Neither starter made it out of the fourth inning. Wakefield was either rusty or his back was still acting up: 3.2-9-6-2-0, 74. It was the first Wakefield start this season in which he did not get a decision.
Kyle Synder came in and got the last out of the fourth and pitched a scoreless fifth. Clay Buchholz threw three scoreless innings (Weren't the Sox limiting him to one inning per outing?). Most of his early pitches were up, as he walked his first batter, allowed a single and then walked his third batter. But after Mike Lowell started a 5-2-3 double play, CB calmed down. Baltimore did not get another runner on base, as he fanned Kevin Millar to end the sixth, then pitched a perfect seventh and eighth.
In the top of the ninth, Coco Crisp (who also singled and scored in the third and belted a three-run dong in the 4th) reached on an infield hit that Brian Roberts could not bare hand. Crisp stole second and scored on pinch-hitter Jason Varitek's opposite-field single to left.
Jonathan Papelbon needed only 11 pitches to shut down the O's in the bottom of the ninth, finishing the game with a called strike three on Millar.
MFY were off tonight, so we lead the East by 6.5.
Magic #: Sweet 16.
***
Tim Wakefield (4.16, 109 ERA+) / Garret Olson (7.22, 62 ERA+)
Olson has faced the Red Sox twice this year -- August 11 and September 1 -- pitching a total of 11.2 innings and allowing 15 hits, 11 walks, and 8 runs.
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Pedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Lowell, 3B
Youkilis, 1B
Kielty, LF
Drew, RF
Crisp, CF
Mirabelli, C
Roberts, 2B
Patterson, CF
Markakis, RF
Tejada, SS
Millar, 1B
Huff, DH
Mora, 3B
Hernandez, C
Payton, LF
Why Lugo first? WHY????!!!!
'Cuz Crisp is even suckier? (shrugging)
Seriously, how fucking hard is it to write "Pedroia, Youkilis" at the beginning of every lineup card?
Cafardo on Extra Bases committed one of my pet peeves:
"The Sox arrived here at about 2:30 a.m. this morning"
Redundant!
Looks like we have no answer to the O's Negro League unis tonight. I was hoping we'd do something.
What the hell just happened on NESN?? Did Remy get assaulted or something?
Maryland Comcast on EI... but NESN on Rogers! Yippee. :)
Looks like we have no answer to the O's Negro League unis tonight. I was hoping we'd do something.
We could be the racist Boston team that didn't sign anyone from the Negro teams...
...No?
Okay.
1932 Black Sox unis. Cool.
Hello, Don!!!!
...
ish, i mailed the dvd today.
I hope Kevin Millar didn't ask anyone if his uniform made him look fat...
Fantastic. Thanks, RS!
You guys are saying there's no answer... what was the question?
That was so weird. Remy was mid sentence, with stats on the screen, when he stopped, and yelling was heard in the background. Then they cut to a silent shot of the park, then went to commercial. Now they're back and acting like nothing happened.
How psyched is Millar to have "Sox" on his jersey?
You guys are saying there's no answer... what was the question?
Well usually when one team wears a throwback uniform, so does the other team.
Most of the time. The Brewers have done throwbacks earlier this season without the other team joining in, though.
scandal -- curt not singing anthem, smiling with belli. curt hates america.
ish, all the teams were racist. Is the second-to-last team to integrate off the hook?
Meh. We get Glenn Geffner on the radio. :(
ish, all the teams were racist. Is the second-to-last team to integrate off the hook?
This is true. How could I forget?
That's not Jimmy Olson, is it? Gosh, Miss Lane, I wonder where Clark could be.
I'm gonna guess someone on here tonight asks, "Hey, weren't the Black Sox the White Sox? And why would you want to celebrate them?"
I guess the O's had a late lineup change in CF?
Oops. I just posted on the wrong entry.
On "tooth hurty", I said, Blink once and the inning is over.
black sox -- does this mean baltimore will throw the game?
(maybe they are by pitching ol' 7.22 ERA olsen)
Corey Patterson is injured.
Back in a wee little bit. I'm going to go stuff my face with unhealthy American food.
Thanks for swinging at the first pitch, David.
By the way, I didn't see the pitcher just now, but I saw the ball moving so slow toward the plate, then remembered it was Wake.
Feels like a year since he's pitched last.
Non-white O's so far: All three putouts in the field. All the team's hits, stolen bases, runs and RBI.
Non-white O's so far:
o's of hue
Rick Ankiel today: a double, 2 HRs, 7 RBIs, 4 runs scored and a walk.
The streak continues. And another white guy up: consider this inning over. (Or that he walks. Since Markakis walked.)
It's a white man's world when you can reach base without swinging the bat.
(Just watched "Being There" the other night.)
Mirabelli needs to frame these balls that dip below the strike zone better!
I love Being There, but I don't get the reference. But it's been ages since I saw it.
Good thing Mora ain't what he once was or that could have been a real punishing inning.
Full Bore sighting! Hey Don, Millar doesn't go full bore.
base hit and a big yooooook cheer
big yooooooook with that hit.
poor orioles fans -- unable to see their team because of the greedy sox fans
About Being There:
When Chance is on TV, Louise, the black woman who used to bring him his meals, says it's a white man's world when you can have a head full of mush and still get on TV, talk to the president, etc.
(Or BE president today!)
jere, that's great, thanks
hey, mark your calendar: oct 27. international day of action against the war.
protest during the day and watch the red sox win the WS at night?
"Protest during the day and watch the red sox win the WS at night?"
Well, that would be the ultimate day.
I think 10/27 would be Game 3, but I'd have to check.
24-25 AL, 27-29 NL, Halloween and 11/1 AL, if my memory is correct.
game 3 - the nl team will concede after 3 beatdowns.
Allan just checked, you're absolutely right, game three.
OK, protest the war during the day and watch the RS win A world series game at night.
Still good :)
Thus ends the scoreles streak for Wakefield. I knew they should have started Cash tonight.
Wow, second in the AL in Defense?
Meanwhile, back at the basement just thought I would show why JOS is the place to post (though I do recall someone calling me old or obsolete; ancient :) L-girl). A comment addressed to me by someone at Burt Talks Sports:
You’re making my point about the worst sports writers in baseball; you’re not even an informed fan, dickweed.
...just because i watch my sawks with both eyes open doesn’t mean I’m a yankees fan — better than nitwits like you who pony up these outragous prices and serve as butt boys for Lucky Larry, Mr. Katie Couric and that other asshole. They make me sick.
The comment that got him going Mr. Joshua - How is the weather in NYC.
Remember it was not Luccino that screwed up the A-rod deal, but the players association. They felt that the opt out clause that A-rod will use this year would never be a factor and that was the point that finally killed that deal.
As for this team not being a play off team? I suggest you check the standings and you might want to look at how this team plays the Angels and Yankees. Starting pitching is the key to the play offs and the Sox are better than any team in the play off hunt.
So from now on I just want you to remember that I am just a Luccino suck up.
if we can come back from 0-3, we can definitely win a four game series in three games.
"Burt" -- is that Bill Burt?
DR!!!
Yes that is Bill Burt
My good friend (and Yankee fan) Mike's B-Day is 10/24. Only reason I remembered the WS starts that day this year. For the rest I just did the regular math of course. However, the off days are different this year in the AL and NLCS. I think there's an extra off-day during the middle 3 games.
Nice play by Lowell. The one-hopper!
Wow, that packs a lot of moron punch. We got yer small-penis joke, yer sexist slur, yer spelling errors... the works.
though I do recall someone calling me old or obsolete; ancient :) L-girl)
Did I really? I'm sure I meant it in a good way. After all, I'm ancient too :)
what is it with some people here and bill burt? reading his quotes posted here, he makes bush sounds like stephen hawking.
Extra days in all the playoffs this year, I think? It has the potential to go into November.
Jere, I didn't get a chance to see your blog today. Did you have fun at the game last night, even tho they lost?
Wow, I'd totally missed where redsock posted the post-season sked and credited me for linking it. Thanks!
So, yeah, it's one extra off day in the CS's and one extra in each of the DS's, which is how it should've been, instead of no break between 4 and 5 despite travel. Plus one extra-extra day in ONE of the ALDS's.
Ococ with the knock
OK, 1st and 3rd and no outs. How many will score? I'm going with 2.
Rally time!
Yes, L, it was fun, thanks. Pretty comfortable once I left the spot where the wind was hitting me, and most of the night things were looking good.
Did I really? I'm sure I meant it in a good way. After all, I'm ancient too :)
Yes you did, of course you used the word venerable and then told me to get a new dictionary?
what is it with some people here and bill burt? reading his quotes posted here, he makes bush sounds like stephen hawking.
The quote is from a comment made by a Mr. Joshua on his site, of course the post he made was about resigning Lowell. As for Burt, he has started some pretty good writing careers - Bradford, the globes Patriot beat writer are just two in the last 1 1/2 years that he had hired and been editor for a few years. He also does guest hosts on WEEI.
Personally, I think he is fairly good.
Belli hurt again?
belli still hurting rounding first on the single. trainer out.
Wow, Doug gets one on that....
Better he takes it easy anyway.
So the quote wasn't burt, it was a joshua person. That's better for the burt person.
Yup, Belli jogs into 1st and comes up limping.
all i know of burt is the quotes people have posted here (i haven't read him at all in at least 4 years). and those quotes made him sound like a 5 year old discussing the sox.
sluuuugo
Nice. And Doug didn't get forced at second!
clayton out to run for swhb
Oh, man! Well, at least we know Cash can catch the knuckler.
I can't believe Royce Clayton is playing for the Boston Red Sox right now.
i can't believe royce clayton is a red sox. he's so useless.
(you can quote me when he gets some great game-winning hit)
ha! Millar should've thrown to 2nd!
Make them pay, Papi. Hopefully with a dong.
i can't believe royce clayton is a red sox. he's so useless.
I read somewhere that he was going to retire after the Jays DFA'ed him but the Sox made him a minor league contract. I still am scratching my head over that one.
remy is high.
olson could not go to third on that -- mora made no move to get back to the bag. he barely got back in time to catch millar's cross diamond relay.
remy talking his silliness without really seeing the live play or the two replays. he's still talking about it -- only the illusions in his mind.
There's the two runs I called for. How 'bout a couple more?
Strange play.
I thought the good doctor was about to be awarded the key to Dong City there.
Okay, L and sock, you must remember this player: Yankee pitcher Tim Leary. My dad always called him "The Doctor!" (I was too young to know who Timothy Leary was.) This turned into him calling ALL Tim's "the Doctor." So I still think of Tim Naehring as "The Docta!"
Well I guess I was wrong, it appears that Tony Massarotti has wrote the first article calling for Ellsbury to replace Drew in the line up.
all hail the prophetess L-girl. 2-1.
4th or 5th replay -- remy finally sees mora not at third base .
what an analyst!
Ha! That's good. Tim = docta.
I def'y remember Tim Leary. I even knew who the druggie Tim Leary was in his day, but only b/c of my family.
I heard that, Remy now blaming Mora. However, he could've thrown to Mora, who could've caught it and THEN trotted to the bag for the force, there was that much time. It's as if Mora thought the ball was caught.
all hail the prophetess L-girl
:-)
sox fan sign includes "remdaug"
cabin dong
Fragging cabin.
that mirror dong was supposed to drift foul, wasn't it?
The O's are defying my oracle. We will have to smite them.
get
the
third
out
NOW
Great throw, Cash.
It would be interesting to see what the BA/RBI/OBP/anything else you can think of are for opposing hitters with 2 outs. I swear it seems like every game all the runs have came after the Sox pitcher had two outs.
lips up
seriously, if belli goes out, why not put tek in? is it an absolute day off (assuming cash doesn't get hurt)?
i'm sure varitek can catch wakefield.
Tek can and has caught Wakefield. In game 5 of the greatest comeback in baseball history, Tek caught wakefield for three innings. with no passed balls.
Hey, weren't the Black Sox the White Sox? And why would you want to celebrate them?
3 wild pitches though, iirc.
i know, it's like varitek can never be in the same game as wakefield. altho of course he needs days off.
passedballa!!!!!
The White Sox were never really the Black Sox, that was a derisive nickname. The Black Sox were a Negro league team.
Oops, Allan tells me you were kidding. I never know when people are being sarcastic online! Duh.
Jere said...
It's a white man's world when you can reach base without swinging the bat.
That got a distinctly audible response from me. Thank you.
drawing my daughter's bath. I'll stop by later.
EXTRA CRISPY DONG!!!!!!!!
I Heart COCO!!!!brak brak
OCOC DONG!
Extra Crispy!!!!
ocoC! ocoC! ocoC!
Ococ's got the fro going tonight.
earlier in the thread jere guessed someone was going to ask that question, so seeing none, I took the liberty of some ol' cut 'n' paste. figured it had to be done at some point.
Rocky Cherry up! Lets put the cherry on top of this one boys!!!
L--the giveaway was the fact that he cut and pasted my line:)
Nick, glad I could help you audiblize. At the line of scrimmage.
LoL Jerry: "Rocky Cherry, sounds like an ice cream"
rocky cherry warming in the pen
on the girls team, the fruit team and the movie team!
Anybody ever see that brand of cookies called "O'Coco's"?
And the slot machine team!
L--the giveaway was the fact that he cut and pasted my line:)
If I had seen your comment, it might have saved me a DUH. :)
Might have.
With Jim Barr! I've got to start this. And Chet Lemon!
catcher calls out trainer
and olson leaves
??
man, if rocky moved to boston and he and ococ got married and they hyphenated their last names, they'd be cherry-crisp!
tub'll be close to overflowing by now.
Does the whole fruit team coincide with the slot machine team? (I've never played slots, I wouldn't know.) Strawberry?
While I am happy that cherry is coming in to be popped, I hope it is nothing serious wrong with Olson.
Nick, we don't want your daughter to drown...
what was the injury? I'm going I'm going.
let's send cherry down a rocky road.
Okay, the all-slot machine team:
Rocky Cherry
Jim Barr
Chet/Bob Lemon
Buddy Bell
Ed "Stupid Purple Thingy" McGee
Seven Costanza
Can you imagine if I played slots? I sure wouldn't be typing on this computer. Or watching this TV. Or living in a house. Or...
Does the whole fruit team coincide with the slot machine team? (I've never played slots, I wouldn't know.) Strawberry?
Nope, most of the slots I have seen have other things beside fruit. like 7's, monkeys, pyramid, horses etc etc.
Seven, nice touch
Slot-machine team - Dice K?
L: Don't think strawberry is big on slots: But he'd go on the Ms. Pac-Man Fruits team, along with cherry. And Fred Pretzel and Stew Banana. Frank Tanana?
Dice-K would be on the all-craps team. With Seven Costanza, of course.
Tanana is not on the fruit team. Maybe the rhymes-with-fruit team, if we have one of those.
Joker! Joker! Joker!
The classic "old school slots" stuff: Cherry, bar, bell, 7, purple thing, orange....
nesn misses first pitch -- come on you idiots. we wanna see the WHOLE GAME
I'm glad you didn't write "old skool". There's a pre-school near us that spells it that way! Way to teach, eh.
Liked the Joker's Wild reference. I liked the devil on that show. Jack Barry, then Bill Cullen. Barry scared me big time.
Allan loves to bring up Joker's Wild. Another fave is "circle gets the square".
Maybe Timmy shoulda run at the runner
this is a weird game
Yup - Joker's Wild.
Those big pull things -- reminds of of Gene Rayburn's slim slender long penisy Match Game microphone
Hey, I think I actually mentioned the Rayburn mic on this blog recently. When that guy Rayburn was on the other team. But yeah, the huge slot machine arm with the ball on top. Always wanted to go to that studio, break in one night and play the huge slot machine til the break o dawn.
Joker. Joker! And the triple!!
reminds of of Gene Rayburn's slim slender long penisy Match Game microphone
I definitely remember that mic. And his bad teeth.
hollywood squares host peter marshall's son played MLB.
actual name: pete lacock.
L-girl went to canada and watched the Sox go ____ .
Charles - what do you have to say!
Meanwhile back at the ranch. Let us hope that another of Wakey's streaks ends tonight, the one of 26 straight decisions.
Brett says, L-girl watched the Sox go DONG!
Brett Sommers
Bert Convy
C N Reilly
Man, that was some J-list of celebrities!
BIG PAPI DONG!!!
Great thing to come home to.
Papi!!!!
and the streak ends, yeahhhhh!!!
PAPI DONG!!!
TIZZLE!
200th SOX DONG
Papi with another little marker out on Eutaw!
Match Game and Hollywood Squares, where actors go to die.
Who remembers the original cast of Hollywood Squares? Wally Cox, the Underdog.
Match Game
"... the turning point came with the question "Johnny always put butter on his _____." The (perhaps unintentional) double entendre marked a turning point in the questions on the show. Soon, the tone of Rayburn's questions changed notably, leaving behind the staid topics of The Match Game for more risqué, schticky, and double-entendre-laden humor.
Hollywood Squares
Charley Weaver, Sandy Duncan, John Davidson, Joanne Worley... and of course Paul Lynde
I always liked how they'd put the year in the title.
Golden____
We've already heard Rod and Shower....
lopez and buchholz up
HBBB!
Heh. Hit by his own bunted ball.
This ain't soccer, Melvin.
i see william shatner is still managing the orioles.
Beam me up, Scotty. Nothin' but Papi Dongs down here.
William Shatner... Canadian
"Far from the Elevator: The Don Orsillo Story"
i see william shatner is still managing the orioles.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought he looks like William Shatner.
We've been reading the celebrity Z-list from Wikipedia on Hollywood Squares, Match Game and other old goodies.
what a crazy game. it'll be wake's first no decision
Yay, double-H is in!
$1.61.
(Buch-61)
He continues the no-hit streak.
Looking for his second pickoff of Roberts
I hate the vacated hole!
That caused an audible heh-heh.
I hate the vacated hole!
Is this a Match Game joke?
My streak of having seen every major league hit Double-H has given up live is over.
i wonder if the fact that the O's are wearing pajamas is fucking Buchholz's head...
Get 3, infield.
5-2-3 DP!!!!
DR DP
5-2-3!
Almost 3, but I'll take the two!!!! DO says they threw the ball to second...
Comments may slow down a bit... I'm falling apart and have to get up really early tomw a.m.
Nice DP!!!
Good dp started by the dr!
Leper Girl you are the queen of my world
great performance
KFK we in RSN thank you.
thanks as always cabin.
No one's ever guessed the L stood for Leper before.
The HH stands for HHoudini!
you were falling apart.
And the rest of the line is from Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl"
I just came across a very interesting website about the annual Midnight Sun baseball game in Fairbanks, AK, with a video to go along with it:
Midnight Sun Game
I knew it was lyrics.
I used to hang out in a forum where ppl were always suggesting what my L might stand for. But we don't want to go there, not on JoS.
I blog about that every year on June 21. I know exactly the video you mean!
i like it when relievers with 12.41 ERAs come into the game.
BTW, Midnight Baseball is played all over Alaska that night. Really cool.
So Tito successfully cooled off Pedroia. We'll see how Jacoby does tomorrow night.
buchholz looking much betttter this inning.
Much, much better.
Jeez
I was really hoping I'd get home and we'd be so far ahead I could actually get some work done - But Nooooooooooo.
We're tied, Bases are juiced, there are no outs, and the kid is on the mound.
Damn!
He did a nice job getting out tho. eh?
41 pit for clay. that's gotta be it tonight.
tiz
dr
yook
...
Notice: The bunt attempt did nothing to Mora's position. Shoulda bunted again.
Ok, I haven't had time to read thru the whole thread, but I see an excellent question at the top - WHY LUGO?
I just wonder if anyone actually came up with a credible answer
WHY LUGO?
I just wonder if anyone actually came up with a credible answer
Tito did not log on and comment, so, no.
Buchholz calls Pedroia, "Pedro."
That's cute.
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