Red Sox - 142 000 100 - 8 14 3Bill James would not approve. Tie game, bottom of the 9th. Who should you put on the mound? Your closer or the worst pitcher on the team?
Spiders - 124 000 101 - 9 13 0
Sadly, Terry Francona chose Option B. And the Red Sox's 11-game winning streak is now history. I can only assume that he hoped to squeak through the 9th (the 8-9-1 hitters were up), maybe get a run or two with FY-Flo-Yook-Drew in the 10th and go to Jonathan Papelbon to nail it down. The only problem with that strategy is you have to not allow a run in the 9th!
Javier Lopez gave up a single to Mark DeRosa (who had homered in the 7th to tie the game at 8-8) to start the final inning. Ben Francisco bunted the runner to second and Grady Sizemore struck out. Lopez went to a full count on Asdrubal Cabrera, who whacked a grounder to the right side.
Kevin Youkilis half-dived to his right, snared it, turned and lobbed an easy, underhanded toss to Lopez. The pitcher and the ball were at the bag in plenty of time, and Lopez's foot was on the base, but he looked down anyway, and the ball clanked off his glove and rolled into foul territory.
Lopez then fell down and Youkilis raced after the baseball, but it was too late. DeRosa was crossing the plate.
How'm I doin'?Lopez: From a LOOGY to a LWCGAOIHGDMFLDOI.
The Red Sox failed to score in the top of the ninth, with runners at the corners and one out. Nick Green was overmatched on three fastballs and Jacoby Ellsbury lined the ball right to Cabrera at second.
Toronto beat the Royals 8-1, so we are back in 2nd place. The Yankees broke a scoreless tie in Detroit with 10 runs in the seventh and beat the Tigers 11-0.
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Brad Penny (7.80, 65 ERA+) / Anthony Reyes (4.76, 102 ERA+)
The first place Red Sox (13-6) -- by a slim .017 over the Blue Jays (14-7), but atop the East nonetheless -- continue their series in Cleveland.
Julio Lugo may get his first start of the season tonight. I somewhat fear Tito putting Lugo at leadoff, but I'm now confident that (a) Lugo will be eased into the lineup/regular playing time and (b) Ellsbury's hitting and overall play have improved enough to dispell Francona of that idea.
Only three Red Sox players have ever faced Reyes -- and one of them is Penny! J.D. Drew is 0-for-3 with two strikeouts and Jason Bay is 3-for-6 with a walk.
Of the five Spiders to have seen Penny previously, three are pitchers. Mark DeRosa is 8-for-27 and Tony Graffanino is 1-for-6 (but 0-for-his-last-5). (Graffanino has a -11 OPS+ in 24 plate appearances this year!)
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Note: The Yankees' run differential is worse than that of the hapless Nationals, owners of the worst record in baseball:
W L PCT RS RA DIFFNew York's Phil "The Franchise" Hughes makes his 2009 debut (6.62 ERA in 2008) in Detroit at 7 PM. ... Jays in Kansas City.
Yankees 9 10 .474 102 126 - 24
Nationals 4 14 .222 85 107 - 22
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Why is Lugo stuttering with his left foot?
I had to do it sorry.
Julia Loogu is really shitting the bed. I hate how he acts like he is part of this team in the dugout. He was trying to calm Penny down earlier. You suck and nobody wants you on this team.
det and mfy 0-0 after 6
Lugo on base TWICE in one game?
i'm back. now for the comeback.
Nice!
here we go! thanks lyndon
Crap.
ok, not this inning. next inning.
Meh
lugo don't heard lbj!!! for godsakes.
Just got home annnnd fuck.
^hurt^
Blech.
Ugh, seeing Lugo playing in a game with meaning just made me flaccid.
Tim doing the anti-Andy
By "game with meaning," do you mean not spring training, Tim?
Glad we have two outs.
Jones has the silliest little leg kick.
OK, score some runs!
You got it, Amy.
Well done.
Score runs.
Our farm system kicks so much ass.
Don: "It's going to get ugly" (the beard)
I got news for you, Don. It's too late.
Remy: "I like it when couples share blankets like that, Don."
Is that an offer?
Remy sounded creepy as fuck there. Totally serious and matter-of-fact.
"I like couples that share blankets like that, Don."
...
...
Fire now please.
don wisely does not ask a folo up
Next time? Grant may be right that this game ends by 10:30, but I still see 11:00 as more likely. If not later.
Yanks put up a 10 spot in the 7th
This Bruins commercial with the bear in the movie theater doesn't really make much sense. Do people really complain about hearing people chatting on cell phones at a hockey game?
assdrizzle at the park
I'm always right :-P
I like when Don doesn't answer Remy. Leaves Remy hanging there.
This Bruins commercial with the bear in the movie theater doesn't really make much sense.
That's not a movie theatre lol...
Molina had a sac bunt and a grand slam in the same inning.
Well, arena, whatever. My point still stands, though I look more foolish for bringing it up.
molina hit a grand dong
I've been to exactly one professional hockey game in my life, in Quebec City.
There's a bear in a movie theatre and *you* look foolish? Nah, whoever dreamt up that ad is foolish.
(OK, it's not a movie theatre but it looks like one.)
Oooo, on my PC using google chrome. When I refresh, it immediately brings me back to the point on the page where I was before, and I don't have to click on the page to be able to use the wheely-scroll thingy.
Big league choo at the bat.
Runs please.
Fairly clean inning.
Seventh inning, time for Bay to start raking.
Story of three games. The 7-7 early slugfest. The scoreless middle innings. And the one-sided Extrava-dongza for the Red Sox in the last three.
Holy cow, long game. Just got back to my room.
It's always something new with the Sox this year eh?
Baseball is funny that way. Every game is different. ;)
That it is, Suzyn
Leadoff man on. BRING HIM HOME
I had never thought of that l-girl :-p
BBay
Allan just asked Tala if she was going to go out.
She ran out of the room, downstairs, and I think she's now waiting at the back door.
So mean.
wait, I was supposed to say That it is Jon. From Suzyn. I've ish-movie theatered the line, forget it.
Aww, aren't you going to let her out?
We have to be careful not to say "out" or "walk" around Cassie. Pretty hard when you are watching a baseball game....
Bay trippes.
NESN graphic still shows Bay at first.
Lugo, don't be Lugo.
LUGO!
OK, Julio! Who knew?
Lugo wtf???
Lugo says FUCK YOU ANDY
w00t
And yet another pitching change.
Looks like Grant will not win the bet on the game's end time.
Woo! I came in just in time!
I believe Tala will go out again. But not now.
We purposely say all the words to make her turn her head all funny. She goes nuts when I put shoes on... when I make tea (because I sometimes take it outside on the patio)... and about 20 other things.
Lugo tonight looks like the shitty-fielding pretty-good-hitting shortstop we were buying when we signed him.
OFER!
Is Sipp on the all-drink team?
Tell Tala to squat in Allan's shoes.
I'll work on that. It would be pretty funny!
Yes, I love how they tilt their heads and look like they are trying to figure out what the hell we are saying. A random word in an otherwise irrelevant sentence is so confusing to the poor creatures.
Manager of the all-drink team: Billy Martin?
I guess Phil Coke doubles on the all-drink team and the all-drug team.
Drink team: Coco Crisp
Oh, come on...that was a strike?
At least we are in the lead!
Tinsley Ginn.
Drink team: Remy
Hold the lead.
John Boozer
All drink team? Luis TEA-ant?
plenty of pitchers on the drink team.
Stuffy Mc-Guiness?
There's a handful of Drinkwaters in the minors.
Chris Waters
Tiant, very good
I guess Phil Coke doubles on the all-drink team and the all-drug team.I was thinking the exact same thing. And trying to figure out who else is on the all-drug team. No players called Mary Jane, I'd wager. But Guillermo Mota (weed in Mexican) would work.
Bud Weiser (1915-16)
Juice Latham
Drink team: Joe Thurston
Jack Coffey - 1918 Red Sox
Jack Needles Bentley.
Lots of Millers, Muellers.
Isn't there a Todd Coffey?
Dick Cummings Wakefield? Hmmm.
Thurston, that's good too.
Needles, he's for the drug team.
Woop
Bud Black's on the all booze, drug, and coffee teams.
Todd Glass.
(Jack Glasscock. Maybe we need another list.)
Shit.
Shit, tied again.
Crap
Ofer, we did some Dr...
SHIT
SHIT
...did some drug team the other night. Of course now I can't think of any of them.
oh farts
Gooched by the sweep talk.
every sox game has to be epic- it'sa rule
Uh oh...
Okasuckass.
Shit. Fucking Mark Derosa?
James Kegg (minor leaguer 1940s)
Good evening, JoS. Just finished watching hockey and the Red Sox and the Celtics. Second round is set for the NHL playoffs and the Celtics won Game 5 and lead their series 3-2.
And Saito adds a little bit to the bullpen ERA. Not to mention tying the game. Bawls.
What a long game this is!
Saito's on the mound
They sure are making good contact. Scary.
Dave Bush
As in Anheuser-Busch
they all look alike
Yikes. Come on, stop the bleeding.
No players named Wine or Winer or one of its other spelling?
ram time
if a guy can hit a ball right where he wants in that situation, why can't he just do it any time?
Ram-Ram to the rescue.
coupla Wines
Would all junk ballers be on the drug team?
No worries.
Nomar Zerimar will put this Spidy uprising to rest.
Ish: good matchup for B's against the no-longer-Whalers.
Gimme some strikes ramram
Lou Merlo(t)-ni
good start
Then all the Martinez players could be Martinis....
I'm scrolling through...
Did I see Grant say this is going to go down as The Worst Baseball Game Ever?
????
Mark Teahen
Runs, please.
Ram-Ram rescues!
junk ballers :)
Phew! Crowd had me trup'd there.
Taylor Teagarden
WOOP
Vin Scully will announce the games.
Tribe will regret that squander.
Steve Stone.
Charlie Mead. Dave Meads.
Canes look scary, I'd rather have faced the Pens. But we'll have to wait until the east final for that.
Did I see Grant say this is going to go down as The Worst Baseball Game Ever?
He proclaims this weekly.
oil can boyd
Joe, it'll be nice to not have any sideshows, like Avery or Ovechkin/Chara or Crosby/Malkin... yet. This looks to be a good clean matchup that NBC will want no part of. And it should be very exciting. The guys on Versus were drooling over this upcoming series.
Damn he's good
Mickey Mantle will throw out the first highball.
Scotty Alcock goes on the third list.
"He proclaims this weekly"
Thanks for filling me in.
Worst game ever
Meads...very medieval
Castig describes Cleveland tonight as a "San Francisco evening."
We had a Phoenix day here today.
Gene Rye
Wedo Martini.
Highball Wilson would challenge Mantle for that right.
Jin Ho Cho
More humid than Phoenix down here, Ish.
meads, rye... very creative. i haven't had a good idea since coco.
Another leadoff walk...CAPITALIZE.
Speaking of food names the head coach for the New York Rangers (who just got ousted from the NHL playoffs tonight) is John Tortorella.
I keep thinking either tortolini or mortadella.
John Sipin.
How'd we forget Pedro Borbon?
here comes a dong
Eddie Joost.
More humid than Phoenix down here, Ish.Here today the humidity was 15%.
It was 90° here then I went to the beach and it was 59°. Silly weather.
What does that mean? "That will take you down those runway steps"---???
Nig Cuppy
The Houston Colt 45s
Both the All-Drinks and All-Weapons teams
totorella sounds like it should be a food. we could try ordering one at an italian deli, see what happens.
Worst game everFunny, I remember another game with the same score and the same teams that was much, much worse.
Of course, it's easy to forget since in the next game Dave Roberts stole a base.
Chug Coombs
Of course, it's easy to forget since in the next game Dave Roberts stole a base. • I immediately thought of that when I saw the score on that link. Then I got confused when I saw Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrdsssssssma!
Just get Bay to the plate...
i smell smoke
Pop Lloyd and other Pops.
Up to Drew.
There are Sips and Sipins. Is there a Chug?
"Of course, it's easy to forget since in the next game Dave Roberts stole a base."
I didn't click the link, but now I know he meant 19-8. I was at that game. My first playoff game.
And Papi, Benjamin.
Oh! Jere already got a Chug. :)
Drew needs to be a herew
Brandy Davis.
FAIL @!
That was a tough night.
Johnny Hopp
There was a player named Brandy? Cool.
Allan, your 11:30 prediction is starting to look pretty good.
jesus - swing the fucking bat once in a fucking while. fucker
Squander
Bob Gibson
I protest, Hopp's not a beverage. It's just an ingredient.
He can be on the All-Grains team or something.
Minor leaguer: Armand Fizzano
HI NICK GREEN WE MISSED YOU!
Lots of Brewers. Not the team.
Bombo Rivera
He can be on the All-Grains team or something. With Jim Rice, of course.
I'd like to note that The Worst Game Ever cannot possibly be in ALCS 2004. It HAS to be in ALCS 2003.
Flask Gordon
Geez, Lugo - swing the freaking bat.
Of course sometimes.......
never mind.
Bobby Sprowl's veins
BTW speaking of FAIL anyone remember this book? OOPS
Lugo wasn't up there
Worst Game Ever is different from Most Painful.
2003 ALCS Game 7 ranks up there with the most painful moments of my life.
But I have seen some comically terrible baseball games. Totally different in my mind
Hmm. I'll have to think about that distinction. I think for me worst is most painful, only.
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