on Sports Boston YouTube channel as well as a locked on Red Sox podcast feed which is free and available wherever you get your podcast on our latest locked on Red Sox postcast we're going to discuss the Red Sox getting shut down by Astros rookie Spencer arag Getti Club not coming through in clutch situations of late and why did Josh wincowski go three innings in the opener or starter role and Brad Keller actually got to go four Innings as well we want to hear from you our every dayers and our first timers join the conversation watching live on the lockdown Sports Boston YouTube channel click on the comment button welcome yourself in introduce yourself and uh Hey 4-2 road trip to dropping the first two games against a Houston team battling it out with the Seattle Mariners for first place in the AL Western Division you can hit the comment button once again on the lockon Sports Boston YouTube channel page you can also hit us up on the X formally known as Twitter at lenux on baseball with questions or comments or if you just want a vent with your frustration right now with Alex kora's ball Club our latest episode of the lockdown Red Sox postcast brought to you by priz pi the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports go to priz picks.com loock on MLB use the code all lowercase locked on MLB for a first deposit match up to $100 so the Red Sox had opportunities in the eighth and Ninth Innings against the Astros Bullpen got to within a run had the tying run on base in the bottom half of the ninth inning Raphael Des coming through with a leadoff double against Josh haer Astros closer and that's as close as they get and that bottom of the ninth inning might be as frustrating a bottom of the ninth inning or half inning for the Red Sox for me in a long time deor is a leadoff double against hater a guy who's known to give it up okay hater gets a pop up from Danny Jansen to the catcher out number number one Rob RF Snider fly out to center field two unproductive outs and really in that situation Jansen needs to do something to get that Runner to third base with less than two outs because that changes the entire inning I'm not sure I've got a little while before I make Danny Jansen are at bat of the night I've got one in mind right now but Danny Jansen not coming through after the leadoff double by Raphael Des I kind of told myself right then and there they're not they're not tying this game up they're not going to walk it off here in the bottom half of the ninth inning they're not going to tie it up and send it to extras they're not going to walk it off with jansen's popup Des get stranded ref Snider f8 Roman gonzala strikes out to end the game and I'm not going to say it's fitting but yeah it's fitting that the game ends with a strike out because the Red Sox struck out 15 times in the game I said on our lock on Red Sox postcast after the Astros victory in the opener Friday night Spencer arag Getti he's opening up some eyes he's having an up and down inconsistent rookie season but he struck out 12 his last time out against the Tampa Bay Rays Saturday establishing a new career high with 13 strikeouts didn't see much in terms of approach couple of solo home runs no hits for the Red Sox over the first four Innings against arag Getti Jansen broke up the no hit bid spoiled the shutout bid all with one swing of the bat in the bottom of the fif fth inning two solo home runs until the bottom of the eighth inning for the Red Sox that was pretty much it had just one base runner in the first four against arti and he's a talent minor league pitcher in the Astro system a year ago and up in the big leagues and he's pitching for a first place team right now and he's pitching with a team that's been depleted because of injuries with their starters but he gives you a great arm right now ronell Blanco pitched Friday night Red Sox Miss fber valz who had a no hitter broken up in the bottom half of the ninth inning earlier this week by the Rangers and Cory Seager weo Valdez is a strong pitcher But Eric Getty's coming around and he's put together he's got 25 strikeouts now over the last two games 12 and now a new career high 13 Saturday in picking up the win against the Red Sox he's got some pretty impressive numbers he really does eye openening numbers don't look at just the record shut the Red Sox down and he gave up the home run to Danny Jansen to make it a 1-1 game in the fifth inning got the next three hitters with a couple of strke outs Yoshida gets to him with a home run in the seventh inning Bears down strikes out the next three batters Des Jansen and Dominic Smith this kid's got some Moxy he's got a little couple of words that I like to use for pitchers especially young guys he's got Moxy about him he's got a little nastiness about him I'm not going to say jerk or a couple of other words but those are the you need to be that way sometimes you need to be nasty on the mount he's he's he's got he's got a I don't know if he's a complete package but he's got an awful lot of upside Red Sox lose a one-run game opportunity got close in the eighth inning let's get into yordon Alvarez two more home runs six career home runs this is not part of numbers of the night this is in segment number one yordon Alvarez now six home runs in his career against the Red Sox all six at Fenway two home runs in the win on Saturday four rbi's now in the series Alvarez against wincowski in the first inning solo shot made it one- nothing two out shot Jansen tied it up in the bottom of the fifth inning Alvarez a two-run shot in the sixth inning against Keller when kowsky went three settled down after giving up the Home Run gave up another hit nothing else one two three second one two three in the third I understand he was getting back into you know the top of the lineup and and beyond that in the third inning but joshan Kowski can't go one more inning he threw 38 pitches you allowed Keller to go four Innings and gave up three earned runs and two home runs and he threw 74 pitches when Kowski can do that and Keller gave up the second home run to Alvarez in the sixth inning after the Red Sox had tied it in the fifth inning at 1-1 the Red Sox Friday night the Red Sox Saturday down within Striking Distance within Striking Distance and they acted like it was a 10- nothing game both knights in my view lot of strikeouts Alvarez the two home runs bregman got a home run to make it 4-1 in the seventh Yoshida made it a 4-2 ball game and then in the top of the eighth inning again these relievers I don't care if you're trailing I don't care if it's little league where I've coached to some degree of success not really I always told pitchers it doesn't matter what the scoreboard is you're not pitching to the scoreboard if you're called upon to pitch work a shutdown inning and Zack kelly didn't do that in the eighth inning gave up the Home Run allowed the Astros to add on then it looked even bigger that run in the eighth inning made it look even bigger when the Red Sox got a couple of runs in the bottom of the eighth inning finally put together a couple of base hits seon rapael one out base hit first to Third on a base hit by jiren Durant Durant stole second Abu came through it will came through knocked in two runs threat stalled right then and there didn't go any further and this is as frustrating a loss since I got this going and since we got this going with lockdown and the lockdown Red Sox postcast since started back in June we're now into I think we're about to hit episode number 50 here in the coming days youve got to win this game now you need to go out there on Sunday and you've got James Paxton on the mound against Hunter Brown and Hunter Brown can very much pitch just like Spencer arag Getti he can go out there and give you six seven Innings and shut you down he can also go out there and last just a couple of innings as well again hit us up comment section locked on Sports Boston YouTube channel let's hit it up right now Andrew the goat is in there yeah Red Sox need to get it together asap asp Andrew the goat if you don't mind me adding that in there as well need to get it together now every single team that is in contention right now for a wild card spot or even a division title has hit a bump in the road you thought the bump in the road was out of the road trip to open up after the All-Star break going one and five against the Dodgers in LA and the Rockies in Denver you thought that was the bump in the road and they rided the ship it's not the case Here We Go Again drop the final game in Kansas City on Wednesday and you had a chance to step on their neck the Cardinals helped out the Red Sox on Friday night came from behind beat the Royals so entering Saturday game and a half behind that second wild card but the Astros right now and they're not going away you've got one more and then you go to Houston and the next road trip's not an easy one and we know what this stretch is you've got the Rangers then you've got Baltimore on the road and Houston on the road on the next road trip so right now for the red sock you've you've got to put this together you extend Alex Cory you felt good about that Craig brlo the team was playing well cor resigns he's going to be around for three more years after this year there's young talent in the minor leagues this team above at skis but playing winning baseball are they going to do something at the deadline they did they did chansen is you know Sims rough outing on Friday took the loss after Tanner ha pitch well but he's been effective and I think he'll be effective more often than not Garcia Jansen they they've contributed so guards come up from the minor leagues he's done some things for you but the Red Sox Andrew the goat you're 100% right they need to get things going here they need to get things going in the right direction they need to do it soon third straight loss dropped three or four at home now three games under 500 at Fenway entered the home stand on Friday an opportunity to win the opener and get to 500 at Fenway for the second time this season that hasn't happening whatever they're eating whatever the routine is away from the ballpark when the team is back home at Fenway scratch it throw it out the window do something new need a victory Sunday to avoid being swept by the Astros for a second straight year at Fenway and for a fourth time this season need to start hitting Bullpen everything needs to come back together hey Mike debate has reaction Patriots preseason win this past Thursday against the Carolina Panthers Patriots also releasing Juju Smith shoot houster on Friday Mike debate with his latest locked on Patriots podcast available wherever you get your podcast Mike does have you covered through the preseason with all the storylines again locked on Patriots available wherever you get your podcast locked on Red Sox postcast locked on Sports Boston your team every day coming up we're going to get into some more on this loss um at bad of the night at bad of the day for the socks did not come through and clutch situations didn't do it Friday didn't do it Saturday 12 hits six in each of the first two games of the series that has to change on Sunday and that has to change we had 10 plus hits every single night now the team striking out way too much and not putting the ball in play we'll discuss that next locked on Red Sox postcast brought to you by liquid IV summertime for me baseball the Sweet Treats yes the salty treats as well so it's one of those where it goes back and forth hey I had a hot dog now I need something sweet now I need to hydrate now I need to get that salt out of there ice cream popsicles things like that well when you're talking about America's pastime don't forget to hydrate liquid IVs popsicle firecracker flavor a Sure Fire summertime hit get hydrated with electrolytes essential vitamins clinically tested nutrients from the number one powered hydration brand in America because baseball and summer go together like liquid IV and indulgent High hydration blast off with the iconic summer flavor a popsicle firecracker a festive blend of citrus fueled lemon lime tart cherry 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season which the Sprint is on touched on it Alex cor is managing this team right now like they're in and playing October baseball that's basically it Astros eight runs Friday night five more runs four more home runs and the win on Saturday and remember 26 runs and taking all three late August of last year at Fenway Park altuve's done damage bregman has done damage yordon Alvarez Alvarez has done damage and similar to the Yankee series I'm not condoning drilling hitters but if you go back and look pitch by pitch how often Red Sox pitchers you know they want those breaking balls they want the sweeper they want the slider they want the change up to move down and in Lefty to a righty righty to a lefty down and in but they're working over a big part of the plate right now how often do you see a pitching on the hands how often do you see opposing hitters moving their feet in the Batters box I'll take a good star down tomorrow from yown Alvarez from home plate to the pitcher mound as he's worked inside bust him in you don't need to drill him but the inner half and going inside and being able to pitch inside that's been taken away I don't see it enough I really don't I don't see enough Red Sox pitchers I used to watch the Red Sox Yankees and Mets back and forth every single night since we got this underway Red Sox 97 98% of the time it's not often you go inside against Juan stto he stares you down stare right back where that may come into play is Liam Hendricks Hendricks threw a bullpen at Fenway on Saturday in reading the social media play byplay and the accounts of Liam Hendrick it was mostly an empty Fenway Park when he was out there but he drops him F bombs that's what he does he's animated he's vocal on the pitcher Mount if Liam Hendrick pitches in the big leagues and it's looking like that's going to be the case it's trending in a positive Direction Liam Hendricks in his first handful of outings is going to be barking at a hitter maybe the bench is empty but Hendrick has that nastiness to him right now the GU in the bullpen Kenley Jansen knows how to do it he knows how to come inside you just don't see it enough and the home runs that the Red Sox have given up of late way too many at bat of the day I got to go maso Yoshida in the eighth inning I want to go with one of the hitters I want to go Jansen after the leadoff double from Des in the ninth inning but Willer Brau comes through with a two-run single to make it a one-run game Yoshida first pitch swinging first pitch swinging in this lineup and I really thought about it on Saturday for the first time missing Tyler O'Neal and O'Neal is one of those guys who will go up there first pitch swinging in certain situations he attacks first pitch sometimes he comes through sometimes it's a lazy popup yosida first pitch swinging after the two-run single make him throw you strike one instead first pitch swinging pops out to the third baseman bregman ining over and again just like Jansen in the ninth inning when he failed to move Rafi deas over get him to third less than two outs now A Fly ball to center field by ref Snider probably gets that tying run in but yoshid could not keep the line moving in that eighth inning that's my at bat of the game for the Red Sox not going with one of the home runs at added on or yordon Alvarez heading a second home run to break a one-1 tie Yoshida is at bat in that eighth inning is our at bat of the game that was a pivotal moment in the game one of several but for me that one right there make him throw you strike one in that situation maybe give an opportunity to steal a bag and get into scoring position they would have thrown through with 2 ooun and nobody in front of them but Yoshida swinging first pitch there that just that locked it up for me hey lock on sports today is here for you 247 covering the top sports stories of the day with the local experts on locked on plus our national shows covering every League find lock on sports today now 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here for maybe you didn't see it that's what I'm here for I don't know if it came Friday or Saturday but apparently we know that the Red Sox are up for sale right they're going to be up for for sale they're in the beginning stages of putting the team on the open market well the Red Sox and the Fenway Sports Group may have significant or serious interest in making that purchase and adding the Celtics into the portfolio how do you feel about that Red Sox fans probably 97 98% of Red Sox fans right now are saying absolutely not don't do it John Henry relationship with the fans it's one-sided frustration that's the key word right John Henry comes off as we've got our World Series titles we've got our money coming in we refurbished Fenway Park they're building up around Fenway Park now the real estate is at an all-time high all these different things John Henry again adding to that portfolio if he added the Boston Celtics owner of the Red Sox Liverpool Football Club Pittsburgh Penguins as well nest nesson and Pittsburgh I don't know what it's called out there in Pittsburgh right now if you're a Red Sox fan and you see that Red Sox fans want Fenway Sports Group and John Henry to focus on one thing and one thing only and that's the Boston Red Sox and I don't know how that goes remember there's a salary cap in the NBA and if you go over that salary cap and I don't know what the cap situation is for the Celtics but they won an NBA title in June I assume they've well extended beyond the salary cap so there are certainly certain hits that you take the Golden State Warriors asking them about it over the last couple of years right and in baseball there's no salary cap but if you hit certain numbers and the Red Sox have not wanted to approach those numbers in recent years so they could sort of have a cap reset remember as well LeBron James won a gold medal with USA basketball at the Olympics that are wrapping up here on Saturday Team USA on the men's side beating France to win Gold LeBron James is part of the Red Sox ownership group how big his stake is in the team right now I don't know but he's got a stake if he continues to be an active player in major with uh with the NBA then that stake he's got to be bought out I I don't know the exact terms that sounds about right but he would have to uh basically not give up his stake but be paid out on his stake in the Red Sox franchise if the Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group do decide to go in that direction and buy the Boston Celtics and yes they can be in the conversation to buy the Boston Celtics no matter what that number ends up being John Henry the Fenway Sports Group and others I'm sure they can complete that purchase to buy the Boston Celtics organization absolutely 100% Red Sox lose 54 numbers of the night red Sox pitchers have to keep the ball in the yard they've given up four home run they gave up four home runs Saturday two to yordon Alvarez now six career home runs at Fenway Park Red Sox pitchers have given up at least one home run now in 11 straight and these numbers are ugly four home runs allowed Saturday 33 home runs allowed in the last 15 games 46 home runs allowed in the last 21 games those numbers have been fact checked those numbers are correct 46 home runs allowed in the last 21 games that number is insane yes you've had the Yankees in there yes you've had the Dodgers in there yes you've had the Astros in there but come on and not you I I I've heard a couple of the analysts say you know that wasn't a bad pitch when you've seen the other three pitches in pretty much the same location prior to the Home Run given up it's a bad pitch because they're in that area of the plate and again it's not up and down everything is KN to Belt KN to letters breaking ball might go down in the way to a right-handed batter but or a left-handed batter but they're they're spent on a lot of those Will Middlebrooks first nesson reference by the way almost 27 minutes in DAV o bryen Will Middlebrooks on the nesson broadcast Saturday and he said it was Keller you want to throw a breaking ball you want to see the definition of a breaking ball two strikes that's it right there pitch was down broke down in a way to the batter swing and a miss not a lot of swing and a miss right now Tanner H didn't have a lot of Tanner H should be a swing and Miss pitcher very few swing and Miss from Tanner H against a pro and a and a big league lineup in the Astros they may be topheavy right now they've got Kyle Tucker coming back at some point in time that length lengthens the lineup and protects those guys in the lineup and here's something about jose2 they I'll throw out there it's not going to work I'm going to humor Myself by saying it I'll entertain Myself by saying it stop bullying the guy stop bullying him let the stadium of 32 34 35,000 plus be silent and yeah there are Astro fans in in Boston this weekend HT him Friday HT him Saturday stop boing Jose Altuve go silent just go silent maybe for at least one at thatat that puts him in a different mindset I say that tongue and cheek but if you're gonna boo hose Altuve make sure it's the whole entire ballpark make it so it's throughout the entire at back or go completely sent that guy gets booze on the road he loves it adds to it for him one of the top five clutch players in the last 10 years and you can say what you want about the Astros and cheating and Jose Tu being in the middle of it that's fine um 27 strike counts and 12 hits in the first two games for Red Sox hitters that's that's ugly um Friday Night 10 left on base one for 12 runners in scoring position Saturday not a lot of opportunities Des the leadoff double in the ninth inning tying run nobody in scoring position nobody out he was one of just three base runners left in on base for the Red Sox on Saturday again not a lot of opportunities no hits to the first four Innings one for five with runners in scoring position 0 for three in the ninth inning 0 for three 0 and2 in the series got a win on Sunday or you know what you've been swept at home by the Astros each of the last two August and You' be swept in a series for the fourth time this year numbers of the night I've got more I've gotten more numbers of the night for you but they're not pretty so we'll move on what's on tap Hunter Brown um I haven't seen enough of Hunter Brown I've seen his dayby days for the year I've seen some of his splits you're going to see another rhander similar to aroganti young guy nine and seven record ra just under four 122 Innings 130 strikeouts 46 walks whip over 1.3 numbers very similar um 258 batting average against he was eight- one had eight wins one loss over a nine start stretch from early June through July and over those nine games he had five scoreless outings in that stretch James Paxton win and a loss win last time out and his first two starts with the Red Sox one on the road against the Royals last Monday six Innings 200 ear runs a walk four case I want to see six I want to see that same line from pxton on Sunday what I really want to see is seven I really want to see seven Innings I don't want to hear that the bullpen is taxed or anything like that it shouldn't be but those guys called upon right now get the job done I want to see two relievers tomorrow I don't want to see three and four and four and five relievers tomorrow I want to see Paxton go seven let your veteran go seven that's what you got him for is he your Ace no but you need an ace like performance six Innings 300 runs yes that's a quality start some of us chuckle at that go seven on Sunday James Paxton let him go seven if he's cruising along if he's at 90 pitches through six give him the seventh I don't care who's do up I really don't um Paxton 15 career starts against the Astros one last year against Houston back in 2018 he's eight and5 in his 15 career starts against the Astros back in 18 he won 11 games with the Mariners four of those when he was four and0 four of those wins against Houston afternoon day baseball final game against the Astros you'll see them again week after next in Houston win the finale go get it avoid the series sweep then you've got the Rangers coming to town even even if you win tomorrow you drop two out of three to the asers remember last home stand dropped two out of three to the Yankees and won two out of three against the Seattle Mariners even one and two against Houston over the weekend you're looking at that Rangers series a team that was trying to get into contention a team that was trying to get into the conversation of being possible postseason team they're not there and that's really the only team you're going to see for quite a while that is just not even close to 500 everybody else that you're going to see over the next couple of weeks they're battling for something they're playing for something wild card or a division title hey our locked on Red Sox postcast does follow each and every Red Sox game all season long we 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