 Like the first day congrats to the Red Sox on a great regular season Meredith Erin you knew that it was inevitable probably at some point in time they would clinch But does it still sting a little bit? Oh, yeah. Yeah, especially, you know kind of battling back there in the middle innings it was just You know just a long tough Slug it out game and you know, they just they just came up with more big big offensive plays than we did tonight and Yeah, yeah, I mean it would have been nice to finish off the start of a great series, but You know credit to them. They just kept you know, they just kind of weren't gonna be denied today Masahiro Tanaka had been so solid for you post all-star break. Why do you think he had issues tonight? Yeah, you just got in trouble a little bit with his fastball miss miss with some fastballs Even when he was ahead in the count. I thought stuff wise. He was okay. That's I didn't feel like You know, I thought his split was fine. I thought the slider was there And even the you know, the fastball would have played but I thought he made some some mistakes with it Some critical mistakes with two strikes, especially a couple times to Mookie So just not as sharp as but you know again credit to them also Realizing there's a lot of talent over there on the Red Sox side But when Stan hates that grand slam early in the game, are you thinking this is this is turned and we're gonna finish This one out with the bullpen. Oh, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm always thinking that and and obviously that was a big blow at the time and and then Robbie comes in that next inning and kind of Cleans up and holds them at bay, especially the middle of their order with which was a big a really good job by him Great great turn by DD and and and then we just couldn't add on right came in and did a really good job holding this down And then they just you know, they just kept kept battling You know Greeny had a great first inning there and then Bradley got them on the change up. So Yeah, they just again up and down their lineup they just they just you know out slugged us a little bit Dan What do you think of around this? I have to watch a little bit. I thought the stuff was okay. Obviously struggled a little bit with his fastball command And that that hurt him a little bit But I was encouraged at least to see the ball. I thought come out Well, I thought he threw some good sliders even though he ends up getting hurt with the one to to bets there So even though the line and the result wasn't very good You know, I thought stuff wise and and physically at least how he looked to me over there You know a first step in his way back Was that the kind of situation you wanted to get him into the first time out or not? Not necessarily I mean, we were prepared to you know, had we been leading there, you know, especially having used Ellen and Robbie at that point He would have been our the guy there in the eighth inning, you know So we were we kind of as best we could prepared him for a number of roles possibly tonight It just so happened that it was the eighth inning there when we're down But it could have easily been a seventh inning situation with the lead could have been a ninth inning situation with the lead We kind of were as best we could prepare them for for a number of scenarios Meredith and George with the fastball command off as you said any consideration of bringing in somebody else or getting someone up Earlier to to face bats. I know you had holder warming, but No once once he got Leon we felt like The best match up there was Chappy it was gonna be his last hitter. He wasn't gonna face Ben attendee even left on left there But once it had he lost Leon Possibly we might have gone to get holder But we felt like our best chance there to get out of that inning was gonna be Chappy against Betts And in that seventh inning, is that the right move for Hicks to be throwing to third there? Yeah, I thought it was the right move You know what because he's not gonna he's not gonna cut the guy down at the plate from as deep as he was and I'd have to look and see how much if there was an overthrow of the cutoff man there But you got to make you know, obviously make sure the cutoff man there because they're probably especially with Aaron's arm They're not gonna challenge him going to third necessarily there, but the I thought the right decision anyway to go to third George to the right Aaron does getting rid of the Red Sox for a couple days actually help your team As far as you know, not they have to answer any questions about clinching and all that other stuff I Don't know George, you know we you know, I felt like Did a lot of things well in this series You know couldn't finish it off when it looked like we had a nice little comeback going in there in the middle of this game So, you know kind of getting back to the early question, you know this Stings a little bit, but but we also feel like You know, we're getting our we've gotten our guys back where we feel like we're in position to hopefully take off and really start playing well and and You know, we'll have the I don't know better worse. I don't know