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The Red Sox and Angels from Fenway this is their -- Chambers smart -- pregame show WEEI dot com to a Maloney alongside -- Red Sox and Angels we build this one as they. Possible playoff preview certainly the playoffs at least as far as the Angels are concerned have not been good matchup for the Red Sox in the series looks just like that.

does reeling economy in with John ranking Joe Saunders the first two games to guys and he can be face in the playoffs mean rather it's not take immaculate as -- Paul -- and and you want that junior owing to he can't really be feeling too good about yourself they -- the history they have against a team in the playoffs so. -- fragile team I think right now and they were coming here in trying to prove they can still win in this ballpark. Do you subscribe at all to the theory that a certain team hasn't on the team's number that they are in their hands I definitely do in the playoffs you know during the season. We've talked before with the Red Sox Yankees in the field start I didn't think that that would affect this you know the Yankees later in the year. When it comes the playoffs so it's going to be awful difficult for the team and put those demons by and things just happen once this has happened over the years and and it's the same group of guys it's the same clubhouse that it happened to -- four years. So it's definitely in I think the playoffs. Are definitely looking out Rodriguez. He is struggles -- plants those sort of things I think stick with even post season. Starting to look now does Boston rotation wasn't that long ago where you could say. They have one and a half stars now looks like they might have -- certainly the makings of a good three and the best three in baseball field. Restart with Josh Beckett and now he comes around him a couple of good -- He is again I what you work on you know the ace of this staff a lot of people say he's actually -- number two with the -- Joe Louis Lester on the ball but he is the key to this team because. To me in the playoffs no other team can put on one in the one day one you know like the Red Sox -- obviously Clay Buchholz. Has pitched outstanding I think these these two seam fastballs giving him conference in this fastball he can throw it -- ground balls easy outs. And Daisuke -- the and no one start maybe you shouldn't get too excited about it but you have to like which he suffered in the way he pitched two game. The way he counters with -- fastball in the specific guys trash. Last time we talked you just mentioned Josh Beckett two seamer he wasn't getting good location on he wasn't getting movement they want and on it. But last couple starts he really seems to be taking making strides in the right direction. Yeah I think it was a mechanical than just that they talked about John Burroughs and maintenance staying tall on his backside through and get that. Downward plane. Throwing that fastball to the strike zone and keeping the fastball down I think we saw him obviously given a close home runs. The result of keep the fastball -- in the curve ball they keep you. Play this game the ball down by the -- you can be off a successful. And I think that's were constant -- Josh Beckett. He had those 45 bad starts in a -- but hopefully you know he gets over the company's gonna feel pretty good about himself. When it's most important lead in the wild card now six and a half Texas can't teams score runs saved their life for the non. Yet figured at that I think everything's really done perfectly honest with you think we see the playoffs right now analyst Detroit continues to fall they have a lot of games left for Minnesota Chicago. But the Rangers -- disorder and again Michael Young is. A key player for them he re injured hamstring again. The other night Josh Hamilton has been down we'll start to see some of the breaks now in the starting rotation he's young kids struggling a little bit. I just don't see them hanging in there at all as a matter fact that it's going to be this Angel club and Red Sox having come October. If you take a step further if the wildcard race is over. One of the Red Sox need to do kind of what their goals now for the last three weeks of the season the most important thing going in the playoffs is being healthy -- lining up the rotation we saw that last year. If this Red Sox team was healthy last year I do believe it was on the World Series and we don't know what would've happened. But they had a pretty good chance so Michaels struggling son David Ortiz was exactly right. But they can line this rotation give some guys and these are -- days of down the stretch maybe the rotation give guys an extra day off here and there may -- skip public. It will go five innings to get him -- the game you know maybe take it easier these guys down the stretch opener of this lead. No I he'd do that most important thing going post season is being healthy.

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