First team to homer in 5 consecutive innings this year
7 hrs ties the most allowed by the Red Sox in a game ever

Smelly Kelly and Porcello fuck up what could have been good early season lead for the Sox.

Tonight was on your bullpen.

Ouch..the Padres blew a 12-2 lead on the Mariners and its 16-12 Mariners now

holy fuck

Damn it, Droford. Stop stealing my thunder.

In all seriousness I'm glad this is happening to the Padres. Their sorry front office/ownership sat on their hands and tried to bandaid a shit team, selling it as a competitor.

Instead of trading Tyson Ross, Derek Norris, James Shields and possibly Matt Kemp and Andrew Cashner to try and pile up as much young talent as possible, they fooled themselves into thinking they were decent.

Now they're fucking good God almighty awful and there's zero help on the farm. This is what happens when your ownership thinks creating a winner happens overnight.

Slick series of cuts by director/cameras prior to final pitch... respect...

Mad Bum had a Superwin yesterday just to point out..

Also..the Orioles are back tied with the Red Sox for 1st after beating the Yankees 6-5

Jays are really starting to heat up. Dickey was incredible tonight

ChiSox and Padres agree in principle to trade James Shields.

For what, exactly?

Padres want Fernando Tatis, Jr. but no confirmation yet

it's Tatis Jr. and RHP Erik Johnson

WOOOO we added some decent pitcher to our super shitty team.

Jason Hammel scores a superwin with a 2 run double against the DBacks.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Padres?src=hash">#Padres</a> sending <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteSox?src=hash">#WhiteSox</a> more than $30M in Shields trade.</p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/739203258292412416">June 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Padres probably hoping Shields opts out this offseason since they'd only be on the hook for this year's share of the money owed.

If the ChiSox can stay in it long enough, I think Shields sticks around. 2 games separate 1-4 in the AL Central right now.

If they fall out, he's gone.

Mark Teixeira to the 15-day DL. Here's hoping he avoids the season ending surgery. Can probably ship him off to some sucker team for some prospects.

Season's pretty much a loss anyway right now.

Os were losing 7-0 to the Yankees going into the 7th and 3 homers and zero outs later its 7-6

I like Tatis but realistically this is just a salary dump with the Padres getting two lottery tickets in return. I'll take it.

Chi Sox will be out of it by next month.

Never seen a batter strike out, have the catcher drop it, the runner run and be safe at 1st.... and 2 runs come in to score on the play.
too bad he Jays still lost

They lost it early on when Stroman pitched to Ortiz with first base open and runners on second and third.... terrible call by him or Gibbons for allowing that to happen....absolutely no reason to let Ortiz, the hottest hitter in the league, to hit at that moment

And now Donaldson, who has a bruised thumb, in the lineup as DH but not a 3B.... seems like if he's healthy enough to hit, he's healthy enough to field his position.... I'd understand if he jacked up his ankle/knee/hamstring and getting him off his feet for a day, but its his hand.....

Stro's hit a bit of a rough patch but I think he's competitive and smart enough to get back on track.

Arrieta time!

Estrada took a no hit bid into the 8th, gave up a homer to Chris Young. Got through the rest of the inning.

Didn't even have "great" stuff. Love watching this guy work.

Had a feeling in my gut Boston would come back in the ninth... Was dead against Estrada coming on in the 9th because a) Boston was starting to smash the ball (albeit mostly into gloves) and b) it meant Osuna (who always has adventures against the BoSox) would have to come on with a runner on base. He did and was uncomfortable until he got the 3rd out. Good win though and big series.

He finally lost..

In better news the Os got 3 In the 8th off Chapman when Girardi put him in for a 5 out save after warming him up prior to a 90 minute rain delay. Not sure why he would do that seemed like a recipe fir disaster

Dodgers DFA Carl Crawford, who's due $35 mil between now and next season.

And all this time I thought he was out of the game.

someone will take a chance on him to increase their OF depth.... not the player that he once was, but worth a gamble to a non-contender to plug in for a few weeks when their main OF is on the DL and they don;t have a decent option in AAA

That is of course if Crawford isn't happy sitting at home letting that money roll in....

He'll find a place to play. Once he clears waivers and is officially released some team will pick him up for the league minimum and give him a look on the cheap.

It is crazy looking at Boston's batting line up with seemingly 70% of them hitting over .300 and the rest hitting like .280. Just ludicrous.

And yet they're still tied for 1st with the Orioles

The Red Sox have a far better run differential. While that doesn't always catch up to teams, it's a good indicator of what to expect.

Even with all their dingers Baltimore is barely outscoring their competition. I'd expect them to explore the pitching market to try and avoid regressing to the mean.

The fact that the Yankees and Rays are mediocre helps their cause but the Jays are heating up and that should make it really interesting.

The Sox wont be able to sustain batting 20 points better than the 2nd best team (.293 vs Pittsburgh's .277) and their Team ERA is actuslly worse than the Orioles (4.38 vs 4.10). So when they go into their hitting slump they're going to fall like a rock..

As for the Jays they're a threat if they start hitting given they have best pitching in AL. But they aren't going anywhere with a team avg of .237

Yes but they're still outscoring their opponents by a wide margin. That's more indicative of where they're headed than banking on their batting average fluctuating. While there may come down a bit if they maintain their run prevention it's not going to make that big of a difference unless their offense just crumbles.

The same could also be said of Baltimore. They're not going yo be able to keep up if they're barely outscoring their opponents. So unless the offense goes even more crazy or their pitching starts to improve greatly it's more likely they regress to a team that's above 500 but not by many games.

The jays are over 500 hitting 237. They also have a 316 team on base. So even with a low average they're still getting guys in base at a decent clip to give them chances to score.

Nonetheless it's going to fun watching the al east. Can Boston keep bludgeoning their opposition to death? Can Baltimore keep playing above their run differential? Can the Jays make another mid season turn around?

Might be the most exciting division in the league.

If the Jays can get Martin/Tulo (when he returns from injury) hitting anywhere close to .250 and EE/Bautista/Donaldson hitting at 75% compared to what they did at the end of last season, they will begin to run away with the division, considering how much better their SP's have been this year....

Lorenzo Cain just outright robbed Pedro Alvarez of a 2 run homer..I dare say play of the year candidate...ridiculous catch

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Definitely better than Trouts catch in 13 which was considered a top play of 2013

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