Jones & Keefe: Will the Red Sox be able to close out tight games this season?

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00:00I just feel like there weren't enough wins like that last year. I don't know how many you can count on, but it's a 2-2 game

00:05You're going into the late innings. You're watching them going. They're gonna screw this up. They're not gonna win

00:09They don't have the timely hitting. They don't have the bullpen. They don't have the defense blah blah blah blah blah and yesterday

00:14Again, it's one game

00:15You don't want to overreact negatively on Campbell in his defense or crochet and his start

00:20You also don't want to get too bullish on one win

00:22But I feel like there weren't enough of those last year which one game in I'll give him credit for

00:27I expect the team to pull out games like that this year where they've been incapable of doing that for like three years running

00:32Oh, yeah, I mean really the highlight was will you're a brave you in the bullpen?

00:36so if you told me like the the stars of the game, we're gonna be the relievers and

00:41Will you're a brave like that doesn't feel like a game you're winning now

00:45I guess if the bullpen is really really good then I guess maybe depending on you know

00:47How much you need them and whatever but yeah, you're thinking crochet Bregman Devers Casas story

00:54like that's what you're thinking is gonna it's kind of win the day and it wasn't which is

01:00Definitely a positive I've been the the bullpen itself

01:02We didn't know what the order was gonna be how we found out on the air yesterday that Liam Hendricks was gonna be on the

01:07IL and who knows if and when he's gonna return and it was definitely trending towards him not being the closer

01:14but if you said they had four innings of

01:17Shutout relief on opening day. I would have guessed a week ago. He would have been a part of it, right?

01:22Even though he didn't have a great spring. I was like, all right, you'll find a way to get him in there. Nope

01:25No, we're surprised when Bradfoe came on on Thursday

01:28He's like, yeah, or even earlier in the day yesterday rather and he's like, yeah

01:32I'm not sure he's gonna be a part of the late-game mix. We're like, whoa, never mind

01:34Not even on the team Bradfoe was all over Whitlock all spring

01:38He loved Whitlock and Whitlock was good. Well, I was good Chapman's debut good and then Slayton gets the same funny

01:44I feel like Slayton might almost be the bullpen version of will your brain you were like all

01:48Year, we were like talking about all the guys the new guys and then even when we're talking about the guys returning

01:54They both get overlooked, but they both had good seasons

01:57They're both pretty fairly reliable and it's funny just game one. Those are the two guys that really show up