June 3, 2008

G61: Red Sox 7, Rays 4

Rays    - 100 102 000 - 4  7  1
Red Sox - 020 104 00x - 7 7 0
Masterson was solid (6-6-4-2-5, 91), Manny Delcarmen and Craig Hansen looked great, Mike Lowell opened the scoring with a two-run dong in the second, and Coco Crisp put the game on ice with a two-run double in the sixth ... but the star of the night was J.D. Drew.

Drew doubled in the second, hit a solo home run in the fourth, walked and scored in the sixth, and made two outstanding catches in right field in the fourth and fifth innings.

In New York, Joba Chamberlain threw 37 pitches in his first inning of work -- almost a career-high number of pitches for an outing -- walking three Blue Jays and committing a balk. He lasted only 2.1 innings; Toronto used a six-run seventh to grab a 9-3 win. ... Baltimore beat Minnesota, so the Yankees (28-30) are back in the basement (7 GB).

***

Matt Garza (3.78, 108 ERA+) / Justin Masterson (1.46, 295 ERA+)

Through some minor miracle, the Red Sox will not see Scott Kazmir in this series.
            W   L   PCT   GB   RS   RA  X-W/L
Tampa Bay 35 22 .614 -- 257 228 32-25
Boston 35 25 .583 1.5 302 261 34-26
Toronto 31 28 .525 5.0 238 210 33-26
New York 28 29 .491 7.0 255 263 28-29
Baltimore 27 29 .482 7.5 233 251 26-30
And while the two top teams in the AL East begin their three-game series, down in New York ...


Joba Chamberlain will make the first start of his major league career -- after 39 relief appearances. He will face the Blue Jays and Roy Halladay.

Joba has never pitched more than two innings in a game. He has thrown more than 35 pitches in an outing only once (May 24, 40 pitches).

Later tonight, in San Francisco, Pedro Martinez makes his return to the Mets rotation.

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allan said...

More importantly, there was some fantastic (and historic) news in Canada this afternoon!!!!

tim said...

More importantly, there was some fantastic (and historic) news in Canada this afternoon!!!!

Like I said over there, things like that are why I'm proud to be Canadian :-)

Damn Tuesday night class, can't watch this OR JtC's debut.

Hey Redsock - question about Rogers, maybe you can help...We've got basic cable (so no TSN), I was wondering if I could add on TSN or if I have to add on the expensive package that contains TSN?

allan said...

All i know is this:

In New York, we simply ordered the Extra Innings package -- all by itself.

Here, we had to subscribe to the Rogers "sports pack" which has EI, and the EI equivalents of football, hockey and basketball. After the regular season, we cancel it.

tim said...

Yeah, thats for EI... I've decided not to get that.

I'm talking about just TSN.

tim said...

Flo-less Oatmeal:

1. Jacoby Ellsbury, LF
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
4. Manny Ramirez, DH
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. J.D. Drew, RF
7. Jason Varitek, C
8. Coco Crisp, CF
9. Julio Lugo, SS

As expected.

allan said...

Dunno about TSN.

That looks like a game-winning lienup.

Jere may offer good JtC updates.

Patrick said...

That oatmeal still looks damn good.

I'm hoping for some double steals tonight, with Crisp/Lugo/Ellsbury all together.

allan said...

Rough times for dak at FJM: Jason Varitek has joined the "clogging the bases" club.

allan said...

It turns out the Yankees had a furry mascot in the 1980s.

Rob said...

So who will the Yankees have waiting in the bullpen when JtC's done throwing his 40 pitches? Or do they expect him to throw 7 innings on those 40?

allan said...

Looks like he'll throw no more than 65-70. ... Girardi had some words of wisdom: "I don't want him to get in long innings."

nixon33 said...

im psyched for cunt tonight!

allan said...

Alright, good ol' NESN.

Gotta remember to not get tanked tonight. Got to drive into the city and pick up L at like 12:30 or so.

nixon33 said...

are we threading here tonight?

allan said...

fucking rays.

allan said...

are we threading here tonight?

i am!

nixon33 said...

i missed it how'd they score, HR?

allan said...

yeah, lcf, hit just over the wall, bounced down to the field, but ump said dong.

allan said...

i like that masterson likes first pitch strikes.

allan said...

jays leadoff man gets on vs. joba

no perfect game tonight!

allan said...

16 pitches for Masterson (12 strikes). nice.

allan said...

full count by joba to first 2 jays hitters.

K on the 2nd guy

allan said...

garza threw the ball in to the catcher so the ump could look at it -- nearly beaned pedroia with it.

allan said...

1-0 Jays!

allan said...

checking in with buffyvision between innings -- jtc is throwing a lot of pitches in the 1st.

26 so far.

very quiet at the toilet.

allan said...

walks stairs on pitch 28.

2 walks
1 hit
balk
passed ball

pitching coach out to chat

jays still hitting

allan said...

yet another full count for the cunt

allan said...

yet another walk -- job's 3rd

34 pitches and counting ...

hahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

allan said...

dan giese up for the mfy in the pen!

allan said...

joba fans barajas to end it -- 37-38 pitches?

he did not celebrate on the mound!

allan said...

HUGE long loud ovation for MBM

Rob said...

I turn on WCBS and the first thing I hear from John Sterling was this...

"You know the thing about sports... the other team wants to win, too."

Waldman: "Mmm hmmm..."

Sterling: "I mean, you draw up your game plan and, well, the other team wants to win, too. And hey, the Jays have a 1-0 lead."

allan said...

big hat tip from manny too -- then a single.

Rob said...

BOOM GOES THE DOCTOR!!!

Jere said...

DONG

allan said...

DOCTOR DONG, i presume.

Lord Lynch said...

Thank you Doctor.

The perfect going to bed present!

allan said...

having joba throw almost 40 pitches is great, but one measly run is not.

Jere said...

Rim Joba more than halfway to his pitch limit in one inning, I love it. Ish, I L'd out L on your Sterling line.

Jere said...

vertigo go go!

Rob said...

ON FIRE!!!! "Hits off the green"

allan said...

"You know the thing about sports... the other team wants to win, too."

Wow, Sterling, I never thought of it that way.

Idiot.

Drew = double!

Lord Lynch said...

I see the other Doc coughed up a first innings triple to Judas Iscariot Damon.

Jere said...

I love how Castig keeps track of Wall Balls....

Rob said...

I love how Castig keeps track of Wall Balls....

"That was Drew's first wall ball of the season... He does have a swing that would be conducive for success here at Fenway Park."

Jere said...

So NESN had three days to plan this whole thing out. My plan would've been "Point camera at Manny when he comes up, keep it on him." Apparently theirs was, "Show Manny for two seconds, then some boob in the crowd for five, then Manny for two, then another lame sign for ten, and be sure to MISS his entire hat tip even though it lasted a full three seconds."

Rob said...

I thought that same thing, Jere. I heard Castig call him tipping his hat to the crowd, then looked at the TV, and there's showing the crowd.

Rob said...

Allan should be the "governor" of Ontario for RSN.

Jere said...

Yeah, we got to hear a big cheer and *assume* Manny was doing something.

Jere said...

Yeah, Allan has a real shot if they do a Canada prime minister or whatever. Should he choose to run.

allan said...

we hear the cheers, plus we kinda have an idea of what a bunch of nobodies look like when clapping -- and we don't care to view them.

what we want to see is manny.

seems like broadcasting 101. yet nesn seems run like a real rinky dink operation sometimes.

then again, everyone wastes time showing fans cheering -- fox during the playoffs is brutal that way.

Rob said...

Pedro Martinez starts tonight against San Francisco... Forgot about that. Had all of this excitement with the Red Sox back at Fenway, Manny's hat-tip, and female bits pitching in a toilet. Forgot that Pedro's making his comeback tonight.

Jere said...

Halladay gives 2 right back but they're out of the 1st

allan said...

L says I am the PM. I don't like it really, don't want to give that silly shit any attention. I really hate how RSN has been appropriated too.

allan said...

pedro -- i'll have to flip over for that before i go get laura.

allan said...

masterson has retired 9 of 10 since the dong (and that was a HBP that pain-yer swung at).

36 pitches thru 3. that's fewer than joba threw in the 1st.

allan said...

ugh -- more sox appeal shit.

Rob said...

That woman on Sox Appeal is bringing it tonight. Look at that shirt.

Benjamin said...

Just got back from the polls myself. (Primary elections in NJ.)

Obama clinches tonight, in case any CAian Hillary haters didn't realize.

And we have a lead. So far, so good.

Joe Grav said...

evening folks

Joe Grav said...

steal

Rob said...

...and, she lost me with that crappy dance.

Joe Grav said...

obama clinches, but hillary's not conceding :roll eyes:

Joe Grav said...

yeahh,that was poor

Rob said...

I don't care if she concedes or not. Wouldn't like her as VP anyway.

Ellsbury on first base reminds me of the game Red Light, Green Light.

Rob said...

Green light!

allan said...

catcher, please.

SB

Benjamin said...

I REFUSE TO BELIEVE ELLSBURY STOLE SECOND BASE. THESE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN.

allan said...

oh, is that 3-ring circus still going on down there? :>)

Benjamin said...

Where'd he get hit?

Rob said...

3 more steals and Ellsbury will tie for the most steals by a Red Sox record. And we're in early June.

Rob said...

Where'd he get hit?

Underneath his forearm. Checked the swing, which exposed the underside of the arm and couldn't get away in time.

Joe Grav said...

sadly

allan said...

sosh has had some crazy lbj steal stuff.

like he could be in the top 10 sox career SB leaders at the end of this season!

Jere said...

2-1 NY(A) after 2

Jere said...

play play

crap

Benjamin said...

Manny. :(

allan said...

scutaro nearly donged to rcf, but abreu drifted back and caught it at the wall. he jumped up and made it look really tough, though it wasn't.

Jere said...

near HR for Jays but caught near top of wall in RCF

Rob said...

Waldman: "Let's listen to the applause here as Joba comes out of the game..."

Jere said...

Joba reaches his number--62--with one out in the 3rd. And he's DONE! Ha.

Benjamin said...

Poo.

Joe Grav said...

fuck

Rob said...

WOW. Not only does Drew make a nice running play, but he keeps Pena from tagging to third.

Jere said...

Not quite Dewey Game 6 '75, but very nice!

Joe Grav said...

haha, joba sucks

allan said...

pena kept pena from tagging.

Rob said...

pena kept pena from tagging.

Upon further review... Yeah.

Benjamin said...

Bluebirds also tie it at 2.

Rob said...

Go Bluebirds!

Rob said...

Though, I guess as far as records and standings go, it'd be better for the Yankees to win.

But... I just... I can't. No.

Joe Grav said...

no.

Joe Grav said...

seeya

Rob said...

BOOM!!!!

J.D. LETS THE DONGS ON FIRE!!!

allan said...

joba: 2.1-1-2-4-3

62 pitches: 32 strikes, 30 balls

...

FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jere said...

Someone's here looking at my apartment with the landlord....so weird, I'm talking about them behind their backs to you people... I wonder if he reads my blog. Or this blog. And is oblivious. And now I can cheer out loud for this JD Dong... shhhh

nixon33 said...

PAPI WHO? JD DREW!

Benjamin said...

Drew's hacking.

Jere said...

I meant "can't cheer out loud."

allan said...

drew kills another rally.

...

(gotta get quicker with that one)

Jere said...

ooh I think this guy wants the place....

Rob said...

ooh I think this guy wants the place....

Where are you moving off to?

allan said...

Heidi in red.

Joe Grav said...

uh oh is it another guy night at jos

Jere said...

We had planned to move out to Northampton, but that's on hold, since my girlfriend's mom is sick and lives down in New Bedford, so we're moving to our second choice: Providence area.

Jere said...

Drew again!

allan said...

DREW!!!!!!!!!!!!

says fuck the haters!

Joe Grav said...

!

Benjamin said...

Barajas double leads off the fourth for the bluebirds.

Benjamin said...

Northampton is possibly the happiest place on earth.

If you end up in Providence, maybe we can meet for whiffleball.

allan said...

drew should have high-fived that cop in the pen.

Joe Grav said...

i don't think i've ever been to northampton.

Benjamin said...

I went to Amherst College, so Northampton is old stomping grounds.

Jere said...

Hughes, Kennedy, and Joba as starters in '08:

59 IP, 52 ER

Benjamin said...

Bluebirds sac fly. 3-2.

Benjamin said...

Jere: don't forget, just one win among the three (Joba's).

Benjamin said...

(Which wasn't a start, of course.)

Jere said...

we looove Northampton, hope to end up there. (With luxury part-time homes in NYC, Boston, San Juan, etc etc....)

Jere said...

right--I was only adding their starting numbers. 0 wins, ha.

allan said...

There were Woods in the Amherst area -- actually a bit east in Pelham -- who moved to north-western Vermont around 1795. ... And become VT menaces.

Jere said...

that girl's sign said "EMDAWG" and she had to write in the R.

Rob said...

I'm so pissed off right now. I stood up, looked out my window, turned around to walk back to the computer and.. CRUNCH. I look down, and it was my new pair of sunglasses I bought about a week ago.

Jere said...

It's DanG iese to beat the Yanks this year.

Rob said...

It's DanG iese to beat the Yanks this year.

He was drafted 34th round by the Red Sox, then got traded in 2002 to the Padres for Embree.

Jere said...

A Wood: A VT Menace

Benjamin said...

Rios ends the inning.

TBB - 101 1
MFY - 200

Jere said...

It's DanG iese to get the history of Dan Giese at this board, just say the name and voila

Rob said...

Oh cock.

Drew couldn't get that one.

Joe Grav said...

fucking dong.

Benjamin said...

Crap.

Jere said...

speaking of dudes the Red Sox once had

allan said...

yeah, i was going to explain.

jere discovered that the title of laura's blog
"we move to canada"

is an anagram for
"a. wood - vt menace"

brilliant!

Jere said...

I'm a CT menace. But then it would have to be We Moce To Canada. Wait--We Come to Canada. But it still doesn't work cuz my name isn't A Wood.

Joe Grav said...

fucking rays

Benjamin said...

joyofsox.blogspot.com = fox jobs top cosmology.

And there you have it.

allan said...

lopez/aardsma up

allan said...

get that 3rd out. come on

Jere said...

Halladay finally retires Damon, to end the 4th, 3-2 Jays.

allan said...

6 from masterson and we trail by one -- with 4 innings to hit.

i'll take it.

Joe Grav said...

John McCain's speech tonight: "I'm not george w. bush. Seriously, I swear to god, I'm not. Here's a few examples of Republicans saying bad things about me. See?"

allan said...

jere - did you see bronx banter at toaster today? turns out the yankees had a fuzzy mascot during the early 80s that everyone has forgotten about.

Jere said...

Allan--I actually did see that. I check Yankee blogs maybe....once a year...but now that I go to Cardboard Gods so much, I can't help to see the headlines for the other blogs there, like Bronx Banter--and I definitely clicked that one. Hilarious. I don't remember that thing at all.

allan said...

bad man wheels.

Rob said...

These days all I can think of with McCain is that time he stood on a stage, looked at a camera, and said (with a little bit of a laugh, like that kind of a laugh that you hear when someone's saying "This is never gonna happen!")... "I will never surrender from Iraq. Never!"

Joe Grav said...

McCain-
"I hate war."


..but now I don't have to fight in it, so no big

Benjamin said...

McCain really needs to stop referring to America as "her". It's really creepy.

Joe Grav said...

John McCain: More boring than The Tennis Channel

Joe Grav said...

enough of this. biesbol thyme

allan said...

what's funny is that when wally debuted, L said that if the yanks ever did that, she'd stop going to games.

turns out they had already tried it!!!

and sox fans at first booed the shit out of wally. sadly, the sox did not listen and pull the plug on it.

Joe Grav said...

If mccain wins i might have to start 'i move to a small deserted island in the pacific'

Jere said...

McCain munches scat

Joe Grav said...

wally has become part of the deal now. he's not overly annoying, he doesn't go out into the stands during the game or anything.

Joe Grav said...

dammit doc

allan said...

drew will safe us!

Jere said...

"L said that if the yanks ever did that, she'd stop going to games."

Haha--she has to un-go to a bunch of games now.

Joe Grav said...

McCain trying to tie Obama to Bush on energy... he's got some serious chutzpah to try to pull that one off.

Also, he breaks into a creepy laugh at the end of every paragraph.

Jere said...

How did Laura feel about that pinstriped Datsun?!

Benjamin said...

Drew'll walk and leave the bases loaded for Tek.

Jere said...

bases blatzed

Benjamin said...

Told you.

allan said...

this is a job for ..... capt tangible!

Rob said...

Single for the Cap. I'll take it!

Jere said...

Happiness has surrounded me! Tie game. Will Balfour come in to face Strikthree?

Rob said...

first bases loaded hit for tek this year

Jere said...

On the old camera, that's a 6-4-3...

allan said...

Also, he breaks into a creepy laugh at the end of every paragraph.

plus he thinks it's presidential to break into song in public, like when he launched into that wonderful ditty: "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran"

Rob said...

!!!!!!!!!!!OCOC

Joe Grav said...

i love fenway.

Joe Grav said...

HAHA

Jere said...

and on the old camera, that's fouled out of play. New cam working tonite!!!! 6-4 us.

Benjamin said...

And Obama clinches.

COCO!

Joe Grav said...

wee!

Joe Grav said...

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

Christ Matthews just said --- I swear to god --- "This is the first major party anywhere in the world to nominate an African-American..."

Jere said...

3-2 Canada after 5

Joe Grav said...

Wow. Chris**** Matthews. Definitely not Christ.

Benjamin said...

Not true. Liberia's done it, I'm pretty sure.

Joe Grav said...

Liberia nominated an African-AMERICAN for president?

Joe Grav said...

haha

allan said...

not sure of the circumstances, but frederick douglass ran for u.s. president.

Joe Grav said...

was he nominated by one of the major parties, though?

allan said...

not a "major party", though i suppose.

allan said...

mdc up

and ball four from balfour

Jere said...

Thanks for the free ball, Maddon. And the other three. From Balfour.

Joe Grav said...

Olbermann getting somewhat emotional here

"In one sense, we have hurdled another barrier.. it is an extraordinary moment... we are coming closer to our great promise that anyone can be president..."

Jere said...

I want room to breathe! I want room to breathe!

allan said...

pour it on, lyndon.

Benjamin said...

I realize the base is open, but how the fuck is Lugo managing to get a walk? He's gotten a few the past few days, and it's really weird.

Jere said...

I smell inside the park grand slam

Joe Grav said...

Grant Balfour. worst name ever.

andy said...

I am so excited here for Masterson. How many games has a rookie won without a loss before to start his career?

Joe Grav said...

brings home a run

andy said...

I got my ellsbury and youk shirts today.

Jere said...

stupid blue jay doubles, then gets caught stealing third. And the next guy singles.

7-4 SOX. Room d'breathe

andy said...

speed kills

Joe Grav said...

fuck yeah

andy said...

Ellsbury ROY

andy said...

We are showing these fucks what it takes to be number 1 in the East.

Jere said...

"I got my ellsbury and youk shirts today."

Game used undershirts, of course.

Jere said...

ooh it's almost ish time

andy said...

Look how cute that man is. Jacoby stole my heart and was never caught stealing.

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