Yankees - 000 300 003 - 6 10 1***
Red Sox - 000 000 020 - 2 5 0
Mike Mussina (3.47, 124 ERA+) / Daisuke Matsuzaka (2.80, 163 ERA+)
First game of a day-night doubleheader.
The only thing I want today (besides no Red Sox injuries)? No 20th W for Mussina.
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There are still two undecided playoff spots: the AL Central and the NL Wild Card.
In the AL Central, the Twins are 0.5 GA of the White Sox.
Cleveland/White Sox at 2If the Twins win and the White Sox lose, Minnesota wins the division and heads to Tampa Bay. In any other scenario -- both teams win, both teams lose, White Sox win/Twins lose -- the teams would remain a half-game apart and the White Sox would have to make up a September 13 rainout against Detroit. That game would be in Chicago at 1 PM on Monday. If, after that game, the White Sox are tied for first place with the Twins, they would play Minnesota in another tiebreaker, also in Chicago, on Tuesday. The ALDS against the Rays starts on Thursday.
Royals/Twins at 2
Over in the NL, the Mets and Brewers are tied for the wild card.
Marlins/Mets at 1If Milwaukee and New York remain tied, a one-game playoff would be played in New York on Monday. Both NLDS begin on Wednesday.
Cubs/Brewers at 2
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JoS Contest Updates:
The Red Sox have 94 wins, with two games scheduled for today. The W-L contest tie-breaker is Manny Ramirez's OPS, based on his complete 2008 season. Right now, Manny has an 1.031 OPS (.927 with Boston, 1.232 with Los Angeles). When we weed out the sub-1.000 OPS entries, we are left with:
MBM OPSIt looks like it's between Zenslinger, Rob and The Pita. If Manny decides to hit four dongs or something, SoSock might enter the mix.
The Pita 96-66 1.037
Matt 96-66 1.014
Paul Hadzewycz 96-66 1.012
SoSock 95-67 1.062
Rob 95-67 1.038
MikeT9485 95-67 1.013
Zenslinger 94-68 1.015
Devine 94-68 1.001
In the Yankee Elimination Day contest, we are looking at the first tiebreaker. The Yankees have 88 wins going into today's doubleheader. Our remaining contestants:
NY Last Red
YED Wins Sox Win
Lewis S 0923 89 ALDS 4
Franco B 0923 88 G 162
Chuck C 0923 88 ALDS 4
Zenslinger 0923 88 ALCS 5
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Easley takes the count to 3-1
Full count now...
Easley walks! They're still alive!
Phil Cuzzi can eat a bowl of dicks.
Horrible strike zone judgment today.
Now it's up to Ryan Church.
Meanwhile, Phil Cuzzy (don't care how to spell his name) is a douche.
Giving Lowrie the Treatment. I'll call a ball over your head a strike.
Church flies out to center... Mets lose! Shea Stadium is closed down! And the Brewers will go to the playoffs! Wow. Since 1982.
Sorry, Amy. I was hoping the Mets lose again.
Holy crap. Back to back collapses.
Amazing, isn't it?
NO PLAYOFFS IN NEW YORK CITY IN 2008!
he blew plenty of calls for mussina too.
just a horseshit performance. big league players deserve better than that shit.
Mets lose, Red Sox score.
Boos raining down at Shea. Fans are sticking around... and letting them have it.
That's New York.
OK, back to focusing on the Sox.
Poor Brian (SIL). At least his football team won today.
dark-skinned marte coming in right here to blow mussina's shot at #20.
FLA - 000 002 020 - 4 8 0
NYM - 000 002 000 - 2 4 0
Marlins finish 84-77
Mets finish 89-73, 1 GB wild card.
alright, we need something big here, dreamboat.
freaking girardi busy playing match-ups here??? gimme a break!!!
I think Francona would do the same thing to help get a guy #20 at the end of his career.
So the NLDS matchups, both starting Wednesday...
Dodgers at Cubs
Brewers at Phillies
Fruitbat warming!
yeah well he's still a dick.
LBJ!
yeah well he's still a dick.
No doubt there, that's for sure.
LYNDON with an opposite field single! Kotsay scores!
Lyndon on first and here's FY!
And Girardi IS a dick! He wants fruitbat!
LYNDON - 18 GAMES!!!
It's FY TIME!!
both runs charged to terrible joba (/jere)
KC - 000 000 00 - 0 5 2
MIN - 011 000 2 2 - 6 7 0
Mauer triple. He's batting .330
FY would be batting .328 with a hit here.
Heavy mist falling at Fenway.
Cock. Pedroia whiffs.
That probably takes care of the batting championship, although it's not impossible.
Pedroia could play tonight, get a few hits, raise his average... If the White Sox win tomorrow, there'd be that one-game playoff where statistics count for the regular season, and if Mauer were to have an O-fer... That's about the only way.
And I think that'll also just about take care of the stolen base record as far as Ellsbury's concerned. I don't think he'll steal four bases tonight.
Can somebody explain to me why Papelbon's pitching on a wet mound?
Final...
KC - 000 000 000 - 0 5 2
MIN - 011 000 22X - 6 7 0
Kansas City finishes 75-87.
Minnesota stands at 88-74, but they have a decent chance at needing to play another game.
Fucking Yankees. Once again why is Bot out there?
i guess to get him some work before wednesday -- and maybe game 2 will not be completed?
Holy crap. Headline News is talking to a guy who filmed a giant jellyfish!
It's funny. A crab is hanging out on top of it!
Why leave Pap in??
i guess to get him some work before wednesday -- and maybe game 2 will not be completed?
I guess. It was a rhetorical question mostly... just makes me a little nervous, him out there on a wet mound.
Betcha game 2 will go 9.
remy finally bringing up ish's point. .. and don joins in too -- now.
Guess Ish already asked and Allan answered.
Dumb.
if it's wet and dangerous, why isn't timlin in there?
Bot doesn't even know why he's still out there.
Timlin should be the official wet mound pitcher.
Yes, send Timlin out!
Small crowd here today.
I hope this doesn't leave Bot with a bad feeling going into the post-season.
didn't cora wanna pitch in a game at some point?
I hope this doesn't leave Bot with a bad feeling going into the post-season.
it's leaving ME with a bad feeling.
I'd have Pesky go out there and hit fungoes toward the plate at this point.
As far as outings go for Bot - This one doesn't count.
so we should get game times tomorrow, i guess, because tampa is hosting min/cws.
I don't care if Bot under hands them up there.
You don't think they'll wait until the Central is decided? Not that it would matter - same time zone and all.
Castig talking about A-Rod hitting .300 and will probably not play tonight, to protect the .300 average.
if this score holds, will sterling do a big theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee yankees wiiiiiiiiiiiiin?
Finally - Chris Smith warms.
It counts if it affects his head. It certainly affects his stats.
Allan - I'll switch to the Yankee broadcast.
YUCK
oh, don't punish yourself on my account.
I hate that Sterling thing. I hate it.
oh, don't punish yourself on my account.
I'm interested, too.
Just like, I'll probably switch back and forth for game 2.
juan miranda is totally on the girls team.
I still have the final inning and postgame of the final game of the Yankees/Indians series last year, where Suzyn Waldman cries over Joe Torre's press conference and Sterling sounding so depressed.
Gold. Pure gold.
second pitch to miranada is #30 for the inning -- 30!
Francona is very stupid right now.
this has got to be his last batter.
Castig: "Mussina's probably getting that champagne bottle ready."
Heh. The only one.
So just what was the point of that?
Phew. I can breathe again.
Heh. Ortiz is pinch-hitting.
Bot is pissed.
getting 5 off the bat would be a treat.
How often has Pap thrown 30 pitches? And in a non-save situation in a game where nothing matters? In the rain??
Any chance they will "cancel" the second game?
Ransom... VERY Jeterian!
Any chance they will "cancel" the second game?
Virtually no chance, I think. Unless it just pours rain.
Which I don't think it will do.
what the fuck was that shit tito/pap?
total body language, "GET ME THE FUCK OUTTA HERE TITO. AND WHY THE FUCK AM I OUT HERE ANYWAY?"
i know people gotta get their work in, but jesus, on a rain soaked mound?
Gumball pinch-runs for Ortiz...
He threw 33 today. He threw 32 back on August 1 (2 IP). Those are the only times over 27 this year.
and the only time he's ever given up 3 runs, according to kay and singelton.
Ortiz kicked the heater in the dugout... Hurt his foot! Maybe not bad, though. But that was STUPID.
So is Pap pissed at Tito or himself?
I am pissed.
And by Ortiz... I meant Bot.
May 1, 2007: only time over 30 last year -- threw 35
Youk limping back to the dugout!
Right leg... groin... take your pick on that one. He lunged at first base.
I'm pissed now too.
Who was the pitcher who broke his hand punching a wall? I forget who it was, but I am 99% sure if was a Yankee.
I know you're supposed to play the game, etc. But you're going to the playoffs... You don't have to do that crazy-ass effort like normal. Don't hurt yourself!
Who was the pitcher who broke his hand punching a wall? I forget who it was, but I am 99% sure if was a Yankee.
Kevin Brown, right?
Kevin "Mordecai" Brown.
Yeah, that's it. Thanks, Ish.
I once kicked a chair in temper and limped for days.
Another final...
CIN - 4 5 1
STL - 11 13 0
Cincinnati finishes 74-88.
St. Louis finishes 86-76.
they're right - never allowed 3 runs, even in his three starts (2-2-0)
Sterling will probably do his theeeeeeeee to celebrate Mussina's 20
Wow, poor Pap. I do hope it doesn't get into his head.
Wow. He put a lot of life into that one.
"Ballgame over! Mussina wins his 20th! Yankees win! Theeeeeeeeeee"
etc.
OK, off for dinner. I will check in later.
not too psyched about paps being in there in the first place.
me neither. It's not like there was any mystery that it was WET.
SHEA closing very nice.
So the season is now in the books, except for a half inning or so in 2 games on the west coast - AND a Sox-Yankees Sunday night game that is not even being broadcast :0!, and now the afternoon game in Chicago tomorrow.
Just how damn excited do you think the last place Tigers' players are about making THAT trip on the day they should be packing their lockers and booking tee times?
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