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Damn. Ortiz out of the starting lienup. Cora (ss) bumped from 9th to 2nd, Pedroia in at 2B and batting 9th. Loretta is batting third and DHing. [shaking head]
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Kason Gabbard (3.38) / Esteban Loaiza (5.12), 10 PM
In his last start, Loaiza threw a four-hit, complete game shutout against Toronto. He is 3-0, 1.76, in his last five starts, with 27 strikeouts and three walks. ... David Ortiz is 12-for-28 (.429) against Loaiza, with three doubles, six walks and a .529 OBP.
With Beckett and Schilling following Gabbard, I hope Francona doesn't decide to punt this game away around about the 6th inning.
Lineups:
Crisp, CF Kendall, C
Loretta, 2B Kielty, LF
Ortiz, DH Bradley, RF
Youkilis, LF Thomas, DH
Lowell, 3B Payton, CF
Hinske, RF Chavez, 3B
Lopez, C Swisher, 1B
CPena, 1B Scutaro, SS
Cora, SS Ellis, 2BAnd now for the good news:
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Umm, I couldn't find any.
Red Sox fans ........paying the postage?
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the last time I saw a catcher bat lead-off....(?)
ReplyDeleteJason Kendall's led off for the last decade or so.
Yaz-Tek: Your full of it! Why make a deal to trade away Coco and some prospects or Lester and more prospects for a rental player and likely still be in the same situation we are today?
ReplyDeleteMakes no sense. I'm glad they didn't make a deal. We just didn't have the pitching this. Guys couldn't stay healthy and the young guys were exactly that young and inexperienced. Afraid to throw strikes.
As fans, we want to win and we get angry when they don't make trades and we don't always have an eye for the future.
The Manny/Papi combo isn't going anywhere and will be just as productive for 2-3 more yrs. WMP should develop further and that's a solid 3-4-5 punch.
9-0, the perfect final score to this essentially forfeited game.
ReplyDeleteYaz-Tex, you make several good points, but I'm not buying that BS about Torre. If Torre was the manager of the Red Sox right now, he wouldn't just wave his magic wand and say "I won't allow every single pitcher to shit the bed and I'll have none of these injuries!" Although if I were Tito, I'd actually consider buying some sort of magic wand right now. Ain't any dumber than acid wash. And by acid wash I mean "using any of the pitcherrs we have in any situation."
And if the wand doesn't work for anything else, maybe he could at least make himself disappear.
Ha ha. My feelings are concentrated on Papi being OK. Nothing more, nothing less.
ReplyDeleteYou're making the assumption this was a good team before the trade deadline.
ReplyDeleteRight now, the Red Sox record vs. teams not named the Orioles or from the NL is 42-57.
Don't blame Tito this is all Epstein's doing. Teh guy is just cheap. He reminds me of Kennedy in the Bay of Pigs--letting poor Tito get massacred.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame Tito this is all Epstein's doing.
ReplyDeleteYeah, stoopid Theo.
Injuring Varitek's knee, hitting that line drive off Wells's knee (and Clement's head last year), clobbering Wakefield in the back, driving the car that rear-ended Lester, speeding up Ortiz's heart, snapping Crisp's finger, making Manny's hamstring and knee more susceptible to injury, hammering Wily Mo's wrist, mind-controlling Beckett and Timlin to suck, and doing whatever he did to make Foulke, Nixon, Gonzalez, and everyone else I'm forgetting not be able to play.
Damn that Theo!
This was a VERY good team before all the injuries hit; the record proved it.
ReplyDeleteYou prove Redsock's point here.