Red Sox - 000 032 300 - 8 12 0A flurry of runs in the middle innings gave the Red Sox a win and kept them 3 GB behind Tampa Bay, who scored six runs in the bottom of the ninth (without making an out!) and beat Cleveland 10-7.
Royals - 000 020 000 - 2 8 0
Boston scored three times in the fifth after two were out. Cora singled and Drew walked. Lowrie smacked a double over the CF's head that scored both runners, and then he came around on Ortiz's single. Drew's bases loaded single in the sixth brought in two more and Ellsbury cranked a three-run dong to dead center in the seventh.
Lyndon also had two singles and scored twice and made an amazing tumbling catch in short center in the fifth, running, diving and snaring a popup, saving Wakefield from further damage. Bay rapped two more hits and scored two runs. Drew reached base three times in the leadoff spot.
Wakefield (6-4-2-0-6, 80) was sharp. Three of the hits he allowed (and three of his four base runners) came in the fifth. He retired the side in the second, third and fourth innings on a total of 24 pitches. Delcarmen, Masterson, and Papelbon finished up. Red Sox pitchers struck out 10 Royals and issued no walks.
New York beat Texas 5-3 to stay 6.5 GB. ... The Sox are off on Thursday and make their way to Chicago. The Yankees finish up in Texas and the Rays are in Seattle.
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Tim Wakefield (3.77, 118 ERA+) / Luke Hochevar (5.42, 81 ERA+)
David Ortiz understands that while he may feel his wrist click sometimes, "it gets in your head. Should I take another swing? Should I hold it? ... It happened a few times, but I haven't really felt it like I felt it last night." ... Francona: "To know that you're maybe going to feel something at some point, maybe it does mess with you."
Flo did say that there was no clicking last night: "I was getting more freedom with my swings. It's a little freaky sometimes because sometimes I feel OK and sometimes I don't."
Bartolo Colon lasted only two-thirds of an inning (32 pitches) last night for Pawtucket, throwing 32 pitches and allowing three earned runs on four hits and one walk. David Aardsma pitched one inning in that game and could rejoin the team in Chicago.
Also: Spiders/Rays at 12:30 PM and Yankees/Rangers at 8 PM
Posted this in the yesterday's game thread, but I guess it will fall on deaf ears...Fuck you, Boston Globe
ReplyDeleteI'll spare this thread the rant I went off on in the last one.
Right on Tim.
ReplyDeleteMedieval Dragons 1, Mr. Scratch Beams 0 in the first.
ReplyDeleteTim: you've got me growling again. Now to read your rant...
ReplyDeleteTim said it all, really, and more eloquently than I could have.
ReplyDeleteFrack the irrelevant cobags. I'll think for myself, as is still my right, I believe.
LOL...that was my little night musing at 3:30 am, once I finished studying. Fed up with this class, I hate it. Seeing that slideshow just gave me a reason to vent my frustrations.
ReplyDeleteI clicked on "Manny Moments" expecting the same type of thing as SoSH (as i said in yesterday's thread) - you know, classic pictures, the mummy, world series MVP, becoming a US citizen, etc... what I got was a plethora of visual diarrhea, a load of shit the likes of which have never been seen.
ReplyDeleteThe man was the freakin' World Series MVP for Boston's FIRST world series title in EIGHTY SIX GODDAMN YEARS - I know it sounds like a broken record by now - and there isn't even a photo of THAT! comeon.....
3-2 Tampa after 4
ReplyDeleteIt's probably very similar to an earlier versions of Manny Moments they have run before ... just tack on a couple new ones at the end.
ReplyDeleteI knew better than to click.
The map that shows exactly where his jaywalking took place kind of reminds me of the Onion in how ridiculous it is.
ReplyDeleteHardly surprising that Allan knew better than me, but I clicked through.
ReplyDeleteHardly surprising that I also think it's a fuckass pile of creamed donkey dung.
brak brak doubles in a run and it's 6-4 Ohio.
ReplyDeleteTime of stretching at the Trop, 6-4 Grinning Savages.
ReplyDeletebrak brak is 4 for 4 with two duobles and a dnog
ReplyDeleteThe map that shows exactly where his jaywalking took place kind of reminds me of the Onion in how ridiculous it is.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've seen that. Shit, now I'm a tad curious about the high level of silliness.
Also, has the city put up a historical plaque yet?
... a fuckass pile of creamed donkey dung.
ReplyDeleteJust the GB the G.
CLE - 101 031 0.. - 6
ReplyDeleteFKR - 300 010 ... - 4
Tiz said he had no clicks last night:
ReplyDelete"I felt fine tonight. I was getting more freedom with my swings. It's a little freaky sometimes because sometimes I feel OK and sometimes I don't."
bottom 8, still 6-4 Cleve.
ReplyDelete6-4, top 9th. brak brak goes 5 for 5!
ReplyDelete7-4 Cleve, top 9th
ReplyDeleteJtC placed on DL.
ReplyDeleteI wont say that Hankees are doomed, but maybe Giambi can save them by wearing the golden (or whatever) thong on his head
TB starts the 9th with back to back doubles. 7-5, 0 out.
ReplyDeleteAnd before Cleve gets an out in the 9th, 3 have scored, and it's 7-7.
ReplyDeleteGuess who I picked up for my fnatasy taem?
ReplyDeleteBut it's so frustrating the way the Rays have come back. AND they have two on and no one out. Jay-sus but they're tough.
wow, they made quick work of the Tribe in the 9th, erasing a 3-run lead and winning 10-7.
ReplyDelete2B, 2B, HR, 1B, BB, HR, and we're done. Yanks can go 7.5 back tonight!
And the Rays win with a six-run bottom of the ninth.
ReplyDeleteDamn.
Borowski by chance?
ReplyDeleteCunt.
ReplyDeleteUmm WHAT THE FUCK SPIDERS???? 6 runs without an out in the 9th?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteAlso - Sal Fasano was playing first, wtf?
Wow. Those fuckers are unstoppable.
ReplyDeleteI know they are above us in the standings and all, but it must be cool for however many actual fans they have down there. They must be going totally ape shit. Can you imagine?
...it must be cool for however many actual fans they have down there. They must be going totally ape shit. Can you imagine?
ReplyDeleteI was actually thinking about this the other day, looking at their schedule on BR, and how the attendance has grown. Hell, even today when I checked out the attendance for today's game (~27k)...some of their earlier games they only had like 12, 13k and stuff. Atmosphere at the Trop is definitely rockin these days.
It's also time to start rooting against Minnesota a bit -- they won today.
ReplyDeleteI thought Aaron Small looked way more like Wallace. (I had a post about it but the Wallace pic has gone away and the Small pic changed to one of him in a Seattle hat. If only I knew how to save and repost images back in '05...)
ReplyDeleteCheck out comment #9 in the NYTimes blog (linked by gk above). Yankee fan goes off on Girardi for putting too much pressure on Joba's arm by converting him to starting without sending him down to the minors.
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned in yesterday's thread, he's always been considered an injury risk. But here we are past the 2/3 point in the season and he's only got 89IP. I don't know how much more cautious they could have been with him..
Whoops, that was Milwaukee that already won today. MIN is yet to play. But...root against them anyway!
ReplyDeleteThe Rays are really astounding right now. Forgive the MSM cliche, but they're finding new and different ways to win seemingly every day. Too bad they're in Boston's division, because I'd be actively rooting for them instead of gritting my teeth and rooting against them like I am right now.
ReplyDeletePoor Cleveland. To go from 1 win away from the World Series to a season like this must be yet another sock right to the gut.
joba to the DL. britton called up.
ReplyDeletewoah:
ReplyDelete1. J.D. Drew, RF
2. Jed Lowrie, SS
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. Jason Bay, LF
7. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
8. Kevin Cash, C
9. Alex Cora, 2B
Just a day off for Biggie Smalls right?
ReplyDeletenixon33 said...
ReplyDeletewoah:
1. J.D. Drew, RF
2. Jed Lowrie, SS
3. David Ortiz, DH
4. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. Jason Bay, LF
7. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
8. Kevin Cash, C
9. Alex Cora, 2B
Wake always gets red shirts and reserves....
Jeff Karstens throws a complete game 2 hitter for Pittsburgh. ha.
ReplyDeleteHansen, on the other hand, has given up 2ER in 2.2IP for them.
I'm really rooting for Karstens to go all Aaron Small on the year. And I'm also rooting for Moss to break out. Hansen... not so much. Don't know why.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I'm to blame (as long with thousand others, I assume) for breaking up the perfection- first pitch I saw after logging in to the game in MLBtv- a hit.
ESPN has the MFYs game. Le sigh.
ReplyDeleteOK are we here yet?
ReplyDeleteshit - stuck with the fsn yokels again.
ReplyDeleteOK, it works.
ReplyDeleteI've written 3 or 4 comments and kept etting a "Blogger Currently Unavailable" message.
The Wakefield line-up, it's almost comical. Although with Peds out I'd have led off Jed-I and hit Drew 2nd.
.....or am I tripping?
If I were Wake I think I might be developing some kind of complex by now, as in
"A real batting order?
I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!"
blogger had a maintenance outage an hour ago. not sure how long it lasted.
ReplyDeletethe first words of the royals broadcast were -- i'm not kidding -- "when it stops rolling, pick it up"
ReplyDeletelaura is out tonight, but she would have gone nuts. she HATES that stupid quip -- plus the fact that EVERYONE has to say it and act like no one has heard it before.
I'm not feeling tonight, I might fade in and out. But let's hope Wake gets us the series win.
ReplyDeleteLooks like tito's being adventurous with the lineup.
I don't know... we're just a (maybe) slumpbusted LBJ from a pretty good lineup right there. The absence of Lugo (or the emergence of the Jedi) has really helped limit the bottomless pit of the lineup.
ReplyDeleteI like the Yankees being -7
ReplyDeletethere were a few stories in the ny papers saying that the team is on the edge of being out of the race and having the season go down the drain!
ReplyDeletei may have to quote some tomorrow -- esp. if they lose again tonight.
better jedi than einstein in the 2 hole. i wish bay would get put up, but maybe tito wants to "extend the lineup" or whatever the fuck that saying is.
ReplyDeleteat least have him ahead of lowell to take advantage of yook's obp.
As far as I'm concerned, the season is down the drain and they are out of the race. :)
ReplyDeletei may have to quote some tomorrow -- esp. if they lose again tonight.
ReplyDeleteIf?? It is Ponson. I'd say when.
yeah! the papers are finally beginning to see reality. the fans won't for awhile.
ReplyDeletelast year of the toilet -- no playoffs!!!!
FIRE STARTER!
ReplyDeletefy is a cancer. takes the night off before an off day. wtf?
ReplyDeleteAlso - Sal Fasano was playing first, wtf? From pinto at baseball musings.
ReplyDeleteAsbrubal Cabrera trips near the third base coaching box at Tropicana Field as he's walking out to take the field for the bottom of the sixth. He needs to come out of the game, and due to Marte pinch hitting for the DH, Wedge is limited to the moves he can make without losing the designated hitter.
Update: Sal Fasano ends up playing first. Garko started the game at DH, but Wedge removed him for not hustling.
Yankee announcers saying its tendinitis for the joba.
KC TV on KC pitcher: "you really don't have to worry about him throwing strikes"
ReplyDeletenot sure he meant to say it like that!
A third of a triple for Lowrie.
ReplyDeleteIt's a start :)
ReplyDeletetendinitis
ReplyDeleteChad Fox disease?
Battle of the Jedis
ReplyDeleteTime for Papi to break the slump with a papi dong!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gload, we appreciate the help.
ReplyDeleteSmart play by Drew!! LF gives him 3rd base.
ReplyDeleteKC TV likes it. Keeps Lowrie at first - "that's the important runner"
that's the important runner
ReplyDeleteWho the double hockey's is doing the KC announcing?
If Ortiz loved the Sox he'd have hit a HR
ReplyDeleteryan lefebvre
ReplyDeletepaul splittorf
KC anncr talking about how the Sox' fans get the KC fans cranked up, meanwhile the camera shows depressed or stone faced people...
ReplyDeleteOuch!
ReplyDeletefreakin' ball magnet!
ReplyDeleteYIKES
ReplyDeleteThe important runner?
ReplyDeleteWhat is it, amateur night in the broadcast both?
yook gets joba'd
ReplyDelete...
they also notice he sweats -- meanwhile their pitcher looks completely sweated and wiped out
Hahaha, KC announcer talking about Youk sweating.
ReplyDeleteYouk's now tied for fifth with 9 HBPs this season.
ReplyDeleteGet outta there and ice that hand
ReplyDeleteall sox will now stay in the game - they are afraid of being run out of town
ReplyDeleteHGH and Quentin are tied for first with 14.
ReplyDeletefrag
ReplyDeleteWow.
ReplyDeleteaw fuck.
ReplyDeletethis luke guy will not last long, tho
We need a dong, to get Youks into the dugout quickly.
ReplyDeletethat inning was dicktacular
ReplyDeleteShit. That also gets him to the dugout quickly...
ReplyDeleteSo any reason not to bat Bay fifth? Can't think of one.
ReplyDeletecasey at 1B
ReplyDeleteyouk out...
ReplyDeleteCrapola.
ReplyDeleteLowell should be run out of town.
Casey in at first. Overall speed quotient for the Sox players drops by 2.
ReplyDeleteAll things considered, that was probably the worst possible top of the first inning...ever
ReplyDeleteMVP = Must Vacate Promptly.
ReplyDeleteMVPs are slackers. They clog the benches. move em out.
FSN shows Sox defense graphic.
ReplyDeleteGuy crosses out Yook and writes a K for Casey!
K for Wake, 2 out
ReplyDeleteKnice.
ReplyDeleteDid anybody see Posnanski's post from China today?
ReplyDeleteHe has to email the posts to his wife since his blog is banned.
Dancing knuckler tonight.
Wakefield's 1.199 (and falling) WHIP is tenth in the AL.
ReplyDeleteActually I always tell my teams leaving bases loaded in the first just means we're going to be scoring a lot tonight.
ReplyDeleteThat is, of course, unless we're performing a LOBotomy.
Guy crosses out Yook and writes a K for Casey!
ReplyDeleteHe actually wrote KC, which is still funny.
FY woulda had that. (if he were a foot taller)
ReplyDeletecora did not catch that ball, but he got his shirt dirty. GAMER!
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, it was more than simply leaving them loaded. Watching their pitcher in that inning, it felt like we were up 5-0 yet we somehow hadn't scored. And then never did.
ReplyDeletei guess my TV doesn't show the entire screen .....
ReplyDeleteHi, I just got online.
ReplyDeleteAnd Manny just hit another HR, just for me.
K looking. 0-0 us after 1.
ReplyDeleteGDGD has Guillen walking on a 3-1 pitch.
ReplyDeleteWay to go MLB!
GDGD said that was a walk and then a K. Which was it?
ReplyDeletethey are right now: cbbbcc
ReplyDelete23 straight knuckleballs, a lot of pitches for the 1st inning.
ReplyDeleteBases loaded, no outs against the Aruban God of Hits
ReplyDeleteyou mean 23 straight "knuckleballs"
ReplyDeletebloop single to CF for Ellsb.
ReplyDelete<3 non-slumping Ellsbury.
ReplyDeleteAruban God of Hits
ReplyDeleteIs this yours? I love it!
Texas has to score to make up for our squander.
ReplyDeleteCash pops out.
I saw that 4th ball show up on GDGD and swapped back here to say "Shit", then I saw the comments about the K and went back to find they had changed it.
ReplyDeleteGDGD has had it's share of screw-ups lately.
Yankees losing.
ReplyDeleteAruban God of Hits
ReplyDeleteIs this yours? I love it!
Just invented.
90% chance of scoring with loaded, 0 out. Does anyone know how ESPN is calculating these? Based on past, and if so how far back? Or based on a million projections or whatever?
ReplyDeleteOr not. GDGD sucks.
ReplyDeleteLBJ might as well steal here. What's he gonna do? Take the bat out of Cora's hands?
ReplyDeleteNow they are. 2-0 TEX.
ReplyDeletenot that I'm feeling pessimistic, but I could happily go for some runs on the board for the sox.
ReplyDelete4 batters - 7 pitches
ReplyDeletebad approach, sox.
If he'd gotten caught stealing, he'd have taken the bat out of Drew's hands (next inning).
ReplyDeletejere - past scenarios.
ReplyDeletecould be either stats from last year or stats from any number of years.
Elephant on field.
ReplyDeleteNo wait, foul ball.
Damn Gameday!!!
google "run expectancy" charts, you might find some info.
ReplyDeletePonson's home town (Noord) is hilariously named.
ReplyDelete"could be either stats from last year or stats from any number of years."
ReplyDeleteThat's good to hear. But I'd like to know how many years they're using. Hopefully it's like the last five years or something. That would sate me.
Just missed it and it seems to be not taken seriously here so hopefully thats good but how did uhlll get hurt?
ReplyDeleterally heidi
ReplyDeleteit probably is more than one year.
ReplyDeletethat win expectancy thing i linked to awhile back looks at all games from 1977-2006.
got nailed in the hand by a pitch, which then went into his chest and just died like a shot put hit him.
ReplyDeleteMurphy out at home. Still 2-0. Murphy and Pudge are hurting.
ReplyDeletethe ball died. he didn't die. He stayed in the game to run but came out the next inning
ReplyDeleteFangraphs uses 1999-2002 data.
ReplyDelete0 out, 0 on, you have a 16 % chance of scoring 2+ runs. So every 6 or so half-innings is a multiple run inning? That seems high, but, I guess it's true...
ReplyDeleteTalk about getting all the lucky bounces
ReplyDeleteleg-shaver
ReplyDeletewhat a fucking lucky pitcher.
ReplyDeleteleg chevar, I mean
ReplyDeletescoring with guy on 1st and 0 outs is often easier than with a guy on 2nd with 1 out.
ReplyDeleteso bunting the guy over usually *decreases* your chance of scoring -- on average -- obv. sometimes it's a good move, but rarely.
that last play, grounder headed for center field, pitcher takes a kick at it, it rolls a few feet away, he picks it up and throws to first, easy out
ReplyDeletemfy had old timers game last weekend - how could fans tell that game apart from the regular game?
ReplyDeleteIt reduces your total run expectancy for the inning, but some of that is from reducing your chances at runs #2+.
ReplyDeleteyeah it's better to have more outs to work with.... kinda like declining the penalty on 1st down, just make it second down....
ReplyDeletequick out for Tim. F8
ReplyDeletemake it 2 quick outs. 4-3
ReplyDeleteLooks like it's gonna be another 5 hour Wakefield game (/wallacematthews)
ReplyDeleteHunter's a shitty pitcher. Cano single; Molina single; Betemit double. 2-1 TEX, no outs.
ReplyDeleteBetween innings i put on the soccer game between Barcelona and New York... obviously Barcelona is crushing them, 5-2, and the announcer says:
ReplyDelete"New York should be proud - Since falling 3-0, they have played Barcelona to a 2-2 tie"
Sweet inning!!!
ReplyDelete(fake) Pudge=out of game
ANOTHER quick inning
ReplyDeleteTim - did you bring the spinach tonight?
ReplyDelete""New York should be proud - Since falling 3-0, they have played Barcelona to a 2-2 tie""
ReplyDeleteThat's like Michael Kay's theory that Jeter basically is always great and really should be the MVP...if you take out all the negative things he's ever done.
Wakefield 23 pitches in the first and 15 in the next two? I likey
ReplyDeletexays neg on yook - right hand contusion
ReplyDeleteI can't believe the Sox and Yanks games are both tied the way things have gone...
ReplyDeleteWell, now they've only lost 3-2, if you only count everything that happened after they fell behind 3-0
ReplyDeleteso if you think about it, 6-2 isn't all that bad... right
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see Wakey having a good game. Can we score some runs?
ReplyDelete3-2 MFYs.
ReplyDeletegive this guy the key to Dong City, Mayor
ReplyDeletealmost....fly out
ReplyDeleteI would have to argue the 1st w/no out vs. 2nd w/1 out. Although it's obvious that your chances of a muli-run inning would go down with an out and still only 1 man on, regardlss of where he's at.
ReplyDeletei.e. I would never bunt the man over if I were down by more than 1 late in the game.
Just me, but of course....
I AM the NC district 2 BL champion coach!
(or have I already mentioned that 10 or 12 ties?) :)
yanks up 3-2 now
ReplyDeleteThis shithead's at 43 pitches after 3.1.
ReplyDeleteI would have to argue the 1st w/no out vs. 2nd w/1 out.
ReplyDeleteYou've actually got a better win expectancy in the bottom of the ninth with a guy on first and no outs (.715) than with a guy on second and one out (.703).
one pitch one out. again.
ReplyDelete48 after four. He could go all nine at this rate.
ReplyDeleteBlogger bloggered.
ReplyDelete4-2 MFYs.
ReplyDelete2 out rally
ReplyDeletePlease, Jed.
ReplyDeleteEggplant zucchini rice tomato soup.
ReplyDeleteGin + diet tonic.
This needs an rbi chaser.
jed lowrie 2 run double
ReplyDeleteThere we go.
ReplyDeleteJed Lowrie.
ReplyDeleteO, wild Jere
Wow, I get here just in time to see us score!
ReplyDeletei see i timed my arrival perfectly! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks to everyone for their birthday wishes from yesterday. It was a great birthday, made better by waking up today to see that the Sox had won!
ReplyDeleteamy and efd get stuck in the doorway trying to enter the room like in an Abbott & Costello skit?
ReplyDeleteefd and I arrive at the same time and bring the runs!
ReplyDelete3-0, Papi single right up middle
ReplyDeleteMore runs are better.
ReplyDeletegoodness no, I allow Amy to enter first of course!
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Youk?
ReplyDeletehey efd, do you know the band Adrenalin OD?
ReplyDeleteEfd, what a gentleman!
ReplyDeletehi all.
ReplyDeletewe haven't been able to post for a long time.
jere, great anagram!
Got the vegetables from here. Two for a buck for huge eggplants, squash, etc., and then some considerably less cheap brandywine tomatoes.
ReplyDeletewe were stuck looking in the window, wishing we could join the party.
ReplyDeletei know of them, sure, but not hugely familiar with specific songs.
ReplyDeleteYouk got HBP on the hand. X-rays negative.
ReplyDeletethanks, L.
ReplyDeleteefd: Okay. I'm friends with a dude in the band and since they were an early 80s Jersey band who have been on FMU a lot I just thought I'd ask.
Guess the party can get wild now that Allan, Laura, EFD, and I are here, and we are up 3 runs with Wake pitching well.
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