The Red Sox and the Blue Jays combined for 15 walks Thursday night, ten by the Blue Jays pitchers, seven of those from J.A. Happ. The team only scored four runs, however, as Boston wins 3-1. The Red Sox went 2 for 13 with runners in scoring position, Toronto 0 for 3. Boston turned three double plays to lessen the impact of the walks, while the Blue Jays turned two. That’s an impressively low score for 32 batters reaching base by a hit or a walk.
What are your thoughts on the accusations out of Toronto (broadcasters, not team) that Buchholz and some of the ‘pen pitchers are ‘cheating’? As a Sox fan, they tick me off, but these days….
So what are your thoughts on the accusation out of Toronto broadcasting that Buchholz is ‘cheating’?
Bostondreams » I didn’t really have an opinion, since I haven’t looked at pitch f/x data to see if the movement on his pitches has changed. I did link to a Tom Verducci piece. Tom looked at old video of Buchholz, and there is something on his arm that wasn’t there before, and it doesn’t look like rosin.