Twins - 000 010 0 - 1 5 04:10 PM: It's a final!
Red Sox - 222 000 4 - 10 14 2
2:45 PM: Rain Delay with Red Sox batting in bottom of the 7th.
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1st: Ortiz two-out single, Youkilis two-run homer to right.
2nd: Kottaras one-out walk, Green two-run homer to left.
3rd: Drew one-out double, Lowell two-run homer to left.
6th: Reliever Morillo allowed a double high off the Wall to Ortiz, then walked Youkilis, Drew and Bay. Dickey came in and Lowell singled, Kottaras hit a sac fly and Nick Green doubled. Then out came the tarp.
Wakefield: 7-5-1-1-4, 101.
Drew has walked, singled, and doubled twice.
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Scott Baker (13.50, 34 ERA+) / Tim Wakefield (3.00, 172 ERA+)
Game 1 of a Day-Night Doubleheader!
Last Wednesday, in his only start so far this season (he missed his first start with right shoulder stiffness), Baker lasted a mere four innings against Toronto, giving up four dongs and six runs. Last July 7, Baker pitched seven shutout innings against the Red Sox, but the Twins lost that game 1-0.
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Julio Lugo will rehab with Pawtucket at least until Sunday. Ian Browne speculates that Lugo could return to the lineup for Monday's game in Cleveland.
Daisuke Matsuzaka threw from 60 feet yesterday. Terry Francona said the issue "is not the strength on an exam, but the durability of the strength, which is kind of what can happen when you ramp up too soon". Dice will do the same routine today, then take Thursday off.
(The Washington Natinals?)
Dave Roberts had been scheduled to throw out the first pitch last night. He may be doing some studio work for NESN later this season.
Of all the places I went, this is the place where I spent the least amount of time, but, obviously, the magnitude of that stolen base and what was accomplished, the byproduct of that stolen base, obviously, has defined my career. That's a huge moment and a great honor. I get asked every day, "Do I get tired of hearing about the steal and reversing the curse?" Absolutely not.
365 comments:
1 – 200 of 365 Newer› Newest»I swear every time I see that picture of Roberts, what seems like 8 feet from 2nd, I get tears in my eyes.
It was interesting to hear his comments. Also doubly interesting to see he might be doing some work for NESN. Good to hear!
I still can't believe he was safe. Incredible.
Especially after almost getting picked off on the third throw over. I'm sure we can all see that ground-level camera angle from behind first and that "oooooooooooooooh" face he made.
A thing of beauty.
A day game! I am "working at home" today since I have a night class and will miss tonight's game. But at least I can watch some of this one.
We will be at Fenway on Saturday---I am definitely psyched.
OTT---Wake off to another good start, I hope.
I am working at home without the quotes. But taking time off for the game. I'm out every Weds night and I can't miss two games in one day!
I was working up til 12:30, but am now just watching the game.
Francona is 50 today.
Papi's new swing seems to be working!
YOUK!! TWO RUN DONG!
Dong!!!! Rare Pesky dong for Youuuuk
Sweaty Dong!!!
And Papi on the return, I think. Nice.
Oh Amy, going to the game on Saturday, nice. With whom?
drewble
ON FIRE! Keep those hits coming!
two-out fun
Drewble - very nice! I was going to write JDouble, but yours is much better.
thanks.
I'm going to the next four games after this one so I won't see you all again until Monday....
4 games, cool.
Harvey, my brother (who is flying to Boston from DC), and my brother's good friend Adine who is a die hard Yankee fan and travels to Boston and Baltimore and many other places to see the Yankees play, as well as going to as many games at Yankee Stadium as she can during the year (she has season's tickets). She and I sit with Harvey and my brother in between so we don't strangle each other! (Harvey is glad to have a NYY fan to sit with; Ira could care less and says he only cares which players are cutest.)
That sounds interesting!
"Ira could care less and says he only cares which players are cutest."
I have a bunch of male friends who feel that way - some of whom occasionally go to games, and that's all they talk about!
Guys who like guys, guys named Harvey...it's like I'm still watching Milk! By the way, holy crap that movie was sad, I knew the whole story already.
Ira is sort of a Mets fan, but mostly doesn't care for baseball. He does enjoy watching tennis though. Otherwise, sports are not his thing.
Just to be clear, Harvey does not particularly care how cute the players are!
I thought that movie was very well done and well acted. And yes, very sad.
How many pitches so far for Wakefield?
wake: 10 + 15
Thanks, Allan. It seemed like there were fewer pitches than ten in the first, but I was not counting.
NESN comes back too late and DO is reading the ads on the screen as the game is on. Amateur hour at NESN.
Milk was sad, but I also found it inspiring and uplifting. I like stories of personal courage and tenacity.
Sean Penn was amazing as always. He is one of my fave actors - I've also really liked the movies he's directed.
"Milk was sad, but I also found it inspiring and uplifting."
Agreed!
I was surprised to see in the last thread someone say he was one of the few people to see the Milk documentary. It was pretty popular for an indie doc.
walque
Sean Penn has been in some of the most memorable movies. You know he has made it on his talent because he certainly does not have the typical Hollywood pretty book looks.
And yes, it was inspiring. I could not help wondering where the gay rights movement would be if he had not been killed and if so many others had not been killed by AIDS shortly after Milk's assassination. But with CT, VT and Iowa joining MA on same sex marriage, things are definitely moving forward---finally.
A GREEN over the GREEN Monster!
GREEN DONG!!!!
That was me--I think mainstream-wise it wasn't very popular, but I have no idea. For me, if I hadn't happen to come across it on A&E, I wouldn't have heard of it.
Green dong, NESN camera clueless
The AIDS slaughter certainly pushed the movement forward, but it would have happened anyway. People can only be denied rights for so long before they demand more.
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Keep those hits coming! (That's my boy!)
I hear Kazoo guy again--makes sense, his 10-game plan game was last night, made up today, and mine is tonight.
NESN clueless -- yeah because no one EVER hits a ball over that wall.
Jere, that was you? I thought it was James.
I don't know what's popular in the mainstream. I just know it was a popular in the indie doc world.
That should have said pretty BOY looks in my comment about Sean Penn. Hard to type and watch all this action.
LBJ making it around those bases. Mr. Speedy!
wheels
Hey, if they play tonight, look for me on the Monster--I have a SRO but I'll definitely try to sit in the front row for as long as I can.
Wear something distinctive.
Like a balloon animal on your head.
Don said first hit for Minn, was Green's play changed to an E?
i thought it was always an E
First Wakefield start at Fenway, right?
I love watching the knuckler with this CF camera.
I thought after that inning it showed them as having a hit. But, you're right, on that last play I saw the Monster scoreboard and it showed 1 hit for them now.
He could've gotten out of the way of that.
very nice play by Youk, two stranded, nice.
i was booing him to. i guess turning his back constitutes an effort. not that umps would say no hbp anyway,
Had to take a break from threading to eat lunch.
I see the Canadians are taking over today, with Morneaux around too.
Two doubles for Drew!
another drewble! the man is...
I just had lunch, too. Pastrami with fresh mozzarella and baby spinach on whole wheat potato bread. Good stuff. Some jalapeno chili blue potato chips as well.
I used to think all that food was weird! Especially any dark chips.
AsDrewble Cabrera
trap!
Nice catch...too bad.
What a catch! Too bad it was made by a gray uniform. Wow.
Ish, you are making me hungry!
DOCTOR!! SIX RUNS!
DOCTOR DONG!
Did you make that sandwich, Ish, or buy it somewhere? It sounds good!
HOUSE CALL!
Doctor fulfilling many fantasies by showing his dong in the office!
I just had peanut butter and an apple. Great crisp juicy apple and peanuts-only crunchy pb.
Then I let Tala lick the spoon from the pb. When she sees the peanut butter jar, she follows me and waits.
Did you make that sandwich, Ish, or buy it somewhere? It sounds good!Made it. :>)
Ish LOL
(and the sandwich did sound delish)
Baker halfway to a dozen.
I thought Tim hacked Ish's account.
I love crunchy peanut butter. I bought some the other day - It's nice to read the ingredients list and see: Roasted peanuts, Salt.
Once again, I would like to extend my personal and sincere I TOLD YOU SOs to all the early-season panickers.
I don't mean any of you.
Peanut butter is ok for dogs? Live and learn.
I just learned that cats are lactose intolerant. Our cats go crazy when we have ice cream, so I looked up whether it was safe to give them some. Apparently not a good idea.
Ish, same here. Or on the rare occasions we have chips in the house, buying a brand that is only: potatoes, canola oil, salt.
We go thru quite a bit of this pb in our house.
I just learned that cats are lactose intolerant. Our cats go crazy when we have ice cream, so I looked up whether it was safe to give them some. Apparently not a good idea. • My mother tells me every time she has yogurt, cottage cheese, or whipped cream the cats follow her everywhere.
L, I could have also gone with "Scott Baker went to the Doctor's and comes out scarred for life."
how could cats be lactose intolerant? They drink their mothers' milk--do you mean just some cats?
Maybe they're cowtose intolerant?
Amy, check out Frosty Paws. Frozen treats for dogs and cats. Google them, Cassie will never stop thanking you.
PB is fine for dogs.
How can cats be lactose intolerant? Does their mother's milk not have lactose?
Jere, cat milk is not the same as cow's milk. The lactose is in cow's milk. Not much ice cream made from cat milk! :)
Apparently they get diarrhea. And too much can get them very sick. I doubt a lick off a spoon would be terrible for them though.
Also, the problem is with adult cats, not kittens. So it must be something that comes as they mature.
I know lots of human animals that grow into lactose intolerance as well.
BTW, this is from the internet, not an actual veterinarian.
Dogs also cannot have much cow-derived dairy. They can't digest it well. But I don't know if it's b/c of lactose.
Also, kittens and puppies may be different than cats and dogs. It could be they can digest their mother's milk when they're little, then their systems change and they can't digest milk anymore. Mammals can be like that.
I'm having quite a food revolution myself this past year, and especially recently after reading a book called, "Eat This, Not That!" (link) which was very helpful. So now I'm trying some new foods here and there, reading ingredients and nutrition labels some more. I'd like to eat better so I can continue losing weight.
Kottaras catches them all except a curve, ironically.
We all keep thinking alike. :)
Ish, if you haven't already, you might want to read Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food.
Did you find it out at WebVMD? That's a joke. Unless it really does exist.
"Scott Baker went to the Doctor's and comes out scarred for life."
Funny, but not as LOL-funny as what you posted.
Just checking in quick, very nice game we have going here. Three two-run homers in the first three innings? Where was THIS team for the first week of the season?
DP! Phew...
Frosty Paws look intriguing. We have to be very careful with Cassie's stomach though. She tends to get an upset stomach from things other dogs love---like rawhide, greenies, etc. We recently spent $620 on her after a bout of pancreatitis from something she ate outside.
who gets the dong this inning? i call fy.
L, I haven't read it yet but I'll look into it. Thanks for the tip!
It's funny to look at the foods I've eaten so many times growing up, or the different foods my mother might eat and not so much lament about how bad they are or the periodic table in the ingredients list but mostly that there are different brands or slightly different foods that are genuine and honest with a short ingredients list.
Frosty Paws, frozen treats for dogs
MOrris
I say Flo. FY will reach and Papi will wrap one around Pesky's pole for the two run dong.
my first thought was gladden
I say Ellsbury hits a dong over the bullpens
gladden came to mind for me too--87, but then they had 91 so...
No WebVMD but lots of sites like it!
LBJ has one dirty jersey from all those SBs.
Tala is the same way, we have to be very careful. And Buster had IBD, almost died from it before it was properly diagnosed, so we are very familiar with the special diets and the careful digestive systems.
Don, about woman with foam puck hat: Good-looking lid.
L: I disagree.
Note to Remy--not unprecedented. Cleveland also only came to Fenway for two games in a season. Maybe 2 years ago.
Kurt Suzuki hits a three-run dong off Sabathia... 3-0 OAK
Fuckyeahingle
So it will have to be a Papi two run dong.
I wonder if a team had one trip to a park in a season and played the only games in the series in one day.
Plus it's the AL Central, we never see them anymore. Stupid interleague, grumble grumble
Even Papi's fouls are going the other way.
Damn. No Papi two-run dong.
Dream = dead. For 2s, and the normal dream.
i always liked that suzuki chap.
L, I took a crack at realigning the divisions into an east and western conference type layout that, in my little world would go with all of MLB using the DH. Right now the AL West had four teams and the NL Central has three teams. My divisions have three in the east, three in the west, with five teams in each division.
And no oddly placed teams like Texas being AL West or the Nashville Predators and Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL being in the Western conference.
It's interesting but something like that would never happen.
Word is the Suzuki dong was reviewed with replay. Call stands.
I just re-read my divisions blurb and meant NL Central has six team. My bad.
I was wrong--it was us going TO Cleve only twice in a season. 2008. So this could be the first time a team only played two scheduled games at Fenway in a season.
Jon Rish, to Castig: "Joe, have you ever said 'giddy-up' to anyone before?"
Castig: "Not since I watched The Lone Ranger."
I'll always think of Kramer on Seinfeld.
Radar showing Boston about to get rocked with rain.
Matsui and Milk Dud hit dongs. 3-2 OAK.
Shemp and Lactose Intolerant Melk-Cat back to back dongs.
yes Don, he got a piece of it
The second base umpire has not been making visual calls this game. Odd. No signal for LBJ's steal either.
August 26, 1977
Remy dong off Morris
They might be able to play through the rain for a little bit when it arrives.
Getting darker at Fenway it looks like.
That wasn't pretty.
Jere, that explains why all those people started to put on their sweatshirts. Must be getting a bit chilly as the sun disappears.
No rain here today though, so it must be coming in from the east?
Shit. Wake not in control here.
Remy's 7 dongs
I'm just worried about game 2--am I gonna have to drive up there for nothing...
Good thing that went foul.
It's coming from the south-it's weird, Providence is in a giant pocket of no rain so I haven't seen anything either, but everybody's about to get it. And the forecast shows rain for tonight too.
Plymouth "light drizzle" and Chatham "light rain"
Temps look strange today. 48° Salisbury, MD... 53° New York, 58° Boston, 64° Portsmouth NH, and about 80 miles north of Boston in Sanford, Maine, it's 68°.
Bridgeport also having light rain.
It shouldn't be a huge issue.
This one's official!
Lovely pop ups.
Not bad, minimum of damage.
Dammit, I'm late for the 12:30 departure of the fuck train.
So if tonight is rained out, will the Twins return to Boston, or do we play the extra game in MN?
play on thursday, i assume
Radar I'm looking at shows light drizzle over Providence, but a pocket where it's not raining is between Newport and New Bedford and is rotating up to Boston.
Ish, the Atlanta Braves used to be in the West. Even stranger than Texas.
I just watched the A's dong. Was borderline, but still, hilarious that Yankee fans reached out and caught it, maybe Damon would've had a chance. The empty seats booed the hell out of the guy.
Tim, but not too late to tell us what you had for lunch. Ish and I have already reported.
I've seen this Morneau interview like 10 times.
Both teams have a day off tomorrow so the Twins would stick around and they'd play here tomorrow.
Drewingle!
Drew really is on fire!
Amy--very rare to switch parks for a game--they do share a common off-day tomorrow. If they didn't, they'd try to find another common one later in the year for the Twins to come back.
weei will rip drew for getting only a single.
Amy--very rare to switch parks for a game--they do share a common off-day tomorrow. If they didn't, they'd try to find another common one later in the year for the Twins to come back.I remember - think it was 2007 - The four-game series in Cleveland that was snowed out against Minnesota. I think they had to play in Milwaukee and then finish a game or two in Seattle with Cleveland being the home team.
Raining at Fenway.
hahaha, i was just catching up on the thread and saw that. ish's sounded amazing. as did yours, L, but i'm not that into PB.
nothing much doing for food here, i slept for 11 hours and am still groggy for some reason. got up at 11, had some coffee then a banana/strawberry/pineapple/OJ smoothie in the magic bullet. i am considering getting some tofu going though.
millared it
My divisions, L, would be: TOR/BOS/NYY/NYM/PHI... BAL/WSH/ATL/TB/FLA... CLE/PIT/DET/CIN/STL for the East.
CHC/CWS/MIN/MIL/KC... HOU/TEX/COL/ARI/SD... LAA/LAD/SF/OAK/SEA for the west.
Oh, I kept thinking tomorrow was Friday so that tomorrow was not an option to make up the game. :( Only Wednesday today.
Tim is the magic bullet any good?
and MAN am I looking forward to this weekend!
exam tonight, exam friday morning at 9 then I'm done this term of school --- then temps in the 70s and sun!
4-2 A's
For a while this week Boston had four straight 80°+ days, Saturday through Tuesday which is extremely rare here for April. Now it looks like 80+ Sat/Sun, then 70s Mon/Tue. STILL! I can't wait. That includes 70s on Friday as well.
Tim, good luck and enjoy. How many more years or semesters do you have left?
Ish, I like your divisions. Not going to happen, of course, but it would make sense geographicially, though perhaps not in other terms like financial and talent balance.
DOCTOR DOUBLES!
ddouble!
Today was my first good experience with the magic bullet - its good if you want to puree the hell out of stuff (i.e. my smoothie, guacamole etc) but i tried to use it to chop onions/garlic before and it was a bad experience. Also, it comes with these little O-rings that i put in the wrong area so the spinny thing wasn't making good contact with the blades, found that out today and corrected the problem. I only have the "express" version though - has less cups/blades etc. than the full version.
Yeah, I couldn't believe my eyes--having tix to every game of a weekend Yankee series in April, two night games, and seeing minimum 70 degrees for those exact three days!
it is just PAINFUL to watch lowell try to run
In this fitness equipment ad, everyone's wearing jeans on the machines!
School in the summer to get my degree, then one final semester in the fall to do the accounting add-on classes, required for the C.A.
NESN: "Lowell still not running well" - was he ever??? But yeah, that did hurt to watch.
What courses are you taking, Tim? Though I generally wish I were taking courses instead of teaching them, at this time of year I am glad not to be taking exams. Grading them is bad enough.
it is just PAINFUL to watch lowell try to runDITTO!
When Kottaras makes an out, is it an ouout? Or maybe an oot.
Craig Breslow, born in the same county as me. Did not go to the same college (Yale) as me.
Jere, where are you sitting on Saturday? I don't know where our tickets are since my brother's friend got them from one of her patients (she's a pediatrician). Apparently the patient has season's tix to Fenway even though he lives in NYC.
"School in the summer to get my degree, then one final semester in the fall to do the accounting add-on classes, required for the C.A."
You're in the home stretch.
Amy, I'm getting my business degree, but now most of the courses are accounting stuff since I'm going for my C.A. after grad (US equivalent is the CPA)
I hear you on the grading thing - I can't fathom how people can do that!
OK, games official, rain it out now so I can go back to study.
Amy, I'll be in the bleachers.
The teachers I know are always complaining about grading.
Except for Amy, she does not.
Tim, sounds good. Congrats on being almost done!
And grading is a drag. I like to say that I teach for free and get paid to grade.
Amy, I agree with you. I wonder what the travel would be like compared with the current schedules. I also wonder how the schedule would look as well.
The way I worked it out, if the schedule remained the same but with the realigned teams, the Red Sox would be playing the Marlins in this two-game series before playing the Yankees.
Instead of a west-coast trip they'd be going to Cleveland and Pittsburgh rather than Anaheim and Oakland.
So it'd need to be tweaked. But the current system of scheduling would mean there'd be a west coast trip once every three years. This year "interleague" games would be Cubs, White Sox, Twins and Brewers instead of NL East teams.
In my little world it'd work out so there'd be a series against every team. Maybe alternate each year whether it's home or away or something.
man, wake is amazing lately.
Wakefield. Ace.
You've put far too much thought into this, ish :P
ish for comish?
Yanks tie it at 4
You've put far too much thought into this, ish :P • I go back to a quote from George Carlin: "These are the things I think about when I'm sitting at home and the power goes out."
Wake dominating, I love it.
And yeah, I'm looking forward to being done school, but also sad its over, its been good. Summer should be great though, with the softball league and 2 days of classes per week, haha.
Actually, Breslow born in a different county, but grew up in mine.
I'd love a division with the Sox, MFY and Stems. Even if we aren't still in New York.
hahahaha yes! one of my favorite carlin lines.
already saw it, Heidi
who was the 9 year old that was fy's body double?
I want to see this FY commercial, bahahahahahaha
lbjingle
It's fairly easy to decide who you'd play instead, though. Make a list of the teams and number them (organize them by division) and then make a list of the teams by the new divisions and match the numbers. Twins being team #10 currently. Marlins being team #10 in the new format.
Ellsbury almost legged out that pick-off/CS.
aw fuck
lbjfail.
We're just assuming we can outsmart the Yale kid. Terrible job.
Ponce de Castig-Leon, I love it!
REmy's turning into Rizzuto today. "Something about 1951, I don't know."
I love the copious amount of cow videos being shown between pitches.
I'd love a division with the Sox, MFY and Stems. Even if we aren't still in New York.That's definitely how you'd sell it. Yes, yes the Yankees and Mets play 6 games head to head annually anyways, but what if they played 12 or more, and were fighting with each other for a playoff spot?
Not to mention the other "natural rivals"... like Chicago, LA and SF. It'd be pretty neat to see that.
REmy's turning into Rizzuto today. "Something about 1951, I don't know."That and the cows! LOL.
"I'd love a division with the Sox, MFY and Stems. Even if we aren't still in New York."
me too!
Ish, I am lost! You must have a brain that works like Excel to figure all this out. Or maybe you were using some kind of program?
I certainly can see the fun in thinking about this stuff. It will keep your brain flexible and young, like doing a crossword puzzle. Of course, you are young so probably not too worried about that yet!
Amy I was using Excel actually. Makes it a LOT easier. :>)
Rollin!
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