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Boston Globe
14 minutes ago
- Boston Globe
Game 106: Dodgers at Red Sox lineups and notes
Mookie Betts wasn't in the Dodgers' lineup Friday. Manager Dave Roberts said Betts was in Tennessee to take care of a personal matter, but he is expected to be in Boston on Saturday. Garrett Crochet is scheduled to start Saturday for the Red Sox, while Clayton Kershaw will get the ball for the Dodgers. First pitch is at 7:15 p.m. Here's your preview. Advertisement Lineups DODGERS (61-43): TBA Pitching: LHP Clayton Kershaw (4-1, 3.27 ERA) RED SOX (55-50): TBA Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Pitching: LHP Garrett Crochet (11-4, 2.19 ERA) Time: 7:15 p.m. TV, radio: Fox, WEEI-FM 93.7 Dodgers vs. Crochet: Mookie Betts 1-1, Freddie Freeman 3-5, Teoscar Hernández 0-1, James Outman 0-1, Andy Pages 1-2, Miguel Rojas 1-3, Will Smith 0-3 Red Sox vs. Kershaw: Alex Bregman 1-3, Rob Refsnyder 0-2, Trevor Story 8-23 Stat of the day: Boston hasn't scored more than two runs in five of its past seven games. Notes: The Red Sox were held to five hits during Friday night's loss. ... Crochet is 0-1 with an 0.00 ERA in three career appearances (7 2/3 innings) against the Dodgers. Two of those appearances came in relief. ... Kershaw has never faced the Red Sox during the regular season but was 0-2 with a 7.36 ERA in 11 innings against them in the 2018 World Series. ... Since the All-Star break, the Red Sox held a lead at the end of just 10 innings out of 66 played. ... The Red Sox are 55-50 overall and 7-19 against teams with a .550 winning percentage or better. Advertisement Emma Healy can be reached at
USA Today
44 minutes ago
- USA Today
Why Terry Francona's teams get better in second half. Can Reds follow trend?
A few nights ago, during a pitching change in a game the Cincinnati Reds were losing, with manager Terry Francona trying to coax a much-needed comeback win, star shortstop Elly De La Cruz chose to get playful and snatch the glasses off Francona's face. De La Cruz put them on his own face, then mocked a grimace, laughed and took them off. The bemused look on Francona's face suggested it wasn't the tone he expected in the moment. Maybe not the time for goofing off? Francona took the glasses back and allowed a laugh with De La Cruz at the shortstop's reaction, then put them back on and got back to work. 'I know we're losing out there, but they're playing their ass off,' Francona said. 'I don't ever want to just be their buddies when we're winning. That doesn't work. '(Carlos) Santana used to always do that with me on the mound (in Cleveland),' Francona added. 'He probably (expletive) told Elly. He'd always pull my socks down. Like, 'Dammit, Carlos.' ' One of Francona's great strengths as a manager through a career that has led to more than 2,000 wins and has him headed to the Hall of Fame has been an uncommon level of personal trust, connection and (in turn) accountability he builds with players. Moments like these can trust any manager trying to do his job, win games, run a tight ship, hold players accountable. Baseball managers have snapped on a player for less. That Francona is able to walk the fine line that lets Elly be Elly in that moment, whatever his own sensibilities might suggest is appropriate, might speak to the success he has had with players of all ages, stature and personalities in his career. This wasn't Trevor Bauer throwing the ball over the center-field wall when Francona took him out of a game in 2019 and getting traded from Cleveland to Cincinnati three days later. 'It's OK. They're trying their asses off,' Francona said. 'We're not gonna win every night. And there's some nights where things don't go (well). But I don't want to be just patting them on the back when (it's going good) — they're actually great kids.' Francona has had barely five months since the start of spring training to get to know his new group of ballplayers. And as they opened the toughest remaining schedule in the majors over the weekend with the start of a three-series homestand, against the Tampa Bay Rays, it's the relationships with those players he'll lean on to try to replicate perhaps his most impressive career accomplishment. Francona's teams almost always perform better after the All-Star break. Often significantly better. And that's especially true in his first year with a new team in three previous managerial stops. 'That's not surprising,' said veteran catcher Jose Trevino, who's in his first year with the Reds after a trade from the Yankees. 'There's calmness but with a sense of urgency,' Trevino said. 'A sense of urgency to play the game right. A sense of urgency to do things right. But the calmness comes in the craziest times, when there's runners on, there's bases loaded, we need a hit, or need somebody to get out of a jam. 'You can look over in that dugout and see just that calm presence.' Whether that level of calm feeds a growth arc of performance over the course of a six-month, 162-game season, or whether it's the more tangible levers Francona tends to pull as he decides what his roster can do and starts managing with more urgency down the stretch, it has worked. In his last stop, in Cleveland, Francona took over a last-place team, went 51-44 (.537) before the All-Star break, then went 41-26 out of the break to reach the playoffs — 90 percentage points better in the second half. Even when he inherited a loaded Boston Red Sox team in 2004, that team was 48-38 (.558) in the first half and 50-26 out of the break — a 100-point difference in winning percentage. That team of personalities as divergent as they were big called themselves 'idiots' all the way to a World Series championship, as Francona let his stars play and their personalities flow. The secret to all that second-half growth with his new teams? 'I don't know,' Francona said. 'If I knew, we'd play better in the first half.' If he pulls it off again this year, it might even be more impressive than either of those two. Forty of the Reds' final 60 games were against teams with winning records, including the defending-champ Dodgers in town this week. Actually, he may never pull off what his first Phillies team did in his first year as a big league manager in 1997. That team won barely 28 percent of its games in the first half: 24-61. 'They were running a daily (update on) if we were going to have a worse record than the (1962) Mets,' Francona said, referring to the Mets' all-time record for losses in a season that the White Sox broke last year. 'Every day. 'That's always fun.' That same, awful first-half team went 44-33 after the All-Star break — for a stunning jump of nearly 300 points in winning percentage. 'You're always trying to build,' Francona said. 'Tthere's some years where some guys get hurt so much and then you just can't play as well as you want, or win as much as you want. 'But you're always trying to build toward getting better,' he said. 'That's the object. I think as guys learn how you want to play the game, it's easier for them also.' That's what the players say. The expectations have been clear, the accountability consistent, the calm constant, the roles ingrained, the comfort growing. 'You go back to the first month of the season. We were kind of up down, still trying to see where we were,' Trevino said. 'And then all of a sudden we take off. But Tito's the same guy the whole time, telling us to trust ourselves and play the game hard, play the game fast and do what we do. 'We know what he's trying to tell us. There's a great understanding of what he wants from us,' Trevino added. 'It takes some time. It's just like anything." Just in the past week, he pulled the lever on trying Noelvi Marte in right field to create a way a get two of his more trusted right-handed bats in the lineup, with Santiago Espinal, and potentially get tighter fielding out of two positions (also third). Marte had never played in the outfield in his professional career. Three days later, Espinal played first base for the first time in his career. These aren't moves that would have been made in April. 'He's constantly setting guys up to succeed,' Trevino said. 'Constantly.' Whatever is next, the Reds seem ready for anything the manager might ask. That much trust seems to be there five months in. Whether it leads to another one of those second-half surges, they seem to be ready for that, too. 'He has that reputation of getting the best out of his players,' first baseman Spencer Steer said. 'He's had a couple meetings where we've been in a little bit of a rut or not playing well, and he says, 'This is when it gets fun. This is when it really gets fun. You see what you're made of. This is when it really matters about playing for the guy next to you and really caring about the ultimate goal of winning. When it gets tough, that really comes out.' 'That's kind of where we're at,' Steer said. 'We're not in the perfect spot by any means. But we've got life. And as long as we've got life, there's a chance.'
USA Today
an hour ago
- USA Today
Iowa football safety reveals reason he didn't transfer from program
The college football transfer portal has run rampant in the sport for the past couple of years. It's affected every college football program in the country, including Iowa, who has seen talented players come and go over the past few years. But, not every player is like that. Some players still have a lot of love and respect for the Hawkeyes' approach and track record of development. These are players who stick around despite not playing much early in their tenure with the program, but who then get rewarded for their patience. Koen Entringer is one of those guys. The 6-foot-1, 211-pound junior safety out of Ypsilanti, Mich., has appeared in 30 games as a Hawkeye, with only one start to his name. Entringer has recorded 27 tackles and an interception across those 30 games. The Michigan product is very talented and could've easily left early in his career to go somewhere for more playing time. But, Entringer stuck it out and was able to represent Iowa at Big Ten media days in Las Vegas on Thursday. Entringer spoke about his decision to stay at Iowa, even when the playing time wasn't there. "I think the main reason I didn't leave is just because I'm committed to the team and I'm committed to the players. I knew that Quinn (Schulte) coming back was going to help the team and if I was good enough to beat him out, I would've beat him out. Coach (Phil) Parker is a fair guy and he found a way for me to be on the field. "I know it's not common for a lot of guys. They want to play right away. But, I just looked at it in the long term. Playing at Iowa is just a tremendous opportunity," Entringer said. Entringer's comments say a lot about him as a player and as a person, and speak to Iowa's overall approach. Guys like Jay Higgins, Luke Lachey, and Sebastian Castro are good examples of sticking around the program, even when playing time isn't there early, and being rewarded for it. Entringer is hoping his name can be added to that list of successes, as he's projected to start at safety in 2025. Fans will get their first glimpse at Entringer and the Hawkeyes when Iowa hosts Albany in the season opener on Aug. 30. Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions. Follow Zach on X: @zach_hiney
