Rays - 100 102 000 - 4 7 1Masterson 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.
Red Sox - 020 104 00x - 7 7 0
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/LAnd while the two top teams in the AL East begin their three-game series, down in New York ...
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
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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1 – 200 of 378 Newer› Newest»More importantly, there was some fantastic (and historic) news in Canada this afternoon!!!!
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?
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.
Yeah, thats for EI... I've decided not to get that.
I'm talking about just TSN.
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.
Dunno about TSN.
That looks like a game-winning lienup.
Jere may offer good JtC updates.
That oatmeal still looks damn good.
I'm hoping for some double steals tonight, with Crisp/Lugo/Ellsbury all together.
Rough times for dak at FJM: Jason Varitek has joined the "clogging the bases" club.
It turns out the Yankees had a furry mascot in the 1980s.
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?
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."
im psyched for cunt tonight!
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.
are we threading here tonight?
fucking rays.
are we threading here tonight?
i am!
i missed it how'd they score, HR?
yeah, lcf, hit just over the wall, bounced down to the field, but ump said dong.
i like that masterson likes first pitch strikes.
jays leadoff man gets on vs. joba
no perfect game tonight!
16 pitches for Masterson (12 strikes). nice.
full count by joba to first 2 jays hitters.
K on the 2nd guy
garza threw the ball in to the catcher so the ump could look at it -- nearly beaned pedroia with it.
1-0 Jays!
checking in with buffyvision between innings -- jtc is throwing a lot of pitches in the 1st.
26 so far.
very quiet at the toilet.
walks stairs on pitch 28.
2 walks
1 hit
balk
passed ball
pitching coach out to chat
jays still hitting
yet another full count for the cunt
yet another walk -- job's 3rd
34 pitches and counting ...
hahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dan giese up for the mfy in the pen!
joba fans barajas to end it -- 37-38 pitches?
he did not celebrate on the mound!
HUGE long loud ovation for MBM
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."
big hat tip from manny too -- then a single.
BOOM GOES THE DOCTOR!!!
DONG
DOCTOR DONG, i presume.
Thank you Doctor.
The perfect going to bed present!
having joba throw almost 40 pitches is great, but one measly run is not.
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.
vertigo go go!
ON FIRE!!!! "Hits off the green"
"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!
I see the other Doc coughed up a first innings triple to Judas Iscariot Damon.
I love how Castig keeps track of Wall Balls....
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."
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."
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.
Allan should be the "governor" of Ontario for RSN.
Yeah, we got to hear a big cheer and *assume* Manny was doing something.
Yeah, Allan has a real shot if they do a Canada prime minister or whatever. Should he choose to run.
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.
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.
Halladay gives 2 right back but they're out of the 1st
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.
pedro -- i'll have to flip over for that before i go get laura.
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.
ugh -- more sox appeal shit.
That woman on Sox Appeal is bringing it tonight. Look at that shirt.
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.
evening folks
steal
...and, she lost me with that crappy dance.
obama clinches, but hillary's not conceding :roll eyes:
yeahh,that was poor
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.
Green light!
catcher, please.
SB
I REFUSE TO BELIEVE ELLSBURY STOLE SECOND BASE. THESE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN.
oh, is that 3-ring circus still going on down there? :>)
Where'd he get hit?
3 more steals and Ellsbury will tie for the most steals by a Red Sox record. And we're in early June.
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.
sadly
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!
2-1 NY(A) after 2
play play
crap
Manny. :(
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.
near HR for Jays but caught near top of wall in RCF
Waldman: "Let's listen to the applause here as Joba comes out of the game..."
Joba reaches his number--62--with one out in the 3rd. And he's DONE! Ha.
Poo.
fuck
WOW. Not only does Drew make a nice running play, but he keeps Pena from tagging to third.
Not quite Dewey Game 6 '75, but very nice!
haha, joba sucks
pena kept pena from tagging.
pena kept pena from tagging.
Upon further review... Yeah.
Bluebirds also tie it at 2.
Go Bluebirds!
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.
no.
seeya
BOOM!!!!
J.D. LETS THE DONGS ON FIRE!!!
joba: 2.1-1-2-4-3
62 pitches: 32 strikes, 30 balls
...
FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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
PAPI WHO? JD DREW!
Drew's hacking.
I meant "can't cheer out loud."
drew kills another rally.
...
(gotta get quicker with that one)
ooh I think this guy wants the place....
ooh I think this guy wants the place....
Where are you moving off to?
Heidi in red.
uh oh is it another guy night at jos
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.
Drew again!
DREW!!!!!!!!!!!!
says fuck the haters!
!
Barajas double leads off the fourth for the bluebirds.
Northampton is possibly the happiest place on earth.
If you end up in Providence, maybe we can meet for whiffleball.
drew should have high-fived that cop in the pen.
i don't think i've ever been to northampton.
I went to Amherst College, so Northampton is old stomping grounds.
Hughes, Kennedy, and Joba as starters in '08:
59 IP, 52 ER
Bluebirds sac fly. 3-2.
Jere: don't forget, just one win among the three (Joba's).
(Which wasn't a start, of course.)
we looove Northampton, hope to end up there. (With luxury part-time homes in NYC, Boston, San Juan, etc etc....)
right--I was only adding their starting numbers. 0 wins, ha.
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.
that girl's sign said "EMDAWG" and she had to write in the R.
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.
It's DanG iese to beat the Yanks this year.
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.
A Wood: A VT Menace
Rios ends the inning.
TBB - 101 1
MFY - 200
It's DanG iese to get the history of Dan Giese at this board, just say the name and voila
Oh cock.
Drew couldn't get that one.
fucking dong.
Crap.
speaking of dudes the Red Sox once had
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!
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.
fucking rays
joyofsox.blogspot.com = fox jobs top cosmology.
And there you have it.
lopez/aardsma up
get that 3rd out. come on
Halladay finally retires Damon, to end the 4th, 3-2 Jays.
6 from masterson and we trail by one -- with 4 innings to hit.
i'll take it.
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?"
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.
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.
bad man wheels.
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!"
McCain-
"I hate war."
..but now I don't have to fight in it, so no big
McCain really needs to stop referring to America as "her". It's really creepy.
John McCain: More boring than The Tennis Channel
enough of this. biesbol thyme
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.
If mccain wins i might have to start 'i move to a small deserted island in the pacific'
McCain munches scat
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.
dammit doc
drew will safe us!
"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.
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.
How did Laura feel about that pinstriped Datsun?!
Drew'll walk and leave the bases loaded for Tek.
bases blatzed
Told you.
this is a job for ..... capt tangible!
Single for the Cap. I'll take it!
Happiness has surrounded me! Tie game. Will Balfour come in to face Strikthree?
first bases loaded hit for tek this year
On the old camera, that's a 6-4-3...
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"
!!!!!!!!!!!OCOC
i love fenway.
HAHA
and on the old camera, that's fouled out of play. New cam working tonite!!!! 6-4 us.
And Obama clinches.
COCO!
wee!
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..."
3-2 Canada after 5
Wow. Chris**** Matthews. Definitely not Christ.
Not true. Liberia's done it, I'm pretty sure.
Liberia nominated an African-AMERICAN for president?
haha
not sure of the circumstances, but frederick douglass ran for u.s. president.
was he nominated by one of the major parties, though?
not a "major party", though i suppose.
mdc up
and ball four from balfour
Thanks for the free ball, Maddon. And the other three. From Balfour.
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..."
I want room to breathe! I want room to breathe!
pour it on, lyndon.
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.
I smell inside the park grand slam
Grant Balfour. worst name ever.
I am so excited here for Masterson. How many games has a rookie won without a loss before to start his career?
brings home a run
I got my ellsbury and youk shirts today.
stupid blue jay doubles, then gets caught stealing third. And the next guy singles.
7-4 SOX. Room d'breathe
speed kills
fuck yeah
Ellsbury ROY
We are showing these fucks what it takes to be number 1 in the East.
"I got my ellsbury and youk shirts today."
Game used undershirts, of course.
ooh it's almost ish time
Look how cute that man is. Jacoby stole my heart and was never caught stealing.
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