Red Sox - 220 110 010 - 7 11 0Lester: 9-5-0-2-8, 105.
Yankees - 000 000 000 - 0 5 1
And everyone in the lineup added a little bit:
Ellsbury: 2-run double in 2nd
Pedroia: single, run in 1st
Drew: single in 1st, double and run in 5th
Ramirez: single, walk, run
Lowell: RBI single in 1st, sac fly in 5th
Youkilis: double in 5th, single and run in 8th
Crisp: single and run in 2nd, single, SB and run in 4th, walk in 8th
Varitek: walk and run in 2nd, RBI single in 8th
Lugo: sac fly in 4th
Moss: stood in RF for 9th inning; did not make an error!
Also, Drew and Ococ made nice catches in the outfield. And the infield turned three double plays (543, 543, 643).
We are 3 GB.
They are 8 GB.
***
Jon Lester (3.48, 123 ERA+) / Andy Pettitte (3.98, 101 ERA+)
Jeff Goldberg, Courant:
The last time the Red Sox and Yankees played each other in the second half of the season with neither team in first place was 1997 and the Rays didn't even exist.But the Red Sox (having lost five of their last six games) are now 3½ games out in second place, while the third-place Yankees are 7½ GB.
Lester makes his first career start at Yankee Stadium and only his second appearance ever against the Yankees. The first was on August 18, 2006: 3.2 IP, 8 H, 7 R; New York won the game 14-11).
Tampa Bay, 14-4 in their last 18 games, is off tonight.
268 comments:
1 – 200 of 268 Newer› Newest»so i sold my REALLY BAD seats i won from WFAN for twice their face value, bought BETTER seats for sunday night with the Cunt on the mound, and have extra scratch to play with at the toilet!
ive been to the toilet a couple of times, but have never gone to monument park. whats the deal with it? do you have to pay to get in? i'd like to go this time in case its my last chance.
Nix, very cool!
You don't have to pay extra to get into Monument Park, but there is always a hugely long line, and it's got to be even huger this year.
It is completely underwhelming. And I say that as someone who loved Yankee Stadium and loved that team with all my heart.
I can't imagine that it would ever be worth it to fight the crowds to go to Monument Park, especially for someone who calls the place The Toilet.
Where are your new seats?
thanks l-girl.
yeah i figured as much, but i might give it a shot, as i do appreciate baseball history. i was thinking of going really early and see what happens.
my seats i won were Tier 21 row U....
my new seats aren't THAT much: Tier Box MVP Row F.
first base side. thats good enough for me...
That's much better.
I love baseball history but I still thought Monument Park was pretty crappy. But since you've never been, and it's the last year, blah blah blah...
I'm so glad I said my goodbyes to that place. It will be REALLY strange that there will be two ballparks in NYC that we've never been to! I imagine that eventually we'll time a family visit with both teams being home. And I'll go to Yankee Stadium as a Red Sox fan.
Wow.
Enjoy the game tonight, everyone. We will be out with our kids (two Red Sox fans, one Mets fan, one Yankee fan, and one daughter who couldn't care less), but there is a TV in the restaurant bar, so hopefully Maddy (the Sox fan daughter) and I can give Harvey some razzing.
Jacoby Ellsbury, LF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
J.D. Drew, RF
Manny Ramirez, DH
Mike Lowell, 3B
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
Coco Crisp, CF
Jason Varitek, C
Julio Lugo, SS
Johnny Damon, LF
Derek Jeter, SS
Bobby Abreu, RF
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Jason Giambi, DH
Jorge Posada, C
Robinson Cano, 2B
Wilson Betemit, 1B
Melky Cabrera, CF
...
Tek is still one spot too high in the order (some might say two). Can we get the 12-year-old Jason from Amy's avatar and have him bat instead? Pretty sure he would not do worse.
Coming off the Rays series, this doesn't feel as tense as it might have two years ago. I guess that's what happens when you are playing a .500 team fighting to stay out of fourth place.
But it'll still be sweet to pound the MFY in front of their fans and ruin Porgie's B-day tomorrow. (And remember: Hankee has vowed to not talk about the Sox for the rest of the season.)
Let Sid work his magic tonight -- we'll be 3 back and they will be 8.
And now ... off to grill some steaks!
Someone came in the Bar the other day with some tickets for this weekend at Yankee Stadium. The face price on them was $180. He said they were up 20 rows on the first base line.
I think getting a 12 year old version of Tek sounds quite adorable, though perhaps we would be better off with the 22 year old version. Even the 32 year old version.
Poor Tek....
poor tek? at least for him he's not trot.
he's prolly gonna get cut from the mets soon
Have fun Nixon. By any chance can you pitch an inning or two, play short or catch? We might be able to use you tonight lol. GO SOX!
Time to kick some ass.
MMMMMMM, steaks! Are they high, by chance? Nevermind.
The weather is crazy this year in New England. It's almost tropical, in that we get a quick, strong thunder shower every 12-16 hours or so.
I was selling raw milk at the farmers market and it didn't start raining until we were all packed up and driving away. Very cool.
organic steaks, actually. green beans, salad and red wine, with pups outside and a nice warm evening.
quite nice. but now it's inside.
NESN!!!!
Thank you, non-existent cable baseball gods!
organic steaks, actually
Even better than organic: grass-fed and farm raised. And dee-licious.
These YS games are always a little strange for me. But they get a bit less strange every year.
this afternoon!!
MIL: 021 002 000 - 5 12 1
ARZ: 000 000 006 - 6 11 0
I tried to go to Monument Park once, and like L said, the line was so long, it closed before we got in. Oh well... you can see the same shit from the left field bleachers. Kinda.
i still have the ny post from the mid-90s with the front page story showing that almost every single monument sign had at least one spelling or other typo on it.
there goes the no hitter!
base hit FY.
i should also mention that time I tried to go to Mon. Park, it was probably the late 90s-ish. So yeah, prob. much worse now.
base hit Drew. Sweeeet.
I'm in beautiful Keene, NH tonight so I will be turning to y'all for some Sox updates
soooooo glad to have nesn tonight. at work, i am usually on mute, so i don't care as much.
but a day without kay is a wonderful day.
NICE THROW JETES!!!!!!!
you NEVER see that. even then, it didn't happen, because it NEVER happens.
Speaking of bullpen problems, the Brewers had three pitchers pitch in the bottom of the ninth, and none of them recorded an out.
I feel for them.
Keene figures into some of Russell Banks' novels.
Thanks Noodle!
thunder and lightning in Boston right now. As there is literally every day now.
Nice throw, Damon!!!!!! 2-0
We're not having any problem with Pettitte tonight.
manny ran and i said uh-ohj but forgot it was duh noodle out there.
We get a ton of lightning and thunder too.
I've mentioned this before, but if you are young and in the Keene area, there is a lot of fun to be had, involving kegs and basements and music.
The sad thing is you can't say that about every place on earth. There should always be kegs and music and young people having fun.
2-0 - nice!
My one Red Sox fan friend growing up went to Franklin Pierce. When I would visit, he'd take me to Keene.
I'm making hamburger helper with organic meat and milk. Kind of twisted.
Jere, how old were you for your first game at Fenway? I'm sure I should know this, but I can't recall.
I like Keene. My favorite stop in the NECBL express thus far however is Montpelier, VT
The Red Sox Foundation should do more for "Kegs N' Kids".
I'm making hamburger helper with organic meat and milk. Kind of twisted.
An interesting combo! But it's got to be better for you than making it with all the antibiotic-laced milk and meat.
I had miller highlife from a keg in Keene. I was amazed at how good it tasted. Tap makes the difference.
Montpelier is up where my Dad lives. He's outside of St. Johnsbury.
Montpelier, famous for being the only state capital without a McDonald's. Yay Vermont.
L: Remember, Yankee Stadium was much closer to us, so my first game was Sox-Yanks in The Bronx in '79, when I was 3. (upper deck, behind home plate) I got to Fenway a few years later--though I have a Yaz '79 pennant which it seems only could've come from Fenway, so there may have been an earlier trip whose details remain uncovered....
Fucking Dice.
I use Yahoo's StatTracker to keep track of my fantasy team and for a bird's eye on games in general. Every time an inning ends, over the inning summary, you get an annoying image of Jeter doing a fist pump.
For a while it has been in the back of my mind to do a screenshot of Jeter over a message showing that he made a run-surrendering error. So today I got my wish before hitting the road for Lake Tahoe.
I hope the threads are juicy and the Sox victorious.
Best to all.
Strikes please!
Remember, Yankee Stadium was much closer to us
That's why I asked. :)
The "driving to Vermont" part wasn't 'very fun, but once I got there... beautiful scenery, great ballpark
How could driving to Vermont not be fun??
Have fun Zen! Enjoy.
tp pls
dp pls
NECBL: You gotta get down to my lovely home area of Danbury! The "Danbury Westerners." The field is, like, some field I always used to play on, with no "stands."
Because it was like a 4+ hour ride
didnt realize we had the yankee umpiring crew tonight
ok, pizza's here. Dungeon for Lester for walking the first two....
I missed the Danbury game, Jere. I'm told I didn't miss much.
fucking lugo
I see there will be some home field advantage calls today.
Heh. I don't consider it a long drive until it passes 7 or 8 hours. We do 4 or 5 without blinking.
I'm spending the 4th in Holyoke, which takes the grand prize for cruddy NECBL parks. Most of them have been really, really nice, though.
So far there have been 2. The strike vs ball call was fine by itself but combined now with the bad call at first. It seems that umps usually call in favor of the defense on first base outs but that looked to be favored too much to the runner especially when he was out.
89 though Vermont is one of the most beautiful interstate drives in the country. It almost feels like a country road (but not quite).
Last year we did Rt 7 down the whole state, for the first time for either of us. It was absolutely gorgeous - like a postcard of New England.
slappy and hgh down by way of the sid K!!
LESTER!
Atta boy Lester.
I don't like Giambi, but I really dig the stache. It's so gross it's cool.
16 days in Newfoundland, we put on 3,000 kilometers on the car. 1865 miles.
Lester just made love to the home plate ump. so the rest of the game should go well. How can you deny the cute boy when he comes up and snuggles you?
Not complaining but why the modding during the game?
When Giambi came to the Yankees,
HEIDI SIGHTING OMG
and he had to cut his hair and shave, they told me he could still have a mustache. He said, "A mustache? What am I, 40 years old?" He offended a lot of people.
Now look at him!
A semi driver told me the road through Newfoundland is the longest through any Canadian province. Makes sense.
Coco is back with a vengeance.
Modding b/c we have to.
Giambi looks like a mario brother
you have idiots today? Surely you can't mean me.
A semi driver told me the road through Newfoundland is the longest through any Canadian province.
How can that be? Ontario is like 4 times as big as Nfld.
Ontario is huge - almost as big as Alaska.
Andy, not you or anyone posting here. Let's not talk about it, ok? Thanks.
BBBB to Tek!!!
But man, I love the way there is always an inlet of water near you in NFLD and the way the hills coming out of the water are so small and round and green.
Tek CANNOT DH ever. I can't believe the yankees announcer said that.
I will be back then if something exciting happens.
He was talking about the trans Canada road, which only goes through horizontally (unless you look at the earth side ways, in that case vertically).
if your comments appear, you are not a problem. it's that simple.
There is so much water! Everywhere you drive - bays, inlets, creeks, streams, ponds - and of course the coast.
Hey Patrick, I don't know if you had a chance to read any of my posts, but I blogged my travel journal from Nfld. You might be interested, since you know it so well.
Have n't the Yankees been watching Varitek? Just throw it over the plate.
Hey I'm not complaining.
4-0, we are cooking!!!!
JACOBY! Yeahh
Oh yeah, the Trans-Canada - very long in Nfld. And beautiful! We had incredibly beautiful drives.
andy's dad forgot to send him some hgh via fedex.
4-0
crap!!!!
Yahoo got really confusedo n the LBJ CS, wahat happened?
why the fuck is hea stealing 3rd?
pedro gets any sort of hit , he scores EASILY WITH HIS SPEED!
jesus christ...guys dont too much.
No need to show off Lyndon, we love you already, just do your thing and don't do extra crazy things, ok??
lbj on second, semi-took off for third, and pettitte spun around and easily picked him off 1-5-4-1. lyndon = too anxious to go.
I love when they open the inning with some laid back gangster rap tune on WRKO. Pretty funny.
lester is 4/27 on his way to a second career no-hitter!
Ah, Poo, the Swamp Bats are all over us tonight... taking full advantage of the ~330 power alley in right center field. Wow
Posada channeling Varitek apparently
5/27
6/27
I didn't realize how much I like Coco until he was gone. I'm very glad to see him back. Screw his ego, we need him on our bench.
lester looking good in the second
mbm is going deep
Remy reading those promos is just painful!
next AB.
two more runs please.
Here we go, 2 on
let's go, two more runs here
bah!
shit
im happy with the way things are going but i'd like a little more padding please. i dont want to let pettitte out of any other jams!
GIDP?
CIDP!
way to go CI
CAPTAIN DP!
redsock said...
GIDP?
CIDP!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!
FUCK YOU CAPTAIN COLOGNE!
Pic
Lookit, it's a barn. Right beyond right field. Awesome.
And Ococ leads off with a single! He must be glad to be back.
wow
6 pitches to tek, 6 balls
Great pic, Joe! It looks like a little piece of heaven.
Poor Tek. So sad.
It is really nice, although this game is getting very nauseating -- Keene has 10 runs, 14 hits here with one out in the fourth inning
it is a nice pic, but i fear there maybe bugs there.
...
is remy illiterate?
can he read? i don't think he can.
ATTA WAY LUGO! He's been useful twice!
"productive out" is a horrible phrase, but tek made one. i have to admit it.
Don: "Coco heading plateward..."
Classic Orsillo.
And it's 5-0!
HAHAHAH "Plateward?" I'm going to use that in a game story
Did you experience the intense flies of NFLD, L, A?
Maybe Jere can use "plateward" in one of his old-tyme stories, but I don't know if you want to use that seriously!
Patrick, no, we really didn't. We had one very short walk where black flies were going nuts - horrible - and a few mosquito problems, but that was about it. Nothing awful. I wonder why? Wrong season?
As I recall there was nasty flies every single day from June until early October.
I'm referring to the nippers and stouts, of course.
Anyone else know the answer to the Aflac question?
I'm referring to the nippers and stouts, of course.
Newfunese?
Sid PC: 24-13-4 8 = 49
12 in the last 2 innings!
That's right. They know mosquitoes as Nippers. Horse flies and Deer flies as Stouts. Black flies and no-see-ums go by the same name.
I even heard of an extremely rare fly called the 'Timber Fly', found only deep in the woods. It apparently is very big, makes a clicking sound, and it's bite kills.
"Kent Graham sparked a glimmer of hope with a leadoff triple, but the Navigators could not bring him plateward, as Geason, Little, and Provencher all struck out."
,,,Okay, maybe I won't use it.
I'll tell you, Joe, I think you pulled it off with that one. That's a good sentence you got there.
A fiery double!
On fire
yeah, this former sportswriter sees nothing wrong with it.
A story of the Timber Fly
By the description I think I might've seen one while I was there. I'll tell my kids that, anyways (if I have any).
We are just cruising!
lucky noodle.
6-0!!!
Yay 6-0
Patrick, I'll have to check that out when I'm not modding. Did you get up to Labrador?
yooooooook
Come on Crispy
note:
until you can (like jere) casually drop the phrase "from cleavage to coin slot" into a game story, you have not truly arrived.
No, I spent a few weeks in Antigonish, NS, before I went to NFLD.
I think Nova Scotia is our next Cdn trip (whenever that will be). I've never been there.
hey red sox,
i like the way you're playing tonight.
keep it up!
it got quiet here. i guess everyone's bored with all this winning.
Me mommy is coming to visit for the holiday. I have been cleaning.
The Lester machine is grinding the yankees up. Too bad the bullpen will most likely give up 19 runs.
it got quiet here. i guess everyone's bored with all this winning.
winning ... whining ... whatever!
I love this movie
What's the score now? Yawn.
lester is just good. not overpowering or very dramatic. He is actually boring to watch. But he is just good.
Andy, please slap yourself upside the head for me. Thanks.
Woo! winning!
Lugo on the other hand
I haven't seen that movie yet, so I won't click on the clip.
who is this asshole pitcher?
there will be blood was actually an entertaining movie
Tek and lugo are automatic outs lately. it used to just be lugo.
Move it to the front of your list, L.
Lester has edged out Pedroia as my favorite player. He's just so awesome.
Varitek has been an auto out for a long time.
It's definitely high on the list. But I won't see it until at least November - or later!
who is this asshole pitcher?
Dan Giese .... Male Prostitute.
you know he looks like a gigolo
New SI poll. Players voted 31% Ryan Howard has the most 'raw power' in the majors. Who got second? Banana picker Willy Mo Pena with a big 12%
Nah, that's Giambi w/ the mustache. All he needs is a velvet jacket and a cigarette holder.
banana picker?
Haha Jeter
Lester pitch count update?
WMP credits his strength to working on his fathers banana farm.
Lester at 75.
24-13-4 8-13-13
Awesome! thx
Cool. He is strong, so I guess it worked.
Patrick said...
New SI poll. Players voted 31% Ryan Howard has the most 'raw power'
For some reason they wrote RAW POWER like that , what the fuck does raw power mean....
9C, I thought the same thing. Let's ask a meaningless question and see what people say!
power that hasn't been cooked
of course! silly me.
Power consumed raw may be hazardous to your health.
Oh, duh, it's an Iggy Pop album. WMP must be a big fan.
STOOGES!
now we're talkin' ...
Which is cooler? The Stooges or the Three Stooges?
Need you ask???
Stooges > 3 Stooges
I thought it was an SI question, not a WMP question.
Rock Stooges > 3 Stooges
But I'm biased. I own the 7-CD Fun House box -- with about 27 takes of every song!
I love both the Stooges and the 3 Stooges
Now this is a nice thing to come home from work to!
I'm jealous of your steaks, but I do have some delightful cheeses from a dairy in new jersey that keeps their cows on grass and makes all their own delicious cheeses, so not THAT jealous.
Hi Sarah! Yum, cheese. I'm going through potato withdrawal and cheese sounds very good right now.
I hate the Three Stooges.
sweet catch by Drew
ON FIRE WITH THE GLOVE!!!!!
HEY DUMBO:
YOU ARE OUT!!!!
I'd ship you some, Laura, but I don't think it would work out all that well...
I enjoy both sets of Stooges as well.
Probably not. I'll have to find some grass-powered Ontario cheese. But thanks.
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