Cleveland - 000 02 0 010 - 3 7 0After David Ortiz was scratched from the original lineup, Terry Francona shuffled things around and his batting order looked more appropriate for a split squad Grapefruit game in March.
Red Sox - 100 0012 00x - 13 13 0
Those nine hitters made American League history in the sixth inning when they scored 12 runs before making an out. The previous AL record had been 11 runs by the Tigers against the Yankees on June 17, 1925. Boston's outburst also tied the major league record, set by the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Phillies, in the eighth inning on May 24, 1953.
Julio Lugo had opened the first inning with a triple and scored on Dustin Pedroia's single, but after that, the Red Sox did little harm to Sowers until the sixth.
Trailing Cleveland 2-1, Lugo singled to left. Pedroia walked. Jason Bay doubled to left-center, scoring Lugo and tying the game at 2-2. Mike Lowell was walked intentionally, loading the bases for Rocco Baldelli.
Baldelli singled to right-center and Boston led 4-2. J.D. Drew walked and Masa Kobayashi relieved Sowers. Jeff Bailey doubled down the left field line for two more runs (6-2). Nick Green reached on an infield single (beating second baseman Luis Valbuena in a foot race to the bag), reloading the bases.
George Kottaras hit a two-run single to center (8-2). Lugo was safe on an infield single, beating the throw from third. Pedroia singled to left for two runs (10-2). Matt Herges came on as the Spiders' third pitcher of the inning and he fell behind Bay 3-1 before Bay crushed a ball to right-center for a three-run homer (13-2).
12 batters: 6 singles, 2 doubles, 1 home run, 3 walks, 12 runs, 0 outs!
Herges got the next three batters -- Lowell 6-3, Baldelli K, Drew 4-3 -- and the inning was over.
It was the most runs scored by the Red Sox in one inning since they got 14 in the first inning (including 10 before an out was recorded) on June 27, 2003 against the Marlins.
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Jeremy Sowers (2009 debut; 2008: 5.58, 80 ERA+) / Tim Wakefield (2.91, 174 ERA+)
When Wakefield is going good, 1995 always comes up.
The knuckleball was good, but beyond that I don't know what went right. I know I was 14-1 and finished 16-8, but I didn't really pitch bad the last nine games. My ERA only went up one point in 10 games.Well, Wake he had a 5.60 ERA in his last nine games in 1995: 64.1 innings, 65 hits, 31 walks, 40 strikeouts, 10 home runs, Red Sox went 3-7.
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John Farrell, WEEI, on Joba Chamberlain hitting Jason bay on Tuesday night:
Those things aren't forgotten. ... We know there's a history there between the pitcher in New York and our guys here ... he strikes out 12 guys, doesn't seem to have too many command issues, and if there was a purpose or intent to throw up and in, or if the intent was even further than that, to send a clear-cut message, you can disguise it a little bit more than with a first-pitch pitch in the middle of the back to Jason Bay. ... And we've got a number of games left with these guys.Bay:
That kind of stuff happens. ... No one ever really knows. It's not the first time I've been hit, and it won't be the last.Notes: Jacoby Ellsbury may play tonight, but Kevin Youkilis will probably have another night off. ... Daisuke Matsuzaka may make his next start with Portland. ... John Smoltz threw comfortably from 60 feet. ... Jed Lowrie was in the clubhouse sporting a brace on his left wrist.
Jonathan Van Every smashed his shoulder into the center field wall trying to catch a fly ball hit by Victor Martinez in the fifth:
I felt like I got run over by a truck. Concrete is a lot harder than I am. But I'll be OK. ... My joints are a little sore. ... I'm frightened to [look at a replay].
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Eck: "sickening."
Lowell: "The list of players kids can look up to is getting shorter and shorter."
Kotsay: "It's too bad--I'm a big Dodger fan." (???)
National anthem shown at Fenway tonight, Ish.
Hi JoS. I'm happy to be back.
Back from the home of the Toxics, eh?
Nah, just the home of my mom. :)
no oatmeal?
tiz scratched
1. Julio Lugo, DH
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. Jason Bay, LF
4. Mike Lowell, 3B
5. Rocco Baldelli, CF
6. J.D. Drew, RF
7. Jeff Bailey, 1B
8. Nick Green, SS
9. George Kottaras, C
-- Tim Wakefield, RHP
1. Ben Francisco, CF
2. Asdrubal Cabrera, SS
3. Victor Martinez, C
4. Mark DeRosa, 3B
5. Dellucci, LF
6. Ryan Garko, 1B
7. Jhonny Peralta, DH
8. Matt LaPorta, RF
9. Luis Valbuena, 2B
-- Jeremy Sowers, LHP
LUGO DH LEADING OFF
?????????????????????
Hopefully this whole game is scratched.
The first game I get to watch this week and no LBJ. :(
Then next week stupid west coast games. Boo hoo.
these are like spring training lineups.
Hi, everyone. And welcome home, Laura.
Thanks Amy, I'm glad to be back. I missed Tala! (Also others :) )
Good thing Cody can't read...and that Allan can read between the lines!
The spring training B squad.
SLUGO!
Lugo with a triple??!!
LUGO DH = GENIUS MOVE
"Good thing Cody can't read...and that Allan can read between the lines!"
Ha, true, except Cody didn't miss me either.
drinking game
when eck says "paint"
Well, this lineup is...really fucking weird.
Holy shit, Lugo actually functioned as a capable leadoff hitter for once. If only he had done that for ANY PART OF THE PAST TWO YEARS.
I think Cody really is a cat. Why would she let you think she missed you?
Has Eck called a pitch hairy cheese yet? That was enough to drive me to drink!
has eck ever heard of bill lee?
Rico Baldy!
Allan, NO to a paint drinking game. We'll all die from alcohol poisoning!
lowell running down the line on that gidp was like the last marathoner coming across the finish at 11 PM
This could be Lugo's greatest game, EVER! The only way it could be possible is if he DOESN'T play in the field. Wish granted!
Jere I didn't tune in to see the national anthem at Fenway but I'm not as surprised as you might think.
Amy, I often say Cody is really a large cat wearing a dog costume. She is the least doggy dog I've ever met.
Our friends Alan and Fred, who I saw in NYC, once stayed with us for a few weeks - they were moving back to NYC from London. We had just adopted Cody, and she was totally in love with them, especially Alan ("AW1L"). Alan told me he still thinks of Cody and loves her. That was 10 yrs ago!
I thought that was so sweet, the way an animal can steal our hearts.
That is sweet. Maybe Alan with one L was more her type?
Hairy cheese?! OMG what an image.
Cody loves men. Plus I'm the "bad guy" who does stuff to her that she doesn't like - gives her pills, removes her dead fur, and assorted torture.
Nice inning for Wake.
The hairy cheese was an Eck line last night. "That cheese had hair on it," referring to some pitch....
It is funny how dogs seem to have a gender preference. Not Cassie though. She prefers children and dogs to adults, but loves everyone. She will wag her tail and get excited for anyone and everyone.
Who's the most doggy dog?
I got that it was Eck on a pitch. Still gross!
Our Clyde was like that. Loved everyone without exception.
Tala is extremely doggy. She was feral before she was rescued, then raised in a kennel with 35 other dogs. VERY canine.
Our Gypsy was a classic super-intelligent, loyal, willful Shepherd.
Or was this a sarcastic or joke question and now I look foolish?
What I can't understand is (1) how anyone could have abandoned Cassie for the police to pick up (they found her tied to a tree in a trailer park) and (2) why despite that she is still so trusting and loving. Good genes? A good mother dog or first humans?
Don also mocking Eck's "vocabulary."
All our dogs had been abandoned at some point, and all loved and trusted again - and intensely so. Only the one who was abused in such a horrific way had trust issues. Yet even Buster could love and trust again, in the right circumstances.
They're such amazing animals. Programmed to love.
Don's trying to get Eck to expand his vocabulary. A promo comes along and Eck totally botched it. "They just hand me these things at the last minute. You've gotta let me read over it first."
and here i thought eck was doing a remy homage with the promo!
Wake is yet again being the ace.
David Sha-PIE-ro
"Yeah, and I'm Jerry Cougar Mellencamp"
Some guy in the booth with Don and Eck. I wonder if Eck's mic is still on.
Isn't this guy the brother of Cleveland's GM?
Yes, Cleveland GM's brother.
Shapiro-mania
I see Pettitte gave up 2 dongs in the first.
3rd out pls
Jam escaped
How about some insurance runs?
Nice play!
My exam is being given tonight as I watch the game. So far, no calls with questions. One hour in, two to go. Then grading...
Lightning! First bit of lightning I've seen in a couple of months.
Eva with a 2-run dong. THird off Pettitte. 4-0 TB.
Meh, tie game.
Wake, um, K please?
way to turn it
Yawn.
Bailey you are slow
That wasn't Rico Baldy, Eck, it was Bailey.
Valbuena was bueno on that? Oh please.
GREEN Monster
nice drive -- green is juicing.
Greenhouse!
Too bad he wasn't a pitcher. It'd be greenhouse gas.
This is frustrating.
finally.. And freakin Eck didn't know what happened
we have it muted now - eck on roids.
Man, I love Eck, but he's pretty bad as a color analyst.
Also listening to him and Don discuss the Manny issue is an episode of "Vanilla Man & The Mimbo".
Nice catch!
Baldy Eagle with the catch!
SCORE RUNS PLEASE
cant wait to see what chb writes tomorrow!!! i wonder what his take will be.....
start us off, julio!
Lugo fighting for his job!
YES! Loving Bay. Hate to admit it, but not missing Manny much these days...
Hemihomre.
Dououble Dououble!
load em up for rico
Big night for Slugo. Stay off the field and we might just like you again.
Yes! We are ahead!!
rico
suave
bald is beautiful.
Welcome back Rico Baldy!
Now we're talking!
gumball rally
yay jeffy
that was sweet! Green almost with a 4U
better sweet than sowers
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
GK! 8-2!
Fun!
Lugo can get a natural cycle in this inning.
pretty strong lineup!
Lugo---where have you been hiding this stuff?
wait, so 10 guys have been up this inning and all ten have gotten on, correct?
Slugo! What a night he's having.
My first game this week, no LBJ, but lots of runs, that's even better.
(Of course I'd rather have both...)
WOOOOOO this is fun!
10 for 10
Ten up, ten on, and no outs either.
Make that 11
what's the record?
11! And 9 scored
MAKE TITO APOLOGIZE!!!!
Make Tito Apologize!!!
Oh sheesh, I should have known that would happen.
(Which rather follows :)
single
walk
double
walk (int)
single
walk
double
single
single
single
single
Don sounds like it's the 7th game of the WS. "That's got to be a tough feeling for Eric Wedge, not knowing where his next out is coming from."
hol shit
BIG DOUNG!!!!!!!!!!
holy fuck
holy fuck again
I am so happy to be watching this game.
I love baseball.
12 up, 12 scored has got to be close to the record
Not exactly frustrating anymore for us, eh? :>) Dear me. 12 runs with 0 out yet!
so
trade yook
trade tiz
dump lbj
ride these guys to october
So, we're going to do to them what they did to the Chokers? Fine by me.
Poor Mikey, making the first out. I guess somebody had to, evenutally.
booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ya think it's a joke--there WILL be people saying to replace Ortiz at DH with Lugo--ya know, try it, see how it goes!
Wow. I turned on GDGD, saw it was 2-1 Spiders, wrote an email, came back to see what's up, and it was 13-2. No complaints here.
have they shown the yellow 12?
ha--no yellow # shown this inning I don't think. I know I'd be taking that picture!
three outs in a row, what the fuck is this?
...and no one left on!
Love those efficient innings. That one goes down as pretty EPIC efficient.
nesn asleep
no yellow numbers
no factoid about if this is a record.
very very very lame
Yellow shot I got last year.
All I can say is: bring in Javier Lopez! This lead is now WF2 proof.
Most consecutive batters reaching base in an inning = 19, by the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Cincinnati Reds, May 21, 1952. Don't know what the AL record is.
No, Ish, certainly not frustrating any more.
Brooklyn.
...
should have remembered that from my 3 outs post
Sorry, that would be the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ahem.
Careful, Ofer, bigger leads have been erased. But yeah, Lopez might be safe here.
Thank you NESN, little late.
Question for you Canadians.......is Cito Gaston a hero up there....
The Brooklyn Dodgers scored 15 runs off of that streak. It was the first inning. Although I can find several articles about it, I cannot find a boxscore.
I still wanna know number to start an inning --okay, they're saying it now, that DOdger game was to start the inning, not just consecutive.
was that the 24-5 game Don?
"All I can say is: bring in Javier Lopez!"
I said the same thing! Allan told me he pitched (badly) last night.
Why in God's name would you do that?
Wait - how could Brooklyn only score 15 runs if 19 batters reached base safely? Am I missing something?
"This lead is now WF2 proof."
Forget WF 2.0, this lead is nearly Chien-Ming Wang proof.
Nearly.
replay = safe.
9C, Cito is a hero here, yes. People seem to think he's a magician or something.
And there is Lopez.
Don: You're out because you're stupid for going.
So... Eck in the booth for a laugher. This should be even more interesting!
yeah it don't add up.
19 in a row get on, but they only get 12 to start an inning?
...
wang? don't get crazy kevin.
"Wait - how could Brooklyn only score 15 runs if 19 batters reached base safely? Am I missing something?"
Or what am I not missing? That seems possible to me.
Yes, Don did mean the 24-5 game in '86, another game in which we scored 12 in the 6th. I watched it on TV38 in Old Saybrook, CT.
L-girl said...
9C, Cito is a hero here, yes. People seem to think he's a magician or something.
he just might be.......might be the most underrated manager of all time...
That's why I specified "Nearly"
Hell of an inning back there.
Jere said...
Yes, Don did mean the 24-5 game in '86, another game in which we scored 12 in the 6th. I watched it on TV38
ah TV38 , what was that guys name Dana something ..
Ish--it was Eck who said he's out for being stupid, DOn was just reiterating laughingly.
eck has really been a dud for me.
maybe he sounds so good in the studio because he's sitting next to rice.
19 in a row get on, but they only get 12 to start an inning?
Pickoffs? idk...
The only other thing I can think of is that they said 19 runners in a row got on, but didn't specify the number outs that it happened.
9casey--I don't know, I didn't get 38 at home, only when we'd be on vacation in Old Saybrook (which is why I remember that night.)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaha
(had to take a breath there)
Pulled up the RS site - it says Lugo gives Wake an early run.
Glance over at the box score in the little window and see a !12! in one of the squares. Do a double take, wipe my eyes, look again, and just start guffawing.
Love it!
Jere, see I knew there had to be a catch to it. There goes my selective hearing again.
The Dodgers only got 15 runs in the first. They got 4 more later in the game for a total of 19.
It must have been a pickoff. Baseball-Reference has box scores, but only going back to 1954. OK, back to lurking, and trying to get over this horrible cold.
Dana Hersey
paint
gas
cheese
lights out
this is eck
L-girl said...
paint
gas
cheese
lights out
this is eck
The funny part is he hates being there, he knows he isn't great.....It's not that easy..
9C, you might be right, I don't know, but the fans here who love Cito are (mostly) not basing it on anything factual. Most people here say they last paid attention to the Blue Jays in 1993. They freely admit that they woke up in September of 1992 to discover the team was good.
don't forget hair
In other words, not really baseball fans.
Okay, I think NESN gave a different game which also was a Dodger game which was the most guys on to START an inning, because I swear Don said the inning was the 8th.
But in the '52 Dodgers game, with 19 guys reaching in a row, it makes sense because they scored 15 in that inning. But I also read that "12 scored with 2 outs."
right, hair
we can try using them all in one sentence. Paint the hair with cheesey gas, that will be lights out.
Not surprising that Toronto is not loaded with baseball fans, given the climate.
It's definitely a warm weather game.
if you eat hairy cheese, you'll have gas.
A headline on mlb.com says 12 runs without an out recorded is an AL record.
"we haven't even gotten into the "salad" game yet"-Eck
Cleve cuts it to ten
Toronto weather is pretty much like NYC's.
There might not be much baseball culture here, but it's not down to climate.
It's the secondary sport here. Not nothing, but not hockey.
yay lopez
WF 2.0 trying to prove that no lead is safe.
Isn't lacrosse the national sport? Does that mean anything or is it just a traditional term?
There's tons of minor league baseball all through western NY State (Buffalo, Rochester, Utica, etc) and they have some of the toughest weather in the country. So, no go on that theory, SoSock. :)
remy must be far better than i give him credit for, because i'm completely sick of eck.
lopez is a left specialist???? now i know --- eck does not really follow the red sox at all.
looking forward to hearing roberts next week.
Lacrosse is the national sport, yes. I have no idea why or what that means. It's played in a lot of universities, just like in the US.
The sports that really matter to Canadians are all winter sports - hockey, curling, speed skating, downhill skiing. The winter Olympics are called "the Olympics" and the summer games are "the summer Olympics," the opposite of what I was used to hearing.
A headline on mlb.com says 12 runs without an out recorded is an AL record.
Wow.
get us started again, lugo!!!!
Interesting - I know that a lot of the HS talent comes from the warm spots - CA, FLA, TX, etc - and they tend to have the stronger college programs.
Question - Do the NY area minor lg teams get good fan support? Although even as I ask it I would suppose that they do just because NY'ers tend to be baseball knowledgable and supportive, as do most New Englanders in general.
tito didn't trust lopez in the 9th.
(he says knowingly - based on his oh so limited exposure to both :)
Eck on Saito: "I like this guy. Strike thrower."
Does he even watch the games he's working the studio at? Is he watching this game?
I know that a lot of the HS talent comes from the warm spots - CA, FLA, TX, etc - and they tend to have the stronger college programs.
I believe the southern schools have good college programs because of the climate, but for reasons that wouldn't be applicable to pro teams. That is, the southern schools have climates that allow the baseball players to practice year-round on the field, which partially leads to better facilities, and both of those factors (specifically the ability to practice year-round) probably attracts vastly better recruits on the whole.
Also, the ability to play year round certainly affects the talent of the southern high schools as well for the same reason, the ability to practice the entire year. Especially at that point in the development, that's probably huge.
eck : seems like there a lot more hbp these days.
i have an idea
GO LOOK IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
he sounds bored.
SoSock, I don't know about fan support in those towns. A lot of the cities have had minor league teams forever, and there's not much else to do there, so I hope they have good support. But I've only been to a handful of minor league games ever, so I don't know.
Water!
Filthy water!
The water is dirty.
In what... 2 hours, 40?
hairy cheesey gassy dark* water.
* lights out.
Very dirty water!
Yanks are only in the 7th. Rays up 6-4.
FKR 6 - MFY 4 in the 7th.
Ahaha... epic glitch, can anyone spot it?
http://i42.tinypic.com/2hgaaft.jpg
ish: 2:35. Remember, we're a dreaded 7:10 team now....
Red Sox projected to win the Yanks-Rays game.
Wow. 2 hrs 45 minutes.
Hard to believe a game featuring 16 runs was played that fast.
Grant - yeah, I do get that. Guess I was just assuming that the abundance of quality lower level baseball would lead to more interest and fans. But that's probably not so true. Major league sports are certainly a different animal, in all sports, and breed a different fan.
So, question still stands, to any of you from those areas. Do the minor league teams get good fan support around there? Or are the teams just there because of proximity to parent clubs, etc.
Yep.
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