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The Boston start? LeBlanc left with men on second and third. Castro gave up a single allowing two to score to the next batter. He got a groundout to end the inning. The next inning, he faced one batter and got a long fly out. He may have been a little wild, but that doesn’t sound like a terrible outing.

Yes, but having baserunners erased on balls called strike 3 certainly does not help.

Too many balls of the plate being called strikes this series.

From your lips...

He’d been calling Means strikes balls all night.

This ump is getting on my nerves.

Velazquez’s facial hair reminds me of guys I knew in high school that were enamored with the idea of vey first able to grow something.

This umpire seems awful. Back-to-back identical pitches. One a strike. The other a ball.

You are frequently reminded of minimally related baseball games. ?

Seems like a good start, even with a tight zone. Hope he keeps it up.

Is Means getting squeezed or does it just look that way on game day?

Feels that way.

Generous call.

Woohoo.

All the millions of dollars and they can’t sync up two camera angles with time stamps?

Any doubt that call is overturned if it’s a Yankee or Red Sox sliding?

Danger Zone, but we survived.

So, if the runner placed on second scores, how does that factor into ERA? I assume it doesn’t go into WHIP.

except for the passed ball.

I don’t think he thought it was going to be caught and went too far toward third it seems.

3-4 feet, I’d guess. Close enough he could reach up and knock it down on the bounce.

Lot of good aggressiveness tonight.

Crowd is louder than any Os-Rays game in history?

Nice read by Nunez. That was close.

I really like the addition of the strike box. I feel like I’d been waiting for MASN to add it forever. It’s very minimalist.