Red Sox - 000 000 003 - 3 8 0
Spiders - 000 000 001 - 1 4 1
11!
11 consecutive wins!
AH AH AH AH AH AH!
11 consecutive wins!
AH AH AH AH AH AH!
Wakefield (7-1-0-4-5, 112, 1.86 ERA) and Lee (8-5-0-0-5, 106) traded goose eggs for most of the game. And once Lee left the mound, the Red Sox pounced.
Facing Kerry Wood in the ninth, Dustin Pedroia walked and David Ortiz dropped a single into short center. Kevin Youkilis flew out to short right, bring up Jason Bay, who had hit the ball hard in his previous three trips, singling twice.
The pale Canadian took a strike before launching a three-run homer to deep left-center, a no-doubt blast that gave the Red Sox a 3-0 lead. (On Wood's next pitch, Mike Lowell tripled -- yes, tripled -- as Grady Sizemore dove to catch his sinking liner, only to have it bounce over him and roll to deep center.)
Wakefield allowed only one hit -- a two-out single in the first inning to Victor Martinez. He walked and hit a batter with two outs in the fourth and walked two in the sixth, but worked out of trouble each time. In the sixth, he needed a running catch from Jacoby Ellsbury in right-center to preserve his shutout bid.
Manny Delcarmen pitched a quick and perfect eighth before turning the game over to Jonathan Papelbon. He allowed three singles to his first four batters -- and he appeared to receive a gift strike three call on the one batter he retired -- giving Cleveland one run and bringing the potential winning run to the plate. But Kelly Shoppach chased a slider in the dirt for the second out, and he got pinch-hitter Ben Francisco to pop to first to end the game.
It's the longest Red Sox winning streak since June 16-29, 2006, when the team won 12.
The Royals beat the Blue Jays 7-1, allowing the Red Sox to creep into first place for the first time this season.
The Yankees lost to the Tigers 4-2, though CC Sabathia threw a complete game and lowered his ERA to 4.73. New York is 9-10, 4 GB.Red Sox 13 6 .684 ---
Blue Jays 14 7 .667 ---
***
Tim Wakefield (2.45, 208 ERA+) / Cliff Lee (5.25, 94 ERA+)
The F Train rolls on to Cleveland, where the Red Sox begin a three-game series against the Spiders (7-12). Having finished a three-game sweep of the Yankees and now riding a 10-game winning streak, Boston sends its ace to the hill tonight.
J.D. Drew is not in the lineup after a tight left quad forced him out of Sunday's game after seven innings. Gumball Bailey gets the nod in right field against lefty Lee. Julio Lugo will play in this series, but he's not starting tonight.
The Red Sox's bullpen has allowed just five runs over the past 41 innings. (1.10 ERA).
Lee is making his fifth start of the month. After a disastrous Opening Day outing, he has posted a 3.32 ERA in the three starts since, though he has allowed 32 baserunners in 19 innings. His season WHIP is 1.750.
Top hitters for Cleveland:
Victor Martinez .397/.448/.654/1.102
Travis Hafner .293/.388/.586/ .974
Shin-Soo Choo .286/.418/.524/ .942
Asdrubal Cabrera .339/.456/.482/ .938
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1 – 200 of 320 Newer› Newest»Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
Jason Bay, LF
Mike Lowell, 3B
Jeff Bailey, RF
George Kottaras, C
Nick Green, SS
Grady Sizemore, CF
Asdrubal Cabrera, 2B
Victor Martinez, 1B
Shin-Soo Choo, RF
Ryan Garko, DH
Jhonny Peralta, SS
Mark DeRosa, 3B
Kelly Shoppach, C
Trevor Crowe, LF
One final note about Saturday's game:
The last game in which the Yankees led by at least 6 runs and lost the game by at least 5 runs?
June 9, 1956That's 53 years ago!
"Nick Green, SS"
Hell yes.
clev feed -- boo
"'Just talked to him (Lugo) a little while ago and told him welcome back,' Francona said. 'He's not playing tonight. Lugie played two games and DH'd yesterday.'"
Lugie? WTF?
Welcome back, Lugo. There's your spot on the bench.
Francona isn't too fast to hock a loogie.
Here's the only thing I dislike about living in Canada: no baseball highlight shows on TV. MLBTV isn't enough for me.
And we don't have NESN tonight, so no replays of LBJ stealing home, Tek GS, etc. Boo.
Bleh.
Lugie. Too funny.
nice hustle, manny.
NESN's shown the LBJ steal a couple times but hasn't replayed the Tek slam today.
As much as I don't like Papi hitting below .220, I am slightly encouraged by the fact that he's leading the league in SFs.
Good news for me: last class of the semester tonight! Bad news for me: I miss most of tonight's game.
Maybe I will let the class out early since it IS the last class of the semester.... hmm, a tempting thought.
See you all later, unless this game ends before 9:30...
lotsa yooks!!!
But I haven't seen either at all, except online, but that's choppy and small.
This has been a problem for me our entire time here. Of all the things I thought I'd miss when we moved, I never imagined the first would be Baseball Tonight.
Solid start.
We may have found NESN on another channel... thanks to me... (Waiting for my thank you)
NESN ___ YAY L!
thank dog - rick manning is a fucking moron.
there it is :)
CLIFF LEE IS PITCHING A PERFECT GAME!!!
close but no dong
or doung, sorry bay
This does not portend well.
Meh
This does not portend well.
Don't set L off.
I'm not threading much tonight, so everyone can be as pessimistic as they like w/o interference from me.
One would think after the last few games, "bodes well" would not be a problem, but hey. I guess not everyone did the clip-and-save.
Wake Ks the side?
Do my eyes deceive me?
You guys don't get MLBNetwork? Sorry if you've answered this before.
Don Fleming up
Heidi looking like Pitfall Harry. With female genitalia.
NESN, we don't need pitch zone on a pitch that was obviously out of the zone. What we needed there was the side view to see if he checked or not.
About time we get someone on.
And that quick it's over.
Bleh
DET 1, MFY 0 - end 2
Hey it's Wake vs. Bake*.
*Cliff Lee = Sara Lee = baked goods = Bake.
Wake has the on switch all the way up again tonight.
OTT
Looks to me (from GDGD) that Wake's able to throw strikes so far, so he'll do at least pretty well. Question is whether Lee has turned back into Super SP or not.
I was having a great weekend in Reno & Tahoe while enjoying the Yankee destruction.
Way to go opp. fie. Papi
Papi!
We wuz robbed. What's up with that Spiders fielding.
robbed. That's three long flies to right by right handed hitters, all caught. We will break through.
Good run by Sizemore. Upon looking at the replay though, I'm not sure the dive was necessary.
another ball hit to the opposite-ish field
bayingle
"In case you haven't noticed, and judging by the attendance you haven't, the Indians have managed to win a few ball games, and are threatening to climb out of the cellar."
(It's an Indians game! I can't help it!)
Here's one of the headlines from MLB.com: "A-Rod, Wang progressing in rehab". I can't help chuckling.
Singule!
Runs please?
bayingle
Loonie.
Bleh.
Or no bleh.
INNING NOT OVER
wedgie out to discuss
Lowell: capitalize.
Dear Lowell,
FYI, your full name according to Yankees fans is "Mike Fucking Lowell". Live up to the monkier!
Love,
Sox Fans
this is like the Russian basketball team in '72
Wedge wants to get tossed.
that guy was so pissed but replays show it was foul and both umps called it foul. What's the problem, dicks?
Come on Wedge, it shouldn't take this long to get tossed.
There ya go.
STO had a crappy replay, but it looked fair.
Ejection?
I'm on GDGD, what happened?
Oh well.
Now a Dr Dong... oops. Would have been too perfect.
Bah!
Ejection?
I'm on GDGD, what happened?
Lowell fouls a ball into the dirt. Catcher traps it and Bucknor initially says foul tip strike three, but gets reversed. Everyone gets back onto the field. Wedge meekly argues.
Lowell hits a lazy grounder up the third base line. Foul ball, but it gets fielded. Everyone's upset. Wedge comes out to argue again and gets tossed.
And we waste the inning.
Lowell fouls a ball off, Shoppach attempts to catch it in the dirt, CB Bucknor calls it a foul tip for strike 3, Lowell appeals, 1B ump says it hit the dirt, Wedge comes out to complain.
Next pitch, Lowell hits a grounder that hugs the 3B line for an apparent forceout at third. 3B ump eventually calls it foul, Wedge comes out to get tossed.
That explains it.
I really hope stranding those runners won't come back to haunt us in this game. The Yankees series was enough of a rollercoaster ride.
Folks w/ only GDGD, I'm curious, why not get MLB Audio? $15 for the whole season. If MLB TV is not feasible (although the non-premium deal is pretty reasonable).
Note: Both umps called it foul right away.
Oo, LOBplaining, good night for me to be half-out of the thread.
Wake's filthy thus far.
Tim-K!
Oo, LOBplaining, good night for me to be half-out of the thread.Sorry, L-Girl. I'm coming off a bad day. I suppose I shouldn't complain too much, eh?
these umps apparently do not know the rule that if a batter makes no effort to get out of the way of a pitch, the ump can choose to not award first. grrrr
Redsock: I'm with you. If you're dumb enough not to move, you should stay where you are.
Yanks got first two on, stranded them. 1-0 Det bottom 4.
don effs up the count, says 2-1 (like screen says) but it's 3-1, next pitch is a walk - see?
How about we not do this.
Pokerwolf, you're welcome to complain as much as you need to. I just don't get it. The team's doing great.
In general the angst over LOB is a bit lost on me - unless it's an extreme situation, like bases loaded w/ no outs.
There are tons of LOBs in baseball - there have to be. If your team hits well, there are going to be more men on base than scoring. But a lot of ppl act like it's a unusual or terrible - or like the Red Sox have so many more LOB than other teams.
So I don't get it. And sometimes I have to push back. :)
Tribe about to waste this opportunity.
Runs, please.
Gummy Jeff
Score runs.
Oops, should have been Gummi
So I don't get it. And sometimes I have to push back. :)Valid point. This is one of the first games I can follow this year, so I'm a bit rusty. =)
Memo to Sawx: Runs, please!
Nice.
Bingle!
Chewy single.
George wants to make up for this catching woes last frame.
strike oot
Oh no Pokerwolf, you missed some great games. Of course there are plenty more ahead. Like most of them.
berroa?
Nice! Thanks Spideys
lotta bad hops on left sides of infields lately
Error trifecta anyone?
I'll take that.
These announcers aren't bad are they? I don't think they are, we think are kinda impartial. They aren't overtly being fans.
And if Wake does good this year I really hope he retires on that note. I really am excited to see him do good. I am learning to respect the knuckle more. I have seen him in person twice now and I had fun.
lotta bad hops on left sides of infields latelyThey just want to make the game interesting. Yeah, that's it...
Wake can't leave till 193!
Yay, thanks for the replay NESN!
Laura: they just replayed Ellsbury's steal.
Bleh on the DP.
Oh right, you're watching NESN now.
Oh crap as I soon as I post that, we GIDP
Thanks Benjamin :)
Still 1-0 Detroit in the bottom of the fifth.
1-9-3
1-9-3
1-9-3
Lyndon being Drew.
I'm watching on Gameday and as soon as I saw "In play, out(s)" I said, "Please not a double play ball."
ARGH!
easy
nice d. catch by JE
Love that boy!
(in case you didn't know)
LBJ is going for ROY in the wrong Y.
OTT
Wake outpitching Sabathia Bloodia Sabathia so far tonight.
ALMOST, derek -- nice "dive"
Come on, Papi. You're due.
Or not. Crap.
And Remy accuses him of not hustling and Red Sox Nation has officially had enough of his antics and he's promptly traded--oh wait.
Since Youk is hitting so well, does his moustache get some credit?
det still 1-0
balt winning
nyy could fall into 4th
I like how our backup catcher is actually hitting at a lower average than our starter. Qataris is actually hitting... what... .195?
Gameday has him at .167, Grant.
2-0 Tigers
Qataris sounds like a new car
make that 4-0 Detroit on a 2-run dong!
pitch count .... rising
DET 4, MFY 0
same up and in strike that got derosa in the 2nd
4-0 Detroit.
Awful lot of pitches this inning.
Is the ump's strikezone moving around as much as Gameday says it is or is he being relatively consistent?
Wake losing the strike zone...
LBJ!
L8
L; yay
mdc was up
Ells tracks it down and doesn't need the fake dive.
Is the ump's strikezone moving around as much as Gameday says it is or is he being relatively consistent?
Bucknor's awful.
J. Kobe on his HORSE
Nice
Score runs
Normalized strikezone.
6 inn in 1:40
too dam long (/mathews)
Loonie.
Just reinforcing my support of Qataris as a nickname.
jasoningle
Lowell's so slow.
Slowell
Bleh
sti dwon
wihff
Enough with the passed balls..
I bet George will get a new mask. So he can see stuff below him.
Hafner PH for Crowe
Who's on the all-bird team with Trevor Crower?
Besides the late Mark Fidrych.
Did I just mis-type Crowe? Yes.
Doug Byrd
Goose Gossage
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
Goose Goslin
every Oriole, Cardinal, and Blue Jay:)
Craig Swan
Robin Roberts
no go on whole teams! :)
Ducky Medwick, Ducky Schofield.
Jose Cardinale
Alright, let's score some runs.
I don't want to see Wake pitch this good of a game and not get a win.
I actually have personalized autographs of both Roberts and Swan.
Birdie Tebbets
There must be somebody named Finch. Benjamin will tell us.
Emu Philips?
Just getting out of class and going to drive home. BUT am I seeing correctly? A one-hitter from Wake so far?? WHOA!
See you all in a bit, assuming the game is still going when I get home.
I don't care about Wake's W but I'd sure like one for us.
Just FYI, I called a 1-0 win on an Ortiz dong.
Syd Finch doesn't count!
Emu, good one
G'day JoSers! Just announcing my arrival, beer in hand. Just got home from 11 hours of tax returns and ready to watch us tear apart this Spider 'pen. Time to catch up on the threads!
Ostrich McHummingbird
(Played in the Federal League)
Joel Finch.
Disappointing inning.
Sorry, I was too busy playing with this. Go there and type the Konami code (up up down down left right left right b a) and mash some buttons.
7-1-0-4-5
WAKE = ACE
"Joel Finch"
Thanky
Tavarez pitching in the Nats game, trying to hold a one run lead with runners on and no outs.
I can see where this is going...
Oh look, the drum assholes. How I don't miss you.
MDC pretty sharp so far.
Tigers get Tex to fly out to the wall with two on in a 4-0 game in the eighth.
Yanks second time tonight getting first two on and stranding them. 4-0 DET after 7.5.
Runs please.
Oh, from before, someone mentioned Youk's mustache--that thing never made it, he's just got a regular goatee.
MDC continues to impress.
Whatever happened to the dush from the end of last game thread? lol.
Come on, win this pitcher's duel by like 6 runs.
Walkoia.
Pedroia runs faster to first on the walk than Lowell on a ball in play.
Kerry wood??? wtf? must've been in some sort of a coma. I thought he was a starter for the Cubs. lol
woooooooooooo
BABIPapi
OK, my prediction's not coming true (not in 9, anyway), but it looks good.
Looks like the Yanks will get a 99-pitch complete game out of their ace--and lose by 4. If Detroit can get 3 outs.
repeat of the game we saw in montreal - 0-0 for 21 innings?
Consecutive hits!
I want to get hot off a sweaty dong right about now.
Well, consecutive baserunners.
My Bad
Tim, the dush commented a few more times. He says he wants to hang out here, but I don't see it happening.
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