Jake Reiser

4 days ago | overthemonster.com | Jake Reiser

Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images The Royals hadn’t lost back-to-back games since April 19th. That streak ended this afternoon. This game was all pitching and all bombs. Lucas Giolito had the start everyone was begging out of the middle of the rotation, mowing down Royals like he was Jamie Lannister the Kingslayer. 30% breaking ball usage, slider and curveball well in usage, fastball up to 97mph, that’s much more the guy the Red Sox signed.

4 days ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jake Reiser

The Royals hadn’t lost back-to-back games since April 19th. That streak ended this afternoon. This game was all pitching and all bombs. Lucas Giolito had the start everyone was begging out of the middle of the rotation, mowing down Royals like he was Jamie Lannister the Kingslayer. 30% breaking ball usage, slider and curveball well in usage, fastball up to 97mph, that’s much more the guy the Red Sox signed. Wilyer Abreu took Seth Lugo deeeeep 430 feet to right field to put the Sox on the board.

4 days ago | overthemonster.com | Jake Reiser

John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images The Red Sox offense ran rampant on the Royals last night to support another absolute masterclass in pitching from Garrett Crochet. Seth Lugo has had a decent start to the season, but Lucas Giolito goes up against him looking for his first ever Red Sox victory. Campbell gets the day off as David Hamilton slots in. sigh another rubber game. Can the Sox win the series heading into arguably the toughest roadie of the season going to Detroit?

5 days ago | overthemonster.com | Jake Reiser

Juliet’s great story and request for some help (burn some sage, maybe?) about her cursed Pedro Martinez bobblehead inspired me to tell my own story about a Pedro keepsake I’ll always treasure. I think the moratorium on me getting in trouble sharing this story is over, so let’s ride. First, a lot of background. From 2018-19, I worked two seasons as a Media Manager for Major League Baseball.

1 week ago | overthemonster.com | Jake Reiser

David Butler II-Imagn Images A series victory? Who could have thought? Brayan Bello had a weird day. To quote our fearless leader Dan, “Bellos been great at getting out of trouble so far. Just needs to stop the getting in trouble thing”. He only went 4.2 frames and walked himself into a lot of jams, 5 free bases given up alongside four hits. Even with a bases-loaded jam—somehow—he worked out of every single one of them.