Red Sox - 100 020 000 - 3 7 3Johnny Vander Meer's record remains safe. Jack Hannahan singled on Lester's fourth pitch of the afternoon, one of seven hits Oakland collected off of the Sox lefty in five innings. The A's also received two walks.
Athletics - 101 200 20x - 6 11 0
Boston cut the A's 4-1 lead to 4-3 in the fifth, after Blanton walked the bases full and Manny Ramirez (3-for-4) wrapped a hard single to center.
Optimism was in the air, but with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Javy Lopez was called upon to retire Jack Cust with a man on base. Cust drove Lopez's first pitch over the wall in left-center for a two-run dong. And that was the ball game.
Tampa's 5-4 walk-off win over the Orioles puts the Rays in first place in the East. Boston is now .5 GB.
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Jon Lester (3.41, 128 ERA+) / Joe Blanton (3.87, 99 ERA+)
Gordon Edes, re Lester's last start:
Brian Rowley is an optometrist who lives in Santaquin, Utah, about 20 miles south of Provo. He has been to two Red Sox games in his life. The first was Clay Buchholz's no-hitter last Sept. 1 ... The second was Jon Lester's no-hitter Monday night.
166 comments:
Work calls, so have at it ...
(Washburn/Wang at 1)
So is he attending tonight?
I believe so.
Sea 2, NYY 1 (top 4)
TB 1, Bal 1 (top 3)
There is a vast conspiracy going on to keep me from being around for a agme. Actually, I might catch the 1st few innings before I have to leave for a while. If the "new and improved" game times keep up I'll never make it back for the end.
Spent yesterday evening at a cookout thrown by a transplant from Long Island, East Islip to be exact. Great guy, Mets fan. His family was down for the holiday. I caught some serious grief about my hat, but most of them were of the "better that than a Yankee fan" opinion :)
I'm not entirely sure I understand the desire for short games. Seems like longer games are better both at the park and on tv, from a revenue perspective. More beer & more commercial sales.
More baseball > Less baseball
SEA - 001 200 -- 3 4 0
NYY - 001 01 -- 2 4 1
BAL - 010 0 -- 1 3 0
TBR - 014 0 -- 5 8 0
Nice snag by Beltre to keep the lead for SEA. I'm flicking between that game, softball, and the Indy 500. Good day.
Meanwhile, I'm also doing all sorts of stuff with the www.nsnavs.com website (it looks a lot less sucky than it once did)
Oatmeal from Oakland:
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Manny Ramirez, LF
Mike Lowell, 3B
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
J.D. Drew, RF
Jason Varitek, C
Julio Lugo, SS
Did you guys see this?
Traded for bats...
Santana velocity down?
Olney: "He is short-arming the ball more than he has in the past -- and this is after some red flags appeared in the physical examination he underwent before signing with the Mets."
Oh those wacky independent leagues.
Sarah: Wasn't a player traded for some catfish a few years ago?
Yep. 1998.
Kenny Krahenbuhl -- traded for 10 pounds of catfish.
Gotta love the Google!
Did you guys see this?
Traded for bats...
That's classic. We will sometimes say a player is traded for a ham sandwich, but that's just an expression. This really happened!
Hahaha - I'd totally forgotten about the catfish trade.
Mmmm... catfish...
Catfish! Even better. (Hadn't gotten that far down the thread yet.)
Have fun, all. I'll be listening from work but not threading much.
It's not looking good for Danica Patrick at the Indy 500. She's running 8th and appears to be falling off.
Meanwhile, the Mariners still lead the Yanks 5-2 in the 8th.
I still prefer the player who was traded for himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Chiti
FUCK -- my mlbtv isn't working.
It was fine yesterday, but today it says I don't have silverlight -- which I sure as fuck do have.
SHIT!
MLB.com = worst website ever
wait wait wait --
using the old player -- which should not work, according to mlb and my past experience -- looks like it may work.
Hooray! Second cable box is up and running!
Mariners still striving to give the game away.
I got the TV36 station, but at least I got something.
AND I've got NESN. Dave is contentedly watching some true crime nonsense in the living room. Could life be better?
(Answer, yes, we could WIN. And I could not feel like poo.)
Hi all. I will be checking in and out. Way too gorgeous out to sit inside. But I'll be listening anyway.
5-4 M's
Wow - now I'm annoyed by the hummer greenwash commercial I just saw.
Why does Putz have to be such a putz?
Tie game in the Bronx.
Phil, these are just mysteries of the universe.
6-5 Yankees.
Once a Putz ....
Shite.
PUTZ you jerk! The Red Sox were counting on you.
For a minute there I thought Sweeney was going to catch that gull!
TIZ!!!!
Papi DONG!
you ain't catching that one.
Papi!
papi hit a dong? NICE!!!
Time for the bats to wake up folks
Well, don't say that with such surprise, Joe! He IS Papi.
It's nice to be a dong's length ahead. Especially Papi's, since his is always the longest, unless Manny wants to show us his dong too.
LESTER WE LOVE YOU!
That's ok. We like it messy too.
At least he can get the nohitter off his mind, or something.
Booo, someone crashed into Danica on pit road
Lester, Lester, Lester, Lester!
M's down to their final strike.
Yankees win
I hadn't noticed Baltimore came back! 4-4
WHEW! That man scares me.
Maybe he used up all his strikes last week?
Crap.
Damnit Brown.
No prob. Here we go...
Does anyone know why I'm getting commercials on both home and away stations today? I thought MLB audio only had commercials on home games. Bah.
Did I scare everyone away...?
Yes. You only have yourself to blame.
*hangs head in shame*
Lugo... walked?
BAL - 010 012 000
TBR - 004 000 001
Looks like we'll have to get it done ourselves today.
MLB.com: "A's squash no-hit drama early against Lester."
Stay classy, MLB.com.
Fuckin' Rays!
Laura, if there's one thing I know, it's thst you can never count on any consistency from any MLB product.
Good point, Sarah.
My bad for forgetting such a basic premise of life: if MLB can fuck it up, they will.
Got work - so just listening to the A's tv.
Ummm, what happened there?
Bleh.
Drat.
Dear bats, I love and miss you...
Come on Jon
Phillies up 15-6. Spare a run, brutha?
cannot listen to the A's guys.
in talking about the sox playing long games, they mentioned games against the yankees and said the umpires in those games don't know whether to call a pitch a ball or a strike because here are the two best teams and they each make and pay a lot of money.
wtf?
It's amazing how some people have jobs
What's even more frustrating about these games is we're not having long at-bats. That and the losing part.
One of these days, when the Revolution happens, there will be all kinds of idiotic out-of-work broadcasters, offering to provide inane sports commentary for food.
One of these days, when the Revolution happens
Couldja hurry that up, pls?
Come on Joe, after the revolution, no one goes hungry. (But still all the people must be off the air!)
This is going to be one of those games, isn't it.
No, this will not be that kind of Revolution. This will be one of the vengeful kinds of Revolution
Wow. Just wow.
Guess I'll go do some laundry.
uh oh
son of a bitch
Well, this game's in the crapper
/umbrella theory
As Don said recently: "Lester back to being Lester"
No, this will not be that kind of Revolution. This will be one of the vengeful kinds of Revolution
Same thing. :)
Wake up, bats.
Rally Heidi?
PAPI, KILL
we could use some "good times" from flo.
LET'S GO MANUEL
MBM -- GS #21?
man-ny
man-ny
man-ny
it had to be said, huh
MANNEH
quarter dong? we'll take it!
I like that.
Manny drilling the ball up the middle and going 3-for-3 = :>)
manny > almost anybody
What's with the youKKs? I'm not a fan.
the high K
Afternoon, chaps. Typical start-after-a-no-hitter from Lester, eh? I've always wondered what the opponent batting average, ERA, average innings pitched, are for all the pitchers' next game after a no-hitter.
Andy:
"If they show a lady with a NESN sign i am like 10 ft from her."
***
You don't think that would be coincidence? There would really be a pattern?
Checking in. I see we are losing. Must be an away game. Sigh.
Come on, Amy, look at the standings and cheer up.
(Something tells me we've been behind in home games too?)
(Something tells me we've been behind in home games too?)
Yeah, but only for a total of like 9 minutes all aseason.
I am not down on the team, just hate losing after winning all those games. It's hard to adjust my expectations again.
And down by 1 ... with 3 innings to go?
This W is in the bag.
I've got a great idea... Let's have some of that late inning magic!
No need to adjust your expectations. We're down by 1 run in the 7th. No biggie.
Yeah, you're right. It's only the 7th. What is wrong with me? :)
BELIEVE! We CAN win a road game. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I
Well, if the Celtics can win a road game, I think the Red Sox can.
It just took me 15 minutes and a pair of plyers to untie a knot in an older pair of shoes I have.
Oh, shit.
......
...I can has cheezburger?
shit on a biscuit
crap
LODGY?
... Lefty One Dong GuY?
wot the fock
lodgy :>)
that one will live
i got truped on that one, thanks to A's radio
yook has hit about 4 deep drives out there this series.
My level of optimism about this game has returned to what it was an hour ago. Timlin in, three runs down, and one more inning for us to tie the game.
Who'll-E-o
fuckety
sometimes the worst part of losing is confirming the expectations of the negative fans!
NOT that we've lost yet, of course...
I don't think I am a negative fan, but today I think I just didn't feel the vibe.
i don't know if you're a negative fan, but when we're behind on the scoreboard, you seem to think we will lose.
that's what you say anyway. maybe it's just the feeling at that moment and doesn't mean that much.
Nice work from Old Yeller (he says putting the shotgun back on the shelf, but still keeping it within easy reach).
This is not good. At least Seattle sucks. We're gonna beat them, right?
I know that vibe. It is often right. But I had it strong with 2 outs in the 8th of one game (down 4? this year and was proven very wrong.
I better leave before I start arguing with everyone. Lose a couple of games and everyone's crying.
grumble grumble
Tek v Street
1-for-4: 3 K, 1 HR -- + BB
Not true. I don't usually think we will lose when we are behind. However, I worry about losing. I am always hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. In baseball and in life.
Well, I'm a fan. Win a couple games and everyone is crapping rainbows. Lose a couple games and life sucks. That's just the way it goes. :P
when he's not hitting, tek looks as bad as a hitter can look.
Well, that was a lucky break. c'mon boys
Get on Jacoby man
fucking !@#########DFAWER@$#!@#
2nd place.
Bummer. Ah well, we'll put the hurt on the Mariners tomorrow.
And so it goes.
Shitty.
I lost interest in this game early. I was watching REAL motorsports (Indy 500) and then went on a short bike ride. I'd love to have a glass of Oakland water because it's about as clean as it can get.
You know it's bad when Allan starts to sound like Yogi Berra.
FJM has me in tears....the section that starts with "Bra. Seriously, bra."
Reds 9 Padres 9, bottom 18
Bronson Arroyo has a pinch-hit in the game
Padres 12-9 in 18.
Reds used 10 pitchers. Also, both teams scored 2 runs in the 11th.
Boo, Hiss.
Thanks for that link to FJM Tim.
I'll bookmark that, it's one of the best and funniest comebacks to idiotic opinion spewing I've heard in a long time.
FJM is essential reading.
Hat Guy, Joe Morgan's ESPN chats, "clogging the bases", fuck the heck, Gritty McDirtstein ... all gold!
Thanks for that link to FJM Tim.
I'll bookmark that, it's one of the best and funniest comebacks to idiotic opinion spewing I've heard in a long time.
Cool. Yeah, I'm a constant reader now thanks to finding the link on Joy here. I've got the RSS feed for FJM in my "Links" bar on firefox, so I just click on it and it brings a drop-down menu of the latest posts. Makes it easy to check for new content...do the same with Extra Bases.
Hat Guy, Joe Morgan's ESPN chats, "clogging the bases", fuck the heck, Gritty McDirtstein ... all gold!
heh, I get all those references! But you can't forget "food metaphors"!
FJM wasted its time rebutting that idiotic article on why baseball was boring. Anyone who really thinks baseball should be played once a week should just be told to shut up.
rebutting that idiotic article
Errr, that is the whole point of the site.
Yup. And I don't see why you would care what other people do with their time. You don't like it? Fine. Don't read it.
Ken Tremendous really is in fine-form. Today he had another great post.
Err, some articles are self-evidently stupid and rebut themselves.
And I really love the "if you don't like it, don't read it" retort, the equivilent of "why don't you marry it?" and "if you hate this country so much, why don't you leave it?" Pretty lame, Tim.
I thought Ken's article was a waste of time for him to write AND for me to read: So sue me (that's another one. You can use it sometime.)
Pretty lame, Tim.
Tim's comment was far from being lame. It was completely appropriate.
There are few things more irritating than readers telling bloggers not to waste their time writing what they're writing.
As Tim said, if you don't like it, don't read it. Say you don't like it if you must. But don't say it was a waste of the writer's time. That's just arrogance.
And I really love the "if you don't like it, don't read it" retort, the equivilent of "why don't you marry it?" and "if you hate this country so much, why don't you leave it?"
I don't think these are equivalent at all.
Avoiding an article (or television show or movie or book) is easy, way easier (obviously) than moving out of the country. And it makes more sense. If you hate CHB or Michael Moore or nature shows, don't read or watch them.
Applying "love it or leave it" in this case would sound like: "if that article bothers you so much, why don't you simply stop reading".
Or suggesting your friend get a divorce if he doesn't like 100% of the things she does.
Whereas if someone annoys you, you can usually not spend time with that person.
Err, some articles are self-evidently stupid and rebut themselves.
Isn't the entire point of the Fire Joe Morgan site to rebut stupid stuff in the media?
Nothing actually rebuts itself.
FJM wasted its time rebutting that ... article ... Ken's article was a waste of time for him to write ...
I criticize the sports media too, Jack -- though I'm nowhere near as clever or humorous as Ken T. or Junior.
Nevertheless, the next time I do, I will await your judgment on how I spent my time.
Ken Tremendous really is in fine-form. Today he had another great post.
"... the brain-having industry ..."
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