Orioles - 000 100 001 - 2 8 0A perfect night.
Red Sox - 004 610 21x - 14 20 0
Red Sox win -- and the Rays, Twins and White Sox all lose. Tampa's lead in the East is cut to four games and Boston's lead in the WC is now four games over both Chicago and Minnesota.
Yankees 7, Rays 2***
Blue Jays 7, Twins 5
Spiders 9, White Sox 3
Radhames Liz (6.95, 63 ERA+) / Jon Lester (3.41, 132 ERA+)
Liz faced the Red Sox on July 12 and they totally abused him: 2.1-6-8-3-2, 61. In his 21-game major league career, he has allowed 89 hits and 61 walks in only 81.2 innings -- a whopping 1.789 WHIP. More destruction should occur tonight.
Lester faced Baltimore about two weeks ago, on August 18: 7-4-1-1-5, 103.
Mike Lowell and Josh Beckett both seem on pace to return Friday night in Texas. Lowell thinks playing on Friday is "a legit possibility". J.D. Drew could come off the DL today, but he's not ready.
Dustin Pedroia scored 33 runs in August. Last night, he set a new Red Sox team record for hits by a 2B (he has 184, breaking Del Pratt's 1922 mark of 183).FY has also stolen 17 bases in 18 attempts; his 94.4% rate is the best in the AL among players with at least 15 attempts. If he can maintain that rate, it would be the best for any Red Sox player with at least 10 attempts since 1956.
Also at 7 PM: Yankees/Rays, Twins/Blue Jays, and White Sox/Spiders.
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1 – 200 of 324 Newer› Newest»Is there any debate on whether this is the best season ever by a Red Sox 2nd baseman?
I'm sure Remy has an opinion on that.
Neyer, in his Big Book of baseball Lineups, lists Bobby Doerr's 1948 season as the best season by a Boston 2B. He also says Doerr is the top 2B in team history.
Neyer calls Doerr "the only great second baseman to spend much time with the Sox; Pete Runnels was the only other to even finish in the top 10 of an MVP vote".
So there is not much competition.
In 1948, Doerr hit .285/.386/.505 for a 131 OPS+. 27 dongs and 111 RBI; 266 TB in 140 games.
6th in on-base, 7th in slugging, 10th in total bases, 10th in extra-base hits, 5th in home runs, 7th in RBI, 9th in OPS+, 9th in Runs Created. 19th in MVP voting
Right now, Pedroia is:
1st in average
1st in runs
1st in hits
5th in total bases
3rd in doubles
2nd in singles
6th in Runs Created
4th in times on base
6th in most outs made (boo)
He is not close to cracking the leaderboard in either OBP or SLG.
Sox OPS+
Youkilis - 142
Drew - 140
Manny - 138
Ortiz - 123
Bay - 123
Pedroia - 122
Casey - 117
NESN sez:
Jacoby Ellsbury, LF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
Mark Kotsay, RF
Jed Lowrie, 3B
Jason Varitek, C
Alex Cora, SS
Coco Crisp, CF
Brian Roberts, 2B
Adam Jones, CF
Nick Markakis, RF
Aubrey Huff, DH
Ramon Hernandez, C
Kevin Millar, 1B
Oscar Salazar, 3B
Lou Montanez, LF
Juan Castro, SS
Other than misspelling Montanez as "Martanez", the Globe agrees.
Just a night off for Bay, I hope.
Wouldn't this be the first night off for Bay since he arrived in Boston?
And against a guy who the Red Sox should destroy, good a time as any.
Other than misspelling Montanez as "Martanez", the Globe agrees.
Yeah. The NESN lineup I got from SoSH spelled it that way too, but I checked the O's MLB roster and changed it. BR backs me up: Montanez.
...
So, we'd like the MFY to sweep duh Rays, no?
So, we'd like the MFY to sweep duh Rays, no?
My brain says yes, but my heart says no.
Wouldn't this be the first night off for Bay since he arrived in Boston?
He didn't play on August 15, when the game against Toronto got rained out. Slacker.
Francona says Beckett should be back Friday against Texas.
Globe silently fixes its typo.
MVP? Fuck Yeah!!!
My brain says yes, but my heart says no.
We've had a lot of this divided allegiance stuff the past month or so. Although I feel the same way about the heart/brain thing, I find my heart a little more at ease with Yankee wins knowing they're out of it.
So...go Yanks!
(Right...?)
I want the East -- and the only way that will happen is if the FKR lose, so ...
If the Yankees winning actually HELPS us, then it's a good thing. Winning a game or three might give some of their idiot fans false hope, but who the eff cares? They are dead and buried -- anyone with a brain can see that. We need Tampa to lose by any means necessary.
I understand the "Sox take the Card and the MFY finish as far back as possible" argument. It has its appeal, but it's not for me. Not yet.
FY could give Doerr a run for his $, if he keeps playing out of his head like he has been. We'll have to check back on 9/29.
(Right...?)
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?!
Remy: "We are so excited to bring you this game on NESN."
Cause he knows we're going to KILL the Orioles!
Trying not to get too crazy about this, but... Go Yankees! For the next three games. Then go back to sucking.
Youk's out of the lineup with back spasms... Lowrie playing at third, Bailey at first.
TIME TO ROCK AND ROLL!
let's go, sid!
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?!
Hm...Man for All Seasons as my good friend Google tells me.
So, I guess you're saying "Go Rays"?
got buffyvision on the "last" channel button. all updates welcome!
Since my rooting cannot cause the arms to fall off FKR and MFY pitchers, I'm content not to root for either. Whatever happens happens.
Not sure what order the lineup is in now, but I'm thinking FY will land back in the cleanup spot.
Just as Castig says it. FY cleanup.
So, it'll be Ellsbury, Lowrie (3B), Ortiz, Pedroia, Kotsay, Varitek, Bailey, Cora, Crisp
Youk's out of the lineup with back spasms
Fuck and double fuck!
(One for reality, the other for the fantasy league.)
Remy: "We are so excited to bring you this game on NESN."
"Because they promised me I could do TWO plugs for my shitty website. TWO!!! Woo-Hoo!!!"
You know the Yankees really suck when Red Sox fans root for them in a regular season game.
WTF????????????
i just put in the old lineup from gameday, now it's changed....
Good thing we're playing Baltimore, because that's a shitty lineup.
Right, because Youk is scratched.
97 mph heat from Lester!
I never used to look forward to Lester outings. What a difference a year makes.
I've never felt more confident about a game this season than I feel about this one. So, obviously I'm expecting a win.
Liz has never given up fewer than two runs.
Seriously - Has Lester been any stronger than he is in his life??
Lester pitch count = 15-11.
Sure seems nasty on GD. I didn't know he could hit 97.
Ahhh fuck. I hope yook's ok
fwiw, gdgd had him on the roberts k at 98.
1-2-3 Top 1st for the Yankees.
3-0 & shift?
fuck that.
FY .327
Milton Bradley .324
Joe Mauer .320
What's the complete new oatmeal, sans youk?
Ellsbury LF
Lowrie 3B
Ortiz DH
Pedroia 2B
Kotsay RF
Varitek C
Bailey 1B
Cora SS
Crisp CF
1. Jacoby Ellsbury LF
2. Jed Lowrie 3B
3. David Ortiz DH
4. Dustin Pedroia 2B
5. Mark Kotsay RF
6. Jason Varitek C
7. Jeff Bailey 1B
8. Alex Cora SS
9. Coco Crisp CF
I win.
fuckfuckfuckfuck we need yooks
So Joba Chamberlain has been activated, and is in the bullpen... Probably stay in the bullpen next year.
not sure why i said buffyvision since the jays are playing the twins.
i got yes on the fkr game.
Shows just how hard it is to throw a no-hitter.
millar for mascot
put millar in the booth.
WTF? they got him??????????
Captain Kirk does not approve!
lyndon with the 15-hopper!!!!!!!
That was HUGE.
WOW
AND YOU GOT YOUR UMPIRING DEGREE WHEN?
Whoa! Description, please!
Did a weak-but-accurate throw just beat a slow runner or what?
we know how to watch the game, we don't need a traditional pbp guy. put mirror in there with remy and enjoy the show.
i need a replay on that
awful call lmao
but yeah , we only need replay for HR calls *rolleyes*
line drive to lbj, he fires in, hits grass, surprised runner went-- ball ROLLS to tek, but he got his hand in. safe!!
fuck you kirk!
Looks like his hand touched the plate. Haha.
Hernandez clearly got a hand on the plate before Tek tagged him. Oh well; we'll take it.
Mrs. White Flag in the Red Sox radio booth with Joe and Dave. Dawn Timlin.
i'm really liking this varitek-not-sucking thing
Heidi's really doing a number on Tek!
AND YOU GOT YOUR UMPIRING DEGREE WHEN?
So sweet.
Remy on Tek: "something clicks and you start hitting"
...
riiiiiiiight.
Thanks for the description.
Lester: 33-23
Liz: 19-11
Remy on Tek: "something clicks and you start hitting"
You mean knocking? Like knocking boots.
Opportunity (boots) knocks, and you find you find yourself hitting much much better.
It stuns me when Dustin does not make the play
MFY: 00
FKR: 0
MIN: 00
TOR: 0
CWS: 00
CLE: 02
***
FKR ---
BOS 5 GB
BOS ---
CWS 3 GB
MIN 3 GB
MFY 7 GB
yay
You chose poorly, Mr. Shatner.
I could probably hit .265 for Heidi
I wonder if Trembley has the same success with chicks on the road as Kirk did.
could heidi flash sid so he gets this 3rd out?
first 6 chokers up & down for garza
Whew.
Lester at 54-33.
ococ: "eat a dick, nix!"
MIN is threatening (first and third, no outs).
Aybar was thrown out at home trying to score from first.
So who is using Chrome?
Blogger works so much better with Chrome.
Chrome?
Google Chrome the new google browser. came out this morning.
OK boys let's make this threat count
what is chrome?
www.google.com/chrome
i see that if i use mozilla on the thread, i do not get an extra pop up menu asking me about secure info? tres annoying. so i am now using that.
WHY HAS LIZ ALLOWED 0 RUNS ????
Read the comic explanation of the browser. it is pretty well put together.
Try out chrome. i think you will be happy. it is faster.
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
Papi time.
PapiSlamTime
Noooooooooooooooo leave him in the game.
Oh good it's not their skipper. I have no idea who the hell is on this O's team past Millar.
I have heard that God will provide for His people ...
time for a 3-0 slam
yaaaaaaaaaaahoo
!!
I BELIEVE!!!!!
Montanez actually played it pretty well off the wall.
Lowrie won't give papi any more RBI's. He is in the hunt for first in September.
a'ite i'll take the run
Nice catch.
But another run!
fy tagged that fucking thing.
3-0
FINALLY .. liz being liz
Kotsay, you my boy
WHY HAS LIZ ALLOWED 0 RUNS ????
Funny you should ask.
Chrome seems kinda cool.
"Jon Lester with a lengthy wait..."
MFY: 000
FKR: 00
MIN: 003
TOR: 00
CWS: 000
CLE: 020
fkr - 1st/2nd, 2 outs for floyd against the bigot.
HIT -- SAFE 1-0!
wait ------- boooooooooo
get aybar, douche moose.
Good evening. I have been cleaning out closets and throwing out junk. We are about to put our house on the market.
Now I am ready for a nice win. Glad to see we are 4 runs up...
settle down sid.
don is wrong. not no score thru 3 for nyy-tam.
it's fkr 1-0.
FUUUUUUUUUUCK YEAHGHHHHHHHHH
LBJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ
Bugger. I missed that!
So how is Chrome? I just downloaded updates to Mozilla today. Any sense of the advantages of one or the other?
Can a runner go on a caught foul ball??
Just downloaded Google Chrome. Strange. I thought it'd be just for google stuff, but it's its own, whole new browser! Interesting.
Learn something new every day. I don't recall ever seeing that before. But then again...what do I recall?
it's a fly ball out - he can go.
cmon lester
One more out, Jon.
Been more of a grinder than I was expecting.
Very nice!
MFY: 000
FKR: 001
MIN: 003
TOR: 001
CWS: 000 0
CLE: 020 2
I started reading that Chrome "graphic novel." I got bored. What's the bottom line, Andy?
HIT!
let's go, dreamboat!!
Go, LBJ!
hell of a cannon, hernandez!!!!!!
GO Papi!
PRAISE THE LORD!
get it on, bang a dong, get it on!
3-1 NYY - nady must have hit a bomb to deep left.
Nady's home run was SMOKED. Hit one of those trusses and fell into the crowd.
Papi is doin' his thang.
LASER SHOW!!!!
FOOOOOKING LASER
10-1
HOLY SHIT! What is this kid eating???
Pedroia, doin' HIS thang.
How does a little skinny guy get that much power?
BIG BROWN GOES DOWNTOWN!
HECK, YEAH!!!!!
Red Sox jack Liz's ERA from 6.95 to 7.91!
3.1-9-9-3-2, 75!
I was raised Canadian. I'm not allowed to use rude language.
How does a little skinny guy get that much power?
By swinging ridiculously hard ... and still hitting the ball.
Lyndon's having a good night in the field!
I am definitely up for action with LBJ an FY. These boys are something.
Sorry, Andy!
MFY: 000 3
FKR: 001
MIN: 003 2
TOR: 001 0
CWS: 000 002
CLE: 020 20
Amy Chrome is all that. If you get into the Google apps it is even better. I have been heavily testing it all day and I haven't found it to falter yet. It takes firefox a step or two further. It's open source too.
It's ok Amy, it's not cheating if you keep it in the family. I am licking Jed's ear anyways.
Amy Chrome is all that. If you get into the Google apps it is even better. I have been heavily testing it all day and I haven't found it to falter yet. It takes firefox a step or two further. It's open source too.
This is pretty neat. I just wish the font sizes on the game thread and the text box were the same like in firefox. Game thread is too small, text box is too big.
I have a big head and little arms!
MFY: 000 3
FKR: 001
MIN: 003 2
TOR: 001 0
CWS: 000 002
CLE: 020 20
This is so weird to be sort of semi-cheering for the Yankees (no one yell at me!)
Thanks, Andy, for the blessings and for the Chrome info. I use Gmail, but not much else, other than the Google Toolbar and search engine. But it is worth a peak. I have been reading other reviews as well.
Pepe, I'm openly rooting for the Yankees!
Allan, I was thinking exactly the same thing about cheering for the Yankees. Harvey will be happy though.
Yeah it is small on the text for the comments for some reason. You can go to that paper looking button to the right of the address bar and zoom the text up a notch.
I mean Pepe. Not Allan. Reading too fast/
RBI for Damon and it's 4-1.
It was a triple!
5-4 Twins in the 5th...
O'Brien on the Orioles: "They go through general managers like some guys go through wives."
Tek?
Uhoh, Don and Jerry getting silly. Must be a blowout going on.
Wild one in Fishland...
ATL 105 4 - 10 13 2
FLA 300 6 - 9 6 0
Waldman: "I was talking to a couple of Red Sox players before they were leaving New York, and they asked me, 'Can you help us out a little bit here when you go to Tampa?'"
A close-up of Don's face...
So do Remy, Orsillo, and the rest of the NESN crew get progressively drunk during these blowouts?
Where do they hide the bong?
Don, in between innings: "GET ME SOME CHEETOS."
OK, trying Chrome. This is odd that the box font is SO big in order to make the comment font readable.
LMAO. They showed the first pitches being thrown tonight... celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Harvard/Yale game... One guy one-hopped it to the mound, the other guy sailed it to the backstop and almost hit some innocent bystanders.
.OK, trying Chrome. This is odd that the box font is SO big in order to make the comment font readable.
Agreed.
It'd be nice if I could change the font on the game thread.
FU coco.
Don noting Shatner.
Remy MUST do a homer inning!!!!!
5-1 MFY on a Damon triple and CI groundout.
Good thing the Red Sox will be in Texas on Sunday. New England will be seeing the remnants of Hanna.
Blogger ish said...
Pepe, I'm openly rooting for the Yankees!
But, it's like the first time in ... like ... 13 years! ... It just seems so WRONG!
I am also finding it hard to scroll up and down the page using the touchpad.
Jed.
Firefox has one instance open at a time, taking anywhere from 50MB to 300MB of memory...
Chrome has four instances open: One using 34MB, one using 12 MB, one using 24 MB, and one using 17MB.
MFY: 000 32
FKR: 001 0
MIN: 003 200
TOR: 001 03
CWS: 000 003
CLE: 020 20
***
FKR ---
BOS 5 GB
BOS ---
CWS 3 GB
MIN 3 GB
MFY 7 GB
But, it's like the first time in ... like ... 13 years! ... It just seems so WRONG!
Oh I know! It's tough for me to listen to the game on the radio and hope to hear John Sterling having an orgasm.
Guy catches the ground-rule double ball in the first row of the seats in RF, holds it up for everyone to see, then goes to sit down but his chair wasn't there, and he fell on his ass.
I am back on Firefox....too hard to scroll, too odd the font thing. I will play more with it, but no time to learn about it now.
Right now I'm using wunderground.com's WunderMap, which usually takes up 300-360 MB of memory on firefox... Not taking up anymore memory on Chrome.
load em up for the fuck yeah kid!
I'm a psuedo-Yankees fan, a quasi-Yankees fan. I'm the Diet Coke of Yankees fans. Just one calorie, not quite a Yankees fan.
Bleh.
Ish, what is the significance of your comments about memory being used? And how can you tell?
I love the internet, but I still have no clue how it all works!
load em up for the fuck yeah kid!
Dang! 7 RBIs would've been cool.
This grounds crew guy who shouts "Hey, whattaya doing to my field!" sure has a wide ass.
MFY: 000 32
FKR: 001 00
MIN: 003 200
TOR: 001 032
CWS: 000 003
CLE: 020 200
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