Should/could Sox have swept? Thoughts on Chapman not getting into the game yesterday

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00:00And so I was listening to the game and was very excited until the end of that game yesterday afternoon.

00:07Can we say it was an enraged Ken Laird?

00:10It was very frustrating yesterday afternoon.

00:14But this is why the other, I mean, now that we're here, right?

00:17And clearly, Greg, looks like you were right.

00:20Chemistry has been much better.

00:22Devers is doing nothing in San Francisco.

00:24So credit to you and the organization in making that move.

00:26The Giants have the worst record in Major League Baseball, I believe, since that trade.

00:30Right.

00:32But he did talk to their affiliate after the game, so I thought that would help.

00:37But this team looks like they're going to the playoffs.

00:42They are two different teams, one at home, one on the road.

00:46With the new system, if you win the division, it is a massive advantage,

00:51especially for a team like the Red Sox that will get home field advantage

00:56in the playoffs.

00:57If the Red Sox have to go on the road in the wild card,

00:59I don't think that they're going to advance in the playoffs.

01:01So all of that suggests you're this close.

01:04The American League sucks.

01:06You're behind the Blue Jays who are giving it away.

01:08The Yankees are a dumpster fire.

01:10And a couple of moves, a couple of ways in which you could improve this team,

01:16and they elected to stay status quo.

01:18But I also have to say, like, are all this Chapman through three pitches?

01:21Four, I think.

01:22Four pitches?

01:23I don't understand why.

01:25Speaking of Ken, I was texting Ken about that, and Ken's like,

01:27wow, they had to use him the day before.

01:30It's like, yeah.

01:30Work low, Greg.

01:31They had to use him for four pitches the day before.

01:33Right.

01:34Like, I mean, he's your closer.

01:37And you're in a one-run ball game, and you can win it.

01:41And yet there's 37 games left.

01:44Like, I mean, I don't know.

01:45Is there any doubt they win that game if Chapman comes in?

01:47No.

01:47Not at all.

01:48So if the season comes down to one game, having home field or winning the division

01:53or not, you can circle that and say, I hope it was worth it.

01:57He threw four pitches?

01:59This isn't the first time that that's happened with Chapman either, where we've talked about

02:02it after the fact, where it doesn't make any sense to us.

02:05But they probably look at it like, if we don't have Chapman, if we overwork him, we're

02:09screwed.

02:10And, you know, you wanted to make it because Toronto ended up losing yesterday.

02:14Yes, you did.

02:15Yes, you did.

02:15And you still have those guys standing in the season.

02:18You got seven games against the Yankees.

02:20Like, I just, and I understand, this is my problem with, if you're going into these,

02:25to this game yesterday with your mindset on the fact that you're not going to use them,

02:30then you can't adjust at all to what is going on in a ball game.

02:34And it's very frustrating.

02:36But so this weekend, right, so Saturday they're in the Bronx, and they're up 4-2, Chapman comes

02:42in, they win the game.

02:43So Sunday night, it's 3-2 Sox, one out in the ninth, the Yankees get a base runner on,

02:50and you're just going to leave Chapman in the bullpen?

02:52Yeah.

02:52No, it's, I mean, listen, they won the series, so.

02:56Yeah, that was a tough one, though, yesterday.

02:58But yesterday was very frustrating.

03:00Thank you, sir.

03:14You're welcome.

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