Red Sox - 000 010 010 - 2 7 0Matsuzaka took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and the bullpen trio of Hideki Okajima, Justin Masterson and Jonathan Papelbon shut the door on the Rays.
Rays - 000 000 000 - 0 4 0
In the fifth inning against Shields, Jason Bay walked and raced to third on Mark Kotsay's pop fly double down the left field line. Jed Lowrie's fly out to right scored Bay with the night's first run. (The Red Sox had threatened in the first. Dustin Pedroia walked with one out and went to third on Kevin Youkilis's two-out ground-rule double to right, but J.D. Drew struck out.)
Boston made it 2-0 in the eighth when Pedroia singled with one out. He stole second before David Ortiz walked and then he scored on Youkilis's double off the tip of Carl Crawford's glove in shallow left.
Dice walked three Rays in the first, but wiggled out of trouble, retiring retired 16 out of the next 17 batters. He started the seventh by allowing two singles, but with runners at first and third he got a fly ball to short left, a strikeout and a fielder's choice.
Matsuzaka allowed two more singles to start the seventh and was pulled. Jeemer got Carlos Pena to hack on 3-0 and fly out to Drew in right-center. Then Masterson got Evan Longoria to hit into a 6-4-3 DP. Bot set down Tampa in order in the ninth: K, PF5, K.
NLCS: The Philles held off the Dodgers 8-5 to take a 2-0 lead in the series.
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BR Preview
Daisuke Matsuzaka (Red Sox 23-6 in his starts)
James Shields (Rays 22-11 in his starts)
Red Sox Rays
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF Akinroi Iwamura, 2B
Dustin Pedroia, 2B B.J. Upton, CF
David Ortiz, DH Carlos Pena, 1B
Kevin Youkilis, 3B Evan Longoria, 3B
J.D. Drew, RF Carl Crawford, LF
Jason Bay, LF Cliff Floyd, DH
Mark Kotsay, 1B Dioner Navarro, C
Jed Lowrie, SS Gabe Gross, RF
Jason Varitek, C Jason Bartlett, SS
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It Is On!
Tampa Bay and Boston met 18 times during the regular season. The Rays won 10 games, the Red Sox eight. Eleven of the 18 games were decided by three runs or fewer, six by one run (the Rays won all six of those), two in extra innings. Home records: Rays 8-1, Red Sox 7-2. ... And they brawled on June 5.
Rays vs. Red Sox in 2008
Winner/Score ParkDice vs Rays
0425 Rays 5-4 (11) Trop
0426 Rays 2-1 Trop
0427 Rays 3-0 Trop
0502 Red Sox 7-3 Fenway
0503 Red Sox 12-4 Fenway
0504 Red Sox 7-3 Fenway
0603 Red Sox 7-4 Fenway
0604 Red Sox 5-1 Fenway
0605 Red Sox 7-1 Fenway
0630 Rays 5-4 Trop
0701 Rays 3-1 Trop
0702 Rays 7-6 Trop
0908 Red Sox 3-0 Fenway
0909 Rays 5-4 Fenway
0910 Rays 4-2 (14) Fenway
0915 Red Sox 13-5 Trop
0916 Rays 2-1 Trop
0917 Rays 10-3 Trop
IP H R BB K BF PITShields vs Red Sox
0602 5 2 1 2 5 22 101 Rays 7-6
0909 5 8 3 4 5 28 102 Rays 5-4
0915 5 3 1 2 7 21 101 Red Sox 13-5
IP H R BB K BF PITSpeaking of numbers, does 9 really equal 8?
0427 9 2 0 1 7 29 99 Rays 3-0
0503 3.2 10 7 2 3 24 98 Red Sox 12-1
0605 1 3 4 0 2 8 27 Red Sox 7-1
0630 6.1 5 2 1 5 24 104 Rays 5-4
The Red Sox added Mike Timlin to the roster for the ALCS. Gil Valezquez -- who was added mid-DS in place of Mike Lowell -- was left off. ... The Rays added pitcher Edwin Jackson and subtracted Eric Hinske.
Joe Maddon, on the evenness of the two teams:
I think you can expect a lot of what you saw during the regular season; I do. There will be a lot of tight games, I think. Both sides have got good starting pitching and bullpens. Offensively, they probably have a little bit more hitting ability overall, but we have that ability to hit in the clutch. ...Fox:
[I]n a seven-game series like this, you truly have to play it one at a time ... it's really magnified at this particular juncture. ...
They're probably saying the same things — it's pretty even based on the familiarity with the two groups, the number of times that we have played against one another, the close games we have played against each another; the fact that we've finally broken through up there a little bit and they got their win down here. It's really a very balanced situation and it's going to come down to the pitching once again. ... It's going to be a grind-it-out kind of series.
Boston and Tampa are young, tough, hungry, and athletic. They're everything the New York Yankees are not.The Rays bullpen has been lights out against the Red Sox in Tampa. In the nine Trop games, the quintet of Grant Balfour, J.P. Howell, Dan Wheeler, Trever Miller, and Chad Bradford has made 18 appearances, pitching 18.2 innings. They have allowed only 11 hits and 7 walks (0.96 WHIP) and one earned run (0.48 ERA), while striking out 15.
Red Sox Blog Watch: Firebrand lists "the five most important moments" between the Rays and Red Sox in 2008 ... Over The Monster reports on the surprise press conference at which a teary-eyed John Henry vowed the Red Sox would "return to its roots" and "start losing again" ... Paul SF previews the series at YFSF and he agrees with me: Sox in 6 ... Survivng Grady presents a special edition of "Ellsbury 'n' Elf" ... Out in CF notes that the rays at the Florida Aquarium are being fed "little Red Sox-shaped snacks".
Globe predictions:
CHB: BOS 7 - LAD 5Michael Silverman, Herald: Red Sox in 7. ... David Pinto, Baseball Musings: "Flipping a coin might be just as good. The Red Sox are my favorite, but with just a 51% chance of winning the series." ... Yahoo ran 10,000 AccuScore simulations of the ALCS: The Red Sox won 53% of them.
Cafardo: BOS 7 - PHI 7
Benjamin*: BOS 7 - LAD 5
Massarotti: TBR 6 - LAD 6
Kilgore: TBR 6 - LAD 7
*: Benjamin was the only Glober to pick the Red Sox over the Angels.
The Hardball Times: Why the Rays will win / Why the Red Sox will win. ... Christina Kahrl has BP's preview: Rays in 6. ... The Globe's Eric Wilbur has collected a lot of media predictions here.
Not sufficiently fired up yet? Well .....
How about now?
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buck: he sure has
DRINK
I see that some comenter named redsock mentioned this before the game started:
must remember to relax and not live and die on each dice pitch -- must ... remember ... will see walks ... must ...
yeppers.
Dice, if you could not walk the bases loaded again, that'd really help us all out quite a bit. Thanks.
Thanks, D. Hope you didn't pull any of that pubic hair you've got on your chin during that swing. That would've hurt.
Uh, Castig and Dale... LOOK A BASEBALL GAME! We don't care about fucking football.
dice-KK
Now here's the Dice we all thought we were getting.
dear varitek:
pls be the leader/human-computer-behind-the-plate that everyone thinks you are and have dice pitch like this every inning.
42 through two.
Jesus, even his 1-2-3 innings take forever.
MUCH better. Now get to Shields.
Through 2...
Shields: 35/19
Matsuzaka: 43/23
chip not as excited at dice's 1-2-3 inning.
Er, 43.
Another fantastic Tek at-bat.
buck: coco had no intent of sliding towards the bag
wtf shithead????????
he slid RIGHT OVER THE BAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well.
That sucked.
chip - another 1-2-3 inning for BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"JD Drew struggles to catch"
WTF IS THIS SHIT
Struggles to catch?
oh, i hate gomes, for fucking sure.
"drew struggles to catch"
FU TBS
"Just missed a home run in his first at bat"
To shallow left, you fucknut.
Caray and Buck only a little less anti-Red Sox so far this series. Tiny bit.
TWATWAFFLES!
Take a seat, chump.
Daisuke really needs to shave his upper lip. It looks like a Hitler mustache in this fluorescent lighting.
Sit, asshole.
These guys do love Tek.
phil - and it was a high lazy fly ball to normal left also.
NO -- we like ADOLF-K!!!!!!!!
darling has not been impressive. have they told him to be an idiot?
Caray: Why say the batter's "ready to unload" and not "the pitcher's ready to blow it by him"? Oh right cuz the Rays are batting. I know it was a hitter's count but come on.
Blargh, and he was doing so well.
"darling has not been impressive."
yet he's the Vin Scully of this bunch
Not bad. Just one walk.
Ah, there we go. Take a seat, Longoria.
Runs, please.
Fangoria's a horror show at the plate so far
darling has not been impressive. have they told him to be an idiot?
It's the partners effect. You could be the best color commentator but when you work next to a couple of yahoo stupid twatbags like Caray and Buck, you tend to loose an IQ point or two.
Or 36.
Kind of like when Dave O'Brien works with Rick Sutcliffe.
4
Shields: 42/25
Matsuzaka: 59/32
scully? he's roger angell in his prime with these 2 bozos
I occasionally agree with Bill Simmons, but I'm fully in agreement with him on this (not that it's such a mindblowing point): if Ortiz keeps hitting like this, the Sox lose this series.
redsock, I was surprised you never posted any thoughts on his Manny column. I thought it was well written, if somewhat unfair to Theo.
OK. C'mon Sox! I want lots of 4th inning runs!
Goddamn it.
That is soooo not the way to do it.
Oh damn it. A DP. Not making Shields work hard at all.
i don't read simmons anymore.
...
fuckin dp.
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
BIG GAME JAMES!!!!!
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip
Shit, shit, shit
I knew I shouldn't have gone back on my vow never to enter NYC with a car again. I left Allentown at 6 to have enough time to get here for first pitch, and here I am, turning the TV on with 2 outs in the bottom of the third. Fucking GWB.
I did catch Jon Miller & Joe Morgan on the radio- Daisuke's 1st inning sounded painful.
(Good evening, all).
Take a seat, Crawford.
Am I nuts or has Dice looked as good since the 2nd as he has all season?
darling asks tito a Q about flo and says "ORtiz" a la buck!!!
Sit, assholes.
ofer, will you be in NYC tomorrow night?
Dice Kay > Floyd
Finally he's looking like he's on it.
Take a seat, Floyd.
Still bitter he didn't help out the 02 Sox as much as I thought he would.
ofer, will you be in NYC tomorrow night?
I'm probably here for at least a week. Why do you ask?
Now that was a great inning.
69/40 for Dice now.
48/30 for Shields
"I'm probably here for at least a week. Why do you ask?"
I'll be signing copies of my book at that Red Sox bar, Professor Thom's before the game tomorrow night. (Which also means I won't be in the thread tomorrow night as I'll be watching the game there.)
So, Ofer... Where have you been so far this summer? Can you list the cities you've stayed in?
I'll be signing copies of my book at that Red Sox bar, Professor Thom's before the game tomorrow night. (Which also means I won't be in the thread tomorrow night as I'll be watching the game there.)
Damn, that sounds awesome.
OK, I was going to be polite to Bob and not log in until after he left, but I just can't keep my mouth shut about this crew!
Shallow flies that "just missed being home runs", JD "struggling" to make a catch, YELLING out "Boston strands two!", and "Big Game James?".
What kind of non-proffesional shit is this, and why is it tolerated in something as prominent as a LCS?
Caray, again, why say the Rays are trying to dethrone the Red Sox, and not mention that the Red Sox are also trying to win? How is this guy allowed to do this?
"All these fans making their confident sounds".
In lieu of listening to the announcers, I'm playing the new Dylan Bootleg Series. If you like latter-day Dylan at all, you need to own it. "Red River Shore" is his 1990s "Blind Willie McTell", which is saying something.
Way to get it started, Bay!
What the fuck? How can they say this game is going for the home team? It's 0-0!
did sager just call yook "lucas"?
KOTSAY!
Kotsay's hacking inadvertently pays off!
Kotsay running from first to second reminded me of Forrest Gump.
I..WAS... RUNNINGGGG!!!
4 walks but all bagels for Dice.
suck on that, big game james
I'm still in awe that Kotsay did something productive.
All these outside shot of the Trop make me think of how good it would look imploding.
RUN!!!
there's a run, that's a run
First BLOOD!!!!!
Yay a run!
bay scores a ruun!
That run totally benefits the Rays! Let's benefit them some more!
Runs are good.
The way this game is going... That's a huge ass run.
WHERE ARE YOUR CONFIDENT SOUNDS NOW
Just hit your mandatory ground ball to the right side Tek.
Ask and you shall receive, Sosock.
By the way, how are things?
WHAT A PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
an easy grounder right at him
Son of a bitch. And that was a good rip for Tek.
DAMN!
Hit to the right, but still didn't get the run in
not your traditional RBI guy. y'know, like a baseball player?
Aw, fiddlesticks.
shit. I ws expecting 3 more RBI on that.
if he'd had a smaller glove we'd have another run
8-9-1 for dice. hold 'em!
So, Ofer... Where have you been so far this summer? Can you list the cities you've stayed in?
Hmmm... NY, Richmond, Philly and its northern suburbs, Allentown (PA), Ocean City (NJ), Charlotte, Myrtle Beach, Asheville (NC), Pigeon Forge (TN), DC... plus last year there were a bunch more. Oh, and I'm planning on coming to Boston on the 23rd or so- hopefully there will still be baseball played at that time...
That was a pretty smooth catch by Bartlett, I must admit.
Let's go LBJ! Damn, that actually WAS a pretty good play :(
Ish - things are pretty much the same. The on-line car project has progressed nicely, but may have hit a wall. That's OK tho, with what I have we're awful close to being there already and Cat is now scouting out possible buys at Craig's list and a couple of local sites.
1pitch1out
Ofer, did you fly or drive to the various cities?
I'll be signing copies of my book at that Red Sox bar, Professor Thom's before the game tomorrow night. (Which also means I won't be in the thread tomorrow night as I'll be watching the game there.)
Jere, sounds good. You'll be staying for the game, I suppose?
fuck the wall, sosock -- we're getting that $$$$$!
This is amazing. 8 strikeouts in 4 2/3!
another one caught looking. effin yeah.
Take a seat, chump.
Ofer, did you fly or drive to the various cities?
No flights for me this summer, yet. I passed the time in today's drive estimating how many miles I've done- I think I'm around 5500 since July 1st.
Season high in strikeouts: 9, against Oakland... in Oakland right after Japan.
"Jere, sounds good. You'll be staying for the game, I suppose?"
Yes. I don't care if we sell 0 books, I'm just always up for watching the Sox at Thom's, in the middle of NYC, with a million other Sox fans. So fun.
5,500 sounds about right... I once drove 1,000 miles in one day.
Cash looks so much like Foulke, I was confused for a second there...
Did he struggle to catch that?
Woohoo!
Chip, I could do without the jinxing crap, please. This game is tense enough as it is.
drew struggles to run to rcf!!
i like how tbs says you do not fluke your way to 18 wins (dice) but we should toss out beckett's entire 2008 season and look at him as a 20-game winner ............ okay!
Joe C also just said what shouldn't be said.
5,500 sounds about right... I once drove 1,000 miles in one day.
Sounds brutal. My record is about 450, but it took 10.5 hours. Some steel beams on a bridge on I-66 collapsed or something. 1000 miles, that would be around 14 hours?
Joe C also just said what shouldn't be said.
I don't think it matters. I think it would take a major miracle to throw the Big Bagel.
Nothing better to wake up to than a Bay walk and a Kotsay double leading to the only run in the game.
Time for Pedroia to start a rally here.
Pedroia and Ortiz are going to start hitting... NOW
amazing how the teams in this 1-0 game can just keep scoring runs.
But isn't it always at least a minor miracle?
Sounds brutal. My record is about 450, but it took 10.5 hours. Some steel beams on a bridge on I-66 collapsed or something. 1000 miles, that would be around 14 hours?
14 or 15 hours. There were quite a few stops in between. Probably added up to four or five hours though.
Left the motel in Lumberton, NC (20 miles from the SC border on I-95) at 9 AM... Got home to York, Maine (bout 10 miles from Portsmouth, NH) at 5 AM the next morning.
When we were in the soap business doing the shows we averaged about 40K a year. I'm still driving that van and it's at about 395K now. So I'm crossing my fingers a lot these days about my own vehicle.
Dear Laser Show Dustin
We miss you.
Come back soon
RSN
That makes a little car that has 120k on it pretty optimistic, eh? I've never driven a car that's had more than 120k on it. My car last year didn't pass inspection and I just never really needed to get it fixed. Needs a couple of tires and the exhaust pipe might need to be repaired. Don't have the money right now to get the car back on the road. It's just sitting there.
A 2000 chevy cavalier... That was the car I drove 1,000 miles in one day with.
Jesus. Ortiz has looked AWFUL tonight.
Yeah. Flo's gotta get back into the Flo... he's a huge key to this series.
Shit. That went way too damn fast.
I really feel for Ortiz. FY's still getting some decent wood, but Papi's just...uncomfortable.
FUCKING A RED SOX -LET'S GO!!!
BIG GAME JAMES IS AHEAD 0-1!!!!
WE MUST START HITTING!!!!!!!!!!
Car things.
When my parents lived in Lansing, MI, I'd drive each way stopping once for gas around buffalo. Google maps puts it around 650 miles.
My car went over 170k last night. desperately needs breaks. Had to replace the alternator 2 weeks ago. but overall it's been pretty good to me in the 4 years I've had it.
Jere, tell the shop in south station to start carrying your book. I was stuck there for an hour and had to settle for something else.
He's definitely settled down after the first couple innings.
looked more like HJ Upton on that one
FUCK YEAH!!!
Pedroia!
ahh.. FUCK YEAH!!!
What a fucking play by FY!!!
Phil--that's funny, I actually thought of that last time I took a train from South Station. I think that store was named after a female--like Anna's Books or something?
So Bob just mentioned that after the Red Sox pillage Tampa Bay today and tomorrow, our Carolina Panthers will be there to extend their agony on Sunday.
Ah, nothing like visiting a town and leaving it in shreds.
F-Y !!!!!!!
I certainly like Dice-BB better than Dice-H.
me likey fy
cowbells are going quieter...
THANK YOU EVA!!!
Wow, Drew had to really struggle for that one, too!
thanks for the free out, lickwad
89/52 through six.
So isn't it odd that they keep talking about the lack of offense on the part of TB? I thought there was some tradition against that. Or is that only when you are rooting for the other team?
We need some runs, now would be great as I head for work!
Time for Drew to get us started!!!
Nice catch, Drew!
So, am I allowed to talk about *it* yet? Or would that be a faux pas?
i am enjoying this baseball game.
It's Barbara's Bookstore.
I had to settle for Everything Is Illuminated.
Phil--in-commercial question: What was the name of that vegetarian restaurant in Providence you mentioned?
Get out of this thread, pepe.
Q: Will I ever get sick of Papi in 2004?
A: Never, ever, ever.
Castig just said 10 pitches for Dice in the last three innings.
!!!!!
chip said the magic word going to commercial - i think sox radio is saying it - we ain't chb - why not?
Garden Grille. It's over the border into Pawtucket.
Julian's has a bunch of vegetarian stuff too but isn't only vegetarian.
Drew is good.
A leadoff hit! DON'T WASTE IT.
And by 10 in the last three, I mean 10 for each inning.
well 10 in each of the last 3 innings = 30.
DREW - off BG James!!!!!!!!
We don't believe jinxes or curses, but we respect tradition.
Yes!
Capitalize, please.
Bay, also good.
We need insurance!
Yeah! 2 fucking on, none fucking out.
Thanks Phil--and we have discovered and love Julian's.
BIG GAME crumbling!!!!!!!!
chip said the magic word going to commercial - i think sox radio is saying it - we ain't chb - why not?
They say it but they don't. National guys always do. Visiting broadcasters always do. Castig, for instance, will say everything else except for the two words. Although he'll talk about other pitchers having thrown no-hitters, using the term in that context. They say he hasn't allowed a hit... Why should that be any different?
That was a cool catch.
Kotsay playing pepper out there!
wow, great catch asshole!
Tradition, Ish. What else could it be?
GAPPER, pls
Tradition, Ish. What else could it be?
Essackly.
Kotsay should check swing all the time- that was very close to a hit.
you can do this Jed
Kebab & Curry on Thayer Street has tofu on the menu, so you can get those Indian dishes that usually have pressed cheese vegan if you want.
Truck Stop going to warm for the Rays.
Guess pepe really did get out of this thread.
Good at bat. Make this guy sweat.
Mmmmm pressed cheese. I'll have some pressed ham with that as well.
This ump's strike zone is very wonky.
Not that I'm complaining at the moment.
Aww shit.
Good at bat, but bad ending.
Man, Maclelland's slowness is way more fun when it's for your team.
Anybody have any faith in Tek here? Amy?
Large security force hanging out along the base lines
Up to Tek. Uh oh.
Fuck you, Tek. I mean it. Fuck you.
Meeting on the mound to discuss how to handle this dangerous hitter!
This town is remarkably empty of vegetarian restaurants otherwise, though.
Squander. :(
Nah, Ofer, have to admit I had no confidence....justifiably so.
fuck. the good news: Eva looks like an asshole enthusiastically waving everyone off with wildly swinging arms but gets called off.
fuck. the good news: Eva looks like an asshole enthusiastically waving everyone off with wildly swinging arms but gets called off.
6.0 from the Swedish judge...
I like to thing of GBA as a mid-inning Jewish moment.
A mid-inning Jewish moment? How's that, Phil?
Ah well. Can't say I was surprised.
Aww shit.
Blah. We are still ahead.
No mo no no.
DP PLEEEZ.
chip says the ball shoulkd go in the tampa bay trophy case -- we played an alcs game and WE GOT A HIT - HERE's THE BALL
Not a strike, mind, but a pitch called a strike.
Asshole
Sox hit ball in air: "that's playable". Rays hit ball in air: "that may drop."
Christ. That went to shit fast.
Dale Arnold needs to practice his play-by-play. That last play there was more dead air than there was explanation of what was going on.
Yeah, we'll let the play happen and then tell you what went down.
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