April 18, 2009

G11: Red Sox 6, Orioles 4

Orioles - 000 040 000 - 4  8  1
Red Sox - 014 100 00x - 6 12 1
Kevin Youkilis sparked the Sox with his first four-hit game of the season: single, two doubles, home run. He drove in four runs, three on a dong to left in the third.

Beckett stumbled in the fifth. The inning began with a single, double, walk, bases-loaded walk, double and fielding error. But with a man on second and no outs -- tying run at the plate -- he settled down, getting out of trouble, then ending his night by setting down the side in order with a seven-pitch sixth inning.

And the bullpen was stellar once again. Okajima, Saito and Papelbon combined for a 3-2-0-0-4 line.

Also: Cleveland scored 14 runs in the second inning against the Yankees and won 22-4. Because the Rays lost to Chicago, the Red Sox hopped over them into fourth place. At 5-6, we are 3 GB the high-flying Blue Jays.

***

Adam Eaton (9.00, 58 ERA+) / Josh Beckett (3.46, 154 ERA+)

Eaton has made only one start this season: last Sunday against the Rays. He went 4-8-4-2-6, 100 and Baltimore lost 11-3.

Eaton had a 5.80 ERA (75 ERA+) for the Phillies in 107 innings last year.

254 comments:

1 – 200 of 254   Newer›   Newest»
Jere said...

'xeira dong, 2-0 them. This Carmona fellow is still in the league?

allan said...

Jays and A's 2-2 in the 11th in that big piece of crap down the street.

allan said...

Wang for the Chokers. Be patient, Spiders, the runs shall come shortly.

Jere said...

Chooooooo

hits a 3-run dong off single-A superstar Wang. 3-2 us.

allan said...

the runs shall come shortly*

See?

9casey said...

NY Mets IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
Santana 7.0 5 0 0 0 7 0 0.46
Putz ) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1.29
Rodriguez, F 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0.00



Thats a nice line, finally money well spent Omar

Jere said...

Talk about boos.

Chien Ming Dong pooping the pull-out sofa. 4 runs in, second and third.

Jere said...

6-2 CLeve. Great shot of all the empty 2500 dollar seats. To me the worst part about it is how they don't let anyone sit there when they're empty.

Jere said...

With the mega-boos for Wang, Kim comes out as a TOTAL Laura when it comes to booing your own!

Make it 9-2!!

Jere said...

Kim: 3-1, you don't have to swing.

Me: Or you could swing for a grand dong.

Asdrubal: Hits grand dong.

13-2 Cleveland.

Jere said...

McCarver calls it "Rocky Mountain High Stadium" before quickly correcting to Mile High.

Jere said...

14-2 on yet another dong! Still second inning.

This guy Claggett's making his debut. His ERA must be.....quite un-low.

Pepe Lepew said...

I see ex-Missoula Osprey Lyle Overbay had a game-winning home run.
BTW, I knew all along last night we were going to win. [ducks]

Pepe Lepew said...

I will make a *bold* prediction that Wang goes on the DL tomorrow.
An ERA of 34!

allan said...

Why is Wang pitching so bad? It's not October.

allan said...

A 14-run second inning?????

HAHAHAHAHAHHA

CLE: 0(14)1
MFY: 200

Amy said...

I predict a Schadenfreude post soon....

Enjoy the game tonight, folks. We will be out and about.

tim said...

Just saw this, hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahah

Jere said...

20-2. I require more.

allan said...

Holy fuck.

Is anyone left in the stands?

Unknown said...

How long until they start yelling for Swisher to come in to pitch again?

allan said...

How long until they start yelling for Swisher to replace Wang in the rotation?

allan said...

I Need MoreSpiders on pace for 36 runs.

charlie pioli said...

Swisher couldn't pitch as bad as Wang if he tried.

Manny with two bombs against the Rockies! He has a HR against ever club in the MLB.

Unknown said...

"How long until they start yelling for Swisher to replace Wang in the rotation?"

hahaha

It's funny because it's true.

RedSoxDiehard said...

I like how the visitor's part of the scoreboard looks in the new stadium.

A Conformer said...

Man, I come see why there are 23 comments so long before the game and see it's because the MFY have almost as many runs against them. Cool.

BTW, I predict a sweep of the O's to climb over .500.

Jere said...

The Swisher cheers started in the second today--they said he had his glove over his face while it happened.

A friend of mine just called--Yankee fan--said his parents went to this game. And they're already home! He said his dad was pissed about the $70 he spent in food on two people.

allan said...

Tabloids, don't fail me now!

allan said...

2nd
Chien-Ming Wang pitching:

Hafner (b) reached on an infield single.
Peralta (bsff) singled to left center, Hafner to second.
Choo (fbbb) homered to center, Hafner, Peralta and Choo scored.
Garko (f) fouled out to catcher.
Francisco (cbbf) doubled to deep left.
Cabrera (cfb) singled to center, Francisco scored.
Sizemore (tfc) doubled to right, Cabrera to third.
DeRosa (sffbb) doubled to deep right, Cabrera and Sizemore scored.
Martinez (bb - DeRosa to third on wild pitch - b) singled to right, DeRosa scored.
Claggett relieved Wang.
Hafner (ccbf) doubled to center, Martinez to third.
Peralta (c) doubled to center, Martinez and Hafner scored.
Choo (cbbb) walked.
Garko (b) singled to center, Peralta to third, Choo to second.
Francisco (bsfb) struck out swinging. SECOND OUT!!!Cabrera (fbbb) homered to right, Peralta, Choo, Garko and Cabrera scored.
Sizemore (ccbb) homered to right.
DeRosa (scb) struck out swinging.

14 Runs, 13 Hits, 0 LOB

Rick (f/k/a westcoastsox) said...

Heh, once I saw the scoreboard on ESPN, I knew I could count on this thread for some chuckles. Schadenfreude indeed. Will be listening to Sox on XM on way to friend's pool. It's HOT in the bay area today.

(Back to lurking)

allan said...

Same oatmeal as last night. Leftovers, if you will.

Benjamin said...

Leftovers, if you will.

I prefer to think of them as "scrapies".

andy said...

Youk Williams at cleanup is really fucking making my blood pressure drop.

laura k said...

Will lawyers stay out of here and let me listen to the game...

Will the game end by 10:00...

laura k said...

A, do you remember being at a game in - where? Chicago? - it was the midwest trip - looking at the scoreboard and the Yankees were losing 21-1 (IIRC)? Wasn't that also against the Spiders? That was the time Georgie started piping "inspirational" bad music during batting practice.

Unknown said...

21-4

hahaha

laura k said...

"With the mega-boos for Wang, Kim comes out as a TOTAL Laura when it comes to booing your own!"

Kim = smart and cool

A Conformer said...

What's the time now, EST? If it's 7 I might be able to gamethread a little bit.

laura k said...

7 it is

laura k said...

Ofer, where are you? Someplace that will make me envious, no doubt...

Benjamin said...

Will lawyers stay out of here and let me listen to the game...

Sorry, we'll try to keep it down.

allan said...

L: Billy Ocean!!!

When asked why he posted the messages -- "Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never Win" and "When the going gets tough, the tough get goin'" (and music by Billy Ocean?!?) -- Steinbrenner issued a statement: "I wanted to show the fans that we have the same courage and the same attitudes all New Yorkers have had in fighting back from that terrible episode on 9/11. New Yorkers never give up and the Yankees never give up."

***

Jere said...

How slow is Molina? He hit a ball before that the pitcher got stuck between his legs, reached around behind him to grab, threw to second, and they still doubled up Molina at first.

laura k said...

"Sorry, we'll try to keep it down."

Oh ha ha. Not gamethreaders who happen to be lawyers. Just the lawyers who employ me.

laura k said...

A, that can't be it. The incident I'm thinking of happened in 1999.

laura k said...

We were on our rustbelt baseball road trip, so it was between July 20 and early August. And it was more towards the beginning of the trip.

laura k said...

Jere, I thought more about your G___ L___ question, would I boo him on opening day in 2004. The answer is: it would be a great test of my strength and principles, and I hope I would pass the test. No one is perfect, so I don't know if I would do the right thing, but most of us know how we'd like ourselves to act.

allan said...

Beckett looking good.

A Conformer said...

Ofer, where are you? Someplace that will make me envious, no doubt...I'm in Utila, a small island off the carribean coast of Honduras. Island life is really strange, I must say. And I'm starting a diving course tomorrow.

laura k said...

We have a good friend from Honduras. Looks beautiful there.

Unknown said...

Nice, quick inning.

22-4 Spiders

Unknown said...

Spiders load 'em up with 1 out.

Jere said...

On the Yanks' person-ual scoreboard, they didn't have a 14 for that second inning, so they just used a white line next to a four.

A Conformer said...

Honduras is surprisingly very much US-influenced. I think I've seen more US fast food chains in one day in Honduras than in 10 months in the rest of Latin America. But I hear Costa Rica and Panama are quite the same in that regard.

laura k said...

Our friend is in Canada, so he can be married to his man (who is from Detroit).

Unknown said...

Adam Eaton...if he's anything like how he was with the Phillies this should be an easy win.

Unknown said...

Not good.

A Conformer said...

A K would be welcome

laura k said...

July 24, 1999How funny, I remembered the game backwards. It was Spiders 1 - Yankees 21.

I was confusing it with the one Allan posted from 2004.

Unknown said...

Needed that K.

laura k said...

yooooooooooooook

Jere said...

2 nice plays by Youk that inn.

Unknown said...

Jam escaped.

A Conformer said...

So, are there any news on the Lowrie surgery front?

laura k said...

Lowrie is on his way to Arizona for a 3rd opinion.

allan said...

Yook hit that to Felix, PA.

Jere said...

Wk
(double: youk)

Jere said...

And we've got Pedro, IA.

laura k said...

Castig: Here's JD Drew who has been ON FIRE for the last few days.

Of course he's been ON FIRE!!!, that's his name!

Unknown said...

Leadoff double = nice.

Edward Lee said...

Wow. Such a good AB by Youk. With two strikes, he takes two pitches that were inside by an inch, then gets a third one on the black and hammers it into LF.

Unknown said...

Manny-bashing here on MASN.

laura k said...

canuck walk

laura k said...

"Manny-bashing here on MASN."

They are major offenders.

laura k said...

Kevin, we once had a Kevin around here who turned out to be a notorious troll. You're not Magnolia, are you?

Unknown said...

Gah, that looked good off the bat.

Unknown said...

Tek!

allan said...

"bill of the cap high" Pie

OMGTEK!!!!!!!!!!

laura k said...

A Varidouble!

Edward Lee said...

Wow. I think Varitek has hit more balls hard in two weeks than he did all of last season.

Unknown said...

Nope, I've been lurking here for a while but just started posting the other day.

laura k said...

I am half-kidding. Quarter-kidding. We went through a lot with this troll, it made me paranoid.

Benjamin said...

At least we got the one.

Unknown said...

I still find it incredible that the Phillies were willing to eat both Eaton's and Jenkins's contracts.

15.25 million between the two.

laura k said...

This doesn't sound smart.

Jere said...

Shatner's gonna get beamed up

allan said...

GIFT for Roberts. Fuck you UMP

allan said...

Shatner's gonna get beamed up.

Actually almost literally LOL'd .

allan said...

cute hat

laura k said...

"cute hat"

some of us have radio, y'know...

Unknown said...

Bleh, walks.

Unknown said...

That works.

laura k said...

Didn't hurt us, tho.

So is the strike zone as insane as the radio guys are saying?

allan said...

I've missed seeing the most crazy calls.

Heidi was wearing a cute hat.

laura k said...

Oh, Heidi. Next time I won't ask.

laura k said...

fuck yeah!

Benjamin said...

More like that, FY.

Unknown said...

FY seems to be returning to form.

Benjamin said...

Shift that.

laura k said...

yay papi!

Unknown said...

That's a good sign.

Edward Lee said...

The strike zone is completely amorphous -- perhaps not so surprising given that Doug Eddings is behind the plate.

Aubrey Huff took a 3-0 fastball a foot off the plate that was called a strike, then immediately took an identical pitch for a BB.

laura k said...

radio guys say the ump is santa claus for pitchers. they're not saying amorphous so much as a HUGE strike zone

Benjamin said...

YOUK!

laura k said...

YOOOOOOOOOOK!!!!!!!!!!!

allan said...

SWEAT-SOAKED DONG

Unknown said...

SWEAT-POWERED!!!

Unknown said...

Yep, Eaton hasn't changed a bit since leaving the Phillies.

laura k said...

sweaty dongs are the best kind

/andy

Benjamin said...

What an incredibly shitty strike zone.

allan said...

"consistent zone"

yeah, consistently wrong and contrary to the rule book.

but we'll just have the batters adjust, rather than have the umps follow the rules.

Benjamin said...

All over the place.

Unknown said...

13th walk of the season for BBay.

laura k said...

i'm loving jason bay

Benjamin said...

Stolehn base.

Benjamin said...

DR!

Unknown said...

5-0

laura k said...

Dr Single!

Unknown said...

Can we get a 14-run inning?

allan said...

Red Sox Being Spiders?

laura k said...

stolehn :)

stoulen?

Unknown said...

Apparently not.

laura k said...

we'll have to settle for 4 this inning.

Benjamin said...

I love playing the Orioles at Fenway.

Benjamin said...

stoulen?

Borrowed?

Benjamin said...

This strike zone pisses me off when Beckett's getting it too.

Unknown said...

OTT

laura k said...

borrowed?

Benjamin said...

borrowed?

Do people steal stuff in Canada? It seems impolite.

laura k said...

that's my speedy boy!

Benjamin said...

Grounder to second. At least he was safe.

Unknown said...

Time for havoc on the bases.

laura k said...

I thought that's where you were going. It's funny how when you live here, the stereotypes stop making any sense. Mostly.

laura k said...

safe is safe

Benjamin said...

That pitch was practically over Pedroia's head.

laura k said...

those 14 runs were the most the yanekes have ever allowed in one inning. historic!

Unknown said...

Time for Papi to break out?

Benjamin said...

Pourloined?

laura k said...

yeah papi! is this is 1st multi-hit game?

Benjamin said...

Papi pleases me tonight.

Unknown said...

I'll take that.

Signs of hope.

Benjamin said...

No, he had 2 on April 12.

laura k said...

"Pourloined?"

lotta vowels going on there

laura k said...

"No, he had 2 on April 12."

thanks. good.

laura k said...

we are sweat-powered tonight!

a triple away from the cycle

Unknown said...

Nice. Youk still hitting around .500 on the season.

allan said...

This pitcher doesn't have the red Sox eaton out of his hand.

allan said...

those 14 runs were the most the yanekes have ever allowed in one inning.i have a baguette in my shorts.

allan said...

so much for kirk's pre-game plan to have eaton keep that pitch count per inning down. 93 thru 4.

Unknown said...

Weak.

laura k said...

baguette > scone ?

Unknown said...

Jam.

K please?

laura k said...

a jammy jam

Unknown said...

Meh.

Well, now we can maybe get the force at home.

allan said...

i guess that is not a strike anymore.

Edward Lee said...

I think the strike zone might be some sort of trapezoidal dealie where the lower corners are huge and the top corners are tiny, but I am not sure.

laura k said...

wtf josh?

Unknown said...

Fuck.

allan said...

that was kind of a force -- forcing a run home with a walk

Unknown said...

It's an amoeba, it keeps shifting as it goes on.

laura k said...

bah

Unknown said...

MEGA FUCK

laura k said...

something to cheer you up

Edward Lee said...

Hooray. Javier Lopez is warming up in the pen.

Unknown said...

It would be nice to have more than one outfielder with a decent arm.

Unknown said...

Why the fuck is Lopez up?

Unknown said...

Nice play there.

allan said...

Wang's next start? Friday against us!

Unknown said...

Strike amoeba keeps shape-shifting.

laura k said...

"Wang's next start? Friday against us!"

Don't expect him.

allan said...

normal long man masterson starting on monday

but why bring in possibly your worst pitcher when you need to stem the bleeding?

Unknown said...

This inning is dragging on too fucking long.

Unknown said...

That...works.

laura k said...

please note we still have the lead

Unknown said...

"but why bring in possibly your worst pitcher when you need to stem the bleeding?"

My thoughts exactly.

Benjamin said...

Runs, please.

Unknown said...

WTP

Finally.

allan said...

that seems "struck well", but it was an easy chance for werd

Benjamin said...

Lowell is so fucking slow.

laura k said...

doctor!

laura k said...

"Lowell is so fucking slow."

The sun is hot.

Unknown said...

The Doctor is in.

Unknown said...

Strike amoeba.

Benjamin said...

Tek being oddly productive these past couple days.

laura k said...

Even a stopped clock...

Benjamin said...

Blehsbury.

laura k said...

and the red sox strand a pair

Unknown said...

Wasted opportunity.

allan said...

he really should run faster.

laura k said...

he really should be perfect, or else we will boo him

Benjamin said...

Still loving Green's fielding.

Benjamin said...

NESN quickly goes to commercial.

Unknown said...

Nice.

laura k said...

radio ad extolling the many pleasures of being a soldier

Unknown said...

Ouch.

Unknown said...

Papi dong time?

Unknown said...

Fuck...no.

allan said...

Me, 4:07 PM, Yankees up 2-0:
"Be patient, Spiders, the runs shall come shortly."

Just sayin'.

Jere said...

Youkicycle, here we go

«Oldest ‹Older   1 – 200 of 254   Newer› Newest»