Jeff Blair

Give your lineup a chance to have a big inning.

The matchups, Dylan Cease against Peyton Tolley.

Tomorrow it's Max Scherzer against Jake Bennett.

And the third game of the series, that is an afternoon game, by the way, we'll see Trey Savage against Sonny Gray.

Sonny Gray is 8-1 with a 3-0-3 ERA for the Red Sox.

So you may want to get at it tonight.

Slug overall.

I mean, yeah, I tend to look at lefty, righty.

It doesn't matter.

They don't slug.

Yeah, it's...

It doesn't surprise me.

Springer's not.

Okay, this is what I was getting at.

Based on how Springer and Vlade are swinging right now, no, it doesn't surprise me that they are down, that they are that bad against left-handed pitching.

Now, if Springer and Vlade had been better, then I'd... Well, quite frankly, then they wouldn't be that bad against left-handed pitching.

I think that stat just shows you

how poor those two players have been this year.

I think you're right.

Maybe more than, you know, I mean, runners in scoring position stat.