Orioles - 000 000 001 - 1 6 0Lester pitched seven shutout innings, allowing four hits and two walks while striking out nine.
Red Sox - 010 010 00x - 2 6 0
Kevin Youkilis got the Sox offense going with a leadoff double in the second. He scored two outs later on Mike Lowell's single to right. In the fifth, Nick Green doubled and scored on Dustin Pedroia's single.
Since Jonathan Papelbon had worked Friday and Saturday, Takashi Saito was called in for the ninth, after Ramon Ramirez retired the Orioles in order in the eighth. It was the second consecutive day of work for Saito, something Terry Francona said he was determined not to do.
Saito allowed singles to Nick Markakis and Aubrey Huff to begin the inning. Ty Wigginton's groundout to third scored Markakis, cutting the lead to 2-1. With the tying run at second, Saito got Luke Scott to line out to right and then struck out pinch-hitter Gregg Zaun.
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Koji Uehara (7.20, 72 ERA+) / Jon Lester (9.00, 58 ERA+)
Uehara, a 34-year-old right-hander, pitched for 10 years in Japan before signing with the Orioles as a free agent. In two starts, against the Rangers and Yankees, he has a combined 10-12-8-5-3 line. ... Which is actually better than Lester's 11-18-11-2-10 showing so far.
Uehara, on Fenway Park:
I know it's a very historic venue. The Green Monster itself is really famous in Japan, but obviously I've only seen it on television. ... Maybe Ortiz is bigger.
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Beckett's suspension is knocked down to 5 games -- a moot point, since it's still one start. The Red Sox want him to accept it, so he will:
"Everybody has to answer to somebody, and my boss told me this was the best thing for the ball club. If it was up to me, obviously, we would have gone through with this whole thing, because I don't think I deserve even one game. When your boss tells you that something is best for the whole group, that's what we do."
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Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
J.D. Drew, RF
Jason Bay, LF
Mike Lowell, 3B
George Kottaras, C
Nick Green, SS
Brian Roberts, 2B
Adam Jones, CF
Nick Markakis, RF
Aubrey Huff, 1B
Ty Wigginton, 3B
Luke Scott, DH
Ryan Freel, LF
Chad Moeller, C
Robert Andino, SS
Tito: "I don't think that the organization felt like it was ever going to get lessened more than five ... because they want you to miss a start."
The Red Sox agree with Beckett that the entire thing is bullshit.
Yanks facing Pavano.
Dear Carl: Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, pitch like an ace!!!
God bless him but Damon sucks in the outfield now. He was not running hard at all for that shallow fly and he had a better view then the infielder that was running out looking over his wrong shoulder with his back to the ball. There are many holes in this team's defense. What is Wang's ERA now. It was 20 something before the game. Wow just wow. I thought Lester had it bad.
Good way to start.
Not quite foul enough...
Thanks for the free out, Ty.
Youk!
yook = the man
YOUK!
i don't expect to watch much of this one, except in little bits here and there. maybe i'll watch the archived game late tonight.
3-0 Spiders
go spiders!
Lowell delivers.
Remy re morning baseball: "The only good news is it's over early."
Can I have your job?
I like this Kottaras kid's tactic of not standing up for the high fastball.
I like *this* Jon Lester better than the last couple we've seen. Can we keep him?
That wasn't that much worse than the trap Youk got doubled up on a few games ago.
Bleh.
Laura's boy.
Lyndon starting to look better at the plate.
Come on FY, drive him in.
Every homer that goes out of the new Yankee Stadium now, there will be speculation if it's because of how the park was built. Of how the dimensions in right field are to shallow. I love it!
The Yankees are questioning their 1.5 billion stadium after 4 games!
Wasted opportunity...
Not a good sign that Ortiz can't hit Uehara's flat, 88mph fastball.
Frozen.
"Not a good sign that Ortiz can't hit Uehara's flat, 88mph fastball."
Yeah, not exactly encouraging.
The Yankees are questioning their 1.5 billion stadium after 4 games!
Also the exhibition games they had there in the pre-season. It's hard to judge weather-related effects in just a couple months, but there've been crazy amounts of home runs hit there in so few innings.
That left to right pitch he throws is filthy dirty.
OTT
Lester on the Fuck Train.
Can we keep Green as the starting shortstop after Lugo comes back?
Fuck Yeah!
Pavano escapes the bases-loaded jam, still 3-1 Spiders.
And Papi Ks again...
Very big K.
Pitch count rising.
Another big K.
Nicely done.
Spiders with runners on 1st and 3rd, 1 out.
Lester is looking sharp, I'm liking this...
Spiders load the bases on walks.
Burnett out, still 3-1.
Lester back out for the 7th.
Wigginton single.
Ram-Ram warming, Spiders fail to score.
Quiet thread here. It is perhaps way too nice out to stay in and watch baseball. I just came inside myself.
Yeah, it's really beautiful out there.
A real bonus day, since they predicted rain for today.
Two away. Looks like Lester has been Lester today.
And we're through 7.
Indians are fucking it up.
4-2 MFY
Might be fan interference on the Posada ball...
Clean inning by Ramirez.
MFY's get the call to go their way.
Pavano: 6-4-1-1-4
4-3 MFY, not 4-2. Can't count today.
Jays shutout A's 1-0 -- are now 10-4.
Lyndon single leading off the inning.
FY GIDP...
Who will pitch the ninth? Papelbon again? Wish we had a cushion, but not worrying.
Papi 0-4...
Saito in.
Saito. OK.
Oh, Shit.
Not a great start. Anyone else warm in the bullpen?
Meh.
Shit shit. COME ON. Who is this Saito guy? I know nothing of him.
Saito, don't fuck this up.
HEY -- what's going on?
Close that door!
A K and a DP would be nice.
Or some infield popups.
Saito put up amazing Bot-like numbers in the NL, but also was hurt last year.
Why not a triple play, Kevin?
Who is this Saito guy? I know nothing of him.
All-star closer for the Dodgers with elbow issues on a one-year contract for us.
Bleh.
Shut the fucking door already.
Uh oh. Not feeling as unworried as I was a few minutes ago. Tying run in scoring position. And only one out.
There's one, at least.
"Why not a triple play, Kevin?"
Not exactly easy to do with runners at first and third.
And #2
One more to go.
Yeah, true, but one can dream, no?
Line drive caught by first baseman, runner who had been on first out, and then throw out the guy on 3B before he gets home.
One more strike to go!
Water!
Water.
Win.
Dirty water in Boston!
Quiet thread today. I thought I'd wait til everyone was done having heart attacks to say hi.
I was stuck in training at work today, being bored to death, until the 8th.
winning several games in a row > almost anything
6-6. If the MFY lose, we jump into 3rd.
Tied for 2nd, actually.
Spiders won't let that happen.
And they didn't. MFYs win.
I love the headline at redsox.com Vintage Lester brilliant against Orioles
"Vintage" like all the way back to 2008.
He was great though.....
This was also baffling on beautiful day in the Bronx:
Att: 43,068.
Total Seating Capacity
52,325
That's a joke...The expensive seats are just not selling...the upper deck and the bleachers looked filled, but to turn on the game and see behind home plate empty must be embarassing
You all were right--it was a great day to be outside--but being in the sun helped. We took a risk and sat in the good seats by third, and made it through the whole game there, even though the place was packed. Great win.
9casey: Yeah, it seems like the norm at YS is that bleachers and upper deck are filled, but empties reign in the main level and especially the "between the dugouts" first 9 rows, as we all pretty much expected.
Didn't get talked about in detail here, but I checked out the controversial HR by Posada (tipped off my an email my mom sent me: "too bad the Yanks cheated to win"), and I'll just say this: Remember how they stepped up security after the Maier play? Because there was that walkway right behind the wall--had people been in their seats, they wouldn't have been able to interfere. So with all this talk of controversial HRs and replays, why didn't they attempt to avoid possible interference when they built the new park??
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